White Paper on Critical and Massive Machine Type Communication Towards 6G
Abstract
The society as a whole, and many vertical sectors in particular, is becoming increasingly digitalized. Machine Type Communication (MTC), encompassing its massive and critical aspects, and ubiquitous wireless connectivity are among the main enablers of such digitization at large. The recently introduced 5G New Radio is natively designed to support both aspects of MTC to promote the digital transformation of the society. However, it is evident that some of the more demanding requirements cannot be fully supported by 5G networks. Alongside, further development of the society towards 2030 will give rise to new and more stringent requirements on wireless connectivity in general, and MTC in particular. Driven by the societal trends towards 2030, the next generation (6G) will be an agile and efficient convergent network serving a set of diverse service classes and a wide range of key performance indicators (KPI). This white paper explores the main drivers and requirements of an MTC-optimized 6G network, and discusses the following six key research questions: - Will the main KPIs of 5G continue to be the dominant KPIs in 6G; or will there emerge new key metrics? - How to deliver different E2E service mandates with different KPI requirements considering joint-optimization at the physical up to the application layer? - What are the key enablers towards designing ultra-low power receivers and highly efficient sleep modes? - How to tackle a disruptive rather than incremental joint design of a massively scalable waveform and medium access policy for global MTC connectivity? - How to support new service classes characterizing mission-critical and dependable MTC in 6G? - What are the potential enablers of long term, lightweight and flexible privacy and security schemes considering MTC device requirements?
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@article{arxiv.2004.14146,
title = {White Paper on Critical and Massive Machine Type Communication Towards 6G},
author = {Nurul Huda Mahmood and Stefan Böcker and Andrea Munari and Federico Clazzer and Ingrid Moerman and Konstantin Mikhaylov and Onel Lopez and Ok-Sun Park and Eric Mercier and Hannes Bartz and Riku Jäntti and Ravikumar Pragada and Yihua Ma and Elina Annanperä and Christian Wietfeld and Martin Andraud and Gianluigi Liva and Yan Chen and Eduardo Garro and Frank Burkhardt and Hirley Alves and Chen-Feng Liu and Yalcin Sadi and Jean-Baptiste Dore and Eunah Kim and JaeSheung Shin and Gi-Yoon Park and Seok-Ki Kim and Chanho Yoon and Khoirul Anwar and Pertti Seppänen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.14146},
year = {2020}
}
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