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Key Focus Areas and Enabling Technologies for 6G

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: We provide a taxonomy of a dozen enabling network architectures, protocols, and technologies that will define the evolution from 5G to 6G. These technologies span the network protocol stack, different target deployment environments, and various perceived levels of technical maturity. We outline four areas of societal focus that will be impacted by these technologies, and overview several research directions that hold the potential to address the problems in these important focus areas.

Source: IEEE Communications Magazine

DOI: 10.1109/mcom.002.2400150

Authors: Christopher G. Brinton, Mung Chiang, Kwang Taik Kim, David J. Love, Michael Beesley, Morris Repeta, John Roese, Per Beming, Erik Ekudden, Clara Li, Geng Wu, Nishant Batra, Amitava Ghosh, Volker Ziegler, Tingfang Ji, Rajat Prakash, John Smee

Institutions: Purdue University West Lafayette, Cisco Systems (United States), DELL (United States), Ericsson (Sweden), Intel (United States), Nokia (Finland), Qualcomm (United States)

Language: English

Topic: Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies

Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Science Foundation

Awards: NSF Engineering Research Center for the Internet of Things for Precision Agriculture (IoT4Ag), GOALI: CNS: Medium: Communication-Computation Co-Design for Rural Connectivtiy and Intelligence under Nonuniformity: Modeling, Analysis, and Implementation, NSF Convergence Accelerator Track G: Combating Vulnerability and Unawareness in 5G Network Security

OpenAlex ID: W4408100634

FWCI: 8.887

Cites: 8

Cited by: 39

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