6G-Ready Infrastructure and Network Design Training Course

Foundations: The 6G Vision and Technical Drivers

• Emerging 6G KPIs and service classes, including latency, reliability, throughput, and sensing.
• Key technology enablers and anticipated timelines.
• Implications for network architecture and infrastructure.

Transport Network Evolution: Fronthaul, Midhaul, and Backhaul

• Requirements for ultra-low-latency transport and deterministic tunnels.
• Fronthaul options, such as CPRI/eCPRI, RoE, and split options, along with bandwidth scaling.
• Optical transport enhancements and fiber densification strategies.

Cloud-Native RAN, vRAN, and O-RAN Integration

• Cloud-native network functions and principles of containerized RAN.
• vRAN design patterns, hardware acceleration, and disaggregation trade-offs.
• O-RAN architecture, open interfaces, and integration challenges.

Edge & Distributed Compute Design

• Edge placement strategies for MEC and ultra-low-latency services.
• Capacity planning, resource orchestration, and multi-access edge compute.
• Interworking between central cloud, edge, and on-prem resources.

Timing, Synchronization & Determinism

• Precision timing requirements specific to 6G use cases.
• Considerations and hardening strategies for PTP, SyncE, and GNSS.
• Architectures for deterministic packet transport and redundancy.

Spectrum, RF, and Antenna System Readiness

• mmWave and THz propagation challenges and their impact on cell planning.
• Antenna system upgrades, including massive MIMO evolution and active arrays.
• Densification, backhaul provisioning, and site power/thermal planning.

Integrated Sensing and Communication Infrastructure

• Co-design of sensing-capable radios and network-aware sensing pipelines.
• Data fusion, timing, and edge processing for real-time sensing.
• Use cases such as positioning, environmental monitoring, and industrial sensing.

Network Automation, AI-Native Management & Orchestration

• Intent-based networking, closed-loop automation, and model-driven operations.
• Application of AI/ML for traffic prediction, fault detection, and resource optimization.
• CI/CD pipelines for network functions and automated validation practices.

Security, Resilience & Trustworthy Infrastructure

• Threat models tailored for highly distributed 6G topologies.
• Hardware and software supply-chain considerations.
• Operational resilience, redundancy, and disaster recovery planning.

Testing, Validation & Digital Twin Approaches

• Verification methodologies for latency, jitter, and throughput SLAs.
• Utilizing digital twins for planning, what-if analysis, and capacity forecasting.
• Interoperability testing with 5G legacy systems and multi-vendor stacks.

Migration Strategies and Roadmaps

• Phased upgrade paths focusing on coexistence strategies to minimize disruption.
• Building business cases, cost estimation, and ROI considerations.
• Pilot planning, KPI definition, and stakeholder engagement for rollout.

Workshop: Design Review and Readiness Plan

• Hands-on architecture design exercise addressing a real deployment scenario.
• Gap analysis and prioritized remediation plan for infrastructure readiness.
• Presentation of the proposed roadmap and risk mitigation measures.

Summary and Next Steps