6G News and Discussions

[Yuli Ban]

5G discussions can go in the Computer & Internet general thread unless someone wants to create a dedicated thread for it
But here, 6G is the new bleeding-edge hotness

In telecommunications, 6G is the sixth generation standard currently under development for wireless communications technologies supporting cellular data networks. It is the planned successor to 5G and will likely be significantly faster. Like its predecessors, 6G networks will probably be broadband cellular networks, in which the service area is divided into small geographical areas called cells. Several companies (Nokia, Ericsson, Huawei, Samsung, LG, Apple, Xiaomi), as well as several countries (China, India, Japan and Singapore), have shown interest in 6G networks.

Chinese lab says it made a breakthrough in 6G mobile technology as global standards-setting race heats up

A Chinese lab said it has made a breakthrough in next generation mobile communications technology, as the global power struggle over standards-setting in the telecoms industry continues to heat up.
A government-backed institute called Purple Mountain Laboratories said on Wednesday that a research team led by its chief scientist professor You Xiaohu had achieved a sixth generation (6G)-level wireless transmission up to a speed of 206.25 gigabits per second for the first time in a lab environment, according to a statement on its website.
The project was supported by a special government project on 6G and achieved in collaboration with telecoms giant China Mobile and Fudan University.
The speed achieved is a world record for real-time wireless transmission within the terahertz frequency band (300GHz~3THz), which is considered to be the bedrock for future 6G mobile communications, according to the Purple Mountain statement.

Roughly right on time, as I recall the earliest developments in 5G starting around 2011-2012 with the first municipal developments getting started in South Korea sometime around my first Yuli Banularity in early 2014. If 6G follows the same timeline, then we'll be hearing more about infrastructural progress for it in a couple of years and a whole lot more on R&D for it by 2017-2018.

[Yuli Ban]

If 6G Becomes Just 5G+, We’ll Have Made a Big Mistake

We are still in the early stages of 5G rollouts, with many years still ahead in its technological evolution. But following the traditional 10-year cycle for developing new wireless generations, research into 6G is already going ahead at full steam. Several 6G initiatives around the world, including the first, 6GENESIS, led by the University of Oulu in Finland, are paving the way for the standardization process that is expected to kick off in 2025 or 2026.

When the wireless industry deploys 6G networks around 2030, they hope to usher in an era in which everything, not just our phones, is sensed, connected, and intelligent. 6G could include innovations like “digital twins” that function as replicas of people, cities, and factories, more immersive communications like holograms, an “internet of senses” that provides users with visual, spatial, tactile, and other sensory feedback, to list just a few.

One of the driving forces behind early 6G research is that these types of applications will require extreme latency, reliability, and bandwidth requirements—even more so than can be met by 5G’s staggering improvements over 4G. Unfortunately, this has resulted in a 6G vision that is simply “the more bits per second, the more bandwidth, and the more base stations the better.” In other words, the wireless industry is envisioning a 6G that is an evolution of 5G—wireless networks that are X orders of magnitude better or faster or more reliable.

[Nanotechandmorefuture]

Oh yeah! Now we're talking!

You wanna bring out the Luddites and civil unrest start talking about next generation ideas in the media while the current new high tech stuff is being cranked out

Its so cool that this is already being worked on as 5G c-band is currently going online.

[weatheriscool]

LG sets new real-world-ready distance record for 6G data transmission
By Michael Irving
September 26, 2023

https://newatlas.com/telecommunications ... cord-500m/

Technology never sits still, so while 5G communications feels pretty new and flashy, the industry is already making preparations for the next generation. LG Electronics and the Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz Institute have now conducted a test that set a new distance record for data transmission using 6G technology.

As you’d expect, 6G is expected to function like 5G and its predecessors, but much faster and more efficiently. That’s because it extends, for the first time, into terahertz (THz) frequencies, which should allow it to provide data rates up to 50 times faster than 5G with just 10% of the latency.

Companies like Samsung and LG have been testing and refining the technology for a few years now, continually setting new distance records for 6G data transmission. Now, in new tests LG and Fraunhofer have successfully extended that distance to 500 m (1,640 ft), shattering a record of 320 m (1,050 ft) set last year.

This milestone is significant, the team says, because 500 m is the standard distance for high-powered base stations set up around urban areas. The new tests also verified that 6G can communicate between building-to-building, building-to-ground and ground-to-ground terminals. All up, the technology is inching ever closer to real-world readiness.

[weatheriscool]

Breakthrough technology amplifies terahertz waves for 6G communication
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-12-bre ... tz-6g.html
by JooHyeon Heo, UNIST

A team of researchers, led by Professor Hyong-Ryeol Park from the Department of Physics at UNIST has introduced a technology capable of amplifying terahertz (THz) electromagnetic waves by over 30,000 times. This breakthrough, combined with artificial intelligence (AI) based on physical models, is set to revolutionize the commercialization of 6G communication frequencies.

Collaborating with Professor Joon Sue Lee from the University of Tennessee and Professor Mina Yoon from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the research team successfully optimized the THz nano-resonator specifically for 6G communication using advanced optimization technology.

The research findings have been published in the online version of Nano Letters.

By integrating AI learning, based on a physical theoretical model, the team has enabled the efficient design of THz nano-resonators on personal computers, a process that was previously time-consuming and demanding even with supercomputers.

Through a series of THz electromagnetic wave transmission experiments, the team evaluated the efficiency of the newly developed nano-resonator.

The results were astounding, with the electric field generated by the THz nano-resonator surpassing general electromagnetic waves by over 30,000 times. This achievement represents an incredible efficiency improvement of over 300% compared to previously reported THz nano-resonators.

[weatheriscool]

[weatheriscool]

Metasurface antenna could enable future 6G communications networks

by University of Glasgow

A team led by researchers from the University of Glasgow has developed an innovative wireless communications antenna that combines the unique properties of metamaterials with sophisticated signal processing to deliver a new peak of performance.

In a paper published in the IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, titled "60 GHz Programmable Dynamic Metasurface Antenna (DMA) for Next-Generation Communication, Sensing, and Imaging Applications: From Concept to Prototype," the researchers showcase their development of a prototype digitally coded dynamic metasurface antenna, or DMA, controlled through high-speed field-programmable gate array (FPGA).

Their DMA is the first in the world designed and demonstrated at the operating frequency of 60 GHz millimeter-wave (mmWave) band—the portion of the spectrum reserved by international law for use in industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) applications.

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-met ... re-6g.html