3rd workshop on 6G Network Use Cases and Verticals Workshop Proposal
Goal: The workshop aims to foster discussions on the future of 6G networks, focusing on use cases, vertical integration, technical challenges, interdisciplinary collaboration, and policy and regulatory considerations. This will provide a platform for researchers, industry experts, and academics to shape the development of 6G technologies.
Workshop Topics and Description
The proposed workshop will explore the transformative potential of 6G networks across various industries. It will cover the following topics:
- 6G Network Architecture: Exploring unique architectural components and principles tailored to diverse use cases.
- Vertical-Specific Use Cases: Deep dives into industry applications like augmented reality in healthcare, autonomous vehicles, and smart agriculture.
- Security and Privacy: Addressing security challenges in 6G and potential solutions. Spectrum and Infrastructure: Discussing spectrum allocation and infrastructure for 6G deployment.
- AI and Machine Learning Integration: Enhancing 6G networks through real-time AI and machine learning technologies.
- Regulatory and Ethical Considerations: Examining the framework and ethical implications of 6G.
- Emerging Cloud-Native Vertical and Network Applications: Integration of cloud-native technologies in 6G.
- Network Management and Orchestration: Innovative strategies for managing 6G network infrastructures.
- Number of expected submissions: 10 – 15 submissions
- Number of expected participants: More than 20 participants
- Existence of Scientific Communities or Special Interest Groups:
- EU Horizon Europe projects
- 5GPPP Steering and Technical Board Meetings
- IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc)
- ACM SIGCOMM
- Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
- Corporate research groups and universities
Tentative List of Technical Program Committee Members
- Dr. Josep Mangues-Bafalluy, CTTC, Spain
- Dr. Pouria Sayyad Khodashenas, Huawei, Sweden
- Dr. Ehsan Ebrahimi Khaleghi, Airbus Defense and Space, France
- Dr. David Rincon Rivera, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
- Dr. S. Mahdi Darroudi, Neutroon Technologies S.L., Spain
- Dr. Madhusanka Liyanage, University College Dublin, Ireland
- Dr. Suayb Arslan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
- Dr. Abdullah Aydeger, Florida Institute of Technology, USA
Workshop Organizers
Bio: Dr. Hamzeh Khalili received his PhD in Network Engineering of Telematics, both from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) – Barcelona, Spain. He is currently a principal investigator and researcher in the Services as networkS (SaS) Research Unit at CTTC. His main interests and activities are focused on 5G network and beyond (i.e., 5G+ and 6G), 3GPP, ETSI MANO, Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Satellite and Terrestrial resource coordination, 3GPP & ETSI standards, cloud-native and network slicing research and innovation. He also has extensive experience and research in EPON networks, network architecture and energy saving in optical networks, among others.
He has a working experience of over 10 years in ICT industry, research institutes, European Union (EU) projects and Spanish national projects.
Dr. Hamzeh Khalili has participated in several research projects, funded by the EU and the Spanish government. He has actively contributed to research and innovation action proposal in H2020 and ICT EU research programs.
He (co) authored many scientific publications, among all, 30+ peer reviewed articles published in high-profile journals, conferences, and books. He also contributed to standardization activities within the European framework such as ETSI and 5GPPP Software Network Working Group.
He also organized more than 10 workshops and was part of the technical program committee in more than 10 international conferences from 2017 until now.
Moreover, he is leading article collection of Architecture, Enablers and Tools Toward 6G at Frontiers in Communications and Networks, and a special issue of Optical and Satellite Communication Systems into 5G Edge Network at Photonics Journal of MDPI. He also served as a reviewer in IEEE Access, Optical Communication and Networking, Communication Systems and ACM Computing Survey journals, and conferences such as IEEE Meditcom, IEEE NetSoft, IEEE ICTON, NWCOM, to name a few examples.
Bio: Dr. Engin Zeydan is a Senior Researcher in the Communication Networks Division at Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC) in Barcelona, Spain. He received his PhD degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA in 2011 and M.S. and B.S. degrees from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2006 and 2004, respectively.
Before joining CTTC in 2018, he worked as an R\&D Engineer for Avea (a Turkish mobile operator) between 2011 and 2016, as Senior R\&D Engineer in Turk Telekomunikasyon A.S between 2016 and 2018 and a part-time instruction at Electrical and Electronics Engineering department of Ozyegin University between January 2015 and June 2018. Dr. Zeydan has been primarily responsible for carrying out European Commission and nationally funded research activities at Türk Telekomunikasyon and Avea.
He has been involved in many European level projects such as H2020 projects MonB5G (as Project Coordinator, 2021-2023), 5Growth (2019-2022) and Clear5G (as WP leader, 2017-2018), FP7 projects MOTO (as WP leader, 2012-2015) and CROWD (2014-2015) in collaborations with various industries and universities. He is co-author of over 110+ papers in international journals and conferences and 10 granted patents at Turkish Patent Institute. In 2022, he received the Docent degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Field of Science issued by Presidency of the Council of Higher Education, Turkiye. He has also led activities on ETSI ZSM PoC: Zero-touch closed-control security management of attacks detection and mitigation between September 2022-February 2023. His research interests are in the areas of telecommunications and data engineering/science.