The Road Towards 6G - Opportunities, Challenges, and Applications: A Comprehensive View of the Enabling Technologies

The proposed book will provide a comprehensive picture of the journey from 5G networks towards 6G. Different aspects, ranging from theoretical foundations to existing platforms and technologies will be presented and analysed, by critically highlighting the real opportunities and the challenges. The first chapters are to describe the general “transitioning” aspects from 5G to 6G. After that, an overview on the different technologies is provided, to present at the end the security aspects, the new applications and an analysis of the electromagnetic exposure, above all in terms of comparative in respect of 5G. Security and Application will be straightforward better explained after the big picture on the different technologies is detailed in the previous chapters. 

6G is an emerging complex paradigm, with some important new concepts, that would enable an extremely high reliability and low latency. The main purpose is to provide the reader a thorough vision of the enabling technologies, their potential and what is still needed to fill the gap in terms of sustainability and coexistence of the different technologies. 

Since different emerging technologies will be considered and detailed in the book, it will be interesting for the reader to infer the major opportunities of each and the main limitations. This kind of information will mainly boost the potential interactions of different technologies to provide a more reliable system.

BIO: Luca Chiaraviglio (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in telecommunication and electronics engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He is currently an Associate Professor with the University of Rome “Tor Vergata,” Italy. He also holds Research Affiliate appointments CNIT and WILA, as well as ICT consultant for the Rome municipality. He has coauthored more than 180 articles published in international journals, books, international and national conferences. His current research topics cover 5G and B5G networks, EMF measurement and modelling, optimization applied to telecommunication networks and health risks assessment of 5G and B5G communications. He received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)-Spring 2020, the IEEE VTC-Spring 2016, and the Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks 2018, all of them appearing as the first author. Some of his papers are listed as the Best Readings on Green Communications by the IEEE. Moreover, he has been recognized as an Author in the Top 1% Most Highly Cited Papers in the Information and Communication Technology field worldwide and top 2% world scientists according to the 2021 and 2022 updates of the science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicator He has been in the Technical Program Committee (TPC) of IEEE INFOCOM conference since 2018, as well as serving in the TPC of other major conferences (ICC, GLOBECOM, ECOC, VTC, 5G Italy). He is Chief Editor of the Networks Section for the Frontiers in Communications and Networks journal (Scopus indexed in 2023). He served as Editor for several journals, including IEEE Communications Magazine (for 7 years), IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, and IEEE Access, He is Co-principal investigator for the KAUT-CNIT bilateral project PLAN-EMF and for the national project MOSS. He is currently project manager and coordinator of the UNIROMA2 spoke for the RESTART program.  He is/has been a member of several projects, including European ones (H2020, FP7)  and national ones (CTE, PRIN, FIRB). He has served as keynote in several venues (GSMA, ITU-T, IEEE COMA, ITNAC conference, SNOW workshop, Anritsu webinar, ARPA Lazio webinar, ARTIST international school) and panelist in different conferences/meetings (ICC, COMMNET conference, 6G summit, ITU-T Kaleidoscope conference, 5G Italy conference).