14th CONASENSE Workshop for a Sustainable and Adaptive 6G Continuum
Co-located with IEEE WPMC 2024.
Workshop: 19.11.2024; IEEE WPMC 2024: 17.11.2024-20.11.2024
The definition of a sustainable 6G ecosystem requires an interdisciplinary debate that can bring together experts from multiple fields, including communications, sensing, people/centric, sustainable services. Driving this vision from a technology perspective is the use of virtualization and softwarization to assist support to a vast number of active devices, while integrating a high capability of adaptation.
CONASENSE2024 focuses on the need to address such adaptation from a cross-layer perspective, where computation and networking become intertwined due to softwarization. The workshop focuses on work that addresses a 6G paradigm that can be addressed by working together 4 different computational areas: communications; satellites and navigation; sensing; people-centric services.
CONASENSE 2024 follows the rules of IEEE WPMC 2024 for paper submission and accepts both full and short papers. Full papers (10-12 pages) address mature work on related fields, covering in detail the developed research, sharing information on models, architectures, experimentation, use-cases, etc. Short- papers (4-6 pages) address work under development, where solutions are being advocated, but experimentation may still be an early stage.
Deadlines
The deadlines are tentative and will be aligned with IEEE WPMC 2024 deadlines for workshops:
- Extended abstract registration: 15.08.2024
- Full paper submission: 10.09.2024
- Acceptance notification:
10.10.202414.10.2024 - Camera-ready submission: 20.10.2024
- Workshop date: 19th November 2024, co-located with IEEE WPMC 2024.
Topics of interest for CONASENSE 2024 include but are not limited to:
Communications:
- Unified architectural communications involving terrestrial to non-terrestrial communications.
- Quantum communications and their role and challenges in 6G.
- Sustainable and green Edge-Cloud architectures.
- Open vRAN architectures, covering the far Edge.
- AI-driven networking orchestration and management, virtualization, and micro-service architectures
- Semantic communications for supporting multiverse scenarios.
- Energy awareness and context-awareness.
Satellites and Navigation
- Orchestration across terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks via AI.
- Joint sensing and localization.
- Routing for smart constellations.
- Spectrum management and integration of free space optics
Sensing
- Joint sensing and communications.
- IoT communication and orchestration.
- Large-scale sensing scenarios challenges.
- AI-based sensing.
- Zero waste computing
Services
- Use-case experimentation for People-centric sustainable services relying on communications, sensing, satellites, and navigation.
- Experimental frameworks, living labs, devising 6G design.
- Sustainable design of services.
- New services such as Hepatic communication and Extended Reality
- Societal sustainability
Agenda
10:30 – 10:40: Welcome and Introduction to CONASENSE, Paulo Rufino Henrique, Rute C. Sofia, and Ramjee Prasad
10:40 – 11:30: Keynote Presentation: Vandana Rohokale, Chair Paulo Rufino
11:30 – 12:30: Session 1, Chair Samyuktha Sena, fortiss
- Syed Arshad Ali, Manzoor Ansari, Sachin soni, Decentralized Consensus and Control for Autonomous Vehicles
- A. Vlahov, A. Ivanov, V. Poulkov, V. Velyola, O-RAN Based User Tracking for Emergency Scenarios
12:30 – 14:00: Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:00: Session 2, Chair Samyuktha Sena, fortiss
- P. Anand, R. C. Sofia, NDN vs. MQTT: A Performance Comparison for Industrial IoT Environments
- K. Krishnan, Jinu S, P. Yadav, M. Ramanan, Revathy A. S. Blocking malicious domains: An experimental case study on DNS RPZ mechanism.
15:00 – 15:30: Coffee Break
15:30-16:30: Session 3 – Panel “CONASENSE: Shaping a Sustainable and Adaptive 6G Future”, Moderator Paulo Rufino, CGC
- Panelists: Syed Arshad Ali, A. Vlahov, K. Krishnan, V. Poulkov
16:30-16:45: Closure session and next steps in CONASENSE, Paulo Rufino, Rute C. Sofia, Ramjee Prasad
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: Dr. Paulo Mendes, Airbus, Germany
TPC members:
- Fumiyuki Adachi, University of Tohoku, Japan
- Qasim Zeeshan Ahmed, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom)
- Periklis Chatzimisios, International Hellenic University, Greece & University of New Mexico, USA
- Nicole Christoff, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
- Satoshi Denno, Okayama University, Japan
- Madhukar Mohanrao Deshmukh, Sharda University, India
- Ana Maria Dragulinescu, University Politechnica of Bucharest, Romania
- Anita priyadarshini Durai pandian, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Mona Ghassemian, IEEE, United Kingdom (Great Britain)
- Bharat Gupta, National Institute of Technology, Patna, India
- Asim Ul Haq, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Antoni Ivanov, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
- Marko Jurcevic, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia
- Chayapol Kamyod, Mae Fah Luang University, Thailand
- Faheem A. Khan, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom
- Sibaram Khara, Sharda Univerasity, Greater Noida (NRC Delhi), India
- Faheem Yar Khuhawar. Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan
- Peter Koch, Aalborg University, Denmark
- Geir M Køien, University of South-Eastern Norway (USN) & University of Agder, Norway
- Nandkumar Kulkarni, SKNCOE Pune, India
- Navin Kumar, Amrita University & School of Engineering, India
- Sanjay Kumar, Birla Institute of Technology, India
- Agata Manolova, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
- Dnyanesh S Mantri, Pune University & Sinhgad Institute of Technology, Lonavala, India
- Albena Mihovska, SmartAvatar B.V. & CGC Foundation, Denmark
- Homayoun Nikookar, Netherlands Defence Academy, The Netherlands
- Milica Pejanovic-Djurisic, University of Montenegro & Research Centre for ICT, Montenegro
- Neeli Rashmi Prasad, ITU, Center for TeleInFrastructure (CTIF), USA
- António J. Rodrigues, IT / Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
- Amit Sehgal, Sharda University & Sharda Launchpad Federation, India
- Vishwanath Sinha, Academia & Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, India
- Knud Erik Skouby, Aalborg University, Denmark
- Rute C. Sofia, fortiss, Germany & ISTAR, ISCTE-IUL, Portugal
- Samuel Tweneboah-Kodua, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, Ghana
- Fernando J. Velez, University of Beira Interior & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal