vivo releases third 6G white paper

The vivo Communications Research Institute has recently released its third 6G white paper, ‘Building a Freely Connected Physical and Digital Integrated World: 6G Services, Capabilities and Enabling Technologies’.

The report explores the 6G framework and enabling technologies that vivo experts believe will shape people’s lives beyond 2030, vivo said in a statement.

“As one of the world’s leading smartphone vendors, we are dedicated to empowering consumers by making cutting-edge 5G smartphones affordable and accessible. At the same time, we have set our sights on the future - 6G,” said vivo Communications Research Institute President Qin Fei. “At the forefront of R&D, we continue to explore what a 6G world might look like and what technologies we need to develop to get there.”

vivo’s latest white paper on 6G builds on two earlier works released in 2020, including ‘Digital Life 2030+’, which provides insights into some of the many potential 6G digital scenarios for the next decade, and ‘6G Vision, Requirements and Challenges’, which outlines vivo’s vision for 6G, namely that 6G will enable convergence of the digital and physical worlds.

The white paper proposes that 6G will provide super communication, information, and converged computing services, becoming a base for an interconnected and converged physical and digital world.

New network functions need to be introduced to support the new 6G services and achieve integration of sensing and communication. Brand-new system architecture design is required as 6G will converge mobile network and computing, cross-domain data interaction, and native AI network.