We provide a taxonomy of a dozen enabling network architectures, protocols, and technologies that will define the evolution from 5G to 6G. These technologies span the network protocol stack, different target deployment environments, and various perceived levels of technical maturity. We outline four areas of societal focus that will be impacted by these technologies, and overview several research directions that hold the potential to address the problems in these important focus areas.
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@article{arxiv.2412.07029,
title = {Key Focus Areas and Enabling Technologies for 6G},
author = {Christopher G. Brinton and Mung Chiang and Kwang Taik Kim and David J. Love and Michael Beesley and Morris Repeta and John Roese and Per Beming and Erik Ekudden and Clara Li and Geng Wu and Nishant Batra and Amitava Ghosh and Volker Ziegler and Tingfang Ji and Rajat Prakash and John Smee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.07029},
year = {2024}
}
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This paper has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Communications Magazine. Portions were released online as a report titled 6G Roadmap: A Global Taxonomy in November 2023