Key Focus Areas and Enabling Technologies for 6G

Christopher G. Brinton; Mung Chiang; Kwang Taik Kim; David J. Love; Michael Beesley; Morris Repeta; John Roese; Per Beming; Erik Ekudden; Clara Li; Geng Wu; Nishant Batra; Amitava Ghosh; Volker Ziegler; Tingfang Ji; Rajat Prakash; John Smee

doi:10.1109/MCOM.002.2400150

Key Focus Areas and Enabling Technologies for 6G

Christopher G. Brinton, Mung Chiang, Kwang Taik Kim, David J. Love, Michael Beesley, Morris Repeta, John Roese, Per Beming, Erik Ekudden, Clara Li, Geng Wu, Nishant Batra, Amitava Ghosh, Volker Ziegler, Tingfang Ji, Rajat Prakash, John Smee

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We provide a taxonomy of a dozen enabling network architectures, protocols, and technologies that will define the evolution from 5G to 6G. These technologies span the network protocol stack, different target deployment environments, and various perceived levels of technical maturity. We outline four areas of societal focus that will be impacted by these technologies, and overview several research directions that hold the potential to address the problems in these important focus areas.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	84-91
Number of pages	8
Journal	IEEE Communications Magazine
Volume	63
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.002.2400150
State	Published - 2025
Externally published	Yes

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Computer Science Applications
Computer Networks and Communications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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