A RESEARCH institute recently published its third white paper on 6G, which explores the 6G framework and the enabling technologies that experts say will shape people’s lives beyond 2030.
Entitled “Building a Freely Connected Physical and Digital Integrated World: 6G Services, Capabilities, and Enabling Technologies,” the research team at vivo Communications Research Institute has already set its sights on the telecommunications of the future, particularly 6G, the next generation communication.
“As one of the world’s leading smartphone vendors, we are dedicated to empowering consumers by making cutting-edge 5G smartphones affordable and accessible,” said Qin Fei, president of vivo Communications Research Institute. “At the forefront of R&D, we continue to explore what a 6G world would look like and what technologies we need to develop to get there.”
Over the past two years, the industry has gradually formed a consensus on the services that 6G can provide and the key capacity indicators that need to be achieved. Research and development of related key enabling technologies are also gaining momentum. The research institute has been actively contributing to shaping the future of 6G with in-depth analysis and evaluation of 6G business models and drivers, application scenarios, system architecture, and enabling technologies.
This latest white paper on 6G builds on two previous papers published in 2020 by the same research institute, including “Digital Life 2030+”, which provides insights into some of the many potential 6G digital scenarios for the coming decade, and “6G Vision, Requirements and Challenges”, which describes the smartphone manufacturer’s vision for 6G, namely that 6G will enable the convergence of the digital and physical worlds.
services, capabilities
The white paper proposes that 6G will provide converged computing, information and supercommunication services, becoming the foundation for an interconnected and converged physical and digital world. According to the analysis, 6G will converge communication, computing, and sensing into a single system. An integrated 6G network will not only connect humans to humans, it will also connect humans to machines and machines to machines, helping to create a whole new digital world. Hundreds of billions of devices could be expected to be connected by 2030.
“6G will allow us to bring the next generation of connectivity to all aspects of people’s lives. It will integrate more access technologies, cover a larger physical space, and provide better core capabilities, supporting more services,” said Rakesh Tamrakar, an expert in 5G standards. live. “By seamlessly connecting industries, transportation, the workplace and homes, 6G will greatly contribute to society, from democratizing professional talent to improving response to emergencies and disasters.”
6G will extend basic telecommunications services to support entirely new experiences, such as immersive mixed reality and holographic and multi-sensory communication. 6G mobile data connectivity services will continue to improve capacity, data speed, latency, reliability and many other aspects. This will broaden the range of customers and increase the value of services, with more end-to-end flexibility and adaptability to meet the needs of individuals and industries.
This means that each performance indicator, such as data rate, including peak data rate and user experienced data rate, communication delay, and area traffic capacity, will need to improve several times or more in comparison with 5G.
Defining 6G service capacity requires careful consideration of demand, technology, and cost, balancing performance metrics and efficiency indicators.
enabling technologies
It is necessary to introduce new network functions to support the new 6G services and achieve integration of sensing and communication. 6G will converge mobile network and computing, cross-domain data interaction, and native AI network. Therefore, it requires a completely new system architecture design.
The integration of sensing and communication touches a new area of opportunity in cellular wireless networks: native 6G AI would improve network and air interface efficiency, improve system flexibility and reduce costs. The introduction of an end-to-end cross-layer data plane is essential to support basic and intelligent information services. Extremely low power communication lowers the barrier to terminal access, enabling truly ubiquitous connectivity. Currently, the evolution of multiple inputs and multiple outputs, intelligent reconfigurable surface technology and new waveforms are some of the most exciting research areas, paving the way for a more efficient and flexible network that could support more scenarios of application and offer more advanced detection. functions
The research and development of 6G technology standards is still at an early stage. Vivo Communications Research Institute is dedicated to refining 6G scenario use cases and technical indicators, conducting in-depth research and experimental verification of potential 6G technologies, and contributing to the development of a global 6G technology standard. unified.