Next Generation Efforts in
Wireless Communications Move Forward
New 5G
Americas white paper examines exciting possibilities and efforts to evolve
wireless technology beyond 5G
While there is still a lot of innovation ahead for
5G, many projects identified as “Next G” and “6G” are already underway globally
with significant leadership from the Americas. Today, 5G Americas, the voice of
5G and LTE for the Americas announced the publication of a new white paper
entitled Mobile Communications Towards 2030, which details how the industry will continue to
build and evolve wireless communications networks for consumers and enterprises
beyond what we know as 5G today.
Chris Pearson, President of 5G Americas, said, “While 5G is at the beginning of
a long era of innovation with a full road map of exciting enhancements, the
work to research and study the next generation of possibilities is already
underway. It is imperative that the Americas region build and maintain
leadership, gathering input from wireless operators and vendors, as well as
academia, other vertical industries, and the government.”
Emerging next generation wireless communications use cases are still several
years away from being formulated but include some thrilling opportunities.
Early use cases may include multi-sensory telepresence and immersion via
extended reality (XR), as well as use of digital twins in Industry 4.0’s
cyber-physical systems. Additional use cases may include holographic
teleportation, tactile and haptic communications, and many more.
Wireless impacts on vertical industries may include opportunities in precision
crops and livestock, biosensor monitoring in health care, advanced driver
assist and autonomous driving for transportation systems, first responder
systems that allow rapid data collection from sensors and real-time situational
awareness, and government and defense systems utilizing ubiquitous
connectivity.
Additionally, the white paper
provides insight into the vision and requirements necessary for next generation
wireless networks to come to life. Emerging applications may require very high
data rates into the Tbps range for digital twins and tactile feedback,
extremely wide coverage for rural or defense needs, and reliability up to
“seven nines” (99.99999% uptime) for intense remote control and digital twin
requirements.
Mobile Communications Towards 2030
examines the following areas:
- Activities in North America
in context of next generation wireless work
- Review of global activities
(China, Japan, Europe, Korea, Taiwan & India)
- Use Cases (multi-sensory telepresence
and immersion, Industry 4.0, digital twins, and advances in different
vertical industries)
- Technology requirements and
network evolution
- Technology enablers and
trends
- North American leadership
Brian Daly, Assistant Vice
President, Standards & Industry Alliances, AT&T and technical work
group co-leader on the paper commented, “While 5G is still early in its
lifecycle and is being evolved and enhanced through upcoming 3GPP releases
while worldwide deployment continues, we recognize the need to begin to promote
early commitment to creating a 5G to Next G marketplace and to ensure North
America continues to lead in technology development. The groundwork for the
next exciting chapter of wireless revolution is beginning as academia and
US-based alliances are looking at advancing technology, along with the US
government focused in forging fruitful partnerships with private sector.”
Swaminathan “Swami” Arunachalam, Senior Director, 6G Research and Industry
Alliances, North America, Nokia, and 5G Americas group co-leader further added,
“It is early in the cycle for 6G research. Technologies relevant in the 6G era
like network disaggregation and programmability across the end-to-end system
are also planned to be studied and deployed in the context of 5G-Advanced.
These are important stepping stones towards the 6G era which will comprise
of new and additional technologies such as THz radio technologies,
communication and sensing capabilities, sub-networks."
Source: 5G Americas media announcement
