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posted by janrinok on Saturday January 01 2022, @12:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the no-5G-here-for-quite-a-few-years dept.

Researchers offer future 6G network concept:

With commercial 5G rapidly deploying, researchers have begun to look at 6G. Its key technologies for mobile communication networks are expected to become available as early as 2023, with 6G networks emerging in 2030, according to Saad et al. Compared to 5G, the 6G network will increase data rates by over 100 times, to one terabyte per second or more, enabling the inclusion of edge intelligent devices and computing. To move large amounts of data to where and when it is needed, 6G networks will need to customize services to meet demands, transmit valued data, and interact with users.

To meet these requirements, the paper offers a "mailbox theory" that envisions a 6G network characterized as a:

  • Distributed Intelligent Network [...]
  • Proactive Interactive Network [...]
  • Cognitive Information Transmission [...]

Journal Reference:
Yixue Hao, Yiming Miao, Min Chen, et al. 6G Cognitive Information Theory: A Mailbox Perspective, Big Data and Cognitive Computing BDCC (2021) [open] (DOI: 10.3390/bdcc5040056)


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 01 2022, @12:37AM (8 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 01 2022, @12:37AM (#1209070)

    We don't even know how 5G will be used, and thus have no conception of what we'll actually _need_ from 6G. The authors didn't let that stop them though, they'll _tell_ you what we should be needing.
    It's all fun an games to claim "100x the throughput rate of 5G" but what does that actually mean in practice? Is this another one of those scams that starts with "we offer you speeds of /up to/ X Mbps"? Sure, the spectrum _may_ potentially offer that... if you're the only one using it, and traffic doesn't need to leave your cell zone, and your phone is transmitting at an excess wattage, etc...

    Given those throughput rates and the desire to 'interact with users^Weyeballs', I can only deduce that Google, Facebook/Meta, et al. are all just salivating at how many more ads they can push in front of our faces. It appears that the internet is no longer for porn and hasn't been for about a decade now, it's just for ads, ads, ads... and squeezing people who are on it for every last drop of 'unrealized profit'.

    Also, "Cognitive Information Transmission" has got to be the dumbest thing I've read all year, and I've read a bunch of dumb things this year...

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by gznork26 on Saturday January 01 2022, @01:22AM

    by gznork26 (1159) on Saturday January 01 2022, @01:22AM (#1209077) Homepage Journal

    At those speeds, we can probably expect to see the BlipVerts from Max Headroom that were too fast to be perceived yet were awesomely effective, except for the side-effects, like maybe mass deaths. Or perhaps deep subliminals like those that triggered River Tam in Serenity.

    Maybe we should pay more attention to the kinds of comms research the DoD and the tech industry start funding.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by SomeGuy on Saturday January 01 2022, @02:37AM (3 children)

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Saturday January 01 2022, @02:37AM (#1209083)

    But, you see 6G is one bigger than 5G, so it will be better. It will change everyones lives. It has more molecules, and it's got what plants crave!

    You have to keep feeding consumertards this techno babble drivel so they never realize that their precious cell phones are shit.

    • (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Saturday January 01 2022, @07:23AM (1 child)

      by mhajicek (51) on Saturday January 01 2022, @07:23AM (#1209110)

      At least if they keep upgrading, in a few years I'll be able to buy an electric car that no longer talks to the internet, because it's cellular modem won't be able to connect.

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      The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 01 2022, @08:04PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 01 2022, @08:04PM (#1209201)

        good point, however "the lobby(tm)" will push for a standard that only cars that can succesfully phone home (read: spy) is a safe car and thus can be started and used by owner mu-hahaha.

    • (Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 01 2022, @12:34PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 01 2022, @12:34PM (#1209128)

      You have to keep feeding consumertards this techno babble drivel so they never realize that their precious cell phones are shit.

      Ye joking, right? Telcos don't make a profit from selling phones, they make a profit from govt subsidies to extend the coverage. With a cell size of 102m OoM, there'll be heaps of new repeaters and towers to install (or else China will be the world leader in 6G, so better cough those subsidies)

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 01 2022, @04:31AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 01 2022, @04:31AM (#1209094)

    Too bad it can't be both. Meaning, that the ads were porn. Think of all the Pizza commercials with the pizza boy delivering the sausage to a waiting group of coeds. I'll watch the shit out of those commercials.

  • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Saturday January 01 2022, @07:23PM

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Saturday January 01 2022, @07:23PM (#1209189) Homepage Journal

    You and I don't even need 4G, except that the more phones on your network the more bandwidth you need. The "next generation will give you unbelievable experiences" is advertising bullshit, a damned lie. The phone companies need it, not you or I.

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  • (Score: 2) by corey on Saturday January 01 2022, @11:46PM

    by corey (2202) on Saturday January 01 2022, @11:46PM (#1209240)

    Yeah I agree. It’s full of buzzwords and fancy new sounding concepts but at the end of the day what is 5G over 4G? Just faster. (And less flexible at the real high speeds, as you have to be 100m from a transceiver/tower.

    Cognitive radio is all the hype at the moment but it’s justa fancy name for carrier/collision detection (which Ethernet has had for decades) but in a frequency domain. When I read about that, I chuckled - cognitive, hehe.

    Oh, edge-* is another, edge computing, edge this and that. It just means your phone or computer do what they used to do years ago before cloud-* which is, compute stuff. It’s a big amusing cycle but it does mean a lot of conferences for people to go waste time at.