Telecom Standards Body TSDSI Submits Vision for 6G in India to ITU-R

The Telecommunications Standards Development Society, India, TSDSI, said on Wednesday that it submitted its vision for 6G in India with the ITU Radiocommunication Sector (ITU-R). TSDSI said that this will drive the direction of 6G technologies as part of the vision for IMT-2030.

TSDSI Submits Vision for 6G in India

Notably, TSDSI also got its 5G standard, 5Gi, approved from ITU-R last November, making 5Gi the first approved telecom standard from India. It said that it has adopted a two-pronged strategy for 6G in India. First, it will help steer research in India to serve the goals. Second, it will continue engagement with global standard bodies for harmonization of efforts including ITU WP 5D.

It also said that it already began deliberations in this area in early 2020. TSDSI had held an introductory workshop on “Telecom Technologies for the next Decade” on January 29, 2020. It also added, "a study on use cases, requirements and technologies towards 6G is currently in progress in the Networks Study Group of TSDSI".

TSDSI said that future technologies must leverage composable network to lower costs and increase affordability. The standards body noted that that accessible and affordable technologies can bridge the digital divide. It also added that spectrum sharing or simultaneous spectrum use technologies can lower the cost of initial spectrum purchase.

The standards body also said that heterogeneous device types should attempt to lower the cost of ownership. It said that they should do so without compromising on the quality of high-end usage scenarios. "Focus on energy efficiency to be able to work in power-starved scenarios/enhance lifespans of self-powered devices thus promoting affordability as well as sustainability", TSDSI added.

TSDSI on Tech Aspects of 6G

TSDSI said it observed that there will be a proliferation of multiple network types. These include public, private, enterprise/industrial wireless networks, application-specific specialized networks, IoT/sensor networks. As such, all these applications can use different radio access technologies. It said that "interoperability of these technologies will be critical to enable a ubiquitous intelligent, connected/compute environment - where diverse networks, processes, applications, use cases and organizations are connected".

Also, TSDSI said that there are opportunities to standardize and deploy “distributed, edge-native Artificial Intelligence (AI)” that can help in personalizing service without compromising privacy concerns for distributed connectivity or compute environments. TSDSI also said that future technologies must take into account intrinsic data hierarchies and management aspects. This will ensure data security which has become a primary cause of concern for so many nations and enterprises.

It said that the future technologies will have to include provisions for the data owners to access, modify, control data flows and dictate privacy norms.