6G: Technology, Advancement, Barriers, and the Future

Abstract

With 5G and 4G cellular technologies taking the world by a storm, the rise of 6G is already being anticipated. 6G, the successor of the 5G network technology we currently have in many parts of the world, will be capable of incorporating very high frequencies at a much larger capacity with minimalistic latency. The main aim of 6G technology is to reduce any possible latencies to as low as microsecond latencies which ultimately means that it would push the framework to be at least a thousand times faster. The massive growth of artificial intelligence (AI) and its wide-ranging use cases also includes this sixth-generation technology. The combination of these two concepts will ensure structured and organized computational facilities, make learned decisions regarding storage and data, etc. The growing demands for wireless connectivity and seamless networks are what has caused the need of faster and improved technologies. This chapter highlights and focuses on the essence of 6G, what are the additional features incorporated that differentiate it from the existing network technologies, the possible issues, and challenges along with the future scope in this field.

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