Vision, Enabling Technologies, and Scenarios for a 6G-Enabled Internet of Verticals (6G-IoV)

Maziar Nekovee () and Ferheen Ayaz
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Maziar Nekovee: 6G Lab, Centre for Advanced Communications, Mobile Technology and IoT, School of Engineering and Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RH, UK
Ferheen Ayaz: 6G Lab, Centre for Advanced Communications, Mobile Technology and IoT, School of Engineering and Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RH, UK

Future Internet, 2023, vol. 15, issue 2, 1-10

Abstract: 5G is the critical mobile infrastructure required to both enable and accelerate the full digital transformation of vertical sectors. While the 5G for vertical sectors is aiming at connectivity requirements of specific verticals, such as manufacturing, automotive and energy, we envisage that in the longer term the expansion of wide area cellular connectivity to these sectors will pave the way for a transformation to a new Internet of Verticals (IoV) in the 6G era, which we call 6G-IoV. In this paper, we describe our vision of 6G-IoV and examine its emerging and future architectural and networking enablers. We then illustrate our vision by describing a number of future scenarios of the 6G-IoV, namely the Internet of Cloud Manufacturing accounting for around 25% of digital services and products, the Internet of Robotics to cater the challenges of the growing number of robotics and expected 7% increase in usage over the coming years and the Internet of Smart Energy Grids for net-zero energy balance and shifting to 100% dependence on the renewables of energy generation.

Keywords: 5G; 6G; IP communication; determinism networking; reliability; semantic communications; non-terrestrial networks; artificial intelligence; internet of verticals; cloud manufacturing; robotics; smart energy grids; semantic communications; internet of space (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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