6G Wireless Systems: Vision, Requirements, Challenges, Insights, and Opportunities

6G Wireless Systems: Vision, Requirements, Challenges, Insights, and Opportunities

18 Mar 2021 | Harsh Tataria, Member, IEEE, Mansoor Shafi, Life Fellow, IEEE, Andreas F. Molisch, Fellow, IEEE, Mischa Dohler, Fellow, IEEE, Henrik Sjöland, Senior Member, IEEE, and Fredrik Tufvesson, Fellow, IEEE
The paper discusses the vision, requirements, challenges, and opportunities for 6G wireless systems. It emphasizes the need for next-generation networks driven by lifestyle and societal changes, such as the High Fidelity Holographic Society, Connectivity for All Things, and Time Sensitive/Time Engineered Applications. These changes will require 6G systems to support ultra-high data rates, ultra-low latency, and real-time processing. The paper also highlights the importance of utilizing frequency bands from below 6 GHz up to 1 THz, with a focus on THz communications due to the need for significantly more spectrum. Key challenges include developing hardware for these high frequencies, ensuring synchronization, security, and resilience in communication systems. The paper discusses various 6G use cases, including holographic communications, tactile and haptic internet applications, network and computing convergence, extremely high rate information showers, connectivity for everything, chip-to-chip communications, and space-terrestrial integrated networks. It also outlines the technical requirements for 6G systems, such as peak data rates of at least 1 Tbps, user experience data rates 10 times that of 5G, and user plane latency 40 times better than 5G. The paper concludes that 6G will require a holistic top-down approach to system design, with significant changes to radio and core network architectures, including the use of new frequency bands, advanced modulation and coding methods, and novel multiple access techniques. The paper also discusses the challenges of deploying 6G systems, including the need for flexible network architectures, efficient resource management, and the integration of AI and machine learning in network design.The paper discusses the vision, requirements, challenges, and opportunities for 6G wireless systems. It emphasizes the need for next-generation networks driven by lifestyle and societal changes, such as the High Fidelity Holographic Society, Connectivity for All Things, and Time Sensitive/Time Engineered Applications. These changes will require 6G systems to support ultra-high data rates, ultra-low latency, and real-time processing. The paper also highlights the importance of utilizing frequency bands from below 6 GHz up to 1 THz, with a focus on THz communications due to the need for significantly more spectrum. Key challenges include developing hardware for these high frequencies, ensuring synchronization, security, and resilience in communication systems. The paper discusses various 6G use cases, including holographic communications, tactile and haptic internet applications, network and computing convergence, extremely high rate information showers, connectivity for everything, chip-to-chip communications, and space-terrestrial integrated networks. It also outlines the technical requirements for 6G systems, such as peak data rates of at least 1 Tbps, user experience data rates 10 times that of 5G, and user plane latency 40 times better than 5G. The paper concludes that 6G will require a holistic top-down approach to system design, with significant changes to radio and core network architectures, including the use of new frequency bands, advanced modulation and coding methods, and novel multiple access techniques. The paper also discusses the challenges of deploying 6G systems, including the need for flexible network architectures, efficient resource management, and the integration of AI and machine learning in network design.
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