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PERSPECTIVE article

Front. Comms. Net.
Sec. Wireless Communications
Volume 5 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/frcmn.2024.1486488

On the Beyond of Wi-Fi Era

Provisionally accepted
Basem Shihada Basem Shihada 1*Osama Amin Osama Amin 1Shuping Dang Shuping Dang 2Amr M. Abdelhady Amr M. Abdelhady 1Guoqing Ma Guoqing Ma 1Jia Ye Jia Ye 3Mohamed-Slim Alouini Mohamed-Slim Alouini 1
  • 1 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
  • 2 University of Bristol, Bristol, England, United Kingdom
  • 3 School of Electrical Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China

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    The continual progress pace of the development of the Wi-Fi generations may not fulfill the expected tremendous data growth of future smart-home network devices and applications.Throughout this article, we show a comprehensive design of the futuristic smart-home network that distributes massive data for indoor devices while fully supporting intelligent functions. We start by drawing a vision for various application scenarios of information and communication technologies in smart-home networks beyond the 2030s. Then, we appraise the technical specifications of the candidate intelligent home network. To achieve these technological speculations, we propose a novel holistic networking solution that is efficient and intelligent from service and operation perspectives. Specifically, we detail the proposed network architecture, elements, and enabling technologies. To accelerate the research progress and implementation, we further point out the future research directions. Finally, we discuss the non-technological factors that could affect the future deployment of the proposed network solution.

    Keywords: Beyond Wi-Fi, Distributed network architecture, Federated learning, Indoor data distribution, multi-band transmission, Smart communication surfaces, Smart home network

    Received: 26 Aug 2024; Accepted: 09 Sep 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Shihada, Amin, Dang, Abdelhady, Ma, Ye and Alouini. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Basem Shihada, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

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