Toward 6G Networks: Use Cases and Technologies
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Reliable data connectivity is vital for the ever increasingly intelligent, automated, and ubiquitous digital world. Mobile networks are the data highways and, in a fully connected, intelligent digital world, will need to connect everything, including people to vehicles, sensors, data, cloud resources, and even robotic agents. Fifth generation (5G) wireless networks, which are currently being deployed, offer significant advances beyond LTE, but may be unable to meet the full connectivity demands of the future digital society. Therefore, this article discusses technologies that will evolve wireless networks toward a sixth generation (6G) and which we consider as enablers for several potential 6G use cases. We provide a fullstack, system-level perspective on 6G scenarios and requirements, and select 6G technologies that can satisfy them either by improving the 5G design or by introducing completely new communication paradigms.
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- Authors
- Giordani, M., Polese, M., Mezzavilla, M., Rangan, S., & Zorzi, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Padua (IT)
- New York University (US)
- Venue
- IEEE Communications Magazine
- Published
- 2020-03
- Volume
- 58
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 55-61
- ISSN
- 0163-6804 (ISSN-L)
- 1558-1896
- OpenAlex
- W3011830499
- Cited by
- 2,241
- References
- 16
- Citations by year
- 2026: 298 · 2025: 408 · 2024: 371 · 2023: 357 · 2022: 362 · 2021: 339 · 2020: 102 · 2019: 4
- FWCI
- 99.51
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Licence
- Locations
- IEEE Communications Magazine (publishedVersion)
- Virtual Community of Pathological Anatomy (University of Castilla La Mancha) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Padua Research Archive (University of Padova) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (1302336, 1564142, 1547332)
- Dipartimenti di Eccellenza (232/2016)
- Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca (232/2016)
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (70NANB17H166)
- Army Research Office (W911NF1910232)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Software-Defined Networks and 5G
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Millimeter-Wave Propagation and Modeling
- Keywords
- 6G, 5G, 6G use cases, mobile network connectivity, Internet of Everything, vehicle-to-everything communication, communication paradigms, beyond 5G
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