Ericsson has joined Hexa-X – the 6G flagship analysis undertaking that brings collectively a powerful consortium of main ICT, business and educational stakeholders.
The undertaking will start on 1 January 2021, with a give attention to creating the imaginative and prescient for future 6G programs and creating key know-how enablers to attach human, bodily and digital worlds.
In its Outlook for 6G analysis paper, Ericsson identifies 4 key drivers which can emerge in what it calls “the 2030 period” and which the undertaking will search to deal with: trustworthiness of the programs, sustainability by means of cell know-how effectivity, accelerated automatization and digitalization, and limitless connectivity.
A part of the EU’s Horizon 2020 Program
The Hexa-X undertaking, which is commissioned to run till June 2023, might be awarded from the European Fee underneath the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innova
Ericsson, along with Nokia, will lead the undertaking, whereas Ericsson may even be represented throughout three European international locations: Sweden, Turkey and Hungary.
As technical lead, Ericsson’s contribution is anticipated to be pivotal in laying the groundwork for future use instances, distributed MIMO, synthetic intelligence and machine studying (AI/ML), and general 6G imaginative and prescient and structure. Ericsson will lead a number of duties in addition to the work packet on architectural enablers for 6G.
“We’re proud to be the technical lead of the Hexa-X undertaking, along with a powerful line up of consortium companions from business and academia. In 2030, society can have been formed by 5G for ten years,” says Magnus Frodigh, VP and Head of Ericsson Analysis.
“Whereas we proceed to evolve 5G, now can be the precise time to start out collaborative 6G analysis actions. The Hexa-X undertaking might be an necessary car for joint exploration throughout European business and academia, collectively shaping how exponential know-how evolution will meet anticipated calls for and alternatives for the 6G period. The street to 6G begins right this moment.”
