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Survey on 6G Frontiers: Trends, Applications, Requirements, Technologies and Future Research
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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, 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.
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- Alwis, C. D., Kalla, A., Pham, Q.-V., Kumar, P., Dev, K., Hwang, W.-J., & Liyanage, M.
- Venue
- IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
- Published
- 2021
- Volume
- 2
- Pages
- 836-886
- ISSN
- 2644-125X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3144404977
- Cited by
- 788
- References
- 275
- FWCI
- 38.45
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
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