EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking is presenting Collection on '2024 EuCNC: 6G for a Green and Digital Transition.' This Collection will include extended contributions of papers published in the proceedings of the international conference 2024 EuCNC & 6G Summit (European Conference on Networks and Communications and 6G Summit), which will be held in June 2024 in Antwerp, Belgium. The best papers of the conference will be selected by the Technical Programme Chairs and the Track Chairs. The respective authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their work. The Call for Papers of the conference has already been disseminated through the 2024 EuCNC & 6G Summit website, as well as through social media platforms, newsletters, and several e-mail reflectors, reaching a wide international global audience.
The aim of this Collection is to report on the advances of 6G-related research, with a special focus on how to turn the 6G vision into a reality. Starting from the lessons learned from current 5G trials and deployments, 6G will introduce new technology enablers, and build further on software and hardware enablers already defined by 5G but not yet materialized. 6G will be driven by challenging and pressing demands and design goals addressing realistic economic and societal needs of future public and private deployments. To enable the full potential of the 6G ecosystem, all aspects ranging from technological enablers to the key performance and value indicators have to progress the current state of the art, with a special focus on the actual needs of society as well as verticals, while also minimizing resource consumption in all its facets (energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, spectrum efficiency, cost efficiency, etc.) and at all functional levels (data plane, control plane, network function plane, service and security plane, AI plane, Digital Twin layer, etc.) and all hardware resource involved in the end-to-end system (end devices, connectivity, computing, and storage). Contributions can cover different levels of technology readiness, from fundamental research to applications and trials.
The motivation for this Collection is to present the latest and finest results on the evolution of research of mobile and wireless communications, coming, but not exclusively (since 2024 EuCNC & 6G Summit is a conference open to the whole research community), from projects co-financed by the European Commission within its R&D programmes. A list of potential topics to be covered is reported below. However, the list is not exhaustive and contributions beyond these topics will be considered for publication if relevant to the scope of the Collection.
List of topics-
- Physical Layer and Fundamentals
- Radio Access and Softwarisation
- Spectrum management
- Wireless, Optical and Satellite Networks
- Network Softwarisation and Programmability
- Network architectures
- Time Sensitive Networking
- Security, trust and privacy
- AI/ML for service provisioning and system optimisation
- Applications, IoT, Use cases
- Operational & Experimental Insights
- Components, Microelectronics & Antennas
- Next-generation Visions
- Sustainability
