Potential Applications of 6G-Enabling Technologies and Challenges

Potential Applications of 6G-Enabling Technologies and Challenges

Zhang Yiming, Zhu Yunfeng, Yang Qiu, Sujatha Krishnamoorthy
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9636-4.ch006
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Abstract

Through specific technical approaches, 6G will provide people with high quality of service (QoS) and high quality of experience (QoE), so as to make human life better. The author predicts the huge potential and development trend of 6G wireless communication technology combined with the healthcare field. 6G is a promising communication technology, and it is expected to revolutionize many sectors, including healthcare. Currently, time and space are the primary barriers to healthcare, and 6G has the potential to break these barriers down. The authors first introduce the background and related obstacles of the current healthcare development field and then prove the huge potential of 6G in its development field. Further, they reveal how 6G technology can be utilized for remote surgery, epidemics, and pandemics. Finally, there are related challenges. Similarly, the cell free communication in AR/VR helps in 360 video scenes.
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Background

Each generation of mobile technology, design has influenced the growth in automated based on the need of the end users impact is shown in the figure1... Right from the automated vehicle on roads to airspace, AI to cloud devices is embedded with 5G technology. Huge amount of data at very high speed can be transferred due to advancement in the network. the advancement in the network technology from 1G to 6G.The technology plays very vital role in various field with different applications like Internet of things, some of the personalized communication, wearable devices for health, sensors with robotics, integrating the intelligence with network, Innovative network architecture, holographic telepresence, industry 4.0,Tele medicine and so on .Though the 5G has all the trade-off like latency, high throughput, energy and hardware complexity, the configuration in 6G may provide a better or ultra reliability, capacity and efficiency. Hence this chapter details the different perspective of the 6G application in various fields.

Figure 1.

Development of cellular networks, from 1G to 6G, with a representative application for each generation.(Giordani, 20210)

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It’s know that the speed of light equals wavelength multiply frequency (c = λν) since the speed of light is constant; when the wavelength is small enough, the frequency is going to be extremely rapid. 6G will apply Terahertz (THz) signal which wavelength is 300µm (Nayak&Patgiri, 2020), so the operating frequency of 6G will be about 10 times faster than 5G, and its data rate will be 1000 times faster than 5G. Besides, with the utilization of mURLLC (Massive Ultra-reliable and Low Latency), mMTC (massive Machine Type Communication) and other technologies, many aspects of 6G performance will be significantly improved as shown in the Table 1.

Table 1.
The classification of 6 G performance compared with 5 G
   Requirements   5G   B5G   6G
   Application types  •eMBB
  •URLLC
  •mMTC
•Reliable eMBB
•URLLC
•mMTC
•Hybrid (URLLC + eMBB)
•MBRLLC
  •mURLLC
  •HCS
  •MPS
   Device types  •Smartphones
  •Sensors
  •Drones
•Smartphone’s
•Sensors
•Drones
•XR equipment
  Sensors and DLT devices
  CRAS
  XR and BCI equipment
  Smart implants
   Operating frequency   3-300 MHz   500 MHz   1 THz
   Spectral efficiency   10 × in bps/Hz/m2/Joules   10 × bps/Hz/m2/Joules   1000× in bps/Hz/m3/Joules
   Data Rate   1 Gbps   100 Gbps   1 Tbps
   End-to-end delay   5 ms   1 ms   <1 ms
   Radio-only delay   100 ns   <100 ns   ≤ 10 ns
   Processing delay   100 ns   50 ns   ≤10 ns
   Mobility range   100 - < 500 km/h   500 km/h   1000 km/h
   Wavelength   3 mm   1 mm   300 /𝜇m
   Architecture   Massive MIMO   Massive MIMO   Intelligent surface
   Core network   Internet of Things   Internet of Things   Internet of Everything
   Satellite integration   Partial   Partial   Full
   Artificial Intelligence integration   Partial   Full   Truly Artificial Intelligence Driven
   XR integration   Partial   Full   Full
   Haptic communication integration   Partial   Full   Full
   Highlights   Extremely high rate Streaming   Extremely high rate Streaming   Security, secrecy privacy

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