Technical scope
Physical layer
- Beyond 5G & 6G and THz communications
- Massive and Ultra-Massive MIMO
- Reconfigurable radios and new radio heads
- AI/ML in the PHY Layer
- Propagation & channels at mm Waves & THz
- New air interfaces, waveforms, modulation & coding techniques
- Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
- Radio based localisation, sensing and mapping
- Semantic communications
- Physical layer security
- 5G / 6G Spectrum
- 5G / 6G migration strategies (coexistence with 5G and legacy techs)
Wireless, optical and satellite networks
- Beyond 5G & 6G access and core networks
- Next generation passive optical networks
- Advances in M2M, WSN, IoT networks
- Satellite and terrestrial networks convergence
- VLEO satellite systems and networks
- Communications for navigation and observation
- Green wireless/optical/satellite networks
- Communications for unmanned platforms (UxV)
- TSN for industrial communications
- AI/ML for wireless/optical/satellite networks
- Novel network architectures
- Self-Driving networks
- Green networking
- Drone networking in 5G / 6G environments
- Vehicular networks
- Energy efficient networking
- 5G / 6G Geolocation
Radio access and softwarisation
- Spectrum management and utilisation
- Configurable radio, resources & SDR
- Cognitive/ intelligent and green radio
- Energy efficient RRM, radio slicing and virtualisation
- Wireless edge caching
- Radio access architectures
Network softwarisation
- Cognitive network management
- Software defined networking
- Programmable networks
- AI/ML in service provisioning
- Data aware networks and overlays
- Network operating system
- Quality (QoE and QoS) aware networking
- Quantum Cryptography
- ML/AI for autonomous systems optimisation
- Blockchain technology in mobile networks
- Mobile edge computing
- Virtualisation
- Control algorithms
Operational and experimental insights
- Beyond 5G and 6G trials and experiments
- Large-scale open testbeds and experiments
- Plug-and-play deployments and experiments
- Evaluation and analysis of experimental data
- Deployment insights from verticals
- Network forensics & network instrumentation
- Next Generation Internet architectures and experimentation
Components, microelectronics and antennas
- RF front-end and THz techniques
- Components for mm Wave and beyond
- Novel MIMO & wideband mm Wave devices
- Antenna design & integration
- Antenna systems and architectures
- Design and technologies for array antennas
- RIS components & integration
- Low power silicon RF, including wake up
- Next generations DSP, incl. RISC V & ASIP
- Edge AI component technologies
- Digital HW architecture for ultra-high speed and/or ultra-low latency PHY
- New component technologies and materials
5G and 6G visions and sustainability
- Key performance and key value indicators
- Life cycle assessment techniques for 5G / 6G techniques and use cases
- Stakeholder groups are invited to submit thought-provoking 5G / 6G visions. Both extended abstracts and full papers are welcome
Applications
- Factory automation and industrial IoT solutions
- Critical communications and public safety
- Autonomous driving and V2X solutions
- Smart farming and environmental monitoring
- Digital health and wellbeing
- Emerging business models
- IoT service management
- Telepresence and mixed reality
Security and privacy
- Security and privacy for IoTs, HetNets, massive MIMO systems, and mm-wave, THz transmission
- Physical layer security for 5G / 6G
- Trust and trustworthiness in 5G / 6G
- Secure signal processing
- Information theoretic security
- Security verification and performance metrics
- Cross-layer security solutions
- 5G/6G security (false base station attacks, sidelink security, integration of new services)
- Zero-touch security solutions
- Context-aware, semantic security
- Covert wireless communications
- Physical layer authentication and key agreement
- Security and privacy of joint communications and sensing/integrated sensing and communication
- Hardware security
- Interplay between emerging technologies (intelligent reflecting surface, joint communication and sensing, AI) and their role towards trustworthy communication
- Attack/defence modelling (active and jamming attacks, man-in-the-middle attacks, etc.)
- Post-Quantum security and cryptography
- Security challenges for AI/ML technologies
- Security of space information systems
- Optical wireless technology for secure connectivity
- Security mechanisms for zero-energy devices
- Security-aware access control
- AI-based security solutions for wireless systems
- Prototype, practical testbeds, and performance evaluation
- Security and privacy for IoTs, HetNets, massive MIMO systems, and mm-wave, THz transmission