With the large-scale commercialization of 5G network, the research on the sixth generation (6G) network has been started. Towards 2030 and beyond, new services and new scenarios such as holographic interaction, emotional transmission, and air-space-earth integration will bring higher requirements to mobile communications, which will surely stimulate the networks evolution. ICDT converged development also provides a new paradigm for the 6G network. 6G will promote the society to move towards a “digital twin” world which combines both the virtual and the physical domains, and realize the goal of “6G will rebuild a new world” through ubiquitous intelligence. New radio technologies and architecture become the key enabler to build such efficient, cooperative and intelligent 6G network.

 

As 5G will continue to drive capabilities and expectations of the mobile networks, novel services and use cases are likely to pose new research challenges for 6G. 6G will further create a new technological ecology through a novel architecture, new capabilities, and in combination with the new needs and new scenarios of social development. In the future 6G network needs to provide more comprehensive performance indicators, such as ultra-low latency jitter, ultra-high security, three-dimensional coverage, ultra-high positioning accuracy, etc. Considered the differentiated requirements and scenarios, cost-efficient deployment and autonomous operation is the fundamental objective of 6G network.

 

The requirements on the future network will certainly bring breakthroughs in new technologies. Research on potential enabling technologies is extremely urgent, included but not limited to full-frequency access, new coding technology, terahertz and visible light communication, new dimensions of electromagnetic waves, space-air-ground integrated network and ICDT convergence driven network architecture. Depending on these potential enabling technologies, future network capabilities will be greatly enhanced to provide users with richer services and applications. We invite original research contributions that facilitate the advance of 6G communications.

 

Guangyi Liu, China Mobile Research Institute, China

Prof. Jinkang Zhu, University of Science and Technology of China, China

Prof. Jianhua Zhang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Prof. Xiaoming Tao, Tsinghua University, China

Prof. Yongming Huang, Southeast University, China

 

 

·   New business and application scenarios for 6G

·   6G all-frequency access

·   6G wireless transmission technology

·   6G network architecture

·   Integration of sensing, communication and computing

·   Digital twin and network autonomy

·   Big data and native-AI enabled network

·   6G Cloud-native networks

 

This feature topic “6G towards 2030: from key technology to network architecture” invites submissions of high-quality original research papers in this dynamic and fast-evolving area. Potential topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the areas listed above.

 

Papers should be submitted in two separate .doc files (preferred) or .pdf files: 1) Main Document (including paper title, abstract, key words, and full text); 2) Title page (including paper title, author affiliation, acknowledgement and any other information related with the authors’ identification) through the Manuscript Central. Please register or login at http://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/chinacomm, go to the author center and follow the instructions thereafter. Remember to select “6G towards 2030: from key technology to network architecture –March Issue, 2022” as your manuscript type in your submission process; otherwise, it might be treated as a regular submission but not for this special issue.

 

Each submission must be accompanied with the following information:

·         an abstract of about 150 words

·         3-8 keywords

·         original photographs with high-resolution (300 dpi or greater); eps. or tif. format is preferred

·         sequentially numbered references. The basic reference format is: author name, "article name", issue name(italic）, vol, no., page, month, year. For example: Y.M Huang, "pervateture in wireless hetergeneous..",IEEE Journal on Selected Areas, vol.27, no. 5, pp 34-50, May, 2009.

·         brief biographies of authors (50-75 words)

·         contact information, including email and postal addresses