TY - JOUR
T1 - Machine type communications
T2 - key drivers and enablers towards the 6G era
AU - Mahmood, Nurul Huda
AU - Böcker, Stefan
AU - Moerman, Ingrid
AU - López, Onel A.
AU - Munari, Andrea
AU - Mikhaylov, Konstantin
AU - Clazzer, Federico
AU - Bartz, Hannes
AU - Park, Ok Sun
AU - Mercier, Eric
AU - Saidi, Selma
AU - Osorio, Diana Moya
AU - Jäntti, Riku
AU - Pragada, Ravikumar
AU - Annanperä, Elina
AU - Ma, Yihua
AU - Wietfeld, Christian
AU - Andraud, Martin
AU - Liva, Gianluigi
AU - Chen, Yan
AU - Garro, Eduardo
AU - Burkhardt, Frank
AU - Liu, Chen-Feng
AU - Alves, Hirley
AU - Kelanti, Markus
AU - Sadi, Yalcin
AU - Doré, Jean Baptiste
AU - Kim, Eunah
AU - Shin, JaeSheung
AU - Park, Gi-Yoon
AU - Kim, Seok-Ki
AU - Yoon, Chanho
AU - Anwar, Khoirul
AU - Seppänen, Pertti
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported in part by the Academy of Finland 6Genesis Flagship program (Grant No. 318927), the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitalisation and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (MWIDE NRW) along with the Competence Center 5G.NRW under Grant No. 005-01903-0047, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) within the Collaborative Research Center SFB 876 “Providing Information by Resource-Constrained Analysis”, project A4, European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under Grant 732174 (ORCA Project), European Commission through the Next Generation Internet Project “iNGENIOUS: Next-Generation IoT solutions for the universal supply chain” (H2020-ICT-2020-1 call) under Grant 957216, the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) under 3501-Career Development Program (CAREER) Grant #118E920, Institute for Information & Communications Technology Promotion (IITP) Grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) (No. 2020-0-01316, International cooperation and collaborative research on 5G+ technologies for ultra-reliability low latency communications) and the Indonesian Ministry of Finance under the LPDP RISPRO for the Grant under the project of “Prevention and Recovery Networks for Indonesia Natural Disasters Based on the Internet-of-Things (PATRIOT-Net)”. The authors would like to acknowledge the contributions of their colleagues in the project, although the views expressed in this work are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the project.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s).
PY - 2021/6/10
Y1 - 2021/6/10
N2 - The recently introduced 5G New Radio is the first wireless standard natively designed to support critical and massive machine type communications (MTC). However, it is already becoming evident that some of the more demanding requirements for MTC cannot be fully supported by 5G networks. Alongside, emerging use cases and applications towards 2030 will give rise to new and more stringent requirements on wireless connectivity in general and MTC in particular. Next generation wireless networks, namely 6G, should therefore be an agile and efficient convergent network designed to meet the diverse and challenging requirements anticipated by 2030. This paper explores the main drivers and requirements of MTC towards 6G, and discusses a wide variety of enabling technologies. More specifically, we first explore the emerging key performance indicators for MTC in 6G. Thereafter, we present a vision for an MTC-optimized holistic end-to-end network architecture. Finally, key enablers towards (1) ultra-low power MTC, (2) massively scalable global connectivity, (3) critical and dependable MTC, and (4) security and privacy preserving schemes for MTC are detailed. Our main objective is to present a set of research directions considering different aspects for an MTC-optimized 6G network in the 2030-era.
AB - The recently introduced 5G New Radio is the first wireless standard natively designed to support critical and massive machine type communications (MTC). However, it is already becoming evident that some of the more demanding requirements for MTC cannot be fully supported by 5G networks. Alongside, emerging use cases and applications towards 2030 will give rise to new and more stringent requirements on wireless connectivity in general and MTC in particular. Next generation wireless networks, namely 6G, should therefore be an agile and efficient convergent network designed to meet the diverse and challenging requirements anticipated by 2030. This paper explores the main drivers and requirements of MTC towards 6G, and discusses a wide variety of enabling technologies. More specifically, we first explore the emerging key performance indicators for MTC in 6G. Thereafter, we present a vision for an MTC-optimized holistic end-to-end network architecture. Finally, key enablers towards (1) ultra-low power MTC, (2) massively scalable global connectivity, (3) critical and dependable MTC, and (4) security and privacy preserving schemes for MTC are detailed. Our main objective is to present a set of research directions considering different aspects for an MTC-optimized 6G network in the 2030-era.
KW - 6G
KW - E2E performance
KW - Machine type communications
KW - Random access
KW - Ultra reliable low-latency communications
KW - Zero-energy MTC
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85107897362&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1186/s13638-021-02010-5
DO - 10.1186/s13638-021-02010-5
M3 - Review Article
AN - SCOPUS:85107897362
SN - 1687-1472
VL - 2021
JO - EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
JF - EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
IS - 1
M1 - 134
ER -