6G

Beyond 5G, toward 6G

“The 6G network is likely to be a concept, a virtual one, and not a “real” network you can put a boundary around”, Roberto Saracco, EIT Digital

Technological pillars.

• Operate at higher radio frequencies (Thz).

• Inclusive of all sorts of access technologies, expanding to:

  • Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN), Optical Wireless Communications (OWC), and Large Intelligent Surfaces (LIS).

• Decentralized, flatter network with a stronger edge role, for close, distributed cloud services.

• Increased direct device interactions.

• Artificial Intelligence presence at all layers, with cross-domain interactions.

• Higher security, secrecy, and privacy.

Societal and economic impacts.

• Ubiquitous connectivity, powered by wireless communications (radio and optics).

• A richer set of connected devices

Enabling:

• The smartphone disaggregation

• Multisensorial interactions.

  • Via Brain-Computer Interactions (BCI), smart body implants, and eXtended Reality (XR) devices.

Massification of Machine Type Communications (MTC).

• Connected Robotics and autonomous systems.