Abstract
The upcoming beyond 5G (B5G)/6G wireless networks target various innovative technologies, services, and interfaces such as edge computing, ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC), backscatter communications, and TeraHertz (THz) technology-enabled inter-chip high-capacity communications, to name a few. Although there are ongoing advances in the system/network level, it is crucial to advance the device-level design to efficiently support these novel technologies by addressing various practical constraints in terms of power, computational capacity, and storage capacity limitations. This need for device-level innovation ultimately demands significant enhancements in today’s consumer electronics (CE) framework, i.e., CE advancement towards “Consumer Electronics 2.0” . Considering the contemporary latency requirements of future CE applications (e.g., entertainment, gaming, etc), to enhance the commercial potential of “edge processing as a service”, it is envisioned that URLLC will further evolve as enhanced-URLLC (e-URLLC) in the B5G era. In this regard, this paper proposes a novel edge computing-enabled e-URLLC framework, named edge computing for CE (ECCE), to support advancements and to initiate discussions on the need for the next-generation CE. Starting with the discussion on recent trends and advances in CE, the proposed framework and its importance in the 6G wireless era are described. Subsequently, several potential technologies and tools to enable the implementation of the proposed ECCE framework are identified along with some interesting open research topics and future recommendations.
Highlights
Towards enhancing the quality of human life experience, research in different areas is progressively contributing
This tremendous expansion provided by 5th Generation (5G) is envisioned to play a vital role in the advancement of society and in the expansion of the world economy
Innovation at device-level providing the hybrid 5G services capabilities to the user devices can help in aggressively benefiting from edge computing platforms
Summary
Towards enhancing the quality of human life experience, research in different areas is progressively contributing. The natural performance boundaries of the existing technologies compared to the developing new diverse and contradicting performance and design requirements for the future CE plead the necessity of a tremendous leap forward in the CE framework Such stringent requirements in next-generation CE include context-awareness, light-weighted devices, communications ability with lower overhead, intelligence provision, automation, security and privacy provisions, high energy-efficiency, low-cost, holographic, remote-interaction, haptic interaction, assurance of low human electromagnetic radiations exposure, multi-connectivity, ultra-high reliability, ultra-low latency, massive access – to name a few. Innovation at device-level providing the hybrid 5G services capabilities to the user devices (e.g., devices equipped with URLLC and eMBB services capabilities) can help in aggressively benefiting from edge computing platforms In this context, the overall quality-of-service (QoS) may be defined by joint consideration of devices’ energy consumption, network resources utilization, devices processing tasks’ offloading rate, and network services’ successful delivery. Provision of data privacy and security is emerging as one of the prime concerns of the future networks
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