Vivo 6G white paper Technology.

"Building a Freely Connected Physical and Digital Integrated World: 6G Services, Capabilities, and Enabling Technologies," the third 6G white paper from the Communications Research Institute, has been issued. The paper delves into the 6G architecture and supporting technologies that experts anticipate will change people's lives beyond 2030.

 

"As a prominent smartphone manufacturer, we are committed to empowering customers by making cutting-edge 5G devices cheap and accessible." Simultaneously, we have placed our eyes on the future, namely 6G," stated Qin Fei, President of vivo Communications Research Institute. "At the vanguard of research and development, we continue to investigate what a 6G future may look like and what technologies we will need to build to get there."

Over the last two years, the industry has progressively reached an agreement on the services that 6G might deliver and the key capability indicators that must be met. The development of associated critical enabling technologies is also gaining traction. With in-depth study and assessment of 6G business models and drivers, application scenarios, system design, and supporting technologies, the vivo Communications Research Institute has actively contributed to creating the future of 6G. vivo's latest white paper on 6G builds on two previous works published in 2020: 'Digital Life 2030+,' which provides insights into some of the many potential 6G digital scenarios for the next decade, and '6G Vision, Requirements, and Challenges,' which outlines vivo's vision for 6G, namely that 6G will enable convergence of the digital and physical worlds.

Capabilities and Services

According to the white paper, 6G will enable extraordinary communication, information, and convergent computing capabilities, serving as the foundation for an interconnected and integrated physical and digital world. According to the research, 6G will integrate communication, processing, and sensing into a single system. An integrated 6G network will not only link people to humans, but also humans to machines and machines to machines, enabling the creation of an entirely new digital universe. By 2030, it is projected that hundreds of billions of gadgets will be linked.

"We'll be able to deliver the next level of connection into every part of people's life with 6G." It will incorporate more access technologies, cover a bigger physical region, and give superior core capabilities, allowing it to enable more services," said Rakesh Tamrakar, Vivo's 5G Standard Expert. "By seamlessly integrating industry, transit, office, and households, 6G will significantly benefit society, from democratizing professional skills to improving emergency and catastrophe response."”

6G will broaden fundamental telecommunications services to offer wholly novel experiences such as immersive mixed reality and holographic and multi-sensory communication. Capacity, data rate, latency, reliability, and other characteristics of 6G mobile data communication services will continue to increase. This will boost the value of services by broadening the client base and increasing end-to-end flexibility and adaptability to satisfy the demands of people and industries.

This implies that, in comparison to 5G, every performance parameter, such as data rate, including peak data rate and user experienced data rate, communication latency, and area traffic capacity, would need to be enhanced several times or more.

The definition of 6G service capabilities requires careful evaluation of demand, technology, and cost, while balancing performance measures and efficiency indicators.

Technologies that enable

To enable the new 6G services and accomplish integration of sensing and communication, new network functions must be created. 6G will bring together mobile networks and computers, as well as cross-domain data exchange and a native AI network. As a result, a completely new system architectural design is required.

Integrating sensing and communication opens up a new avenue of possibility in cellular wireless networks: 6G native AI would improve network and air interface efficiency, increase system flexibility, and lower costs. The implementation of an end-to-end cross-layer data plane is required to provide intelligent and fundamental information services. Communication at very low power levels lowers the barrier to terminal access, allowing truly pervasive connection. Currently, some of the most exciting research areas are the evolution of Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO), Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) technology, and new waveforms, which are paving the way towards a more efficient and flexible network that can support more application scenarios and offer more advanced sensing functions.

6G technology standards are currently in the early stages of research and development. The vivo Communications Research Institute is committed to further refining 6G scenario use cases and technical indicators, conducting extensive research and experimental verification of prospective 6G technologies, and contributing to the establishment of a worldwide uniform 6G technology standard.

The white paper "Building a Freely Connected Physical and Digital Integrated World: 6G Services, Capabilities, and Enabling Technologies" may be downloaded here.

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