KT and LG Electronics to cooperate on 6G technologies and standards, especially full-duplex communications
In a joint statement, KT (South Korea’s #2 mobile network operator) and LG Electronics will work together to promote 6G technology research and technology standardization. The two companies plan to develop full-duplex communication technology, global standardization cooperation (presumably in 3GPP and ITU-R WP5D for IMT-2030), and 6G application services and next-generation transmission technologies. The companies had previously announced partnerships to develop AI service platforms and AI service robots.
Full-duplex communications will be introduced as part of the 5G-Advanced Release 18 and is expected to increase spectrum efficiency by enabling uplink and downlink data to be simultaneously transmitted and received over a single frequency band. The companies said it can increase frequency efficiency by up to two times. They will design technologies that operate in the 6G candidate frequency bands and transmit and receive simultaneously to verify actual performance. The duo also plan to promote global standardization of 6G (that can only be done by ITU-R IMT-2030 recommendations).
“Through this 6G research and development collaboration with LG Electronics, KT expects to lead the development of 6G mobile communication technology and strengthen its global standardization leadership,” said Lee Jong-sik, executive director of KT Network Research Institute. “We will do our best to secure innovative network technology and capabilities for providing differentiated services.”
Je Young-ho, executive director of LG Electronics C&M Standard Research Institute added: “LG Electronics has been proactively leading research and development to discover core 6G technologies since 2019,” and added, “Through our collaboration with KT, we expect to contribute greatly to not only leading 6G standardization, but also discovering core services.”
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Singtel and SK Telecom announced a partnership last month to collaborate on 6G research, including new network slicing capabilities, a fully disaggregated network, and new telco APIs based on Open Gateway. Earlier this year, Samsung and Arm began conducting joint research into parallel packet processing technology, which it described as one of the ‘key software technologies in next-generation communications’ to accelerate 6G software development, while Nvidia launched its 6G Research Cloud Platform, which includes a a digital twin that can simulate 6G systems, a software-defined, full RAN stack that researchers can play around with the Nvidia Sionna Neural Radio Framework which enables developers to use Nvidia GPUs to generate and capture training data.
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References:
https://www.koreaittimes.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=133845
https://www.telecoms.com/5g-6g/kt-and-lg-looking-to-take-the-lead-in-6g
https://news.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20210406000119
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/tech/2024/06/129_334571.html
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