A Survey on Technological Trends to Enhance Spectrum Efficiency in 6G Communications

TL;DR

This survey reviews recent technological trends aimed at improving spectrum efficiency in 6G communications, highlighting challenges and future research directions to support next-generation wireless services.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of emerging spectrum-efficiency techniques for 6G and identifies key challenges for practical deployment.

Findings

Identifies promising technological trends for 6G spectrum efficiency

Highlights challenges in deploying 6G spectrum-efficient solutions

Suggests future research directions in 6G spectrum management

Abstract

The research community has already identified that, by 2030, 5G networks will reach the capacity limits, and hence, will be inadequate to support next generation bandwidth-hungry, ubiquitous, intelligent services, and applications. Therefore, in view of sustaining the competitive edge of wireless technology and stratifying the next decade's communication requirements both, industry and research community have already begun conceptualizing the 6G technology. This article presents a detailed survey on the recent technological trends which address the capacity issues and enhance the spectrum-efficiency in 6G Communications. We present these trends in detail and then identify the challenges that need solutions before the practical deployment to realize 6G communications. Our survey article attempts to significantly contribute to initiating future research directions in the area of spectrum-efficiency in 6G communications.