Shaping Future 6G Networks Needs, Impacts, and Technologies

Discover the societal and technology drivers contributing to build the next generation of wireless telecommunication networks

Shaping Future 6G Networks: Needs, Impacts, and Technologies is a holistic snapshot on the evolution of 5G technologies towards 6G. With contributions from international key players in industry and academia, the book presents the hype versus the realistic capabilities of 6G technologies, and delivers cutting-edge business and technological insights into the future wireless telecommunications landscape.

You’ll learn about:

• Forthcoming demand for post 5G networks, including new requirements coming from small and large businesses, manufacturing, logistics, and automotive industry
• Societal implications of 6G, including digital sustainability, strategies for increasing energy efficiency, as well as future open networking ecosystems
• Impacts of integrating non-terrestrial networks to build the 6G architecture
• Opportunities for emerging THz radio access technologies in future integrated communications, positioning, and sensing capabilities in 6G
• Design of highly modular and distributed 6G core networks driven by the ongoing RAN-Core integration and the benefits of AI/ML-based control and management
• Disruptive architectural considerations influenced by the Post-Shannon Theory

The insights in Shaping Future 6G Networks will greatly benefit IT engineers and managers focused on the future of networking, as well as undergraduate and graduate engineering students focusing on the design, implementation, and management of mobile networks and applications.

Emmanuel Bertin, PhD, is an Expert Senior at Orange Labs in Caen, France and an adjunct Professor at Institut Polytechnique de Paris in Evry, France. His focus is on the digital transformation of networking, as well as on the associated organizational challenges.

Noël Crespi, PhD, is Professor and Head of Laboratory at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris/TSP in Evry, France. His focus is on softwarization and Artificial Intelligence.

Thomas Magedanz, PhD, is University Professor at Technische Universität Berlin and Director of the Software-based Networks Department at Fraunhofer FOKUS in Berlin, Germany. His research focus is on software-based networking and open wireless research testbeds.

Foreword Henning Schulzerinne

Foreword Peter Stuckmann

Foreword Akihiro Nakao

Chapter 1: Towards 6G - Collecting the Research Visions

Chapter 2: 6G drivers for B2B market: E2E Services and use cases

Chapter 3: 6G: the path towards standardization

Chapter 4: Greening 6G: New Horizons”

Chapter 5: Your 6G or your life”: How Can Another G Be Sustainable?

Chapter 6: Catching the 6G wave by Using Metamaterials: A Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Paradigm

Chapter 7: Potential of THz broadban systems

Chapter 8: Non-Terrestrial Networks in 6G

Chapter 9: Re-thinking the IP Framework

Chapter 10: Computing in the Network: The Core-Edge Continuum in 6G Network

Chapter 11: An approach to automated multi-domain service production for future 6G networks”

Chapter 12: Long-term Perspectives of 6G Access and Edge Computing

Chapter 13: „One layer to rule them all”: Data layer oriented 6G networks

Chapter 14: Long-term Perspectives: Machine Learning for future Wireless Networks

Chapter 15: Managing the unmanageable: How to control open and distributed 6G networks

Chapter 16: 6G and the Post-Shannon Theory

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