大会前夕，2025全球6G技术与产业生态大会技术指导委员会委员，新加坡工程院院士、新加坡技术与设计大学教授 Tony Quek 参与了大会“6G洞见”栏目访谈，他着重提到，6G在产业化的过程中，从旧标准向新标准迁移的挑战、架构复杂性、部署难度/成本，以及全面理解6G的真正驱动因素是至关重要的。
Q1：从2024年开始，6G大会的一个重要焦点是“全行业共同定义6G”。这一理念不仅强调核心通信技术与人工智能、计算能力和传感的集成，还强调跨部门协作，以确保未来的6G网络有效地满足行业需求。您如何解读这种“跨行业协作定义6G”的趋势？Tony Quek：One of the key motivations of 6G is to support new services and use cases beyond traditional communication such as integrated sensing and communication, XR/immersive communication and AI-based services. It will then be possible for telcos to create new revenue streams by monetizing network capabilities and support diverse applications across industries.
Q2：您是否已经在您的研究中开展或参与了任何跨行业合作？如果有，能否分享一些相关经验？Tony Quek：As a working group chair for AI-on-RAN in AI-RAN Alliance, my focus is to explore diverse AI applications and to understand the different radio requirements and interfaces. Thus, I have been working on different AI applications with industry partners as well as research projects.
Q3：本届大会特别强调在6G研究初期就融入产业导向思维，目标是推动创新成果从高校或研究机构实验室顺利走向市场，实现真正的产业应用。在您看来，将6G技术从学术和研究环境转化为实际工业应用，最关键的挑战是什么？
Tony Quek：The need to understand challenges in migration from old standards, architectural complexity, deployment challenges/cost as well as to fully understand the motivation of 6G. Without such deep understanding, the 6G research developed from academic and research settings will find little room to be implemented in practical 6G networks in the future.
Q4：将实验室中的创新与产业应用连接方面，您是否有相关经验或心得可以分享？Tony Quek：As an academic, I have been attending Mobile World Congress Barcelona every year to fully experience the industry trends and the latest innovation in the industry. Without such experiences and close interactions with industry partners, research done at labs and universities may be shuttered from what is out there in the industry. In addition, I have also participated in industry alliances as a speaker, panel and working group chair. This will keep me up-to-date with the industry standards and help to shape my own research so that it has value for industry applications.
