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Mobile Communications Towards 2030

   
   

5G Americas’ latest white paper, Mobile Communications Towards 2030, dives into what the future holds for what’s beyond 5G and how it will operate in our world.

As the world is beginning to enjoy the benefits of 5G, the “fifth generation” of wireless cellular technology, the industry is starting to plan sets of requirements needed for its continued evolution to 5G Advanced, as well as for the next generation of mobile communications. With each generation of wireless technology, the upgrade gets more complex and challenging. As we look ahead, 6G represents an even greater opportunity to extend wireless solutions into almost every facet of human and machine interaction. Additional enhancements and evolution of the current IMT-2020 (5G) technology standards have already started, just like it has been with all the previous “G’s”. The next G, “6G”, is still almost a decade away, but it needs to be defined now. The industry has been deploying a new G approximately every decade, and early discussions lead us to expect to have an IMT-2030 which can begin deployment around 2030.

For this reason, 5G Americas continues to review “6G” concepts from North America, Asia, and Europe and Latin America. The industry first must understand what is missing in 5G to create a 6G vision. There will be a requirement of establishing standards and several key technical challenges will need to be addressed. This 5G Americas white paper details technology requirements being discussed now by various industry stakeholders. The white paper provides an update on preliminary work being done globally on 6G and provides a few use cases and technologies for consideration for the evolution of 5G towards the next generation (next G).

From a use case standpoint, 5G Americas has identified early specifications and requirements for some use cases. We expect to see continued growth and demand for mobile communications applications. Additional technologies such as edge computing, cloud services, and network virtualization are also already augmenting IMT-2020-based deployments and will continue to develop as new use cases and higher demands on the network are required. 5G and its evolution to the next G is a transformational technology working in collaboration with other enabling technologies to change the world of connectivity. Moreover, the emergence of holographic communications, imaging and sensing, evolutions of massive IoT (mIoT), smart agriculture, and first responder services are presented in this paper in the context of the next generation technology.

This paper further evaluates technology trends and suggests how to enhance existing technologies towards the future evolution of wireless cellular networks beyond the current 5G. It emphasizes the need for extremely performant, trustworthy, intelligent, cognitive, flexible, and sustainable wireless communication NextG networks. 5G Americas understands that it is important to work towards exploration of technology enablers like AI/ML in RAN and edge, millimeter wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) radio, joint communication and sensing, spectrum sharing and coexistence, cloud native and service-based network convergence, communication, computing convergence, and more.

It should be noted that while it is 5G Americas’ mission to bring together advocates for LTE and 5G technologies across the Americas, including North, Central and South America, a large portion of this white paper will focus on specific needs for the North American market. In particular, this white paper will identify necessary goals for North American companies and organizations in expanding leadership activities to further the development of future wireless networks.

 

This paper addresses three main topics:

• A review of activities beyond 5G in North America and globally

• How communications will change as we move towards 2030 and beyond, including many use cases and emerging technologies under nascent discussion and planning stages

• How North America can continue technical leadership

 

5G is still early in its lifecycle and is being evolved and enhanced through upcoming 3GPP releases while worldwide deployment continues. As of September 2021, there are 184 5G networks, which adhere to 3GPP standards. With unprecedented flexibility, it is expected that 5G will deliver many years of value to consumers and enterprises for the foreseeable future. As the industry builds upon the great work 3GPP has accomplished with defining New Radio (NR) and Service Based Architecture (SBA), it will simultaneously evolve these aspects and others of 5G in 3GPP Release 17 and beyond.

If history is any indicator, technology will likely continue to progress into another ITU-defined “IMT” into the 2030 timeframe. 5G Americas believes, as history has demonstrated, this will probably be marketed as “6G”. ITU-R WP5D has begun development of vision and technology trends documents.

In addition, many projects identified as “Next G” and “6G” are already underway globally with significant leadership from the Americas. This paper specifically discusses the current view of potential new use cases, requirements and technologies. The government, commercial entities, and universities in the United States, through public-private partnerships, should actively engage in scientific and applied research to maintain leadership in new technologies that will underpin 6G.

While 6G is expected to revolutionize radio, network technologies and architecture potentially based on new IMT requirements, it is not likely that this work will appear in a 3GPP release until after Release 19 or 20. It is expected to be ready for commercial deployment starting around 2030.

This paper is focused on the evolution of 5G radio and network technology for capabilities not yet realized on the 5G network and on the “Next G”/ 6G networks. Other 5G Americas white papers have previously focused on other significant areas of 5G development, including: Vehicular Connectivity: C-V2X and 5G, Private and Enterprise Networks, Mid-Band Spectrum and the Co-Existence with Radio Altimeters, Future of Voice in Mobile Wireless Communications, 3GPP Releases 16, 17 & Beyond and Mobile Communications Beyond 2020 – The Evolution of 5G Towards Next G.

While users are just now coming to understand and utilize 5G, the work to develop 6G is already underway and North America needs to build and maintain leadership in this field. The final part of this paper will provide overview at the steps that North America as a region can take to achieve this leadership.

 

 

 

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