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O-RAN Towards 6G

The O-RAN ALLIANCE’s next Generation Research Group (nGRG) has been established to bring the O-RAN towards 6G and beyond. One of the key criteria to achieve such a feat is to know what the 6G will be all about. Therefore, it is necessary to look at the future 6G use cases and their requirements. RS01 research stream within nGRG explores the area of 6G use cases and performs an analysis of the potential 6G gaps in the O-RAN Architecture and specifications. From these use cases and requirements, we can steer the O-RAN research towards 6G, find the gaps in the current O-RAN standards, and enhance O-RAN standards to close the gaps.To collect information about interest of O-RAN members in use cases towards 6G, a survey was conducted during October and November 2022. This research report is based on the conducted survey. This research report explains the survey questions and summarizes the results from survey answers.