6G – Connecting a Cyber-Physical World

Four main drivers with corresponding challenges are emerging for the 6G era: trustworthiness of the systems at the heart of society, sustainability through the efficiency of mobile technology, accelerated automatization and digitalization to simplify and improve people’s lives, and limitless connectivity meeting the demands for intensifying communication anywhere, anytime, and for anything.

To meet these future challenges, 6G needs to continue to push beyond the technical limits of 5G, moving toward critical services, immersive communication, and omnipresent IoT. In addition, entirely new capability dimensions should be explored integrating compute services and offering functionality beyond communication such as spatial and timing data.