Events

2025 EuCNC & 6G Summit

junio 3 - 8:00 // junio 6 - 17:00

i2CAT will actively participate in the 2025 EuCNC & 6G Summit, one of the most prominent European conferences on advanced communications. This annual event brings together global researchers, industry leaders, and policy-makers to explore the evolution of 6G and Beyond 5G systems. The summit is supported by the European Commission and major associations like IEEE ComSoc, EURASIP, and EurAAP.

Throughout the week, i2CAT researchers will present cutting-edge contributions across tutorials, special sessions, paper presentations, and technology demos, representing flagship Horizon Europe projects such as 6G-XR, COGNIFOG, INSTINCT, iTrust6G, NANCY, and BeGREEN.

Tuesday, 3 June

Hatim Chergui (Software Networks research group), representing the COGNIFOG project, will offer a tutorial presentation on «Explainable AI for Communications and Networking». The session will explore how XAI frameworks and tools are reshaping transparency and accountability in autonomous network management. With practical use cases in wireless communications, regulatory discussions around the EU AI Act, and emerging methodologies like Neuro-symbolic XAI, the tutorial offers valuable insight into one of the most pressing challenges in intelligent network systems.

Also on Tuesday, Daniel Camps (director of the Mobile Wireless Internet research group) will intervene in a workshop entitled «6G experimentation methodologies, pitfalls and best practices» to present some of the advances of the 6G-XR project. The talk, “Exposing CAMARA APIs for third party experimentation in 6G test facilities – the 6GXR approach”, will describe the south node test site facility based on Ericsson technology developed between i2CAT and 5TONIC. The talk will focus on the tools the project has made available to third-party experimenters, including a trial controller to onboard third-party experimenters, CAMARA QoD and edge APIs to enable validation of NaaS APIs in controlled environments, and a passive KPI measurement system based on Quosium to collect experiment results.

Finally, Shuaib Siddiqui (director of the Cybersecurity & DLT-Blockchain research group) will participate in the «6G Trustworthiness: Requirements, Challenges, and Considerations» workshop. He will offer a session entitled “Remote Attestation for highly dynamic 6G Systems», which highlights advanced approaches to attestation for enhancing trust, security, and management in dynamic and distributed systems, particularly in 6G environments. The session includes some of the work done under the iTrust6G project.

Wednesday, 4 June

In the afternoon, our Scientific Director, Xavier Costa-Pérez, will participate in a special session dedicated to Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC), representing the BeGREEN project. This session brings together several EU projects to explore how ISAC can merge communication and sensing capabilities, enabling revolutionary use cases in XR, autonomous systems, and smart infrastructure.

Also on Wednesday, Juan Sebastian Camargo (Software Networks research group) will present the paper “Towards Cloud-Native Agentic Protocol Learning for Conflict-Free 6G”. This work, part of both NANCY and COGNIFOG, introduces a cloud-native framework in which network slices are managed by distributed agents that autonomously learn to coordinate CPU resource allocation using emergent communication. Tested with real-world traffic models, the system demonstrates dynamic adaptability and a conflict rate under 3%, offering a scalable approach for future 6G infrastructures.

Friday, 6 June

Researcher Maxime Compastié (Cybersecurity & DLT-Blockchain research group) will intervene in the conference to present the paper «A Zero-Knowledge-Based Approach for Secure Inter-Slice Communication in 6G Networks», co-authored by Alfonso Egio, Alvaro Le Monnier, Muhammad Asad and Shuaib Siddiqui, which incorporates results from UNICO 6GENABLERS – SEC, COGNIFOG and iTrust6G research projects. The paper presents a privacy-preserving authentication framework for inter-slice communication. The framework integrates Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) for privacy-preserving authentication and Public Key Cryptography (PKC) for secure identity management, ensuring no sensitive information is jeopardized before a slice can be trusted.

Throughout the Conference (3–6 June)

Across the week, i2CAT will present several interactive demonstrations at the exhibition area, showcasing research results and innovations from leading Horizon Europe and national projects.

At the INSTINCT booth, Andra Blaga (AI-driven Systems research group) will present a hybrid GNSS + 5G-NR localization system that improves positioning accuracy in GNSS-degraded environments. Combining traditional satellite data with 5G New Radio signals, the demo showcases enhanced location precision through real-time simulation and sensor fusion.

At the 6G-XR booth, researchers Amr Abdelnabbi (Mobile Wireless Internet) and Marc Martos (Media Technologies) will demonstrate a congestion-aware holographic communication system. Leveraging real-time telemetry and adaptive bitrate control, this setup ensures high-quality XR sessions even during network congestion, underscoring the role of 6G in immersive communication.

At the SNS Joint Sustainability booth, Miguel Catalan-Cid (Mobile Wireless Internet research group) will showcase the BeGREEN Intelligence Plane: an AI-powered orchestration system for energy-efficient O-RAN management. The demo walks attendees through an automated control loop optimizing cell activity through integrated rApps, xApps, and AI algorithms.

At the SNS Joint Trustworthiness/Security booth, Maxime Compastié and Shuaib Siddiqui (Cybersecurity & DLT – Blockchain research group) will present two demos developed within the iTrust6G project:

• Demo 1: Risk-Aware and CTI-Enabled Attack Remediation in Multi-Domain Environments
  This demo focuses on threat classification, cyber threat intelligence (CTI) generation and dissemination, and risk-based remediation. It showcases how security orchestration across domains enables effective mitigation through shared intelligence and adaptive response strategies.

• Demo 2: Policy-Based Trust Evaluation Across Network Services in Multi-Domain Environments
  This demonstration explores remote attestation and policy-based decision-making for cross-domain service trust management. Attendees will observe how trusted and tampered network functions are dynamically validated or denied access based on real-time trust evaluations.

At the 5GSmartFact booth, Suneel Kumar (Mobile Wireless Internet) will present a poster and live demo based on his Ph.D. research on enhancing industrial SLA compliance in wireless environments. The solution leverages Wi-Fi 7 multilink and Frame Replication and Elimination for Reliability (FRER) to reduce delay spikes in dual-WLAN setups. Using NS-3 simulation, BPF/XDP FRER implementation, and a safety-critical application Safety stack, the demo includes real-time RTT visualizations, emphasizing performance gains under congestion.

i2CAT’s presence at the EuCNC & 6G Summit 2025 underscores the centre’s ongoing dedication to leading-edge research, applied innovation, and collaborative efforts shaping the new generation of mobile networks and the future of connectivity. Through advances in AI, XR technologies, sustainable networking, and high-precision localization, our researchers address the core building blocks of the 6G ecosystem.