Ericsson has joined forces with Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology and eight other partners to solve what it says is one of the key challenges of future 6G networks: Predictable end-to-end connections between users, processes and “digital representations in cyber world”.
The project, dubbed DETERMINISTIC6G, is a 5.7 million euros ($6.1 million) research and innovation consortium coordinated by Ericsson and KTH, with the main goal of ensuring that next-generation wireless networks can accommodate new applications within industrial automation, manufacturing, transport, medicine and entertainment. The Swedish vendor noted that one of the main aspects of the project is the concept of deterministic communication, or guaranteeing communication latency and reliability, and that the new project will focus on developing the technology enablers for time-sensitive communications that as-yet-unstandardized 6G systems are expected to need.
