Nokia collaborates with Docomo, NTT to jointly develop key technologies towards 6G By CIOTechOutlook Team

Nokia collaborates with Docomo, NTT to jointly develop key technologies towards 6G

CIOTechOutlook Team | Monday, 06 June 2022, 11:40 IST

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Finnish telecoms gear maker Nokia Monday said it is partnering with Japanese firms Docomo and NTT to jointly define and develop key technologies towards the sixth-generation or 6G technologies.

“The collaboration will focus on two proof-of-concepts for emerging 6G technologies: an AI native air interface and sub-THz radio access,” Nokia said in a statement.

These aim to demonstrate a performance gain with an AI-based 6G air interface compared to a conventional air interface, and to show that high-data rate beamformed access can be achieved in a high frequency band at 140 GHz, the statement added.

Nokia said it envisions six technologies to be the vital components of future 6G networks, which includes new spectrum technologies, AI native air interface, network as a sensor, extreme connectivity, cognitive, automated and specialized architectures, and security and trust.

Among these six components, the partnership between the companies will initially focus to demonstrate the benefits of AI-based learned waveform in the transmitter with a deep learning receiver in the mid-band, as well as to test high data rate indoor communications in the sub-THz band.

The plan is to set up environments for experiments and demonstrations in Docomo and NTT premises in Japan and Nokia premises in Stuttgart, Germany, and to begin performing the desired tests and measurements in 2022, the statement said.

“Docomo and NTT will now start the experimental trials of two 6G proof-of-concepts for high-rate transmission in the sub-THz band and AI native air interface, and contribute to 6G commercialization with vertical industry partners,” said Naoki Tani, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Docomo.

“We envision that 6G will unify the human experience across the digital, physical and human worlds,” said Peter Vetter, President Bell Labs Core Research, Nokia. “We look forward to working together and validating key concepts and key technologies to realize the 6G vision.”

Pekka Lundmark, the President & CEO of Nokia, expects that the 6G networks will become available by 2030, driven booming “industrial metaverse”.

“The coming together of machines, ambient data, intelligent knowledge systems and robust computation capabilities that redefine how we live, work and take care of our planet. This is exactly what we will experience with the arrival of 6G from 2030,” Peter Vetter, President Bell Labs Core Research, wrote in a blog post earlier this year.

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