Machine type communications: key drivers and enablers towards the 6G era

Abstract The recently introduced 5G New Radio is the first wireless standard natively designed to support critical and massive machine type communications (MTC). However, it already becoming evident that some of more demanding requirements for MTC cannot be fully supported by networks. Alongside, emerging use cases applications towards 2030 will give rise new stringent on connectivity in general particular. Next generation networks, namely 6G, should therefore an agile efficient convergent network meet diverse challenging anticipated 2030. This paper explores main drivers discusses a wide variety enabling technologies. More specifically, we explore key performance indicators 6G. Thereafter, present vision MTC-optimized holistic end-to-end architecture. Finally, enablers (1) ultra-low power MTC, (2) massively scalable global connectivity, (3) dependable (4) security privacy preserving schemes are detailed. Our objective set research directions considering different aspects 6G 2030-era.