Trustworthy Smart Athletic Performance Enhancement Through 6G Internet of Things: Ultrareliable Low-Latency Athletic Intelligence, Computing, and Control Framework
The convergence of sixth-generation wireless networks and Internet of Things technologies create unprecedented opportunities for revolutionizing physical education through intelligent, athletic performance monitoring and enhancement systems. This paper presents a novel framework called ultra-reliable low-latency athletic intelligence, computing, and control (uRLLAIC3) that addresses the critical need for real-time physiological monitoring, performance analytics, and safety assurance in modern sports training environments. Our approach introduces two groundbreaking metrics: athletic information age (AIA) for measuring the freshness of biometric data from wearable sensors and athletic information criticality for evaluating the time-sensitive importance of physiological status updates during training sessions. Evaluation encompassed both simulation studies comparing uRLLAIC3 against six established baseline methods and real-world validation with 48 athletes across five sports disciplines over six weeks. Simulation results demonstrate that uRLLAIC3 achieves 23.7% better AIA performance than the strongest baseline method. The framework maintains superior scalability when monitoring up to 200 athletes simultaneously. Real-world validation reveals a 73% reduction in false positive emergency alerts. Emergency detection accuracy reaches 98.7% compared to 78% for conventional systems. Emergency response time improves by 94% from 10.5 seconds to 0.7 seconds. The framework achieved 99.8% system reliability while delivering 41% better energy efficiency than existing approaches.
Authors
- Zhonghua Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-5822-4346)
- Xinjie Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9113-0884)
- Song Gao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2643-3165)
- W Song
Institutions
- Jilin Normal University (CN)
- China Medical University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- IEEE Internet of Things Journal
- Published
- 2025-10-08
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/jiot.2025.3619063
- Primary Topic
- E-commerce and Technology Innovations
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00