6G: The Next Horizon

Wen Tong is the CTO of Huawei Wireless and is the Huawei 5G chief scientist. Dr. Tong is also an IEEE Fellow and Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering. He was the recipient of IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Industry Leader Award, and the R. A. Fessenden Medal. Peiying Zhu is senior vice president of wireless research at Huawei and is a Huawei Fellow. She is also an IEEE Fellow and Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering.

Preface; Part I. Introduction: 1. Mobile communications towards 2030 and beyond Wen Tong, Peiying Zhu, Yan Chen and Wenshuan Dang; Part II. Use Cases and Target KPIs: 2. Extremely immersive human-centric experience Chunqing Zhang and Yan Chen; 3. Sensing, localization, and imaging Danny Kai Pin Tan, Jia He and Yanchun Li; 4. Full-capability industry 4.0 and beyond Xueli An, Xiuqiang Xu and Yingpei Lin; 5. Smart city and smart life Xueli An, Xiuqiang Xu and Yingpei Lin; 6. Global coverage for mobile services Xueliang Shi and Jun Wang; 7. Connected machine learning and networked AI Yiqun Ge, Rong Li, Hui Lin and Yan Chen; Part III. Theoretical Foundations: 8. Theoretical foundations for native AI and machine learning Jean-Claude Belfiore, Merouane Debbah, Rui Ni, Yiqun Ge and Jian Wang; 9. Theoretical foundations for massive capacity and connectivity Rui Ni, Merouane Debbah and Maxime Guillaudl; 10. Theoretical foundations for future machine type communications Jean-Claude Belfiore, Merouane Debbah, Rui Ni and Yiqun Ge; 11. Theoretical foundations for energy-efficient systems Merouane Debbah and Rui Ni; Part IV. New Elements: 12. New spectrum Kun Zeng and Guangjian Wang; 13. New channels Jia He, Ziming Yu; 14. New materials Huanhuan Gu, Morris Repeta and David Wessel; 15. New antennas Huanhuan Gu, Morris Repeta and David Wessel; 16. THz technology Huanhuan Gu, Morris Repeta and David Wessel; 17. Post moore's law computing Huanhuan Gu, Morris Repeta and David Wessel; 18. New devices Xueqiang Yan, Xun Yang, Chunqing Zhang and Huanhuan Gu; Part V. Enabling Technologies for 6G Air Interface Design: 19. Intelligent air interface framework Jianglei Ma, Rong Li, Yongxia Lyv, Hao Tang, Xiaoyan Bi and Liqing Zhang; 20. Integrated terrestrial and non-terrestrial communication Amine Maaref, Hejia Luo and Jianglei Ma; 21. Integrated sensing and communication Alireza Bayesteh, Jiajin Luo and Jia He; 22. New waveforms and modulation schemes Huang Huang and Alireza Bayesteh; 23. New coding Huazi Zhang, Mengyao Ma, Yiqun Ge and Zhongfeng Li; 24. New multiple access Lei Wang, Yan Chen, Liqing Zhang and Jianglei Ma; 25. Ultra-massive MIMO Hadi Baligh, Xiaoyan Bi, Gaoning He, Yong Liu, Huan Sun, Rui Ni, Zhongfeng Li and Jianglei Ma; 26. Integrated super-sidelink and access link communication Chunqing Zhang and Zhongfeng Li; Part VI. New Features for 6G Network Architecture Design: 27. Technologies for the network AI architecture Jianjun Wu, Chenghui Peng, Xueli An and Hang Zhang; 28. User-centric architecture technologies Xueqiang Yan, Artur Hecker, Chenghui Peng and Mingyu Zhao; 29. Native trustworthiness Fei Liu and Rob Sun; 30. Data governance architecture technologies Chenghui Peng, Jianjun Wu, Xueli An, Chenchen Yang and Xu Li; 31. Multi-player ecosystem architecture technologies Hang Zhang, Xueli An, Xun Xiao and Wei Tan; 32. Non-terrestrial network integrated architecture technologies Arashmid Akhavain and Michael Mayer; Part VII. Summary and Future Work: 33. 6G Ecosystem and roadmap Hui Lin, Xueqiang Yan, Yan Chen and Jianmin Lu.