The articles in this special section focus on the evolution of automotive engineering that deploy 6G networks. The continuous evolution of network technology and the digitization of the economy are key drivers for defining the expected 6G networks. Academia and industry have made tremendous strides during the past few years to shift the networking paradigm from human-centric communication to machine-type communication, and those gains will eventually lead to everything-type communication. Such developments have already enabled 5G systems to support massive connectivity, multigigabit data rates, massive multipleinput/ multiple-output (MIMO), millimeter-wave (mm-wave) communication, nonorthogonal multiple access, multiuser access, edge computing, dense wavelength division multiplexing for transport networks, service-based architectures, network slicing, network function virtualization, network automation, and core network encryption. Moreover, service requests are now processed using various sets of performance metrics in intelligent and self-healing fashions. Scaling these types of automated networks requires paradigm changes in communication network management, where communication and computation must ultimately fuse. Overall, this will lead to orders of magnitude of improved user satisfaction, and it eventually will spin out new, smaller domains for local and efficient service provisioning (e.g., private networks).

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为 6G 网络奠定里程碑 [来自客座编辑]

本专题部分的文章重点关注部署 6G 网络的汽车工程的演进。网络技术的不断演进和经济的数字化是定义预期 6G 网络的关键驱动因素。在过去的几年里，学术界和工业界在将网络范式从以人为中心的通信转变为机器类型的通信方面取得了巨大的进步，这些成果最终将导致一切类型的通信。这样的发展已经使 5G 系统能够支持大规模连接、千兆位数据速率、大规模多输入/多输出 (MIMO)、毫米波 (mm-wave) 通信、非正交多址、多用户接入、边缘计算、密集波分复用用于传输网络、基于服务的架构、网络切片、网络功能虚拟化、网络自动化和核心网络加密。此外，现在使用各种性能指标集以智能和自我修复的方式处理服务请求。扩展这些类型的自动化网络需要通信网络管理的范式改变，其中通信和计算最终必须融合。总体而言，这将导致用户满意度的数量级提高，并且最终会为本地和高效的服务提供（例如，专用网络）产生新的、更小的域。扩展这些类型的自动化网络需要通信网络管理的范式改变，其中通信和计算最终必须融合。总体而言，这将导致用户满意度的数量级提高，并且最终会为本地和高效的服务提供（例如，专用网络）产生新的、更小的域。扩展这些类型的自动化网络需要通信网络管理的范式改变，其中通信和计算最终必须融合。总体而言，这将导致用户满意度的数量级提高，并且最终会为本地和高效的服务提供（例如，专用网络）产生新的、更小的域。