Diversity in India useful test scenario for cellular mobile communications, says Prof Karandikar
India has an opportunity to steer the 6G standardization in a way which the country has not really thought of before, as well as become a global exporter of such technologies in the years to come.
Underlining this at the Indian Mobile Congress (IMC) on 29 Oct 2023, Department of Science and Technology (DST) Secretary Professor Abhay Karandikar said, “We have an opportunity to steer the 6G standardization in a way which we have not really thought of before, as well as become a global exporter of such technologies in the years to come.”
With indigenous 5G technology in place, India’s committed and dedicated team of researchers in academia, industry players and start-ups has an ecosystem to bring the country to a position of strength in terms of mobile network technologies, he elaborated.
“As you know that the 5G itself was a paradigm shift from 2G and 3G mobile networks, while 6G would be really a game changer and India presents a fertile use case scenario for influencing the 6G research and the standardization in a vastly different way,” Prof Karandikar said at the Second International Workshop on 6G Standardization that took place as part of the IMC 2023.
With the advent of mobile communication, India is contributing hugely to the massive escalation of global data volume and by 2030 India’s share may increase to one third or even more of the total data generated from the standard mobile communication, he stressed.
“We will have a variety of use cases from very high to a very low data rate, from very stringent latency environments to latency tolerant applications, heterogeneous radio access technologies and a range of access devices,” he continued.
“This diversity in India will be a useful test scenario for cellular mobile communications, and also devices connected through Wi -Fi, drones, satellite, terrestrial networks, sensors as well as IoT.
“However, we still have a long way to go as far as research in on standardization and filing patents is concerned. Also, a significant amount of work needs to be done in the core network itself.
“Core network will present huge scalability challenges and to overcome this, an efficient heterogeneous radio access technology which can help pumping in large volumes of data to the core networks would be very useful,” he explained.
The research challenges that these areas throw up, can be supported by the Department of Science and Technology through its initiatives like the National Mission for Cyber Physical Systems (NMICPS), he added.
Besides primary telephone connectivity, it can span communication in sectors of agriculture, health, transportation, logistics and so on. Besides, with the ANRF soon to be operational, some of these advanced areas can have new mechanisms of funding in place, Prof Karandikar stressed at the 3-day IMC organized in New Delhi from 27 Oct. fiinews.com
