Talk 7 - 6G and AI-RAN: Opportunities, Challenges, and the Future of Spectrum Sharing Innovation Manu Gosain, Northeastern University, USA
Northeastern University, USA
Talk 7 - 6G and AI-RAN: Opportunities, Challenges, and the Future of Spectrum Sharing Innovation Manu Gosain, Northeastern University, USA
Abstract
The expectations on 6G are ambiguous as it should extend 5G into several technical and societal dimensions. While global research is still debating on evolutionary vs. revolutionary architectural approaches, many operators have made clear, that 6G has to be backward compatible to allow a smooth network transition and to avoid massive investments into a new infrastructure without clearly identifiable killer applications. Understanding the current lessons learned from global 5G rollout challenges, as well as the increasing notion of AI-enabled networks, opening and disaggregation of radio and core network architectures, and emerging open-source implementations of 5G technologies driving innovations one could assume, that 6G might be strongly affected by this.
In this talk, we will level set on the development timeline and current consensus on 6G architecture, use cases, performance metrics and enabling technologies. We will discuss the role, plannings and state of play for AI-RAN architecture with use cases around spectrum sharing to allow both industry and academia to get an early practical understanding on emerging 6G technologies and to actively contribute to 6G research, standardization and developments from different national perspectives.
Biography
Abhimanyu Gosain is a Senior Director for Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems at Northeastern University, co-Chair for the US FCC 6G Technology Advisory Council, World Radio Conference Advisory Committee (WAC) member, and Senior Advisor for NTIA Innovation Fund and US Department of Defense Research and Engineering FutureG. He is the Co-PI for NSF NRDZ EEL program, POSE Open6G and Colosseum program. He is a Founding member for Magma Core Foundation and University representative for O-RAN Alliance, AI-RAN Alliance and NextG Alliance. He serves on multiple International project committees of Japan XGMF, SLICES-EU and co-chair on organizing committees for OpenRIT6G, 6GSymposium, EuCNC, IEEE InfoCom, GlobeCom and ACM WinTech. He is a US government 3GPP delegate and IEEE Senior Member. His numerous professional publications and experience exemplify use-inspired basic research in the field of networking technologies, such as 5G, 6G, AI/ML, edge computing, and IoTs.