NextArete: Global Tech Frontier

Topic

5G/6G Frontiers

A collection of 4 issues

Cellular and Wi‑Fi Collaborative Sensing: A Practical Path for 6G ISAC to Become Deliverable

A new demo from InterDigital and Türk Telekom shows how fusing cellular and Wi‑Fi sensing can make ISAC more accurate, continuous, and deployable—especially indoors.

From KPI-Driven to Workload-Driven: AI Traffic Is Rewriting 6G Requirements, Making Testbeds and Architectural Flexibility Essential

Recent signals from NGMN and 5G-MAG point to the same shift: AI and agentic workloads increase demand uncertainty, pushing 6G toward flexible architecture and reproducible testbeds to evaluate real traffic behavior.

5G-MAG Launches Open-Source “6G Testbed & AI Traffic Characterization” Project to Make AI Workloads Measurable and Reproducible

5G-MAG announced a new open-source reference tools project focused on a 6G testbed and AI traffic characterization, signaling a push toward reproducible workload-driven evaluation.

NGMN: AI Uncertainty Is Shaping 6G, Operators Call for Flexibility in Standardization

NGMN’s new publication argues that rapid AI evolution is rewriting 6G requirements, pushing operators to preserve architectural flexibility during 3GPP studies.