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.

CONASENSE2023 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 2023, co-located with IEEE WPMC (technically co-sponsored by IEEE ComSoc) follows the rules of IEEE WPMC 2023 for paper submission and accepts both full and short-papers. Full papers (6 plus 1 pages; USD 100 for each extra page) address mature work on related fields, covering in detail the developed research, sharing information on models, architectures, experimentation, use-cases, etc. Short- papers (2-4 pages) address work under development, where solutions are being advocated, but experimentation may still be an early stage.

Paper submission via the IEEE WPMC 2023 EDAS: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=30791&track=117524

Deadlines:
• Paper submission, 15.09.2023
• Notification of acceptance, 15.10.2023
• Camera-ready submission, 31.10.2023

Topics of interest for CONASENSE 2023 include but are not limited to:

– Communications.
▪ Unified architectural communications involving ground to spaceborne infrastructures
▪ 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 management
▪ Semantic communications for supporting multiverse scenarios

– Satellites and Navigation
◦ Orchestration across terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks
◦ Joint sensing and localization
◦ Routing for smart constellations

– Sensing.
◦ Joint sensing and communications
◦ IoT communication and orchestration
◦ Large-scale sensing scenarios challenges
◦ AI-based sensing

– 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.

Committees

CONASENSE Steering Committee

◦ Ramjee Prasad, CGC, Aarhus University, Denmark
◦ Rute Sofia, fortiss, sofia@fortiss.org

Publicity Chair/Treasurer: Paulo Rufino, CGC, Aarhus University

Technical Programme Committee:
Chair: Prof. Eduardo Cerqueira, UFPA, Brazil

TPC members:

Fumiyuki Adachi, University of Tohoku, Japan
Qasim Ahmed University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom (Great Britain)
Rodolfo Azevedo, UNICAMP, Brazil
Sanjay Biswash, NIIT University, India
Ernestina Cianca, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Luis M. Contreras, Telefonica, Spain
Mauro De Sanctis, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy
Satoshi Denno , Okayama University , Japan
Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
Ana Maria Dragulinescu, University Politechnica of Bucharest, Romania
Ashutosh Dutta, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Labs (JHU/APL), USA
Valerio Frascolla, Intel Deutschland Gmbh, Germany
Octavian Fratu, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Simona Halunga, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Asim Ul Haq, Aarhus University, Denmark
Frederic Harris, University of California San Diego , USA
Antoni Ivanov , Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Peter Koch, Aalborg University, Denmark
Ryuji Kohno, YRP International Alliance Institute, Japan
Berend Kuipers, Lusiada University of Lisbon, Portugal
Navin Kumar ,Amrita University, India
Frank Li, University of Agder, Norway
Valeria Loscrí, Inria Lille-Nord Europe, France
Petri Mähönen, Aalto University, Finland
Lefteris Mamatas, University of Macedonia, Greece
Paulo Mendes, Airbus, Germany
Werner Mohr,, Germany
Simone Morosi, University of Florence – CNIT, Italy
Homayoun Nikookar, Netherlands Defence Academy, The Netherlands
Milica Pejanovic-Djurisic, University of Montenegro, Montenegro
Vladimir Poulkov, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Anand Prasad, Deloitte Tohmatsu Cyber LLC, Japan
Jayashree Ratnam, Institute of Technical Education and Research, Siksha O Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar India
António Rodrigues, IT / Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Denis Rosário, Federal University of Para, Brazil
Jorge Sá Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Oriol Sallent, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Avik Santra, Infineon Technologies AG, Germany
Paulo José Spaccaquerche, ABNIC, Brazil
Krasimir Tonchev, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Per Valter, Østfold University College, Denmark
Fernando Velez, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Atanas Vlahov, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Zaharias Zaharis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece