Trends in Standardization Towards 6G

Authors

  • Nidhi CGC Research Lab, Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus University, Denmark https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5861-9752
  • Bahram Khan Instituto de Telecomunicações and Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6905-7329
  • Albena Mihovska CGC Research Lab, Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus University, Denmark
  • Ramjee Prasad CGC Research Lab, Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus University, Denmark
  • Fernando J. Velez Instituto de Telecomunicações and Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/jicts2245-800X.932

Keywords:

6G Networks, Spectrum Management, Standardisation Development Organization, Spectrum Sharing, Terahertz

Abstract

Mobile networks have always been an indispensable part of a fully connected digital society. The industry and academia have joined hands to develop technologies for the anticipated future wireless communication. The predicted Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and use cases for the 6G networks have raised the bar high. 6G networks are developing to provide the required infrastructure for many new devices and services. The 6G networks are conceptualized to partially inherit 5G technologies and standards but they will open the ground for innovations. This study provides the vision and requirements for beyond 5G (B5G) networks and emphasizes our vision on the required standards to reach a fully functional and interoperable 6G era in general. We highlight various KPIs and enabling technologies for the B5G networks. In addition, standardization activities and initiatives concerning challenges in the use of spectrum are discussed in detail.

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Author Biographies

Nidhi, CGC Research Lab, Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus University, Denmark

Nidhi is an Early-Stage Researcher in the project TeamUp5G, a European Training Network in the frame of (MSCA ITN) of the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 framework. Currently enrolled as a PhD student at Aarhus University in the Department of Business Development and Technology. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Telecommunication and Masters’ degree in Electronics and Communication (Wireless) from India. Her research interests are small cells, spectrum management, carrier aggregation, etc.

Bahram Khan, Instituto de Telecomunicações and Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal

Bahram Khan is an Early-Stage Researcher since November 2019 at the Instituto de Telecomunicacoes and a Ph.D. student at the University of Beira Interior Covilhã, Portugal. He did his bachelor’s degree from COMSATS University in 2016 and Master studies from Bahria University in 2018 in the department of Electrical Engineering from Pakistan Islamabad. His research interest is HetNet, small cell deployments, carrier aggregation, cell-free. Currently, the project on which he is working is focused on 5G and beyond, which is titled as “Licensed Shared Access in Heterogeneous Network with Small Cells” and is under the TeamUp5G and funded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (MSCA ITN) of the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 framework.

Albena Mihovska, CGC Research Lab, Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus University, Denmark

Albena Mihovska is an Associate Professor at the Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus BSS, Aarhus University, Denmark. She has been with the Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus BSS, Aarhus University since February 2017. She received her PhD in Mobile wireless communications, Aalborg University, Denmark. Albena Mihovska is currently teaching a 1st-semester course in the B.Sc. and GMM programs and is a supervisor of TS and master projects the Cand. Polyt program.

Ramjee Prasad, CGC Research Lab, Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus University, Denmark

Ramjee Prasad, is a Professor of Future Technologies for Ecosystem Innovation, (FT4BI) in the department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus University, Denmark. He is a Founder President of CTIF Global Capsule (CGC). He is also the Founding Chairman of the Global ICT Standardization Forum for India (GISFI: www.gisfi.org) established in 2009. GISFI has the purpose of increasing the collaboration between Indian, Japanese, European, North-American, Chinese, Korean and other worldwide standardization activities in the area of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and related application areas. He is also a Fellow of IEEE, USA; IETE India; IET, UK; and a member of the Netherlands Electronics and Radio Society (NERG), and the Danish Engineering Society (IDA).

He was honoured by the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy as a Distinguished Professor of the Department of Clinical Sciences and Translational Medicine on March 15, 2016. He is an Honorary Professor of the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He received Ridderkorset af Dannebrogordenen (Knight of the Dannebrog) in 2010 from the Danish Queen for the internationalization of top-class telecommunication research and education.

He has received several international awards such as IEEE Communication Society Wireless Communication Technical Committee Recognition Award in 2003 for making a contribution in the field of “Personal, Wireless and Mobile System Networks”, Telenor’s Research Award in 2005 for impressive merits, both academic and organizational within the field of Wireless and Personal Communication, 2014 IEEE AESS Outstanding Organizational Leadership Award for Organizational Leadership in developing and globalizing the CTIF (Center for TeleInFrastruktur) Research Network, and so on.

He has been Projected Coordinator of several EC Projects, MAGNET, MAGNET Beyond, e-Wall and so on. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the Springer International Journal on Wireless Personal Communications. He is member of the editorial board of several other renowned international journals and is the series editor of the Artech House Universal Personal Communications Series. Ramjee Prasad is a member of the Steering, Advisory, and Technical Program committees of many renowned annual international conferences, e.g., Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Symposium (WPMC); Wireless VITAE, etc. He has published more than 30 books, 1000 plus journals and conferences publications, more than 15 patents, a sizable number of graduated Ph.D. students (over 140) and an even larger number of graduated M.Sc. students (over 250). Several of his students are today worldwide telecommunication leaders themselves.

Fernando J. Velez, Instituto de Telecomunicações and Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal

Fernando J. Velez (M93SM05) received the Licenciado, M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Tecnico, the Technical University of Lisbon in 1993, 1996, and 2001, respectively. Since 1995 he has been with the Department of Electromechanical Engineering of Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal, where he is Assistant Professor. He is also a senior researcher of Instituto de Telecomunicações. Fernando was an IEF Marie Curie Research Fellow in King’s College London (KCL) in 2008/09 (OPTIMOBILE IEF) and a Marie Curie ERG fellow at Universidade da Beira Interior from 2010 until March 2013 (PLANOPTI ERG). Fernando is the coordinator of the Instituto de Telecomunicações team in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie ITN Action (TeamUp5G) that started in 2019. He made or makes part of the teams of several European and Portuguese research projects on mobile communications, and he was the coordinator of six Portuguese projects. Recently, he was the coordinator of CONQUEST (CMU/ECE/0030/2017), an exploratory project from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Portugal, a collaboration with the Department of Engineering and Public Policy from CMU. He has authored three books, 24 book chapters, 160 papers and communications in international journals and conferences, plus 39 in national conferences.

Fernando is currently the IEEE VTS Region 8 (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Chapter Coordinator (nominated by VTS in 2010) and was the elected IEEE VTS Portugal Chapter coordinator from 2006 to 2014. He is also the adjunct coordinator of the Telecommunications Specialization of Ordem dos Engenheiros. Prof. Velez was also the coordinator of the WG2 (on Cognitive Radio/Software-Defined Radio Co-existence Studies) of COST IC0905 TERRA. His main research areas are cellular planning tools, traffic from mobility, wireless body sensor networks and wearable technologies, cross-layer design, spectrum sharing/aggregation, and cost/revenue performance of advanced mobile communication systems.

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Published

2021-12-20

How to Cite

Nidhi, Khan, B. ., Mihovska, A. ., Prasad, R. ., & Velez, F. J. . (2021). Trends in Standardization Towards 6G. Journal of ICT Standardization, 9(03), 327–348. https://doi.org/10.13052/jicts2245-800X.932

Issue

2021: Vol 9 Iss 3

Section

6G Enabling Technologies – Innovation 6G