COmmunications, Navigation, SENsing and SErvices

CONASENSE Symposium 2022

12th CONASENSE Symposium, hosted by fortiss GmbH, Munich, Germany (and hybrid mode)

6G is currently under definition, being often addressed from a plain telecommunications perspective, as an evolutionary paradigm that represents an extension of 5G. Having as horizon 2030, 6G initiatives are being deployed across the globe, to further ignite the development of 6G services. In its philosophy core, 6G embodies the “human in the loop” principle. The research effort being developed towards 6G requires an interdisciplinary approach that ignites discussion across different key technological sectors, ranging from communications until services and business cases. CONASENSE2022 provided an interdisciplinary view, based on the CONASENSE vision, which considers 6G as a paradigm that can be addressed by working together 4 different computational areas: communications; satellites and navigation; sensing; servicess The proposed topics include but are not limited to:

  • Communications: Unified architectural communications involving ground to spaceborne infrastructures; quantum communications and their role and challenges in 6G; Machine-to-machine and device-to-device communication aspects; security aspects in 6G, including mitigation of attacks and architectural challenges; network architectures and protocols for 6G;
  • Navigation and Satellite Integration: AR/VR advanced navigation approaches, considering both indoor and outdoor scenarios; new navigation applications, e.g., navigation systems for visually impaired people; navigation based on wireless systems; the role of satellite systems and space communications in supporting future IoT systems; geolocalization services and challenges; Data verification, data curation aspects, data privacy aspects.
  • Sensing: Internet of Things and its integration in different vertical markets; Internet of Everything and AIoT; Interfacing to the real world, in particular tactile interfacing, user-centric, context-aware man-machine interfacing.
  • Services: The role of the Metaverse, AR/VR development towards 6G; Semantic technologies and their role in the development of a 6G unified architectural communications vision; ML application, in particular federated learning and decentralised learning approaches (e.g., swarm, hybrid federated learning approaches) required to support 6G services; new services and use-cases, e.g., emergency services, remote surgery, smart manufacturing, space exploration, underwater communications; New Edge-based services and the role of Edge computing
  • Sustainability and Greenness: methodological analysis and research focused on automated evaluation of sustainable solutions towards 6G; analysis of 6G business advantages, proposal of business models and green business frameworks, etc.

Proceedings

Agenda (CET)

ay 1, June 27th 2022, 9:00 CET – 18:00 CET

Time (CET)

Sessions

8:30-9:30

Registration period – Highlight towers, groundfloor

9:00-09:30

Welcoming Session

  • CONASENSE welcome, Rute Sofia, Ramjee Prasad

  • IBM Welcome, Felizitas Müller, IBM

  • fortiss Welcome, Harald Rueß, fortiss

09:30-10:30

Keynote Session – 21st floor, room Yorktown South

Chair: Paulo Rufino , Aarhus University

10:30-11:00

Coffee-break – 21st floor, Yorktown South

11:00-12:00

Hackathon session 1

20th floor, Large Board room

11:00-12:00 Technical session – Full paper session 1 (20m plus 10m)

Chair: Manel Khelifi, fortiss

12:00-13:00

Hackathon session 1 (cont)

Invited Talks Track: 6G Wireless Challenges (15m plus 5m)

Chair: Paulo Rufino, Aarhus University

13:00-14:30

Lunch Break – 21st floor, Yorktown South

14:30-16.15

Hackathon Session 2

14:30-15:30 – mentor get together

Project Presentation Session: Next Generation IoT Projects- Yorktown South

Chair: Victor Banos, fortiss

16:15-16:30

Coffee-break

16:30-18:00

Hackathon Session 3

16:30-18:00 Invited Talks Track (15m plus 5 for questions): Business Models and Use-cases for 6G Chair: Rute C. Sofia, fortiss

18:00-18:30

Hackathon Mentors´ get-together

19:30-21:00 Social Dinner

Day 2, June 28th 2022 , 09:30 CET – 18:00 CET

Time (CET)

Tracks

09:30-10:30

Hackathon session 4

Technical session – Full paper session 2 ((20m plus 10m) Chair: Manel Khelifi, fortiss

10:30-11:00

Coffee-break

11:00-13:00

Hackathon Session 5

Short paper session (20m plus 10m)

Chair: Albena Mihovska, Aarhus University
 

Break (12:00-13:00)

13:00-14:30

Lunch Break

14:30-15:30

Invited Talks Track 2: IoT Cooperation Opportunities towards Brazil (15m plus 5m)

Chair: Paulo Rufino, Aarhus University

15:30-16:00

Coffee-break

16:00-17:00

Hackathon pitching

Invited Talks Track 3: Advanced Visions Towards 6G

Chair: Rute C. Sofia, fortiss

17:00-17:30

Hackathon Juri meeting

Break

17:30-18:00

Awards Session, Closure and announcement of next event

 

 

Committees

CONASENSE Steering Committee

◦ Ramjee Prasad, CGC, Aarhus University, Denmark ◦ Rute C. Sofia, fortiss, sofia@fortiss.org

Publicity Chair/Treasurer: Paulo Rufino, CGC, Aarhus University

Technical Programme Committee: Chair: Prof. Eduardo Cerqueira, UFPA, Brazil

TPC members:

  • Rodolfo Azevedo, Unicamp, Brazil
  • Ernestina Cianca, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
  • Mauro de Sanctis, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
  • Valerio Frascolla, Intel, Germany
  • Frederic Harris, University of California, San Diego, USA
  • Martjin Berend Kuipers, University Lusiada, Portugal
  • Navin Kumar, Amrita University, India
  • Lefteris Mamatas, University of Democritus, Greece
  • Paulo Mendes, Airbus, Germany
  • Albena Mihovska, Aarhus University, Denmark
  • Werner Mohr, Germany
  • Simone Morosi, University of Florence – CNIT
  • Homayoun Nikookar, Netherlands Defense Academy, Netherlands
  • Milica Pejanovic-Djurisic, University of Montenegro
  • Vladimir Poulkov, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
  • Anand Prasad, Deloitte Tohmatsu Cyber LLC, Japan
  • Denis Rosario, UFPA, Brazil
  • Avik Santra, Infineon, Germany
  • Paulo José Spaccaquerche, ABINC, Brazil
  • Jorge Sa Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal
  • Per Valter, Aarhus University, Denmark
  • Atanas Vlahov, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
  • Luis M. Contreras, Telefonica, Spain
  • Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
  • Oriol Sallent, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
  • Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
  • Fumiyuki Adachi, University of Tohoko, Japan
  • Qasim Ahmed, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom
  • Satoshi Denno, Okayama University, Japan
  • Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
  • Ana Maria Dragulinescu, University Politechnica of Bucharest, Romenia
  • Ashutosh Dutta, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Labs, USA
  • Valerio Frascolla, Intel Deutschland Gmbh, Germany
  • Octavian Fratu, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romenia
  • Simona Halunga, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romenia
  • Asim Ul Haq, Aarhus University, Denmark
  • Fred Harris, University of California San Diego, USA
  • Antoni Ivanov, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
  • Peter Koch, Aalborg University, Denmark
  • Ryuji Kohno, YRP International Alliance Institute, Japan
  • Martjin Kuipers, Lusiada University of Lisbon, Portugal
  • Valeria Loscri, Inria Lille-Nord Europe, France
  • Paulo Mendes, Airbus, Germany
  • Petri Mähönen, Aalto University, Finland
  • Antonio Rodrigues, IT / Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
  • Krasimir Tonchev, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
  • Frank Li, University of Agder, Norway
  • Jayashree Ratnam, Institute of Technical Education and Research,
  • Siksha O Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar
  • Navin Kumar, Amrita University, India
  • Satochi Denno, Okayama University, Japan
  • Zaharias Zahari, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece