Programme:

The CONASENSE2022 symposium takes place in the Highlight Towers, Munich, Germany, from the 27th to the 29th of June.

Day 1: June 27th 2022, Student Forum, Main Track, Hackathon Opening

Time (CET)	Tracks - IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Rooms
9:00-9:30	Registration period – Munich Highlight towers, groundfloor
9:00-09:30	Welcoming Session
09:30-13:00		Student Forum Yorktown North	CONASENSE Main Track Yorktown South
09:30-10:30		Session 1	Keynote speech session I IBM Labs Overview Unternhemer TUM Makerspace, Florian Küster Eclipse, Gael Blondelle Infineon
10:30-11:00		Coffee-break
11:00-12:00		Session 2	Technical session I – Communications
12:00-13:00		Session 3
13:00-14:30		Lunch Break – 21st floor
14:00-14:30		Hackathon registrations and welcoming – 21st floor, Hallway
14:30-15:45		Keynote speech session II – Next Generation IoT Projects- Yorktown South ASSIST-IoT, Ignacio Lacalle Ubela, Universidad Politecnica di Valencia IntellIoT, Arne Bröring, Siemens AG iNGENIOUS, Giacomo Bernini and Erin Seder, Nextworks (remote) TERMINET, Panagiotis Sariagiannidis, University Western Macedonia VEDL-IoT, Jens Hagemeyer, University of Bielefeld IOT-NGIN, Jonathan Klimt, RWTH, Aachen EFPF, Usman Wajid, Information Catalyst
15:45-16:00		Coffee-break
16:00-20:00		Hackathon		Conference
16:00-18:00		Hackathon session 1 Material and team setup Tutorials to specific teams on specific challenges		Technical Session II – Sensing
18:00-19:00		Hackathon session 2 Development of projects
19:00-21:00 Social Dinner

 

Day 2: June 28th 2022, CONASENSE2022 Main Track, Hackathon Development

Time (CET)	Tracks
09:30-13:00	EU-IoT Hackathon Fortiss Labs, 15th floor	CONASENSE Main Track Yorktown South
09:30-10:30	Session 1 Development of projects	Keynote speech session III
10:30-11:00	Coffee-break
11:00-12:00	Session 2 Development of projects	Technical Session II: Sensing
12:00-13:00	Session 3 Development of projects	Technical Session III: Navigation and Satellites
13:00-14:30	Lunch Break – 21st floor
14:30-15:30	Keynote speech session IV
15:30-16:00	Coffee-break -21st floor
16:00-20:00	Hackathon		Conference
16:00-18:00	Hackathon session 1		Technical Session IV – 6G Services and Sustainability
18:00-20:00	Hackathon session 2

 

Day 3: June 29th 2022, CONASENSE meeting, Hackathon, and Best Paper and Hackathon Awards Session

Time (CET)	Topic
09:30-13:00		EU-IoT Hackathon Fortiss Labs, 15th floor	CONASENSE Society Meeting – 10-12:00
13:00-14:30		Lunch Break
14:30-16:00		Hackathon Pitching – 15th floor, fortiss Labs
16:00-17:00		Awards session: Best paper awards and Hackathon Awards – 15th floor, fortiss Labs
17:00-17:30		Closure and announcement of next event – 15th floor, fortiss Labs

 

Call for Papers

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 provides 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; services.

The symposium accepts 3 types of papers: i) student papers, format of extended abstract; ii) short-paper, 4-6 pages; iii) full papers, 8-12 pages:

• Student papers: 2 pages max, format of extended abstract. Refer to student work (MSc, PhD) that address research under development and cover the following aspects at least: i) problem space: to which problem does this research contribute to; ii) research approach: what is the basic idea, how is it being developed and which part of the problem space it serves; iii) related work, which alternatives are there, and what are the contributions of this specific work towards related work; iv) status and Key performance indicators. Student papers must have as first author the student, and as co-authors the supervisor(s)
• Short papers: 4-6 pages; 2-column, IEEE template for conferences. Short papers relate with novel work, that may still be in a development phase of research.
• Full papers: 8-12 pages; 2-column, e.g., IEEE template for conferences. Long papers should have a maximum of 12 pages; should focus on solid technical work.

Submissions are handled via EDAS: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=29300
CONASENSE2022 will be held in Munich, Germany and also allows authors to participate remotely (hybrid mode). Authors may opt, after paper acceptance and during registration, on the type of presentation: in-person in Munich, or remotely.
Accepted papers must be registered and presented at the symposium by at the least the correspond author. All papers will be in the symposium proceedings (River Publisher, Open Access and submitted to Scopus for indexing); authors of best papers will be invited to a special issue of the MDPI Future Internet (Scimago Q2 in Computer Networks and Communications)
Deadlines:
• Full paper submission Deadline: 15th May 2022
• Acceptance Notification: 31st May 2022
• Camera-Ready Submission: 10th June 2022
• Symposium Date: 27th-29th June 2022


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.

Committees

General Chairs, Email Us

• Rute C. Sofia, fortiss GmbH, Munich, Germany
• Ramjee Prasad, CGC, Aarhus University, Denmark

Publicity Chair and Treasurer:

• Paulo Rufino, CGC, Aarhus University, Denmark

Student Forum Chairs:

• Ernestina Cianca, University of Rome, Italy
• Manel Khelifi, fortiss GmbH, Munich

EU-IoT Hackathon Chairs - E-mail the EU-IoT Hackathon organizers

• Mitula Donga, Rute C. Sofia, fortiss GmbH

Technical Programme Commitee:

• Albena Mihovksa, CGC, Aarhus University, Denmark (Chair)
• Ernestina Cianca, University of Rome, Italy
• Tomaso de Cola, DLR, Germany
• Eduardo Cerqueira, UFPA, Brazil
• Augusto Casaca, INESC-ID, Portugal
• Elefteris Mamathas, Democritus University, Greece
• Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, USA
• Anand Prasad, Deloitte, Japan
• Valeria Loscri, INRIA, France
• Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulo, University of New Mexico, USA
• Diego Lopez, Telefonica, Spain
• Jonathan Fürst, NEC, Germany
• Simone Morosi, University of Florence, Italy
• Pedro Sebastião, ISCTE-IUL, Portugal
• Xiaoming Fu, University of Göttingen, Germany
• Maria Papadopouli, FORTH, Greece
• John Soldatos, Intrasoft, Luxembourg
• Jorge Sá Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal
• Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Democritus University, Greece
• Artur Hecker, Huawei, Germany
• Marica Amadeo, University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy
• Laura Feeney, Uppsala University, Sweden
• Ignacio Lacalle, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
• Dianne Medeiros, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
• Evsen Yanmaz, Ozyegin University, Turkey
• Huiling Zhu, University of Kent, United Kingdom
• Jose Sallent, Universitat Politecnica de Madrid
• Anna Triantafyllou, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
• David Jimenez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
• Carlos Raniery Paula Dos Santos, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil
• Arne Bröring, Siemens AG, Germany

Awards

• MDPI Future Internet Best Presentation Award 200 CHF (195 Euros)
• Best Student Forum Paper Award, 1 IoT Kit (value of 200 Euros)
• Best CONASENSE 2022 Paper Award, 1 Smartphone (value of 500 Euros)
• Multiple EU-IoT Hackathon Awards, in the form of IoT Kits, entrepreneurship support opportunities and much more!

Venue

The CONASENSE2022 symposium is organised in hybrid mode.

In Munich, it takes place in the Highlight Towers, IBM Watson Research Center and in fortiss. The conference main tracks and student forum take place on the 21st floor, rooms Yorktown North and South. Coffee-breaks, Lunch breaks, and keynote sessions occur on IBM Watson Center, 21st floor, rooms Yorktown North and South and entrance.

The Munich Highlight Towers

CONASENSE2022 symposium rooms

CONASENSE2022 symposium rooms

fortiss Labs, 15th floor - Hackathon sessions

Venue address

Munich Highlight Towers, Mies-van-der-Rohe-Straße 6, 80807 München

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Become a CONASENSE2022 Sponsor!

The 12th edition of CONASENSE2022 is expected to attract a large number of entities, both from industry and academia worldwide. Therefore, by sponsoring CONASENSE2022, we offer you the possibility to promote your business within a top-level European community of stakeholders, reaching to industry, SMEs, and academic partners. We currently offer specific sponsorship levels as detailed in the next table. Contact the organizers for sponsorship opportunities at: conasense at conasense dot org.

Level	Nr of free registrations	On-site Logo	Website banner	Merchandising	Poster	Keynote Awards session	Sponsorship fee (Euros)
Gold	2	X	X	X	A0 (91x183cm)	X	3500
Silver	1	X	X	X	A0 (91x183cm)	-	2000
Bronze	1	X	X	-	-	-	1000

History

The CONASENSE scientific society stands for Communication, Navigation, Sensing, and Services. It aims to foster the total integration of all these research fields for prosperous humanity based on the digital society. Established in 2011 as CNSS, CONASENSE was first presented by Ramjee Prasad and Marina Ruggieri with the support of Ernestina Cianca, at a Defense event in Italy. In 2012, CNSS has been redefined to become CONASENSE, and established as a worlwide scientific society, as one of the 12 research arms of the CTIF GLOBAL CAPSULE CLOCK , established in 2004.

Prior Events

Among other activities, CONASENSE has developed, since 2012, a regular workshop. In 2021, with the development of a Memorandum of Agreement between CGC and fortiss, the CONASENSE workshop was transformed into a symposium with the aim to further assist the CONASENSE vision and scientific discussions, jointly coordinated by Ramjee Prasad (CGC, Aarhus University) and Rute C. Sofia (fortiss GmbH, Munich, Germany).

• 9th CONASENSE Symposium , 2021, hosted by Prof Rute C. Sofia, fortiss, Munich, Germany
• 8th CONASENSE Symposium, 2019 hosted by Prof. Leo P. Ligthart, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 7th CONASENSE workshop, May 2016 hosted by Prof. Leo P. Ligthart, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 6th CONASENSE workshop, March 2015, hosted by Prof. Leo P. Ligthart, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 5th CONASENSE workshop, May 2014, hosted by Prof. Ramjee Prasad, CGC, Aarhus University, Denmark
• 4th CONASENSE workshop, March 2014 , hosted by Prof. Leo P. Ligthart, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 3rd CONASENSE workshop, , March 2013, hosted by Prof. Leo P. Ligthart, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 2nd CONASENSE workshop, , September 2012, Taiwan, chaired by Prof. Ramjee Prasad
• 1st CONASENSE workshop, February 2012, hosted by Prof. Leo P. Ligthart, Amsterdam, Netherlands

CONASENSE 2021 Gallery

Check the gallery from the CONASENSE Symposium 2021