6G will likely be the first generation of mobile communication that will feature tight integration of localization and sensing with communication functionalities. Among several worldwide initiatives, the Hexa-X flagship project stands out as it brings together 25 key players from adjacent industries and academia, and has among its explicit goals to research fundamentally new radio access technologies and high-resolution localization and sensing. Such features will not only enable novel use cases requiring extreme localization performance, but also provide a means to support and improve communication functionalities. This paper provides an overview of the Hexa-X vision alongside the envisioned use cases. To close the required performance gap of these use cases with respect to 5G, several technical enablers will be discussed, together with the associated research challenges for the coming years.

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Abstract-This letter shows that the wireless communication system capacity is greatly enhanced by employing nonlinear beamforming and that the optimal Bayesian beamformer outperforms the standard linear beamformer significantly in terms of a reduced bit error rate, at a cost of increased complexity. A block-data adaptive implementation of the Bayesian beamformer is realized based on an orthogonal forward selection procedure with the Fisher ratio for class separability measure.Index Terms-Bayesian classification, Fisher ratio for class separability measure, nonlinear beamforming, orthogonal least squares.

This paper investigates a blind space-time equaliser (STE) designed for single-input multiple-output (SIMO) systems that employ high-throughput quadrature amplitude modulation schemes. A constant modulus algorithm (CMA) aided soft decision-directed (SDD) scheme, originally derived for low-complexity blind equalisation of single-input single-output channels, is extended to the SIMO scenario. Simulations are conducted to compare the performance of this blind adaptive scheme with another low-complexity blind STE referred to as the CMA aided decision directed (DD) scheme. The results obtained demonstrate that for SIMO systems the CMA aided SDD scheme exhibits advantages over the CMA aided DD arrangement, in terms of its faster convergence speed and lower computational complexity. r