Building Innovative Networks towards Beyond 5G

This paper presents a target view of network research toward Beyond 5G. We conduct R&D on the field of "Innovative Networks" which enable networks to respond to the rapid growth in communication traffic, dynamic changes in communication quality, and various network services to realize the digital transformation of advanced social systems in Society5.0, which is cyber-physical integrated society in the Beyond 5G era. Our research target is fundamental and system technologies for optical and wireless communications and for networking. Those enable to fulfill essential functions of the broadband, resilient, ultra-reliable, and ultra-low latency communications desired in the Beyond 5G era.