Abstract

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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Computer scienceWirelessCloud computingWireless networkPerspective (graphical)TelecommunicationsBig dataComputer securityArtificial intelligence

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Year
2020
Type
article
Volume
58
Issue
3
Pages
55-61
Citations
1856
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Marco Giordani, Michele Polese, Marco Mezzavilla et al. (2020). Toward 6G Networks: Use Cases and Technologies. IEEE Communications Magazine , 58 (3) , 55-61. https://doi.org/10.1109/mcom.001.1900411

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