Published June 7, 2021 | Version v1
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European Vision for the 6G Network Ecosystem

  • 1. UC3M
  • 2. Nokia Bell-Labs
  • 1. CTTC
  • 2. Telefónica
  • 3. WINGS-ICT Solutions
  • 4. TU Dresden
  • 5. INTEL Lab
  • 6. Huawei
  • 7. 5G-IA
  • 8. NCSR Demokritos, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications
  • 9. AUSTRALO
  • 10. Univ. Málaga
  • 11. TNO
  • 12. Ericsson
  • 13. University of Patras
  • 14. FOGUS

Description

The white paper covers related to 6G research from a technical, societal, policy and business perspective with the aim of providing a vision for future networks and services.

It explains how 6G is expected to play a key role in the evolution of the society towards the 2030’s, as the convergence between the digital, physical and personal worlds will increasingly become a reality.

Furthermore, 6G will support the European Green Deal's objective of reaching climate neutrality for Europe by 2050. This and other objectives of 6G will also greatly contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
 
6G will include intelligent connected management and control functions, programmability, integrated sensing and communication, reduction of energy footprint, trustworthy infrastructure, scalability and affordability.

The development of Europe-based 6G infrastructures, solutions and services will be of key importance to secure European strategic autonomy in critical technologies and systems.
 
The paper presents possible opportunities and obstacles related to 6G as well as a series of recommendations for policy makers and businesses.

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Funding

FUDGE-5G – FUlly DisinteGrated private nEtworks for 5G verticals 957242
European Commission
Full5G – Fulfilling the 5G Promise 856777
European Commission
MARSAL – MACHINE LEARNING-BASED, NETWORKING AND COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT OF 5G AND BEYOND INTELLIGENT NETWORKS 101017171
European Commission
EVOLVED-5G – Experimentation and Validation Openness for Long-term evolution of VErtical inDustries in 5G era and beyond 101016608
European Commission
5G-INDUCE – Open cooperative 5G experimentation platforms for the industrial sector NetApps 101016941
European Commission
Hexa-X – A flagship for B5G/6G vision and intelligent fabric of technology enablers connecting human, physical, and digital worlds 101015956
European Commission
5GCroCo – Fifth Generation Cross-Border Control 825050
European Commission
COREnect – European Core Technologies for future connectivity systems and components 956830
European Commission
5G-VINNI – 5G Verticals INNovation Infrastructure 815279
European Commission
6G BRAINS – Bring Reinforcement-learning Into Radio Light Network for Massive Connections 101017226
European Commission
5GENESIS – 5th Generation End-to-end Network, Experimentation, System Integration, and Showcasing 815178
European Commission
DAEMON – Network intelligence for aDAptive and sElf-Learning MObile Networks 101017109
European Commission
INSPIRE-5Gplus – INtelligent Security and PervasIve tRust for 5G and Beyond 871808
European Commission
5GROWTH – 5G-enabled Growth in Vertical Industries 856709
European Commission