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 Volume 8, Issue 1 (January 2021), Pages: 26-30

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: Toward 6G wireless communications: Vision, applications, and technologies

 Author(s): Ahmed A. Alzamil *

 Affiliation(s):

 Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, University of Hail, Hail, Saudi Arabia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9031-7199

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2021.01.004

 Abstract:

5G is the latest standard for wireless networks that are still being slowly deployed to replace 4G and even 3G networks. Although it brings great improvements beyond 4G, it will not be capable of fulfilling the future requirements driven by the steadily increasing demands of the digital society. Therefore, the focus is now shifting toward the sixth generation of wireless communication systems (6G). Enhanced wireless connectivity that can serve the next decade is the mission of 6G. The latest initiatives have discussed the framework and the required performance capabilities of 6G cellular systems. This paper investigates the concept of the next generation of wireless communications. Therefore, ambitious scenarios of the future of wireless communications are presented. To defend the need for transitioning beyond 5G in the next decade, this paper explores the expectations, the use cases, the key performance indicators (KPIs), and the enabling technologies that will not to be available until 6G networks are deployed. 

 © 2020 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: 5G, 6G, Wireless networks, Cellular

 Article History: Received 4 June 2020, Received in revised form 16 August 2020, Accepted 20 August 2020

 Acknowledgment:

The author would like to thank the deanship of scientific research at the University of Hail in Saudi Arabia for supporting and funding this project.

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 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

  Alzamil AA (2021). Toward 6G wireless communications: Vision, applications, and technologies. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 8(1): 26-30

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