Abstract: While the mobile industry is now focusing on the realization of what 5G technologies promised and preparing the standard for the next version of 5G (i.e., 5G-Advanced), we can see that initial consideration about 6G is already happening. In this talk, we briefly review megatrends in terms of technologies and society and present initial view about vision, requirements, technologies, spectrum and standardization timeline for 6G. We also present some of the results from our research on candidate technologies.

Bio: Juho Lee is currently a Fellow at Samsung Electronics, where he is leading research and standardization for mobile communications. He joined Samsung Electronics in 2000 and has worked on multiple generations of mobile communications, i.e., WCDMA and HSPA in 3G, LTE, LTE-Advanced, and LTE-Advanced Pro in 4G, and 5G NR technologies. His current research focus is on preparation of future technologies such as 5G evolution (e.g., 5G-Advanced in 3GPP) and 6G. He was a vice chairman of 3GPP RAN WG1 from February 2003 to August 2009 and chaired LTE/LTE-Advanced MIMO sessions. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea, in 2000. Dr. Lee is a Fellow of IEEE.