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Toward 6G: From New Hardware Design to Wireless Semantic and Goal-Oriented Communication Paradigms
Several speculative visions are conjecturing on what 6G services will be able
to offer at the horizon of 2030. Nevertheless, the 6G design process is at its
preliminary stages. The reality today is that hardware, technologies and new
materials required to effectively meet the unprecedented performance targets
required for future 6G services and network operation, have not been designed,
tested or even do not exist yet. Today, a solid vision on the cost-benefit
trade-offs of machine learning and artificial intelligence support for 6G
network and services operation optimization is missing. This includes the
possible support from hardware efficiency, operation effectiveness and, the
immeasurable cost due to data acquisition-transfer-processing. The contribution
of this paper is three-fold. This is the first paper deriving crucial 6G key
performance indicators on hardware and technology design. Second, we present a
new hardware technologies design methodology conceived to enable the effective
software-hardware components integration required to meet the challenging
performance envisioned for future 6G networks. Third, we suggest a paradigm
shift towards goal-oriented and semantic communications, in which a totally new
opportunity of joint design of hardware, artificial intelligence and effective
communication is offered. The proposed vision is consolidated by our recent
results on hardware, technology and machine learning performance.Comment: ESSCIR