Alain A. M. Mourad, Rui Yang, P. Lehne, A. D. Oliva
{"title":"Towards 6G: Evolution of Key Performance Indicators and Technology Trends","authors":"Alain A. M. Mourad, Rui Yang, P. Lehne, A. D. Oliva","doi":"10.1109/6GSUMMIT49458.2020.9083759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/6GSUMMIT49458.2020.9083759","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a study on the evolution of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and technology trends towards 6G. Three timescales are considered, namely short-term (2022‘ish), medium-term (2025'ish), and long-term (2030‘ish). The evolution of these KPIs is analyzed by accounting for forecasts on the emerging use cases and their requirements together with assumptions on the pace of wireless technology advancements. Being intrinsically predictive, we cannot assert with certainty the values of the target KPIs and the shortlisting of the Top-10 wireless technology trends. It is, however, aimed at driving discussions and collecting feedback over the next decade. Future refinement is therefore expected as the 5G NR evolution journey progresses towards 6G.","PeriodicalId":385212,"journal":{"name":"2020 2nd 6G Wireless Summit (6G SUMMIT)","volume":"35 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114025476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ana Belen Martinez, Atul Kumar, Marwa Chafii, G. Fettweis
{"title":"A Chirp-Based Frequency Synchronization Approach for Flat Fading Channels","authors":"Ana Belen Martinez, Atul Kumar, Marwa Chafii, G. Fettweis","doi":"10.1109/6GSUMMIT49458.2020.9083764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/6GSUMMIT49458.2020.9083764","url":null,"abstract":"In different new and emerging technologies, where high frequency offsets (FOs) are expected due to the low-cost nature of the local oscillators, and low sampling rates are chosen for the sake of power efficiency, accurate FO estimation becomes a challenging task. This work proposes a frequency synchronization approach based on a dual-chirp training sequence. Its performance is evaluated by means of simulations and validated with the derived Cramer-Rao lower bound. It is shown that the proposed method achieves near-optimum performance with lower complexity than the state-of-the-art approach.","PeriodicalId":385212,"journal":{"name":"2020 2nd 6G Wireless Summit (6G SUMMIT)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126319890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electromagnetic Measurement Techniques for Materials and Device Used in 6G Wireless Communications","authors":"M. Horibe, Y. Kato, R. Sakamaki","doi":"10.1109/6GSUMMIT49458.2020.9083897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/6GSUMMIT49458.2020.9083897","url":null,"abstract":"AIST are researching and developing the electromagnetic measurement technique for materials and circuits used in the 6th generation wireless telecommunication. One of key factor in measurement technologies are operation frequency range. In this paper, balanced type circular disc resonator (BCDR) has been recognized as an accurate measurement method of complex dielectric constant for low loss dielectric materials expanded frequency range up to 170 GHz. On the other hand, for scattering parameter, S-parameter, measurement of planar devices and circuits, precision on-wafer circuit measurement has been achieved by fully automatic prober system with high accuracy up to 340 GHz. In the presentation, material characterization is demonstrated for synthetic resin, and the original on-wafer measurement technique producing scattering parameter measurement with high reproducibility up to 340 GHz.","PeriodicalId":385212,"journal":{"name":"2020 2nd 6G Wireless Summit (6G SUMMIT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129225535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Munari, Federico Clazzer, O. Simeone, Z. Utkovski
{"title":"Grant-Free Access for IoT in Beyond-5G Systems: The Potential of Receiver Diversity","authors":"A. Munari, Federico Clazzer, O. Simeone, Z. Utkovski","doi":"10.1109/6GSUMMIT49458.2020.9083892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/6GSUMMIT49458.2020.9083892","url":null,"abstract":"The impressive increase in market penetration of internet of things (IoT) services and the flourishing of targeted technology solutions forecast a prominent role for these applications in upcoming networks. For their success, the design of efficient grant-free based medium sharing policies is paramount, and represents a key challenge for beyond-5G systems. Motivated by this, the article reviews some recent results on the potential of receiver diversity, which is emerging as a very promising approach to boost performance of random access for machine-type communications.","PeriodicalId":385212,"journal":{"name":"2020 2nd 6G Wireless Summit (6G SUMMIT)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130908530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Petri Ahokangas, Seppo Yrjölä, Marja Matinmikko-Blue, V. Seppänen, T. Koivumäki
{"title":"Antecedents of Future 6G Mobile Ecosystems","authors":"Petri Ahokangas, Seppo Yrjölä, Marja Matinmikko-Blue, V. Seppänen, T. Koivumäki","doi":"10.1109/6GSUMMIT49458.2020.9083756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/6GSUMMIT49458.2020.9083756","url":null,"abstract":"This paper applies an integrative, futures-oriented action research methodology to explore the antecedents of future 6G mobile communications ecosystems. Based on extant ecosystem research, the paper develops a conceptual framework to depict and analyze mobile communications ecosystems. The developed framework is used for analyzing future 6G mobile communications ecosystems by looking at ecosystem contingencies, structures, process, goals, and outcomes, and it briefly discusses the key transformations anticipated for 6G mobile ecosystems. The results indicate that 6G will bring about fundamental structural changes to the mobile ecosystem, calls for novel models of ecosystem governance and regulation that highlight privacy, security, environmental sustainability and societal resilience.","PeriodicalId":385212,"journal":{"name":"2020 2nd 6G Wireless Summit (6G SUMMIT)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123997068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sumit Pratap Singh, Mostafa Jafari Nokandi, T. Rahkonen, A. Pärssinen
{"title":"On the use of sub-harmonic mixer in sliding-IF architecture for mm-Wave/THz transceivers","authors":"Sumit Pratap Singh, Mostafa Jafari Nokandi, T. Rahkonen, A. Pärssinen","doi":"10.1109/6GSUMMIT49458.2020.9083758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/6GSUMMIT49458.2020.9083758","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses methods to implement a sub-THz transceiver for 300 GHz band with minimal LO frequency. An existing sub-harmonic mixer, used previously in direct conversion transceiver, is applied in a sliding-IF mixer architecture. Sub-harmonic mixer with sliding IF architecture is envisioned to further reduce the need of higher LO frequency for upconversion. In this aspect, two architectures are studied by spectral analysis and further verified through circuit simulator. The first has a problem with overlapping sidebands, making it unsuitable for non-symmetrical double sideband modulations. On the other hand, the second architecture manages to up-convert signals up to fo, using a single LO frequency of fo/3.","PeriodicalId":385212,"journal":{"name":"2020 2nd 6G Wireless Summit (6G SUMMIT)","volume":"136 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124267019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quantized Compressed Sensing via Deep Neural Networks","authors":"Markus Leinonen, M. Codreanu","doi":"10.1109/6GSUMMIT49458.2020.9083783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/6GSUMMIT49458.2020.9083783","url":null,"abstract":"Compressed sensing (CS) is an efficient technique to acquire sparse signals in many wireless applications to, e.g., reduce the amount of data and save low-power sensors' batteries. This paper addresses efficient acquisition of sparse sources through quantized noisy compressive measurements where the encoder and decoder are realized by deep neural networks (DNNs). We devise a DNN based quantized compressed sensing (QCS) method aiming at minimizing the mean-square error of the signal reconstruction. Once trained offline, the proposed method enjoys extremely fast and low complexity decoding in the online communication phase. Simulation results demonstrate the superior rate-distortion performance of the proposed method compared to a polynomial-complexity QCS reconstruction scheme.","PeriodicalId":385212,"journal":{"name":"2020 2nd 6G Wireless Summit (6G SUMMIT)","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115176636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marja Matinmikko-Blue, Seppo Yrjölä, Petri Ahokangas
{"title":"Spectrum Management in the 6G Era: The Role of Regulation and Spectrum Sharing","authors":"Marja Matinmikko-Blue, Seppo Yrjölä, Petri Ahokangas","doi":"10.1109/6GSUMMIT49458.2020.9083851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/6GSUMMIT49458.2020.9083851","url":null,"abstract":"Spectrum management plays a key role in the deployment of new wireless technologies. Regulators in the 5G era have introduced a variety of spectrum management approaches that allow the deployment of new cellular networks including traditional exclusively nationwide licensing, local licensing and unlicensed approaches involving varying levels of spectrum sharing. The upcoming 6G era in the 2030s will face new challenges resulting from the ever-increasing variety of considered spectrum bands for 6G with drastically different propagation characteristics and the increasing fragmentation of spectrum management approaches. This paper provides an overview of spectrum management for mobile communication networks including the most recent 5G spectrum decisions. The paper discusses the role of spectrum sharing in the upcoming 6G era and related enabling technologies. The paper opens the door for 6G spectrum discussions with an emphasis on what is different in 6G while taking into account the challenges arising from the underlying regulatory environment.","PeriodicalId":385212,"journal":{"name":"2020 2nd 6G Wireless Summit (6G SUMMIT)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128739854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shuo Wang, Tao Sun, Hongwei Yang, Xiaodong Duan, Lu Lu
{"title":"6G Network: Towards a Distributed and Autonomous System","authors":"Shuo Wang, Tao Sun, Hongwei Yang, Xiaodong Duan, Lu Lu","doi":"10.1109/6GSUMMIT49458.2020.9083888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/6GSUMMIT49458.2020.9083888","url":null,"abstract":"With the commercialization of 5G network, the research on next generation network, i.e. 6G, has started. In this paper, we summarized the evolution characteristics of mobile network architecture. Then the requirements for 6G network architecture are presented including self-operating with less human involvement, globally accessible and ultra scalable. To achieve those requirements, a novel distributed and autonomous network architecture for 6G is proposed with the following features. The network will be globally converged by integrating multiple access technology and introducing new protocol. Meanwhile, the network will become highly distributed and flat to improve scalability, which is inspired by bionics behavior. Additionally, fully autonomous design will be enabled by pervasive distributed intelligence. We also discussed the promising technologies to realize the mentioned features. Our vision on 6G network architecture gives an insight into the design of 6G network paradigm.","PeriodicalId":385212,"journal":{"name":"2020 2nd 6G Wireless Summit (6G SUMMIT)","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126389448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hybrid Precoding for 6G Terahertz Communications: Performance Evaluation and Open Problems","authors":"Longfei Yan, Chong Han, Jinhong Yuan","doi":"10.1109/6GSUMMIT49458.2020.9083795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/6GSUMMIT49458.2020.9083795","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a fully-connected (FC) hybrid precoding architecture in the Terahertz (THz) band is investigated for 6G wireless communications. The approximated spectral efficiency of the THz FC hybrid precoding architecture is derived. Inspired by this, a low-complexity column-by-column (CBC) algorithm is proposed for the THz FC hybrid precoding. Simulation results show that, on the one hand, the spectral efficiency of the CBC algorithm approaches the fully digital precoding scheme and outperforms the existing algorithm with a low complexity. On the other hand, the approximated spectral efficiency of the FC hybrid precoding is accurate. Furthermore, some open problems of the Terahertz hybrid precoding are presented.","PeriodicalId":385212,"journal":{"name":"2020 2nd 6G Wireless Summit (6G SUMMIT)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125724990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}