The future vision for 6G entails providing the connectivity backbone for advanced, AI-enabled applications.
This vision relies on ubiquitous computing as a general paradigm, however this paradigm cannot be achieved without ubiquitous, pervasive connectivity. This connectivity fabric must be resilient, trusted, and seamless as users roam across terrestrial (TN) and non-terrestrial networks (NTN). Only smart antennas that can interoperate across multiple different communications channels, intelligently route traffic based on network demands, and act as sensors on the network will successfully enable this vision. This talk will focus on the role non-terrestrial networks will play in this connectivity fabric, and how smart metasurface antennas that can interoperate across different orbits and different frequency bands will accelerate NTN adoption into the 6G framework.
The future vision for 6G entails providing the connectivity backbone for advanced, AI-enabled applications.
This vision relies on ubiquitous computing as a general paradigm, however this paradigm cannot be achieved without ubiquitous, pervasive connectivity. This connectivity fabric must be resilient, trusted, and seamless as users roam across terrestrial (TN) and non-terrestrial networks (NTN). Only smart antennas that can interoperate across multiple different communications channels, intelligently route traffic based on network demands, and act as sensors on the network will successfully enable this vision. This talk will focus on the role non-terrestrial networks will play in this connectivity fabric, and how smart metasurface antennas that can interoperate across different orbits and different frequency bands will accelerate NTN adoption into the 6G framework.