Distributed Sensing, Computing, Communication, and Control Fabric
A Unified Architecture for New 6G Era
Dejan Vukobratović (University of Novi Sad)
Nikolaos Bartzoudis (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC/CERCA))
Mona Ghassemian (Huawei Technologies Deutschland GmbH)
Firooz B. Saghezchi (University of Aveiro)
Peizheng Li (Toshiba Europe)
Adnan Aijaz (Toshiba Europe)
Ricardo Martinez (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC/CERCA))
Xueli An (Huawei Technologies Deutschland GmbH)
Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad (TU Delft - Networked Systems)
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Abstract
With the advent of the multimodal immersive communication system, people can interact with each other using multiple devices for sensing, communication and/or application level control either onsite or remotely. As a breakthrough concept, a distributed sensing, computing, communications, and control (DS3C) fabric is introduced in this paper for provisioning 6G services in multi-tenant environments in a unified manner. The DS3C fabric can be further enhanced by natively incorporating intelligent algorithms for network automation and managing networking, computing, and sensing resources efficiently to serve vertical use cases with extreme and/or conflicting requirements. As such, the paper proposes a novel end-to-end 6G system architecture with enhanced intelligence spanning across different network, computing, and business domains, identifies vertical use cases and presents an overview of the relevant standardisation and pre-standardisation landscape.