14th CONASENSE Workshop – co-located with IEEE WPMC 2024.4 – Call for Papers
IEEE WPMC 2024 – 14th CONASENSE Workshop for a Sustainable and Adaptive 6G Continuum
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
Workshop 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: V. Poulkov, 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