The workshop will be held on June 12, 2025, in conjunction with IEEE ICC 2025.
Thursday, June 12 9:00am – 10:45am
S1: AI in 6G
Federated Meta-RL for Network Slicing Aware VNFs Orchestration in 6G Core Networks
Mohammad Arif Hossain (Middle Tennessee State University, USA); Weiqi Liu (Auburn University at Montgomery, USA); Nirwan Ansari (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA); Manar Samad (Tennessee State University, USA)
Anomaly-based Intrusion Detection for IoMT Networks: Leveraging Blockchain Technology
Georgios Zachos and Filippos Pelekoudas-Oikonomou (University of Greenwich, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Georgios Mantas (Instituto de Telecomunicações – Pólo de Aveiro, Portugal); Kyriakos Porfyrakis and Georgia Sakellari (University of Greenwich, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Joaquim Bastos (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Naveed Ahmad (University of South Wales, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jonathan Rodriguez (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)
An AI-Native Architecture for Intent-Driven Management and Orchestration in 6G Networks
Marius Iordache (Orange, Romania); Razvan Mihai (University Politehnica of Bucharest & Orange Romania, Romania); Ioana Dragus (Realworld Eastern Europe, Bucharest, Romania); Razvan Rughinis (Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania)
Decentralized AI-Control Framework for Multi-Party Multi-Network 6G Deployments
Merim Dzaferagic (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Marco Ruffini (CONNECT, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Nina Slamnik-Krijestorac (University of Antwerp-IMEC, Belgium); Joao F. Santos (Virginia Tech, USA); Johann Marquez-Barja (University of Antwerpen & IMEC, Belgium); Christos Tranoris, Spyros Denazis and Georgios Christos Tziavas (University of Patras, Greece); Thomas Kyriakakis and Panagiotis Karafotis (Dienekes, Greece); Luiz DaSilva (Virginia Tech, USA & Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Shashi Raj Pandey, Junya Shiraishi, Petar Popovski, Søren Jensen, Christian Thomsen and Torben B Pedersen (Aalborg University, Denmark); Holger Claussen (Tyndall National Institute & University College Cork, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Jinfeng Du (Nokia Bell Labs, USA); Gil Zussman (Columbia University, USA); Tingjun Chen and Yiran Chen (Duke University, USA); Seshu Tirupathi (IBM Research Europe, Ireland); Ivan Seskar (WINLAB, Rutgers University, USA); Daniel Kilper (Trinity College Dublin & CONNECT Centre, Ireland)
Domain Adaptation in Beam Management using Asymmetric Autoencoder and Transfer Learning
Mafuzal Hoque and Medhat Elsayed (University of Ottawa, Canada); Melike Erol-Kantarci (University of Ottawa, Canada & Ericsson, Sweden)
Thursday, June 12 11:00am – 11:50am
K1: Keynote: “A realistic path to 6G”
Rahim Tafazolli
Thursday, June 12 11:50am – 12:30pm
S2: Towards the 6G System Architecture
Bridging Research and Standardization: Innovations and Methodology for 6G Standard Contributions
Francesca Conserva (University of Bologna & WiLab/CNIT, Italy); Fabio Busacca (University of Catania, Italy); Corrado Puligheddu (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Simone Bizzarri (Fibercop S.p.A., Italy); Maurizio Fodrini (FiberCop, S.p.A., Italy); Giampaolo Cuozzo (CNIT & WiLab, Italy); Riccardo Marini (CNIT, National Laboratory of Wireless Communications (WiLab), Italy)
Towards the 6G System Architecture: Learnings from IEEE 1930.1 and IEEE 2061
Rashmi Kamran (IIT Bombay, India); Pranav Kumar Jha (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India); Abhay Karandikar and Prasanna Chaporkar (IIT Bombay, India)
Thursday, June 12 1:30pm – 3:30pm
S3: 6G Technologies
ML-Driven xApp for Network Slicing and Resource Optimization in 6G O-RAN Architecture
Devanshu Anand (Dublin City University, Ireland & Electronics, Ireland); Gabriel-Miro Muntean (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Optimized Header Compression for Real-time Communication in 6G Networks
Zihao Tao (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Rogier Noldus (Ericsson, The Netherlands)
SINR Coverage Probability Analysis of THz-mmWave multi-tier 3D Network using Stochastic Geometry
Naveed Ahmad (University of South Wales, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Abdulkareem Karasuwa (University of South Wales, United Kingdom); Jonathan Rodriguez (Instituto de Telecomunicac¸oes and University of South Wales, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mohammed Ali Roula (Co-Author, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Burak Unal (University of South Wales, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
FPGA Implementation of Robust Neural Network Channel Estimation for 5G and Beyond Systems
Arvind Merwaday and Yue Dai (Intel Corporation, USA); Volker Mauer (Intel Corporation (UK) Ltd., United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Lei L. Xu (Intel Corporation, USA); Rath Vannithamby (Intel, USA)
A Vision for Multiaccess HTTP in 6G Networks
Apostolis K. Salkintzis (Lenovo Research)
Thursday, June 12 4:00pm – 5:30pm
S4: 6G Innovations
Can Quantum Semantic Communication Intrinsically Exhibit Resilience in 6G Networks?
Vignesh Raman (Technische Universität Dresden & CeTI, Germany); Nikhitha Nunavath and Riccardo Bassoli (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Frank H.P. Fitzek (Technische Universität Dresden & ComNets – Communication Networks Group, Germany)
Dynamic and Resource-Efficient ISAC Operations in Sensing-Enabled 6G Systems
Muhammad Awais Jadoon (InterDigital Inc, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Sebastian Robitzsch (InterDigital, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Filipe Conceição (InterDigital Europe, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Lightweight Resource Exposure Framework for Efficient Service and Resource Orchestration in the Cloud-Edge Continuum
Abd Elghani Meliani and Adlen Ksentini (Eurecom, France)
PRAXIS: Proximal Reinforcement-aided Adaptive eXpert Intelligent System for Efficient Traffic Management in URLLC
Razeena Begum Shaik (Lakireddy Balireddy College of Engineering, India); Nagaradjane Prabagarane (Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, India); Iacovos Ioannou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus & CYENS Centre of Excellence, Cyprus); Vasos Vassiliou (University of Cyprus & CYENS Center of Excellence, Cyprus)