IANS | 30 Oct, 2023
With the advent of mobile communication, India is contributing hugely
to the massive escalation of global data volume and by 2030 India's
share may increase to one third or even more of the total data generated
from the standard mobile communication, Science and Technology
Secretary Abhay Karandikar said on Sunday.
He was speaking at the Indian Mobile Congress (IMC).
"We
will have a variety of use cases from very high to a very low data
rate, from very stringent latency environments to latency tolerant
applications, heterogeneous radio access technologies and a range of
access devices. This diversity in India will be a useful test scenario
for cellular mobile communications, and also devices connected through
Wi -Fi, drones, satellite, terrestrial networks, sensors as well as
IoT," Karandikar pointed out.
However, he added that India still
has a long way to go as far as research in on standardisation and filing
patents is concerned.
"Also, a significant amount of work needs
to be done in the core network itself. Core network will present huge
scalability challenges and to overcome this, an efficient heterogeneous
radio access tec hnology which can help pumping in large volumes of data
to the core networks would be very useful," he said.
Karandikar
said that India with its indigenous 5G technology in place, committed
and dedicated team of researchers in academia, industry players and
start-ups has an ecosystem to bring the country to a position of
strength in terms of mobile network technologies.
"We have an
opportunity to steer the 6G standardisation in a way which we have not
really thought of before, as well as become a global exporter of such
technologies in the years to come," the secretary added.
"As you
know that the 5G itself was a paradigm shift from 2G and 3G mobile
networks, while 6G would be really a game changer and India presents a
fertile use case scenario for influencing the 6G research and the
standardisation in a vastly different way," he further said.
