6G Technology: Next-Gen Communication Networks

A Chinese research team has created a new wireless communications technology that supports networks extending from the second generation (2G) to the sixth generation (6G) simultaneously. It allows for the possibility of minimizing the size of base stations, reducing the amount of energy consumption by more than 10 times, and providing hardware support for advanced applications such as embodied intelligence and satellite communications.

Researchers from the School of Electronics at Peking University proposed a unified hardware platform to break down the barriers between networks of different generations. Unlike traditional solutions, the new platform uses light as a medium, modifying wireless signals on optical modules to generate a huge number of wireless channels in a stable and synchronous manner.