{"title":"Sustainability and Spectrum Management in the 6G ERA","authors":"Marja Matinmikko-Blue","doi":"10.23919/ITUK53220.2021.9662089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ITUK53220.2021.9662089","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of sustainability and the required sustainable development to reach this goal call for a significant renewal of operations to solve fundamental challenges facing societies. The role of ICT and wireless communications is critical in realizing the twin transition of green and digital. The wireless and mobile communications community has taken sustainability as the key goal driving the whole R&D of the next generation of mobile communication networks (6G) aiming at deployment in 2030s. Understanding the triple bottom line of economic, social and environmental sustainability together with the concrete United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) with specific targets and indicators are fundamental for 6G R&D but their linkages are not yet clear. This paper investigates sustainability and sustainable development in the context of 6G. A special focus is on the management of the fundamental natural resource for wireless communications, namely the radio spectrum whose management keeps getting ever more complex. The paper highlights the role of new sharing-based spectrum governance models, to rapidly respond to the needs of the changing world towards a sustainable future.","PeriodicalId":423554,"journal":{"name":"2021 ITU Kaleidoscope: Connecting Physical and Virtual Worlds (ITU K)","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121741968","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":"The Adoption Gap: Ethics, Citizenship, Institutional Factors, and Standards for Smart Cities","authors":"Rob Kitchin","doi":"10.23919/ITUK53220.2021.9662112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ITUK53220.2021.9662112","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past decade, many cities have adopted policies and rolled out programs and projects designed to transform them into a smart city. This has been accompanied by the formation of active smart city epistemic communities and advocacy coalitions, the insertion of a new cadre of smart city professionals into city administrations, an extensive apparatus of social learning, and numerous funding mechanisms to facilitate uptake. It is clear from the plethora of initiatives underway globally that the idea and ideals of smart cities is quite broadly conceived. Critically, in all cases, digital technologies are front-and-center as a vital ingredient for addressing the major issues facing city managers, businesses, and citizens. Core technologies include city operating systems, performance management systems, centralized control rooms, digitally mediated surveillance, intelligent transport systems, smart grids, predictive policing, sensor networks, building management systems, and civic apps. While these technologies offer solutions to urban problems, they also raise a number of concerns relating to surveillance, dataveillance and privacy, predictive profiling, social sorting and redlining, anticipatory governance and nudging, and control creep and security. Along with three other key issues, these concerns mean that while smart cities are in the process of being created their formation has been slow and piecemeal, and in most cases a smart city vision has only partially been embedded within city administrations or been greeted with apathy or resistance. In other words, an adoption gap has developed with city administrations proceeding cautiously with smart city initiatives. This gap is significant enough that some enthusiastic, early corporate promoters of smart cities have pivoted their endeavors into other related markets. This paper explores this adoption gap examining four sets of factors that have stymied their rollout and considering whether smart city standards might be a means of narrowing the gap.","PeriodicalId":423554,"journal":{"name":"2021 ITU Kaleidoscope: Connecting Physical and Virtual Worlds (ITU K)","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133306373","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":"Optimal Pilot Sequence Design for Machine Learning Based Channel Estimation in FDD Massive Mimo Systems","authors":"Hayder Al-Salihi, Mohammed Al-Gharbawi, F. Said","doi":"10.23919/ITUK53220.2021.9662117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ITUK53220.2021.9662117","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we consider the problem of channel estimation for large scale Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems, in which the main challenge that limits the functionality ofmassive MIMO is the acquisition of precise Channel State Information (CSI). We introduce an efficient channel estimation approach based on a block Sparse Bayesian Learning (SBL) that exploits the temporal common sparsity of channel coefficients. Furthermore, an optimal pilot approach to reduce the pilot overhead is derived. The optimal pilot is obtained by minimizing the Mean Square Error (MSE) of the proposed SBL estimator using Semi-Definite Programming (SDP). Simulation results demonstrate that the SBL-based approach is more robust than conventional methods when fewer training pilots are used.","PeriodicalId":423554,"journal":{"name":"2021 ITU Kaleidoscope: Connecting Physical and Virtual Worlds (ITU K)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131150904","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":"Research on Security and Privacy for IOT-Domotics","authors":"Jinxue Cheng, Xiaoming Lu, Qin Qiu, Qing Lu","doi":"10.23919/ITUK53220.2021.9662108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ITUK53220.2021.9662108","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the basic characteristics of IoT-domotics, and proposes an IoT-domotics reference model based on IoT-domotics entities, including service, IoT-domotics gateway, IoT-domotics devices and physical entities, and networks. Then, based on the IoT-domotics reference model, this paper analyzes the security and privacy risks of the IoT-domotics for different IoT-domotics entities. Considering the characteristics of the IoT-domotics, this paper also proposes the security control principles of the IoT-domotics, and gives the corresponding security and privacy controls, aiming to provide technical support for IoT-domotics security and promote the security application of IoT-domotics technology. Finally, this paper compares the supporting control schemes implemented by some researchers to demonstrate the advantages and disadvantages of existing IoT-domotics security control schemes.","PeriodicalId":423554,"journal":{"name":"2021 ITU Kaleidoscope: Connecting Physical and Virtual Worlds (ITU K)","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121166852","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":"Building a Distributed XR Immersive Environment for data Visualization","authors":"F. Beltrán, Jing Geng","doi":"10.23919/ITUK53220.2021.9662103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ITUK53220.2021.9662103","url":null,"abstract":"We present a novel way to support business organizations’ decision-making in the context of analysis of network data sets. For such a purpose we built a mixed-reality, multi-user platform, which we named Aroaro and can be deployed on different virtual reality and augmented reality devices. In Aroaro, users can experience data visualization, either individually or as part of a team. With a set of lab tasks designed to lead lab subjects to analyze the network information while immersing into the rich virtual environment, our approach belongs to the nascent area of immersive analytics. We assume a business unit has already procured some network data set and been tasked with problems that need to reveal information about the network's connectivity properties. This paper is concerned with how a business unit achieves problem solving (decisionmaking) when relying on immersive analytics. Our approach combines a high-quality virtual environment such as Aroaro, its data visualization engine and the analytics afforded by concepts of network centrality in a network. We report on preliminary results of having lab subjects experience two visualization environments: a 3D visualization system on a 2D-flat screen and our mixed-reality, multi-user platform for network data visualization.","PeriodicalId":423554,"journal":{"name":"2021 ITU Kaleidoscope: Connecting Physical and Virtual Worlds (ITU K)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116494470","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}
K. Yamazaki, T. Ohseki, Y. Amano, H. Shinbo, T. Murakami, Y. Kishi
{"title":"Proposal for a User-Centric Ran Architecture Towards Beyond 5G","authors":"K. Yamazaki, T. Ohseki, Y. Amano, H. Shinbo, T. Murakami, Y. Kishi","doi":"10.23919/ITUK53220.2021.9690496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ITUK53220.2021.9690496","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a \"user-centric Radio Access Network (RAN) architecture\" towards Beyond 5G. In a Beyond 5G mobile networks, connectivity to the network with sufficient quality should always be provided to users who demand that various quality requirements be met anytime and anywhere in the physical space. To achieve this, it is necessary to eliminate the degradation of radio quality at the cell edge, which requires the installation and cooperation of a much larger number of base stations in higher density. Furthermore, to overcome the imbalance in communication quality between the uplink and downlink still found in 5G, it is also necessary to eliminate the limitation of user terminals by virtually increasing the number of antennas and expanding transmission power for the number of antennas of user terminals and the power consumption of user terminals. On the other hand, a new RAN management is expected to provide users with their respective radio access capability through flexible cooperation of the base station around them. In this paper, we describe in detail the specific technical issues and our approach to realize the user-centric RAN architecture.","PeriodicalId":423554,"journal":{"name":"2021 ITU Kaleidoscope: Connecting Physical and Virtual Worlds (ITU K)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128894270","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}
T. Choi, Hyungsoo Kim, Jeongyun Kim, C. Yoon, G. Lee
{"title":"Quantum Key Distribution Networks for Trusted 5G and Beyond: An ITU-T Standardization Perspective","authors":"T. Choi, Hyungsoo Kim, Jeongyun Kim, C. Yoon, G. Lee","doi":"10.23919/ITUK53220.2021.9662098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ITUK53220.2021.9662098","url":null,"abstract":"The introduction of Quantum Key Distribution Networks (QKDNs) into current communication networks (e.g. 5G networks) and cryptographic infrastructures brings new challenges to the design of network architecture and security considerations. This paper introduces core standards on QKDNs developed in ITU-T SG13 and pre-standardization activities in ITU-T FG-QIT4N. Then, this paper discusses key challenges and identifies potential work items for stimulating future standardization for quantum enhanced networking and services considering trustworthy networking technologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) techniques for 5G and beyond.","PeriodicalId":423554,"journal":{"name":"2021 ITU Kaleidoscope: Connecting Physical and Virtual Worlds (ITU K)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132447963","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}
Fadzidah Abdullah, Mohd Faredzuan Mohd Noor, Mohd Raziff Abdul Razak
{"title":"Assessment of Spatial Intervention of Public Spaces by Locative Augmented Reality Games Players","authors":"Fadzidah Abdullah, Mohd Faredzuan Mohd Noor, Mohd Raziff Abdul Razak","doi":"10.23919/ITUK53220.2021.9662115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ITUK53220.2021.9662115","url":null,"abstract":"Augmented Reality (AR) games appear to have had a massive growth in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR 4.0). Locative AR games require the usage of big spaces for gamers to move around. Nevertheless, there is a question of whether public spaces are suitable for the spatial intervention of locative AR games players. Spatial intervention may become an issue among the public regarding accessibility, permeability, openness, centrality, and sense of security. This paper assesses the public perceptions of the spatial intervention of public spaces by locative AR games players. Researchers conducted this research by using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. The primary data was obtained based on observation and survey questionnaires, whilst the secondary data was collected using desk research. The findings of this research could help city authorities to consider formulating new design criteria of public spaces that are safe for both AR games’ players and the public.","PeriodicalId":423554,"journal":{"name":"2021 ITU Kaleidoscope: Connecting Physical and Virtual Worlds (ITU K)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131529945","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}
Chenchen Zhang, N. Zhang, Wei Cao, Kaibo Tian, Zhen Yang
{"title":"A Design of NB-IOT Random Access Preamble Receiver for Large Frequency Offset","authors":"Chenchen Zhang, N. Zhang, Wei Cao, Kaibo Tian, Zhen Yang","doi":"10.23919/ITUK53220.2021.9662119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ITUK53220.2021.9662119","url":null,"abstract":"In the fifth generation (5G) and beyond, the satellite communication system is expected to support Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT). However, the residual frequency offset in a channel may be large because of the large velocity of the satellites. In a legacy narrowband internet of things system, the users are assumed to have low velocity, and the random access preamble consists of single-subcarrier orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing symbols. With a large frequency offset, the power of the preamble leaks into adjacent subcarriers, which will cause severe performance degradation. In this paper, the influence of the leaked power is theoretically investigated, based on which a novel random access receiver is proposed to alleviate the performance degradation. The adjacent subcarriers are actually coherently combined to take advantages of the leaked power. The weights in combination are designed to suppress the interference of other users when the frequency offset is large. Numerical results show that the proposed receiver has good performance in preamble detection.","PeriodicalId":423554,"journal":{"name":"2021 ITU Kaleidoscope: Connecting Physical and Virtual Worlds (ITU K)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114389764","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":"6G Technologies for Mobile Connected Intelligence","authors":"Geng Wu","doi":"10.23919/ITUK53220.2021.9662104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/ITUK53220.2021.9662104","url":null,"abstract":"With the introduction of ultra-reliable and low-latency communications, 5G-enabled massive machine type communications beyond traditional smartphone applications and services. To achieve the required network performance and service scalability, 5G systems have adopted several technologies such as edge computing, network slicing and service-based architecture, powered by advanced virtualization technologies. Building on the technology foundations established in 5G, 6G is expected to bridge the physical and virtual worlds and bring technical improvements to energy efficiency, security, and network resilience. More specifically, 6G systems will integrate computing, communications, and data storage and access functions. 6G network architecture is expected to enable scalable distribution of computing and intelligence workloads, with the support of micro-services across devices, network edge and cloud. A next generation programmable optical and wireless transport network infrastructure will be developed and deployed to support 6G systems.","PeriodicalId":423554,"journal":{"name":"2021 ITU Kaleidoscope: Connecting Physical and Virtual Worlds (ITU K)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114778428","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}