The Greek scientist who is developing 6G

At the moment Greece is unveiling the 5G communications network, on the opposite end of Europe, a Greek professor, a communications engineer, is getting a grant from the European Research Council to develop 6G.

Getting from one level of network technology to the next, that is from one G to the next, demands approximately ten years of research and millions of work-hours, Dr Michalis Matthaiou, Professions of Communications Engineering and Signal Processing  at the

ECIT (Electronics, Communications and Information Technology) Institute at Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, explains to Kathimerini. "Every new generation in mobile telephony is like an extra story in an apartment building. The technology has been evolving constantly since the 1970s."

He and his team are being funded to the tune of 2 million euros over the next five years. Their work...