![]() It’s one thing to talk about the ideas like ‘the internet of senses’ in the abstract. Nokia Bell Labs believes 6G has the potential to defend against these threats, citing new tech such as Quantum Key Distribution and homomorphic encryption. Meanwhile the emergence of mixed-reality worlds will also offer new opportunities for scammers. More devices mean more attack surface for cyber criminals. ![]() Those nodes could determine the best way to communicate, rather than rely on engineers.Īnother important development could be in security and trust. In 6G, a dynamic AI/ML-defined native air interface could give radios the ability to learn from one other and their environments. This could hugely expand IoT use cases in areas such as logistics, warehousing, shipping, environmental monitoring, agriculture, telehealth and so on.Īlongside these above two transformative benefits, experts have cited other key 6G qualities such as the self-learning network. Obviously, deploying zero energy devices will remove all limitations associated with battery replacement and charging. The second much-discussed characteristic of 6G will be its low-energy consumption.Įricsson believes 6G will enable devices to operate without batteries, by making it possible to harvest ambient energy from vibrations, light, temperature gradients, or even from the radio-frequency waves themselves. “The ubiquitous network becomes a source of situational awareness, collating signals that bounce off objects to determine type, shape, relative location, velocity and perhaps even material properties…such a mode of sensing can help create a “mirror” or digital twin of the physical world in combination with other sensing modalities.” Nokia Bell Labs agrees and describes this quality as follows: This will accelerate the development of completely new experiences, such as immersive mixed reality and holographic and multi-sensory communication. ![]() This will make it possible for 6G applications to sense their surroundings, and thereby turn the network into ‘our sixth sense’. The first is its ability to support a new ‘Internet of Senses’.Īccording to Cap Gemini, 6G networks will power immersive, ubiquitous, and sensory digital experiences on a massive scale. But, as we suggest above, mobile stakeholders have already come to a degree of consensus. Well, since it is probably seven years away, no one knows for sure. The more interesting question is: what is 6G for? Simply, 6G is the next generation of mobile network technology. They have also broadly agreed a commercial and social ‘wish list’ for 6G when it arrives. Industry stakeholders have discussed many technical options. Still, plenty of conversations are happening behind the scenes. At time of writing 6G standards and specs have not been defined. Which is why the industry is already preparing for the ‘sequel’ to fifth generation mobile. However, the mobile telecoms business never stands still. More than $50 billion spent on 5G related spectrum auctions and assignmentsĥG is off to an excellent start.In its latest data round-up the trade body summed up the progress of 5G as follows: Now, according to the GSA, 5G is firmly in the mainstream. The specs behind 5G were ‘frozen’ by standards body 3GPP in June 2018, and fully specified by September 2019. It seems like yesterday that the world was excited about the ‘future’ launch of 5G. Still, industry stakeholders are already discussing the possible protocols and their key ambitions for sixth-gen mobile networks…
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