Distributed Sensing, Computing, Communication, and Control Fabric: A Unified Service-Level Architecture for 6G

TL;DR

This paper proposes a unified 6G architecture called DS3C fabric that integrates sensing, computing, communication, and control to support multimodal immersive systems with intelligent automation in multi-tenant environments.

Contribution

It introduces the DS3C fabric as a novel unified service-level architecture for 6G, incorporating intelligent algorithms for resource management and automation across multiple domains.

Findings

Proposes a new end-to-end 6G system architecture with enhanced intelligence.

Identifies key vertical use cases for the DS3C fabric.

Provides an overview of standardization efforts related to 6G.

Abstract

With the advent of the multimodal immersive communication system, people can interact with each other using multiple devices for sensing, communication and/or control either onsite or remotely. As a breakthrough concept, a distributed sensing, computing, communications, and control (DS3C) fabric is introduced in this paper for provisioning 6G services in multi-tenant environments in a unified manner. The DS3C fabric can be further enhanced by natively incorporating intelligent algorithms for network automation and managing networking, computing, and sensing resources efficiently to serve vertical use cases with extreme and/or conflicting requirements. As such, the paper proposes a novel end-to-end 6G system architecture with enhanced intelligence spanning across different network, computing, and business domains, identifies vertical use cases and presents an overview of the relevant standardization and pre-standardization landscape.