While many people have yet to wrap their minds around 5G mobile technology, Samsung has already begun to talk about 6G.
In a report released Tuesday, the South Korean electronics giant reveals its 6G vision for the future, including technical and societal megatrends, new services, requirements, candidate technologies and the expected standardization time.
“While the commercialization of 5G is still in its infancy, it is never too early to begin preparations for 6G, as it usually takes about 10 years from launching research to commercializing a new generation of new communications technology,” said Sunghyun Choi, CEO of Samsung Advanced. Communications Research Center, explained in a statement.
Samsung predicted in its report that early commercialization of the 6G could take place as early as 2028, with mass marketing taking place in approximately two years.
Standards teams developing a mobile protocol known as the 3rd Generation Partnership Project, or 3GPP, have been developing new standards for about a decade, said Kevin Krewell, chief analyst at San Jose, California, offices of Tirias Research. a high-tech research and consulting firm.
“Assuming there are no major deadlocks on the committees, Samsung’s forecast seems to be correct,” he told TechNewsWorld.
Leave 5G in the dust
Samsung is also seeing technology make a huge leap in performance on 5G networks that are currently barely out of the country. The peak speeds of 6G are 1,000 gigabits per second, or about 50 times the speed of 5G, and the air delay - 100% microseconds, or one-tenth of the latency - is the time between giving the instruction and executing it. 5G.
“6G aims to take 5G to the next level with bandwidth and latency,” Krewell said.
“The overall goal is to make 6G connections even more reliable and robust than 5G, allowing for more connected services such as radio-connected drones and real-time augmented reality glasses,” he continued.
Diagram of the main performance requirements between 6G and 5G
Comparison of key performance requirements between 6G and 5G [Credit: Samsung]
Reliability is a sensitive issue if 6G is used to manage autonomous vehicles, said Jack E. Gold, founder and chief analyst at J. Gold Associates, an IT consulting firm in Northborough, Massachusetts.
“6G needs to improve reliability because if you use autonomous vehicles, for example, you can’t make signals disappear and cause car accidents,” he told TechNewsWorld.
Samsung claimed in its report that the 6G will be used for advanced services such as the surrounding augmented reality, highly loyal mobile holograms, and the use of digital "twins" in virtual worlds.
Use cases
However, anticipating 6G use cases may be a bit premature.
“It’s hard to know what technology is driving the deployment of 6G,” Krewell said. "Did we know in 2010 that AR and VR, autonomous vehicles and drones are high on the 5G usage list?"
“It’s really hard to imagine what 6G use cases can be when we continue to try to figure out 5G use cases,” added Jason Leigh, a senior research analyst at IDC Mobility in Framingham, Massachusetts. market research firm.
Nevertheless, if the 6G lives up to its speed and delays, it can be used in many ways.
“These qualities could support a wide range of advanced training, education and certification processes in a variety of fields,” said Charles King, chief analyst at Pund-IT in Hayward, California.
“They can also improve remote support for health care and other hard-to-reach services for rural communities,” he told TechNewsWorld.
“In-depth applications of products and industrial design are likely,” he added. "There are also likely to be numerous military applications from advanced communications to real-time battlefield analysis."
More machines than people
If 5G is an indicator, carriers may have difficulty selling 6G to consumers.
“Sales to consumers look pretty hazy,” King said. "That is, unless the vendors come up with a whole new type of equipment and form makers."
“Companies that could leverage 6G features and functionality to improve efficiency, reduce costs, or create new markets seem to be the most likely targets,” he added.
However, consumers may not be as important in the deployment of 6G as they have been in the deployment of new generations.
A Samsung report found that the number of connected devices is expected to reach 500 billion by 2030, which is about 59 times the global population of 8.5 billion expected at the time.
Mobile devices use several form factors, it continued, such as augmented reality glasses, virtual reality headsets, and hologram devices.
It increasingly stated that machines need to be connected via wireless communication. Such connected machines include vehicles, robots, drones, home appliances, monitors, intelligent sensors installed in various infrastructures, construction machinery and factory equipment.
“As the number of connected machines grows exponentially, these machines will become the dominant users of 6G communications,” the report continues.
“Looking back at the history of wireless communications, technologies have been developed on the assumption that services to people are the main driving applications,” it continued. "In 5G, machines were also considered in defining requirements and developing technologies."
“We expect new 6G technologies to be developed specifically to connect hundreds of billions of machines, given what is required of the machines,” it predicted.
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