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Telecom domain faces lot of challenges with respect to improvement of flexibility and agility of network deployments. Telecom Service Providers (TSPs) are constantly looking for innovative solutions to reduce network deployment. On the other hand, the requirements for 6G networks will be more stringent when compared to 5G networks. It aims to support terabytes/sec throughput and latency of 0.1 ms or in microseconds. Innovative and collaborative solutions will be required to achieve the requirements of 6G networks. Open source projects like OpenDaylight, OPNFV, OpenStack, M-CORD, ONAP will be play a key role. There are several other multiple initiatives taken by the operators like disaggregation of radio network nodes, introduction of artificial intelligence in the telecom networks, etc. These initiatives provide collaborative environment to develop open source platforms that in turn provides optimized solution in terms of cost and innovation. During the 5G standardization, concepts like Service based Architecture (SBA) were defined. Keeping that as a base, programmable secure plug and play open architecture will play a crucial role during 6G standardization. In this chapter we explore the backbone of 6G wireless i.e. (1) Intelligence and (2) Automation and provide the insights on how open source will further optimize the above two avenues.
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Bhat, A., Gupta, N., Thaliath, J., Banerji, R., Sapru, V., Singh, S. (2021). Role of Open-Source in 6G Wireless Networks. In: Wu, Y., et al. 6G Mobile Wireless Networks. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72777-2_17
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