Slide 1: Empowering next-generation user experiences and services at scale with 6G
Empowering next-generation user experiences and services at scale with 6G @QCOMResearch September 3rd, 2025 Snapdragon and Qualcomm branded products are products of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.
Slide 2: Shaping the digital future
Shaping the digital future POWERING REDEFINING ENABLING the mobile revolution connected processing intelligent computing everywhere
Slide 3: Best-in-class technology across industries
Best-in-class technology across industries Unrivaled connectivity High-performance, low-power computing Leading edge AI Mobile Copilot+ PC Spatial computing AI wearables Automotive Edge networking Industrial IoT Edge computing and AI 3
Slide 4: AI-enhanced user interface is changing consumer behaviors
AI-enhanced user interface is changing consumer behaviors “Show my schedule and tell me about my “Tell me the history next patient.” of this building.” “Order a ride for two people to go to the mall and remind me what to buy!” ` 2025 2 0 3 0 A N D BEYO N D App-based and user-initiated content consum
Slide 5: Changing consumer behaviors
Changing consumer behaviors Rise of Extension to Evolving AI agents new form factors usage patterns From app-based, user-initiated content From smartphone only… From downlink-heavy traffic… consumption… To an ecosystem of AI-enabled devices To sustained traffic growth, especially uplink, To persiste
Slide 6: AI agents are driving the need for network connectivity
AI agents are driving the need for network connectivity CENTRAL CLOUD NETWORK EDGE ON DEVICE 10-20 ms latencies 100+ms latencies Tiered inferencing is enabling responsive low-latency network Peta-OPS Smartphone PC Today: ~45 TOPs Today: ~45 TOPs ~7B parameters ~13B parameters Glasses IoT Today: ~0.5
Slide 7: Opportunities for AI and wireless to reduce OPEX and enable new services
Opportunities for AI and wireless to reduce OPEX and enable new services Real-time network Personalized and New devices efficiency optimization tiered service pricing and services TODAY TODAY TODAY Early operator efforts to use AI-based Early monetization efforts are emerging Network API exposure is
Slide 8: Mobile technology profoundly reshapes our world
Mobile technology profoundly reshapes our world Decade-defining leaps: enabling aligned investments and leveraging significant technology advancements 2020s 2030s Connected Next-gen intelligent edge wireless Native AI, Mobile Mobile Text Mobile data Smartphones with Mobile broadband, fixed wireless
Slide 9: 6G will connect an expanded set of AI-powered devices and enable new services
6G will connect an expanded set of AI-powered devices and enable new services ON-DEVICE AI Central Cloud Edge cloud Enabling tiered AI inferencing Processing and streaming contextual data on device, at network edge, and cloud including sensor, audio and vision data The smartphone remains the primary
Slide 10: We are driving 6G foundational technology development
We are driving 6G foundational technology development AI is unlocking new opportunities to bring performance improvements Improving spectral efficiency Focusing on improving uplink Unlocking broadband in Optimizing 6G network in existing 5G FDD / TDD coverage and capacity even upper mid-band spectru
Slide 11: We are driving 6G technology to enable new user experiences and services at scale
We are driving 6G technology to enable new user experiences and services at scale Agentic AI and AI-enabled AI-enhanced Extended reality context-aware network efficiency experiences communications and services Examples: Personal assistant, Examples: gaming and Examples: context-aware pricing, “see w
Slide 12: Agentic AI and extended reality experiences
6G INNOVATION Agentic AI and extended reality experiences Collaborative communications Distributed compute 12
Slide 13: Agentic AI and extended reality experiences will fuel wireless growth
Agentic AI and extended reality experiences will fuel wireless growth PERSONAL AI ASSISTANT SEE WHAT I SEE Data volume per application far exceeds the current average mobile user volume of 19 GB/month2 USER DATA VOLUME ESTIMATES See what I see Personal Assistant 50GB/month 44 GB/month DESCRIPTION Re
Slide 14: Delivering agentic AI and extended reality at scale
Delivering agentic AI and extended reality at scale with distributed compute and collaborative communications Distributed compute Collaborative communications across devices and network optimizes network connectivity for user for multimedia and multi-modal devices like glasses, watches, and AI to me
Slide 15: 6G Collaborative communications can enhance user experience
6G Collaborative communications can enhance user experience Seamless Improved reliability Enhanced operations and user satisfaction application coverage Problem: Limited application coverage Thermal overload Leveraging standards-based Path diversity mitigates blocking; Traffic splitting can extend f
Slide 16: Analysis show tangible user experience improvements
Analysis show tangible user experience improvements Improved coverage1 with device Improved Query-to-response body shadowing (Q2R) latency2 LATENCY VS. PATHLOSS (95TH PERCENTILE) MEAN Q2R LATENCY VS. PATHLOSS 120 4000 No collaboration No collaboration Collaborative communication 3750 Collaborative c
Slide 17: Distribute compute
Distribute compute Workloads are distributed across Rendering the network and devices Generating visuals CENTRAL 2D/3D Graphics, personalized content CLOUD NETWORK EDGE Perception Environment understanding and user tracking Compute pod Scene understanding, object recognition and tracking, 3D reconst
Slide 18: Distributed compute Joint XR trial on 5G Standalone network
Distributed compute Joint XR trial on 5G Distributed rendering example Standalone network T-Mobile | Ericsson | Qualcomm API On-device APIs enabled applications to seamlessly distribute rendering workloads More information on the trial Joint Press Release from MWC’25 In good RF/network scenarios, In
Slide 19: 6G Distributed compute can offer benefits for the wireless ecosystem
6G Distributed compute can offer benefits for the wireless ecosystem Mobile operators End users New monetization opportunities with compute Access to larger models and better device battery life and AI as-a-service, with privacy and security and user experience 3GPP Scope APPLICATION DEVICES CLOUD 6
Slide 20: Analysis show compelling coverage and capacity benefits
Analysis show compelling coverage and capacity benefits Rendering example ACHIEVING ~2X APPLICATION COVERAGE1 GAIN ACHIEVING ~30% SYSTEM CAPACITY2 GAIN With remote rendering, application coverage is limited to device With remote rendering, cell capacity is limited to devices with good SNR that meet
Slide 21: AI-enabled context-aware communications
6G INNOVATION AI-enabled context-aware communications AI-native protocol UX-aware RAN 21
Slide 22: 6G can leverage on-device AI to infer and share real-time context with the network
6G can leverage on-device AI to infer and share real-time context with the network APP CONTEXT EXAMPLES Detect app and user, device context Gaming AR call Compute workloads Device AI compute USER CONTEXT EXAMPLES Subscriber intent User inattentive vs. Poor UX User wireless Enabling subscriber intent
Slide 23: Real-time application context from devices can enable AI-native protocols
Real-time application context from devices can enable AI-native protocols Real-time app context FPS, burst-size, … Detect app and user, device context Device AI compute 6G parameter adaptation RLC, PDCDP, CDRX Cloud gaming application Control User plane plane RRC SDAP PDCP 6G Protocol parameters are
Slide 24: Over-the-air performance results show significant user experience improvement
Over-the-air performance results show significant user experience improvement Roundtrip delay (ms) 5G Baseline 6G Optimized 120 O P T I M I Z AT I O N O F F O P T I M I Z AT I O N O N 100 80 60 40 20 0 Time (30 seconds) Cloud Gaming Application Live OTA System Dynamically adapted RLC, PDCP 100 MHz B
Slide 25: On-device AI can enable a richer and more dynamic QoS
On-device AI can enable a richer and more dynamic QoS TODAY EVOLUTION Device-initiated QoS Enabling richer and dynamic QoS Richer traffic information IP-tuple & 5QI Core IP-tuple & 5QI Core Devices Devices Dedicated Dedicated DRB DRB RAN RAN 3GPP standards already support Richer traffic information
Slide 26: On-device AI can enable UX-aware RAN
On-device AI can enable UX-aware RAN Devices provide real-time UX and content complexity inputs Network can exploit ‘multi-user content diversity’ to improve resource allocation, coverage and capacity SCENE COMPLEXITY DURING A TIME EPOCH SCENE COMPLEXITY DURING A TIME EPOCH Rich, complex Device 1 6
Slide 27: Analysis show real-time UX-aware RAN benefits
Analysis show real-time UX-aware RAN benefits Comparing UX-aware RAN traffic scheduling with a baseline with proportional fair scheduler Improve application coverage by 30% Improve network capacity1 by 50% and reduce 99th-percentile latency by 25% Simulating urban macro network operating in midband
Slide 28: AI-enhanced network efficiency and services
6G INNOVATION AI-enhanced network efficiency and services Digital twin network Inferencing and sensing services 28
Slide 29: 6G can enable a real-time digital twin platform
6G can enable a real-time digital twin platform Enable live network modelling and enabling new services S M A RT C I T Y AU TO N O M O U S T R A N S P O RTAT I O N IMMERSIVE REALITY Incorporate device RF and sensing data Incorporate vehicle/drone/robot telemetry Incorporate 3D maps from devices Enab
Slide 30: Example of 6G enabled digital twin-based network automation
Example of 6G enabled digital twin-based network automation Reducing Operating expenses Enabling new monetization avenues such as context-aware experiences and user-service assurances NETWORK MANAGEMENT AND DATA LAKE Performance metrics RADIO ACCES NETWORK (RAN) RF measurements DEVICES 6G device fee
Slide 31: Integrated 6G wireless sensing services
Digital Twin Enabling diverse uses Digital Twin cases Service Platform Integrated 6G wireless sensing Drone detection and tracking services Data Processing Leverage existing network deployments Obstacle monitoring on roads/railways Utilize 6G larger bandwidth and MIMO arrays to gain insights into re
Slide 32: Enabling security and public safety applications via drone sensing
MWCB 2025 Enabling security and public safety applications via drone sensing 5G advanced Live over-the-air validation 3.5 GHz 5G Advanced testbed Detect hovering drones within 300 meters range of the base station Accurately estimate drone speed by analyzing Doppler signatures 6G larger bandwid
Slide 33: Network inference and compute services
Network inference Enabling workload offloading across device types, with Enabling devices to access and run larger and Reduce device power consumption and compute services privacy and security personalized AI models 3GPP Scope APPLICATION DEVICES CLOUD 6G NETWORK 6G can orchestrate communication req
Slide 34: Empowering next-generation user experiences and services at scale with 6G
Empowering next-generation user experiences and services at scale with 6G Advancements in wireless, edge AI, XR and low-power compute are enabling new digital experiences and interactions 6G is being designed to meet next-generation user experience and service demands in the era of advanced intellig
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