2019/07/04 by Petar Popovski, Osvaldo Simeone, Popovski, Petar +7 · 4 citations
Engineering · Computer Science · #Ferroelectric and Negative Capacitance Devices #Software-Defined Networks and 5G #IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1907.02441
The traditional role of a communication engineer is to address the technical\nproblem of transporting bits reliably over a noisy channel. With the emergence\nof 5G, and the availability of a variety of competing and coexisting wireless\nsystems, wireless connectivity is becoming a commodity. This article argues\nthat communication engineers in the post-5G era should extend the scope of\ntheir activity in terms of design objectives and constraints beyond\nconnectivity to encompass the semantics of the transferred bits within the\ngiven applications and use cases. To provide a platform for semantic-aware\nconnectivity solutions, this paper introduces the concept of a\nsemantic-effectiveness (SE) plane as a core part of future communication\narchitectures. The SE plane augments the protocol stack by providing\nstandardized interfaces that enable information filtering and direct control of\nfunctionalities at all layers of the protocol stack. The advantages of the SE\nplane are described in the perspective of recent developments in 5G, and\nillustrated through a number of example applications. The introduction of a SE\nplane may help replacing the current "next-G paradigm" in wireless evolution\nwith a framework based on continuous improvements and extensions of the systems\nand standards.\n