Toward 6g: A New Era of Convergence (Paperback)

Author biographies

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acronyms

1 The 6G Vision 1

1.1 Introduction 1

1.2 Evolution of Mobile Networks and Internet 4

1.3 6G Network Architectures and Key Enabling Technologies 7

1.3.1 Four-Tier Networks: Space-Air-Ground-Underwater 7

1.3.2 Key Enabling Technologies 8

1.4 Toward 6G: A New Era of Convergence 12

1.5 Scope and Outline of Book 15

1.5.1 Scope 15

1.5.2 Outline 17

2 Immersive Tactile Internet Experiences via Edge Intelligence 21

2.1 Introduction 21

2.2 The Tactile Internet: Automation or Augmentation of the Human? 29

2.3 Haptic Traffic Characterization 36

2.3.1 Teleoperation Experiments  38

2.3.2 Packet Interarrival Times  39

2.3.3 Sample Autocorrelation 45

2.4 FiWi Access Networks: Revisited for Clouds and Cloudlets 48

2.4.1 FiWi: EPON and WLAN  48

2.4.2 C-RAN: Cloud vs. Cloudlet  51

2.4.3 Low-Latency FiWi Enhanced LTE-A HetNets 52

2.5 Delay Analysis 56

2.5.1 Assumptions  56

2.5.2 Local Teleoperation 57

2.5.3 Non-Local Teleoperation  62

2.6 Edge Sample Forecast  63

2.7 Results 69

2.8 Conclusions 74

3 Context- and Self-Awareness for Human-Agent-Robot Task Coordination

3.1 Introduction 77

3.2 System Model 80

3.2.1 Network Architecture 80

3.2.2 Energy and Motion Models of Mobile Robots 81

3.3 Context-Aware Multi-Robot Task Coordination 84

3.3.1 Illustrative Case Study 84

3.3.2 Problem Formulation 85

3.3.3 The Proposed Algorithm  89

3.4 Self-Aware Optimal Motion Planning  91

3.5 Delay and Reliability Analysis 94

3.5.1 Delay Analysis 95

3.5.2 Reliability Analysis 99

3.6 Results 101

3.7 Conclusions 108

4 Delay-Constrained Teleoperation Task Scheduling and Assignment

4.1 Introduction 111

4.2 System Model and Network Architecture 114

4.3 Problem Statement 115

4.3.1 Problem Formulation 116

4.3.2 Model Scalability 120

4.4 Algorithmic Solution 121

4.4.1 Illustrative Case Study 121

4.4.2 Proposed Task Coordination Algorithm 122

4.4.3 Complexity Analysis 124

4.5 Delay Analysis 124

4.6 Results 129

4.7 Discussion 137

4.8 Conclusions 139

5 Cooperative Computation Offloading in FiWi Enhanced Mobile Networks 141

5.1 Introduction 141

5.2 System Model 145

5.3 Energy-Delay Analysis of the Proposed Cooperative Offloading 147

5.3.1 Average Response Time  148

5.3.2 Average Energy Consumption per Task 155

5.4 Energy-Delay Trade-off via Self-organization 156

5.5 Results 161

5.6 Conclusions 170

6 Decentralization via Blockchain 173

6.1 Introduction 173

6.2 Blockchain Technologies  177

6.2.1 Ethereum vs. Bitcoin Blockchains 177

6.2.2 Ethereum: The DAO 181

6.3 Blockchain IoT and Edge Computing  183

6.3.1 Blockchain IoT (BIoT): Recent Progress and Related Work 183

6.3.2 Blockchain Enabled Edge Computing 186

6.4 Decentralizing the Tactile Internet 187

6.4.1 AI-enhanced MEC 188

6.4.2 Crowdsourcing 190

6.5 Nudging: From Judge Contract to Nudge Contract 192

6.5.1 Cognitive Assistance: From AI to Intelligence Amplification (IA)  192

6.5.2 HITL Hybrid-Augmented Intelligence 192

6.5.3 Decentralized Self-Organizing Cooperative (DSOC) 193

6.5.4 Nudge Contract: Nudging via Smart Contract 194

6.6 Conclusions 195

7 XR in the 6G Post-Smartphone Era 197

7.1 Introduction 197

7.2 6G Vision: Putting (Internet of No) Things in Perspective 199

7.3 Extended Reality (XR): Unleashing Its Full Potential 201

7.3.1 The Reality-Virtuality Continuum 201

7.3.2 The Multiverse: An Architecture of Advanced XR Experiences 202

7.4 Internet of No Things: Invisible-to-Visible (I2V) Technologies 204

7.4.1 Extrasensory Perception Network (ESPN) 206

7.4.2 Nonlocal Awareness of Space and Time: Mimicking the Quantum Realm 208

7.5 Results 211

7.6 Conclusions 214

A Proof of Lemmas 215

A.1 Proof of Lemma 3.1 215

A.2 Proof of Lemma 3.2 216

A.3 Proof of Lemma 3.3 217

A.4 Proof of Lemma 5.1 218

Bibliography

Index 239