South Korean companies KT and LG announced they will cooperate to promote research and development and technology standardisation in 6G, including full-duplex.
More specifically, they will work on three main areas:
- Developing next-generation transmission technology, full-duplex communication technology
- Collaborating on global standardisation
- Discovering differentiated 6G application services
KT and LG will develop wideband full-duplex communication technology that operates in the 6G candidate frequency band. They also aim to design and manufacture transceiver devices and complete actual performance verification.
“[With this collaboration] KT expects to lead the development of 6G mobile communication technology and strengthen its global standardisation leadership,” said Lee Jong-sik, executive director of KT Network Research Institute.
“We expect to contribute greatly to not only leading 6G standardisation but also discovering core services,” added Je Young-ho, executive director of LG Electronics C&M Standard Research Institute.
Full-Duplex for 6G
This approach is a method of simultaneously transmitting and receiving uplink and downlink data in a single frequency band. The current method, on the other hand, consists of dividing uplink and downlink data in the time or frequency domain.
Experts consider this one of the technologies that will enable 6G networks since it can increase frequency efficiency.
