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Survey on 6G Frontiers: Trends, Applications, Requirements, Technologies and Future Research

Chamitha De Alwis, Anshuman Kalla, Quoc-Viet Pham, Pardeep Kumar Orcid Logo, Kapal Dev, Won-Joo Hwang, Madhusanka Liyanage

IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, Volume: 2, Pages: 836 - 886

Swansea University Author: Pardeep Kumar Orcid Logo

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Emerging applications such as Internet of Everything, Holographic Telepresence, collaborative robots, and space and deep-sea tourism are already highlighting the limitations of existing fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks. These limitations are in terms of data-rate, latency, reliability, availabi...

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Published in: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
ISSN: 2644-125X
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2021
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa57885
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Abstract: Emerging applications such as Internet of Everything, Holographic Telepresence, collaborative robots, and space and deep-sea tourism are already highlighting the limitations of existing fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks. These limitations are in terms of data-rate, latency, reliability, availability, processing, connection density and global coverage, spanning over ground, underwater and space. The sixth-generation (6G) of mobile networks are expected to burgeon in the coming decade to address these limitations. The development of 6G vision, applications, technologies and standards has already become a popular research theme in academia and the industry. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive survey of the current developments towards 6G. We highlight the societal and technological trends that initiate the drive towards 6G. Emerging applications to realize the demands raised by 6G driving trends are discussed subsequently. We also elaborate the requirements that are necessary to realize the 6G applications. Then we present the key enabling technologies in detail. We also outline current research projects and activities including standardization efforts towards the development of 6G. Finally, we summarize lessons learned from state-of-the-art research and discuss technical challenges that would shed a new light on future research directions towards 6G.
College: Faculty of Science and Engineering
Funders: This work was supported in part by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) Grant funded by the Korean Government (MSIT) under Grant NRF-2019R1C1C1006143 and Grant NRF 2019R1I1A3A01060518; in part by European Union in RESPONSE 5G under Grant 789658; in part by the Academy of Finland in 6Genesis under Grant 318927; in part by Secure Connect Projects; in part by the Institute of Information and Communications Technology Planning and Evaluation (IITP) Grant funded by the Korea Government (MSIT) under Grant 2020-0-01450; and in part by Artificial Intelligence Convergence Research Center, Pusan National University
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