The rapid evolution and convergence of wireless technologies and vertical applications have fundamentally reshaped our lifestyles and industries. Future wireless networks, especially 6G, are poised to support a wide range of applications enabled by heterogeneous services, leveraging both traditional connectivity-centric functions and emerging beyond-communication capabilities, particularly localization, sensing, and synchronization. However, integrating these new capabilities into a unified 6G paradigm presents significant challenges. This article provides an in-depth analysis of these technical challenges for integrative 6G design and proposes three strategies for concurrent heterogeneous service provisioning, with the aggregated goal of maximizing integration gains while minimizing service provisioning overhead. First, we adopt multi-dimensional multiple access (MDMA) as an inclusive enabling platform to flexibly integrate various capabilities by shared access to multi-dimensional radio resources. Next, we propose value-oriented heterogeneous service provisioning to maximize the integration gain through situation-aware MDMA. To enhance scalability, we optimize control and user planes by eliminating redundant control information and enabling service-oriented prioritization. Finally, we evaluate the proposed framework with a case study on integrated synchronization and communication, demonstrating its potential for concurrent heterogeneous service provisioning.
翻译:无线技术与垂直应用的快速演进与融合已从根本上重塑了我们的生活方式和产业形态。未来无线网络,特别是6G,有望通过异构服务支持广泛的应用场景,这些服务既利用传统的以连接为核心的功能,也融合了新兴的超越通信能力,尤其是定位、感知与同步。然而,将这些新能力整合到统一的6G范式中仍面临重大挑战。本文深入分析了面向集成化6G设计的这些技术挑战,并提出了三种并发异构服务供给策略,其总体目标是在最大化集成增益的同时最小化服务供给开销。首先,我们采用多维多址接入作为包容性使能平台,通过对多维无线资源的共享接入灵活整合多种能力。其次,我们提出价值导向的异构服务供给方案,通过情境感知的多维多址接入实现集成增益最大化。为提升可扩展性,我们通过消除冗余控制信息并实现面向服务的优先级划分来优化控制面与用户面。最后,我们通过集成同步与通信的案例研究评估所提框架,验证了其在并发异构服务供给方面的潜力。