Workshop 7

Second International Workshop on Holistic 6G Radio Design

Tuesday, 3 June 2025, 9:00 – 12:30, room 0.B

Organisers:

Hamed Farhadi (Ericsson Research, SE)
Ahmad Nimr (TU Dresden, DE)
Jeroen Famey (imec and University of Antwerp, BE)
Gilberto Berardinelli (Aalborg Univ., DK)
Nurul Huda Mahmood (Univ. Oulu, FI)

Motivation and Background

This workshop is jointly proposed by the stream B projects Hexa-X-II and 6G-SHINE Hexa-X-II (HORIZON-JU-SNS-2022-STREAM-B-01-05) is continuing the work laid out by Hexa-X with a consortium of 44 partners, covering the entire value chain to create the blueprint system design of 6G ahead of the initiation of the technical standardization for 6G. Towards this objective, the project is conducting research on holistic radio evolution (WP4) and 6G future devices & infrastructure (WP5), among others.
The 6G-SHINE (HORIZON-JU-SNS-2022-STREAM-B-01-03) project will pioneer the main technology components for in- X wireless subnetworks, short range, low-power radio cells to be installed in a wide set of vertical and consumer entities like robots, vehicles, production modules, and classrooms for the sake of supporting extreme communication requirements in terms of latency, reliability, or data rates. 6G-SHINE will leverage the opportunities offered by the peculiar deployment characteristics of such short-range subnetworks for a highly performant yet cost-efficient radio design that allows to bring wireless connectivity to a level of pervasiveness that which has never been experienced earlier.
Given the expertise and focus areas of the supporting projects, this workshop will accurately address the conference tracks ‘PHY—Physical Layer and Fundamentals’, ‘WOS – Wireless, Optical and Satellite Networks’, ‘NET – Network Softwarization’ ‘AIU Applications, IoT, Use Cases’ and ‘6G Visions and Sustainability’, by providing an overview on the 6G research from the major European players.

Structure

09:00 – 10:30: Session 1

The proposed workshop will open with an introductory presentation from the workshop organizers. This opening presentation will set the scene, provide a short overview presentation on holistic 6G radio design, present the 6G standardization roadmap, and introduce new SNS JU

projects that are taking the baton from Hexa-X-II.

Next, the workshop will have six technical talks delivered by experts participating in (and representing) different SNS JU projects:

AI-driven air interface (Represented project (RP): Hexa-X-II, Speaker): Hamed Farhadi, Ericsson
Radio resource management for dense 6G in-X subnetworks, (RP: 6G-SHINE): Gilberto Berardinelli, Aalborg University
RF Wireless Power Transfer: Low-complexity architectures and charging protocols (RP: Hexa-X-II): Onel Lopez, University of Oulu
The role of Physical layer security in 6G (RP: ROBUST-6G): Tommy Svensson, Chalmers University

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30: Session 2

AI-enabled CSI Feedback Compression Schemes for 6G (RP: CENTRIC): Amir Ahmadian Tehrani (Nokia)
Energy Networking in Energy Autonomous IoT Systems (RP: SUPERIOT): Marcos Katz, University of Oulu

The final agenda item of the workshop with be a panel discussion titled: 6G – the road ahead.
Panel background and motivation: It has been more than five years since 6G research started. Different views on what 6G will be started to concretize. Alongside, ITU-T is also about to finalize the 4 / 5 technical description of IMT 2030, which will define what 6G will be. This panel will discuss the status of 6G development, the achievements so far and the potential open R&D directions in the short and medium term.

Panelists: