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.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10908559
Sub-THz technology can be broadly clustered into functional enablers of access, backhaul, and sensing. Indicative mappings of these enablers to key use cases of 6G are shown. The sectoral relevance of these use cases is visualized on the right by weighted lines to key industry sectors.
