Ten Technology Enablers Shaping the Future of 6G Wireless

A guide to ten technological components - from THz communications and AI/ML to reconfigurable intelligent surfaces - poised to define 6G wireless networks.

What Attendees will Learn

1. Which frequencies 6G will use - Understand why THz bands (above 100 GHz) and the7-24 GHz range are under consideration, what challenges CMOS technology faces at sub-THz frequencies, and how new semiconductor approaches aim to close the output-power gap for future link budgets.
2. How AI/ML and joint communications and sensing reshape the air interface - how auto encoder-based end-to-end learning can replace traditional signal-processing blocks, and how a single waveform may serve both data transmission and radar-like environmental sensing.
3. What reconfigurable intelligent surfaces and photonics bring to the radio environment- Explore how programmable metamaterial panels can steer and shape electromagnetic waves, and how visible light communications and all-photonics networks extend capacity and lower latency.
4. How ultra-massive MIMO, full-duplex, and new network topologies enable a true 3Dnetwork of networks" - Understand how antenna arrays with vastly more elements, simultaneously transmit/receive on the same frequency, and non-terrestrial nodes converge to deliver ubiquitous, high-capacity 6G coverage.