6 Challenges for 6G
Prof. Matti Latva-aho
Director
6G Flagship
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#1 Verticals Driving Development
Wireless Connectivity Offers Unlimited Opportunities
Wireless connectivity is driving major societal changes:
1G - 2G 3G - 4G 5G and beyond
1980s – 2000s – 2020s Billions of Mobile – 2040s Trillions of
Millions of voice users Broadband users connected objects
Applications range explodes and new value chains emerge:
Logistics Shopping Agriculture Industry 4.0 Health Sustainable Automotive &
energy transportation
EC estimates of 5G in Europe by 2025: €113.1B revenue per year and 2.3M new jobs.
Enourmous Societal Change Enabled by Wireless Connectivity
Disruptions needed for
realisation:
Example:
- New wireless enabled
Japanese vision for Society 5.0:
technologies
- ICT legistlation &
regulation
- Savings in public expenditure - new value chains serving
- Creation of new businesses different verticals
- Sustainable society
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#2 Network Architectures Change
Short range connectivity starts to dominate
1) Higher frequencies needed => the physics of radio signals propagation mean shorter link ranges
More basestations needed => the role of short range connectivity is drastically increasing.
2) Higher frequencies do not propagate through walls => base stations must be installed indoors
who does that and pays the bill?? => new value chains / business models needed.
3) Spectrum regulation has to enable local frequency licencing for the benefit of different verticals
=> Radio Spectrum Policy Group (RSPG) in European Commission is pushing this.
More variety in Networks Deployment
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Cloud Distribution Across Network
Smart society calls for distributed AI.
AI solutions are driven by different verticals.
Whole system architecture is changing: basestation
densification, mobile edge computing, fog
computing at devices…
What AI/ML brings to wireless systems and
what wireless connectivity offers to AI/ML based apps.
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#3 New Value Chains Appear
Vertical Specific Service Providers – Micro-Operators (uO)
Technical
Regulatory
building
blocks: uO concept: building
blocks:
-Dense small cell
-Availability of 5G
networks uOs build and operate spectrum
-Network indoor small cell networks -Local micro
virtualization
and offer local context licenses
-Mobile edge
related services and -Rights to build
computing
indoor networks
- Slicing content -Rules for
-Operation in
collection and use
higher carrier
of data
frequencies Business
-Collaboration/
-Spectrum sharing models competition rules
and management
with MNOs
techniques
HUGE ECONOMIC GROWTH VIA
FAST DIGITALIZATION OF SOCIETY ENABLED BY AGILE NEW PLAYERS IN THE ECOSYSTEM
1. It’s about incentives investing locally in wireless connectivity and/or tailored local services.
2. It’s can be a new player, but also existing MNO given incentives to invest are there.
3. It can be either open (requiring national roaming) or closed (private) network.
#4 Connecting the Last Billions
Wireless Solutions for Sustainability
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Grand Challenges That Have Been Overlooked
How to solve backhauling in remote areas?
How remote area networks are finaced?
How about emerging economies and
developing countries?
Spectrum regulation in remote areas
should be handled differently.
Could uO model solve some of the
problems?
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#5 Autonomous Wireless Systems
Towards Fully Automated Society
Example of automation
#6 Major Technology Leap Required
6G Enabled Wireless Smart Society
& Ecosystem (6Genesis)
National Flagship for 2018-2026
Volume 251M€
Operated by University of Oulu, in
collaboration with: Nokia, VTT, Aalto University,
BusinessOulu, Oulu University of Applied
Sciences
Strategic Research Areas at 6G Flagship Launch
Wireless Connectivity Distributed Computing
Ultra-reliable low-latency communications Mobile edge intelligence
Unmanned Time critical
processes & trusted
applications
Devices & Circuit Technology Services and Applications
THz communications materials & circuits Multidisciplinary research accross verticals
Unlimited
Disruptive
connectivity
value networks
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