Toward 6G Networks: Use Cases and Technologies

Reliable data connectivity is vital for the ever increasingly intelligent, automated, and ubiquitous digital world. Mobile networks are the data highways and, in a fully connected, intelligent digital world, will need to connect everything, including people to vehicles, sensors, data, cloud resources, and even robotic agents. Fifth generation (5G) wireless networks, which are currently being deployed, offer significant advances beyond LTE, but may be unable to meet the full connectivity demands of the future digital society. Therefore, this article discusses technologies that will evolve wireless networks toward a sixth generation (6G) and which we consider as enablers for several potential 6G use cases. We provide a fullstack, system-level perspective on 6G scenarios and requirements, and select 6G technologies that can satisfy them either by improving the 5G design or by introducing completely new communication paradigms.

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Authors

Marco Giordani; Michele Polese; Marco Mezzavilla; Sundeep Rangan; Michele Zorzi

Published

Mar 1, 2020

Journal or venue

IEEE Communications Magazine

DOI

10.1109/mcom.001.1900411

Paper type

journal article

Source

Openalex