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6G wireless

Researchmomentum 55408 papers in 3 months (+75% yearly)$1.0B raised in 12 months19 companies

The mobile network generation after 5G, designed to use AI in the radio, new spectrum and radios that can also sense their surroundings.

Why research: 3GPP finished its first 6G radio study in June 2026 and set the functional freeze of the first 6G specs for December 2028. Jun 10, 2026

Papers per monthOpenAlex journal and conference papers; January includes papers dated by year only; the last two months are still filling in
05831.2kSep 24Mar 25Sep 25Mar 26

Dots under a month: dated events tracked here that month.

25 events

DateEvent
Sep 2026
Sep 16Nokia says operators are trialing AI-RAN on NVIDIA Aerial RAN Computernokia.com· Milestone
Sep 14Samsung and Verizon complete an AI-powered ISAC trial on vRANnews.samsung.com· Milestone
Aug 2026
Aug 12Study on Modernization of Specification Format and Procedures for 6G3GPP news· AnnouncementUnverified
Jun 2026
Jun 143GPP approves TR 38.914, its first 6G RAN study3gpp.org· Milestone
Jun 103GPP sets the Release 21 timeline for the first 6G standards3gpp.org· Policy
May 2026
May 27Samsung and LG Uplus sign an MOU to research ISAC for 6Gnews.samsung.com· Deal
Mar 2026
Mar 233GPP approves its first 6G study on use cases and service requirements3gpp.org· Milestone
Mar 1Nokia reports AI-RAN tests with T-Mobile, Indosat and SoftBanknokia.com· Milestone
Feb 2026
Feb 20Samsung, KT and Keysight reach 3 Gbps with X-MIMO in the 7 GHz bandnews.samsung.com· Breakthrough
Dec 2025
Dec 11Samsung and KT validate AI-RAN optimization on a live commercial networknews.samsung.com· Milestone
Nov 2025
Nov 26Samsung and SK Telecom sign an MOU on AI-RAN for 6Gnews.samsung.com· Deal
Nov 17DOCOMO runs an outdoor trial of an AI-driven 6G air interfacedocomo.ne.jp· Breakthrough
Nov 3Nokia and Rohde & Schwarz test an AI-powered 6G receivernokia.com· Breakthrough
Oct 2025
Oct 28NVIDIA and Nokia partner on an AI platform for 6Gnvidianews.nvidia.com· Deal
Sep 2025
Sep 30US DOD Future G Office picks DeepSig and SRS to lead the OCUDU open-source 5G/6G RANdeepsig.ai· Deal
Sep 193GPP plenaries in Beijing make early 6G studies the main business of Release 203gpp.org· Milestone
Mar 2025
Mar 103GPP holds its 6G workshop in Incheon3gpp.org· Milestone
Feb 2025
Feb 25DeepSig demos an AI-native 6G air interface on NVIDIA AI Aerialdeepsig.ai· Product
Dec 2024
Dec 123GPP approves a study on 6G technical performance requirements3gpp.org· Milestone
Nov 2024
Nov 20DOCOMO tests an AI-based 6G radio interface indoors at 4.8 GHzdocomo.ne.jp· Breakthrough
Nov 13SoftBank runs NVIDIA AI Enterprise on its AITRAS AI-RAN serverssoftbank.jp· Product
May 2024
May 83GPP holds its first stage 1 workshop on IMT-2030 use cases3gpp.org· Milestone
Apr 2024
Apr 11DOCOMO, NTT, NEC and Fujitsu build a 100 Gbps sub-terahertz devicedocomo.ne.jp· Breakthrough
Mar 2024
Mar 18NVIDIA unveils a 6G Research Cloud platformnvidianews.nvidia.com· Product
Feb 2024
Feb 26AI-RAN Alliance launches at MWC Barcelonadeepsig.ai· Announcement
About 6g wireless here
Sub-areas
Standards (IMT-2030, 3GPP Rel-20/21), AI-native RAN, Sub-THz and mmWave, Integrated sensing and communication, New spectrum and massive MIMO, Open and software RAN
Stage evidence
Research, Jun 10, 2026: 3GPP finished its first 6G radio study in June 2026 and set the functional freeze of the first 6G specs for December 2028. 3gpp.org
Momentum
55 of 100: the mean of its ranks among the tracked fields for paper growth (100), funding in 12 months (31) and events in 90 days (34). Method
Papers
4,081 in the 12 months ending two months ago, +75% against the 12 before (OpenAlex topics, journal and conference papers).
Tracked here since
Sep 25, 2026

Changes to this field

DateChange
Sep 25, 20266G wirelessTechnology: Added

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