With the rapid development of the smart city, high-level autonomous driving, intelligent manufacturing, and etc., the stringent industrial-level requirements of the extremely low latency and high reliability for communication and new trends for sub-centimeter sensing have transcended the abilities of 5G and call for the development of 6G. Based on analyzing the function design of the communication, sensing and the emerging intelligent computation systems, we propose the joint communication, sensing and computation (JCSC) framework for 6G intelligent machine-type communication (IMTC) network to realize low latency and high reliability of communication, highly accurate sensing and fast environment adaption. In the proposed JCSC framework, the communication, sensing and computation abilities cooperate to benefit each other by utilizing the unified hardware, resource and protocol design. Sensing information is exploited as priori information to enhance the reliability and latency performance of wireless communication and to optimize the resource utilization of the communication network, which further improves the distributed computation and cooperative sensing ability. We propose the promising enabling technologies such as joint communication and sensing (JCS) technique, JCSC wireless networking techniques and intelligent computation techniques. We also summarize the challenges to achieve the JCSC framework. Then, we introduce the intelligent flexible manufacturing as a typical use case of the IMTC with JCSC framework, where the enabling technologies are deployed. Finally, we present the simulation results to prove the feasibility of the JCSC framework by evaluating the JCS waveform, the JCSC enabled neighbor discovery (ND) and medium access control (MAC).
翻译:随着智能城市的迅速发展、高自主驾驶、智能制造等智能城市的迅速发展,对通信高度低潜值和高度可靠的通信的严格工业要求以及次中心遥感的新趋势超越了5G的能力,要求开发6G。 根据对通信、遥感和新兴智能计算系统的功能设计的分析,我们提议为6G智能机型通信网络建立联合通信、遥感和计算框架(JCSC),以实现低延迟和高可靠性的通信、高准确感测和快速环境适应。在拟议的JCSC框架内,通信、感测和计算能力合作,通过使用统一的硬件、资源和协议设计来相互受益。遥感信息被作为事先信息加以利用,以提高无线通信的可靠性和耐用性性功能,优化通信网络的资源利用,从而进一步提高分布式计算和合作遥感能力。我们提出有希望的赋能技术,如联合通信和感测技术、JCSC的无线联网技术和智能计算技术。在JCSC的拟议框架中,我们总结了JCSF格式,从而实现JCS的智能框架。