Guest Editorial Networking Enablers for 6G Use Cases
Paolo Monti, Burak Kantarcı, Raouf Boutaba · IEEE Networking Letters · 2023
The Fifth Generation Communications (5G) has paved the way for various use cases including but not limited to networked robotics and autonomous systems, distributed and collaborative sensor/actuator technologies, personalized user experience and extended reality. 5G networking builds on three pillars to enable the accomplishment of these use cases: enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), massive machine type communications (mMTC), and ultra reliable low latency communications (URLLC). While 5G has started to become a reality, the applications supported by these enablers require 100 microseconds at peak rate latency, 100 times faster speed and ten times higher penetration per square kilometer. Given these facts, a roadmap for the Sixth Generation Communications (6G) has been laid out aiming at Year 2030.