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A 6G White Paper on Connectivity for Remote Areas

@article{Saarnisaari2020A6W,
  title={A 6G White Paper on Connectivity for Remote Areas},
  author={Harri Saarnisaari and Sudhir S. Dixit and Mohamed-Slim Alouini and Abdelaali Chaoub and Marco Giordani and Adrian Kliks and Marja Matinmikko-Blue and Nan Zhang and Anuj Agrawal and Mats Andersson and Vimal Bhatia and Wei Cao and Yunfei Chen and Wei Feng and Marjo Heikkila and Josep Miquel Jornet and Luciano Leonel Mendes and Heikki Karvonen and Brejesh Lall and Matti Latva-aho and Xiangling Li and Kalle Lahetkangas and Moshe T. Masonta and Alok Pandey and Pekka Pirinen and Khaled Maaiuf Rabie and Tlou M. Ramoroka and Hanna Saarela and Amit Singhal and Kaibo Tian and Justin Wang and Chenchen Zhang and Yang Zhen and Haibo Zhou},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2020},
  volume={abs/2004.14699}
}
In many places all over the world rural and remote areas lack proper connectivity that has led to increasing digital divide. These areas might have low population density, low incomes, etc., making them less attractive places to invest and operate connectivity networks. 6G could be the first mobile radio generation truly aiming to close the digital divide. However, in order to do so, special requirements and challenges have to be considered since the beginning of the design process. The aim of… 
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