Resilience in 6G and beyond: Perspectives, Challenges and Design Approaches
Tuesday, 2 June 2026, 14:00 – 17:30, Sala 5 (1st floor)
Organisers
- Norman Franchi (Institute for Smart Electronics and Systems, Friedrich-Alexander-Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg, DE)
- Friedemann Laue (Institute for Smart Electronics and Systems, Friedrich-Alexander-Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg, DE)
Motivation and Background
Future 6G networks will form a critical backbone of a highly connected and digitized society, supporting essential services across industry, transportation, healthcare, and public safety. The increasing societal and economic reliance on 6G networks has intensified research efforts on resilient communication systems, highlighting resilience as a fundamental design principle for next-generation systems. Recent findings show that resilience goes beyond traditional notions of reliability and robustness, requiring a multidisciplinary approach that involves stakeholders from diverse technical domains, including communication systems, networking, cybersecurity, data analytics, and system engineering.
The design of resilient 6G networks requires coordinated efforts across technical, operational, regulatory, and business domains, calling for the active engagement of network operators, equipment vendors, vertical industries, regulators, and the research community. At this stage of 6G development, it is crucial to harmonize the understanding of resilience, explore holistic cross-layer design approaches, and assess system requirements and business opportunities. Key questions include which design principles best support resilient 6G systems, how diverse stakeholders can be effectively coordinated, what roles regulators and standardization bodies should play, and which open research challenges should be prioritized.
This workshop addresses these questions by bringing together experts from multiple domains through invited talks, offering complementary perspectives on the challenges and opportunities in building resilient 6G networks.
Structure
This half-day workshop features a series of invited talks.
- Welcome and introduction
- Norman Franchi (Professor and head of the Institute for Smart Electronics and Systems (LITES), Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU))
- Friedemann Laue (Senior Researcher, LITES, FAU)
- Ecologically responsible network design and resilience
- Aarne Mämmelä (Emeritus Professor, University of Oulu)
- Antifragile 6G Networks
- Luis M. Contreras (Head of Innovation on IP Network and Protocols, Telefónica Innovación Digital CDO)
- Building 6G Resilience with Digital Twins: AI Sandboxes, Network Validation and Disruption Response
- Germán Corrales Madueño (6G Innovation Technical Program Manager for AI and Digital Twin, Keysight Technologies)
- Interdisciplinary approach to resilience in 6G
- Marja Matinmikko-Blue (Research Director, University of Oulu)
- How do new 6G security features support network resiliency?
- Emrah Tomur (Head of Network Security Research & Standards, Nokia)
- Resilience for E2E services in critical industrial infrastructures
- Florian Zeiger (Principal Key Expert, Siemens AG)
- Building robust critical mobile networks
- Mikael Fallgren (Researcher, Ericsson Research)
