Guest Editorial Networking Enablers for 6G Use Cases

The Fifth Generation Communications (5G) has paved the way for various use cases including but not limited to networked robotics and autonomous systems, distributed and collaborative sensor/actuator technologies, personalized user experience and extended reality. 5G networking builds on three pillars to enable the accomplishment of these use cases: enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), massive machine type communications (mMTC), and ultra reliable low latency communications (URLLC). While 5G has started to become a reality, the applications supported by these enablers require 100 microseconds at peak rate latency, 100 times faster speed and ten times higher penetration per square kilometer. Given these facts, a roadmap for the Sixth Generation Communications (6G) has been laid out aiming at Year 2030.