Toward 6G Networks: Use Cases and Technologies

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

doi:10.1109/MCOM.001.1900411

Toward 6G Networks: Use Cases and Technologies

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

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	9040264
Pages (from-to)	55-61
Number of pages	7
Journal	IEEE Communications Magazine
Volume	58
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.001.1900411
State	Published - Mar 2020

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Computer Science Applications
Computer Networks and Communications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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