Jiang, Wei (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI))

6G Key Technologies: A Comprehensive Guide Jiang, Wei (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI))

Authored by two experts in the field, this book aims to be the first to provide a comprehensive and highly consistent treatment on all enabling techniques for 6G by covering over five parts, New Vision, New Spectrum, New Air Interface, New Networking and New Paradigm. The authors present the vision of 6G by reviewing the evolution from 1G to 5G looking at the driving factors, requirements, use cases, key performance indicators (KPI) and roadmap of 6G. The spectral resources for 6G, including millimeter wave, terahertz, visible light communications, and optical wireless communications are covered, as is a presentation of new air interface technologies including ultra-massive multiple-input multiple-output (massive-MIMO), cell-free massive MIMO, orthogonal and non-orthogonal multiple access, and intelligent reflecting surface. Moving to the system and network levels, new networking technologies for 6G including non-terrestrial networks, softwarization and virtualization, RAN slicing, open RAN, and autonomous network management are examined, whilst the book concludes with a look at all new paradigms in 6G, such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, communication-computing-sensing convergence, and post-quantum security and privacy.

It is planned that each section will consider three elements - key enabling technologies and components of 6G, the technical connections, then the algorithms - ensuring that readers enjoy a fully immersive introduction to this wide and varied topic.