2Blockchain, AI, and Human IntelligenceThe Path toward 6G

DOI: 10.1201/9781003427322-2

INTRODUCTION

The Internet has been constantly evolving from the mobile Internet to the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) and future Tactile Internet. Similarly, the capabilities of future 5G networks will extend far beyond those of previous generations of mobile communication. Besides 1000-fold gains in area capacity, 10 Gb/s peak data rates, and connections for at least 100 billion devices, an important aspect of the 5G vision is decentralization. While 2G, 3G, and 4G cellular networks were built under the design premise of having complete control at the infrastructure side, 5G systems may drop this design assumption and evolve the cell-centric architecture ...

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