Abstract:
Research on the sixth generation (6G) wireless system, which started about eight years ago, is now moving to the standardization phase. The 6G system will be conceived as a holistic end-to-end (E2E) architecture that seamlessly fuses communication, sensing, computing, and AI, supported by a sustainable and flexible platform. It will deliver intelligent, immersive, and human-centric services, enabling a deep integration of the digital and physical worlds while ensuring resilience, inclusivity, and global connectivity. As 6G moves to the standardization phase, 6G development is expanding from research to systemization analysis, early validation, and proof of concept. It progresses from the 6G key enablers that connect the human, physical, and digital worlds to advanced technology readiness. The goal is to develop a blueprint for a sustainable, inclusive, and trustworthy 6G platform capable of meeting future societal and industrial needs while driving transformative change. Given the current stage of 6G development, this workshop aims to provide a platform to discuss holistic 6G radio design mainly covering the following two key tracks of IEEE WCNC 2026: ‘Emerging Technologies, Network Architectures, and Applications’ and ‘Machine Learning and Optimization for Wireless Systems’. Timeliness: It has been almost eight years since 6G research started. Different views on the 6G vision have started to concretize. Alongside, ITU-T is also about to finalize the technical description of IMT 2030, which will define what 6G will be. The draft IMT-2030 framework1 points towards a holistic design for 6G that emphasizes ubiquitous intelligence, sustainability, security and resilience, and ’connecting the unconnected’ as the core design principles. All these points to the relevance and timelines of the proposed third edition of the workshop on holistic 6G radio design, two earlier editions of which were organized in conjunction with EuCNC | 6G Summit 20242 and 20253.
Topics of interest: This workshop’s topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- AI-driven 6G air interface
- Holistic radio resource management framework
- Holistic design enabling low-power, zero-energy and sustainable 6G networks
- Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC)
- The role of physical layer security in 6G
- Energy networking in energy autonomous 6G systems
- Holistic integration and terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks in 6G
- 6G resilience
- Experimentation and proof-of-concept results on holistic 6G radio design
- Holistic transceiver design
- Communication-control-compute co-design
- Goal-oriented and semantic communications.
Organizers:
- Prof. Gilberto Berardinelli, Aalborg University
- Dr. Hamed Farhadi, Ericsson Research, Sweden
- Dr. Ahmad Nimr, 6G-Life, TU Dresden, Germany
- Prof. Seongah Jeong, University of Seoul, South Korea
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Dr. Nurul Huda Mahmood, 6G Flagship, University of Oulu, Finland