The industrial 6G network of networks
Konstantin Schneider, Eike Lyczkowski, Daniel Rittershofer, Wolfgang Kieß, Sebastian Treib, Maximilian Dietrich, Stefan Hoeltken · 2024
Typical industrial factories feature many wireless communication technologies in parallel. This work proposes a 6G architecture to integrate the most relevant of these technologies - namely WiFi, 5G, Visible Light Communication (VLC), and Communication-Enabled Radar (CER) - into a single network platform to enable advanced industrial use cases. An overall network architecture, including the data flows and interfaces required to support vertical handover decisions, is provided, and the relevant research challenges are discussed. The performance of the proposal is demonstrated through an implementation of the concept, the source code of the implementation is made available.