TY - JOUR
T1 - 6G Wireless Networks
T2 - Vision, Requirements, Architecture, and Key Technologies
AU - Zhang, Zhengquan
AU - Xiao, Yue
AU - Ma, Zheng
AU - Xiao, Ming
AU - Ding, Zhiguo
AU - Lei, Xianfu
AU - Karagiannidis, George K.
AU - Fan, Pingzhi
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Key Project under grant 61731017, the NSFC Project under grant 61871334, the NSFC China-Swedish Project under grant 6161101297, and the 111 Project under grant 111-2-14. Ming Xiao was supported in part by the Swedish Strategic Research Foundation project “High-Reliable Low-Latency Industrial Wireless Communications” and in part by the European Union Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Project “High-Reliability Low-Latency Communications With Network Coding.” The work of Xianfu Lei was supported by the Sichuan Science and Techology Program under grant 2017HH0035, the NSFC project under grant 61501382, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under grant 2682018CX27.
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PY - 2019/9
Y1 - 2019/9
N2 - A key enabler for the intelligent information society of 2030, 6G networks are expected to provide performance superior to 5G and satisfy emerging services and applications. In this article, we present our vision of what 6G will be and describe usage scenarios and requirements for multi-terabyte per second (Tb/s) and intelligent 6G networks. We present a large-dimensional and autonomous network architecture that integrates space, air, ground, and underwater networks to provide ubiquitous and unlimited wireless connectivity. We also discuss artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning [1], [2] for autonomous networks and innovative air-interface design. Finally, we identify several promising technologies for the 6G ecosystem, including terahertz (THz) communications, very-large-scale antenna arrays [i.e., supermassive (SM) multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO)], large intelligent surfaces (LISs) and holographic beamforming (HBF), orbital angular momentum (OAM) multiplexing, laser and visible-light communications (VLC), blockchain-based spectrum sharing, quantum communications and computing, molecular communications, and the Internet of Nano-Things.
AB - A key enabler for the intelligent information society of 2030, 6G networks are expected to provide performance superior to 5G and satisfy emerging services and applications. In this article, we present our vision of what 6G will be and describe usage scenarios and requirements for multi-terabyte per second (Tb/s) and intelligent 6G networks. We present a large-dimensional and autonomous network architecture that integrates space, air, ground, and underwater networks to provide ubiquitous and unlimited wireless connectivity. We also discuss artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning [1], [2] for autonomous networks and innovative air-interface design. Finally, we identify several promising technologies for the 6G ecosystem, including terahertz (THz) communications, very-large-scale antenna arrays [i.e., supermassive (SM) multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO)], large intelligent surfaces (LISs) and holographic beamforming (HBF), orbital angular momentum (OAM) multiplexing, laser and visible-light communications (VLC), blockchain-based spectrum sharing, quantum communications and computing, molecular communications, and the Internet of Nano-Things.
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U2 - 10.1109/MVT.2019.2921208
DO - 10.1109/MVT.2019.2921208
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85069918860
SN - 1556-6072
VL - 14
SP - 28
EP - 41
JO - IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
JF - IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
IS - 3
M1 - 8766143
ER -