The Road towards 6G: Opportunities, Challenges, and Applications : A Comprehensive View of the Enabling Technologies

The proposed book will provide a comprehensive picture of the journey from 5G networks towards 6G. Different aspects, ranging from theoretical foundations to existing platforms and technologies will be presented and analysed, by critically highlighting the real opportunities and the challenges. The first chapters are to describe the general “transitioning” aspects from 5G to 6G. After that, an overview on the different technologies is provided, to present at the end the security aspects, the new applications and an analysis of the electromagnetic exposure, above all in terms of comparative in respect of 5G. Security and Application will be straightforward better explained after the big picture on the different technologies is detailed in the previous chapters. 

6G is an emerging complex paradigm, with some important new concepts, that would enable an extremely high reliability and low latency. The main purpose is to provide the reader a thorough vision of the enabling technologies, their potential and what is still needed to fill the gap in terms of sustainability and coexistence of the different technologies. 

Since different emerging technologies will be considered and detailed in the book, it will be interesting for the reader to infer the major opportunities of each and the main limitations. This kind of information will mainly boost the potential interactions of different technologies to provide a more reliable system.

Valeria Loscri (Senior Member, IEEE) is a research scientist at Inria Center of University of Lille. She received her master’s degree and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Electronics Systems at University of Calabria (Italy). She obtained her Habilitation to supervise research (HDR) in 2018. She has co-authored more than 150 articles published in international conferences and journals. Her main research interests are on cybersecurity and resilience of wireless networks, resources allocation and anomaly detection in wireless systems, unconventional wireless communication paradigms as visible light communication, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIM) and co-existence and interaction between conventional and unconventional wireless communication technologies. She is in the editorial board of IEEE Communications Survey and Tutorials, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Elsevier ComNet. She is TPC member of several international conferences, as IEEE ESORICS,CNS, INFOCOM, PerCom, ICC, Globecom. She served as TPC chair and symposium chairs for Globecom 2021, 2023, EWSN 2023. She was General co-chair of ACM NanoCom 2020. She is Action Chair of the COST Action BEiNG-WISE on human in the loop in advanced wireless security networks. She is coordinating the Regional Grant CORTESE and she is (has been) member of several European projects as Horizon Europe MLSysOps, H2020 CyberSANE and national projects as ASTRID 2021 DEPOSIA. She has been nominated to the Women Stars in Computer Networking and Communication in 2021 by the IEEE Communication Society. She was scientific delegate for European Partnership at Inria Lille (2016-2019). Since 2019 she is scientific delegate for the international relation for Inria Lille.
BIO: Luca Chiaraviglio (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in telecommunication and electronics engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He is currently an Associate Professor with the University of Rome “Tor Vergata,” Italy. He also holds Research Affiliate appointments CNIT and WILA, as well as ICT consultant for the Rome municipality. He has coauthored more than 180 articles published in international journals, books, international and national conferences. His current research topics cover 5G and B5G networks, EMF measurement and modelling, optimization applied to telecommunication networks and health risks assessment of 5G and B5G communications. He received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)-Spring 2020, the IEEE VTC-Spring 2016, and the Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks 2018, all of them appearing as the first author. Some of his papers are listed as the Best Readings on Green Communications by the IEEE. Moreover, he has been recognized as an Author in the Top 1% Most Highly Cited Papers in the Information and Communication Technology field worldwide and top 2% world scientists according to the 2021 and 2022 updates of the science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicator He has been in the Technical Program Committee (TPC) of IEEE INFOCOM conference since 2018, as well as serving in the TPC of other major conferences (ICC, GLOBECOM, ECOC, VTC, 5G Italy). He is Chief Editor of the Networks Section for the Frontiers in Communications and Networks journal (Scopus indexed in 2023). He served as Editor for several journals, including IEEE Communications Magazine (for 7 years), IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, and IEEE Access, He is Co-principal investigator for the KAUT-CNIT bilateral project PLAN-EMF and for the national project MOSS. He is currently project manager and coordinator of the UNIROMA2 spoke for the RESTART program.  He is/has been a member of several projects, including European ones (H2020, FP7)  and national ones (CTE, PRIN, FIRB). He has served as keynote in several venues (GSMA, ITU-T, IEEE COMA, ITNAC conference, SNOW workshop, Anritsu webinar, ARPA Lazio webinar, ARTIST international school) and panelist in different conferences/meetings (ICC, COMMNET conference, 6G summit, ITU-T Kaleidoscope conference, 5G Italy conference).

BIO: Anna Maria Vegni (Senior member, IEEE) is Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering at Roma Tre University (Rome, Italy). She received the Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering, Electromagnetics and Telecommunications from the Department of Applied Electronics, Roma Tre University, in March 2010. In 2009, she was a visiting researcher in the Multimedia Communication Laboratory, directed by Prof. Thomas D.C. Little, at the Department of Electricaland Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA. She a member of ACM and an IEEE Senior Member. In June 2021, she got the Italian Habilitation (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) for Full Professorship in Telecommunication Engineering.Her research interests are related to vehicular networks, optical wireless communications, and Beyond5G technologies. She is involved in the organization of several IEEE and ACM international conferences and is a member of the editorial board of IEEE Communications Magazine, Transaction on Communications, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, Journal of Networks and Computer Applications, WINET Springer, IEEE JCN and ETT Wiley journal.