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The future 6G network is envisioned to be AI-native, and as such, ML models will be pervasive in support of optimizing performance, reducing energy consumption, and in coping with increasing complexity and heterogeneity. A key challenge is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Adam Orucu , Farnaz Moradi , Masoumeh Ebrahimi , Andreas Johnsson

Since the last few years there has been a phenomenal growth in the wireless industry. Widespread wireless technologies, increasing variety of user-friendly and multimedia- enabled terminals and wider availability of open source tools for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-07-17 Rehman Talukdar , Mridul Saikia

The definition of sixth-generation (6G) systems is being shaped by early standardization efforts, including the 3GPP TR 38.914 (Release 20) study on scenarios and requirements. This study introduces a comprehensive set of deployment…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Victor Moznon Baeza , Symeon Chatzinotas

This white paper explores the road to implementing broadband connectivity in future 6G wireless systems. Different categories of use cases are considered, from extreme capacity with peak data rates up to 1 Tbps, to raising the typical data…

The commercial deployment of 5G communication networks makes the industry and academia to seriously consider the possible solutions for the next generation. Although the conventional approach indicates that 6G vision and requirements can be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-03 Shunqing Zhang , Chenlu Xiang , Shugong Xu

Since the start of 5G work in 3GPP in early 2016, tremendous progress has been made in both standardization and commercial deployments. 3GPP is now entering the second phase of 5G standardization, known as 5G-Advanced, built on the 5G…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Wanshi Chen , Xingqin Lin , Juho Lee , Antti Toskala , Shu Sun , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini , Lingjia Liu

This article documents one of the world's first standards-compliant pre-commercial end-to-end 5th generation (5G) systems. Focus is on a standardized 5G architecture which includes the underlying 3GPP components but also the ETSI Network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Idelkys Quintana-Ramirez , Anthony Tsiopoulos , Maria A Lema , Fragkiskos Sardis , Luis Sequeira , James Arias , Aravindh Raman , Ali Azam , Mischa Dohler

The 5th wireless communication (5G) techniques not only fulfil the requirement of $1,000$ times increase of internet traffic in the next decade, but also offer the underlying technologies to the entire industry and ecology for internet of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-24 Xiaohu You , Chuan Zhang , Xiaosi Tan , Shi Jin , Hequan Wu

The fifth generation (5G) mobile network will enable the Internet of Things (IoT) to take a large leap into the age of future computing. As a result of extended connectivity, high speed, reduced latency services being provided by 5G, IoT…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Sejuti Banik , Irvin Steve Cardenas , Jong Hoon Kim

Device-to-Device (D2D) communication is a promising solution to meet the growing demands of 5G and future 6G networks by enabling direct communication between user devices. It enhances spectral efficiency (SE) and energy efficiency (EE),…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-10 Mohammad Reza Fasihi , Brian L. Mark

The initial 6G networks will likely operate in the upper mid-band (7-24 GHz), which has decent propagation conditions but underwhelming new spectrum availability. In this paper, we explore whether we can anyway reach the ambitious 6G…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Emil Björnson , Ferdi Kara , Nikolaos Kolomvakis , Alva Kosasih , Parisa Ramezani , Murat Babek Salman

The far-field channel model has historically been used in wireless communications due to the simplicity of mathematical modeling and convenience for algorithm design. With the need for high data rates, low latency, and ubiquitous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Hui Chen , Musa Furkan Keskin , Adham Sakhnini , Nicoló Decarli , Sofie Pollin , Davide Dardari , Henk Wymeersch

The current focus of academia and the telecommunications industry has been shifted to the development of the six-generation (6G) cellular technology, also formally referred to as IMT-2030. Unprecedented applications that 6G aims to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

As the 5th Generation (5G) mobile networks are bringing about global societal benefits, the design phase for the 6th Generation (6G) has started. 6G will need to enable greater levels of autonomy, improve human machine interfacing, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-21 Weisi Guo

The fifth generation (5G) wireless networks are on the way to be deployed around the world. The 5G technologies target to support diverse vertical applications by connecting heterogeneous devices and machines with drastic improvements in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Dinh C Nguyen , Pubudu N Pathirana , Ming Ding , Aruna Seneviratne

In recent years, significant attention has been directed toward the fifth generation of wireless broadband connectivity known as `5G`, currently being deployed by Mobile Network Operators. Surprisingly, there has been considerably less…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Edward J Oughton , William Lehr , Konstantinos Katsaros , Ioannis Selinis , Dean Bubley , Julius Kusuma

This paper investigates the synergy between 6G and AI. It argues that they can unlock future horizons, by discussing how they can address future challenges in healthcare, transportation, virtual reality, education, resource management,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Elias Yaacoub

With 5G on the verge of being adopted as the next mobile network, there is a need to analyze its impact on the landscape of computing and data management. In this paper, we analyze the impact of 5G on both traditional and emerging…

Fog or Edge computing has recently attracted broad attention from both industry and academia. It is deemed as a paradigm shift from the current centralized cloud computing model and could potentially bring a "Fog-IoT" architecture that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Jianli Pan , Yuanni Liu , Jianyu Wang , Austin Hester

Sixth-Generation (6G) technologies will revolutionize the wireless ecosystem by enabling the delivery of futuristic services through terrestrial and non-terrestrial transmissions. In this context, the Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Giuseppe Araniti , Antonio Iera , Sara Pizzi , Federica Rinaldi