Workshops, Presentations & Trials
6G-SANDBOX organizes/co-organizes several workshops, participates in conferences and delivers presentations in various events, performs trials and test as per the defined use cases. All these related communication and dissemination activities are summarized below.
Presentations
| # | EVENT | Partner | DATE / LOCATION | TITLE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ETSI Research Conference 2023 | Lenovo | 6th -7th Februrary 2023 | “The 6G-SANDBOX approach towards 6G experimentation ” PDF |
| 2 | SNS Lunchtime Webinar | UMA | 15th February 2023 | 6G-SANDBOX Overview |
| 3 | 6G-IA Info Day on Open Call opportunities in SNS Phase 1 projects | Keysight | 7th March 2023 | 6G-SANDBOX Overview & Open Calls PDF |
| 4 | EVOLVED-5G Accelerator’s Chapter 2 Workshops “Introduction to 5G technologies & Network applications” | NCSRD | 3rd May 2023 | 6G-SANDBOX Open Call Presentation |
| 5 | Tech Day Madrid, Technical Workshop | Open Nebula | 8th May 2023 | An Introduction to OpenNebula PDF |
| 6 | Tech Day Madrid, Technical Workshop | Open Nebula | 8th May 2023 | “OpenNebula Cloud Design & Operations” PDF |
| 7 | Tech Day Madrid, Technical Workshop | Telefonica | 8th May 2023 | Peñuelas Testbed PDF |
| 8 | Demo Common Days ‘Smart networks and services – 5th and 6th generation technologies’ | NCSRD | 25th May 2023 | 6G-SANDBOX Overview, Athens Experimentation Platfrom & 1st Open Call |
| 9 | EuCNC & 6G Summit 2023 Workshop 7 | Telefonica | 6th June 2023 | Technology Validation and Measurement Campaigns for Non-Terrestrial Networks PDF |
| 10 | EuCNC & 6G Summit 2023` Workshop 2 | IS-WIRELESS | 6th June 2023 | Edge resources management for a disaggregated open RAN 6G networks |
| 11 | EuCNC & 6G Summit 2023` Co-located event | Keysight | 7th of June 2023 | 6G-SANDBOX Overview and 1st Open Call Info Session PDF |
| 12 | OpenNebulaCon 2023 | OpenNebula/Telefonica | 20th of June 2023 | Leveraging NFV Capabilities for Telco Edge Clouds |
| 13 | OpenNebulaCon 2023 | OpenNebula/Telefonica | 20th of June 2023 | Deploying Kubernetes on an OpenNebula Multi-Cloud |
| 14 | Sploro Info Day on Cascade Funding | UMA | 23rd of June 2023 | 6G-SANDBOX 1st Open Call – New Infrastructures and Functionalities PDF |
| 15 | Skills2Scale Peer Learning Event | NCSRD | 28th of June | 6G-SANDBOX experimentation platform and its offerings to experimenters and innovators |
| 16 | 58th Summer School by NCSRD-Demokritos | NCSRD | 10th -14th July 2023 | Beyond 5G: The 6G Platform of NCSR Demokritos |
| 17 | 11th FOKUS FUSECO Forum | Keysight | 14th – 15th September 2023 | 6G-SANDBOX SNS-JU Experimental Facilities for Early 6G Experimentations |
| 18 | Nexus Forum 2023 | OpenNebula | 5th-6th October 2023 | 6G-SANDBOX Overview |
| 19 | International Conference on 6G Networking | Keysight | 18th-20th October | ‘A Test & Measurement Perspective on Integrating Artificial Intelligence into 6G Future Networks |
| 20 | 4th O-RAN nGRG 6G Workshop | Keysight | 19th of October | ‘6G-SANDBOX large scale Experimental platform |
| 21 | IEEE CSCN 2023 | NCSRD | 6th-8th November 2023 | Exploiting Core Openness as Native-AI Enabler for Optimised UAV Flight Path Selection PDF |
| 22 | IEEE CSCN 2023 | NCSRD | 6th-8th November 2023 | A Chatbot Assistant for Optimizing the Fault Detection and Diagnostics of Industry 4.0 Equipment in the 6G PDF |
| 23 | IEEE CSCN 2023 | Lenovo | 6th-8th November 2023 | 5G Network Enhancements to Support Ambient IoT Devices PDF |
| 24 | SNS JU Trials Working Group Plenary Meeting | Keysight | 11th December | 6G-SANDBOX Overview |
| 25 | IEEE GLOBECOM 2023 | University of Oulu | 5th December 2023 | Enhancing 5G Security: Slice Isolation via Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning with Optimal Graph Features PDF |
| 26 | IEEE GLOBECOM 2023 | University of Oulu | 5th December 2023 | QoS-Aware Service Prediction and Orchestration in Cloud-Network Integrated Beyond 5G PDF |
| 27 | IEEE GLOBECOM 2023 | University of Oulu | 5th December 2023 | RIS-Assisted Ad Hoc Edge for Optimal User Distribution in Service-Intensive Scenarios PDF |
| 28 | IEEE GLOBECOM 2023 | University of Oulu | 6th December 2023 | A Deep Transfer Learning-powered EDoS Detection Mechanism for 5G and Beyond Network Slicing PDF |
| 29 | IEEE GLOBECOM 2023 | University of Oulu | 7th December 2023 | Moving Target Defense based Secured Network Slicing System in the O-RAN Architecture PDF |
| 30 | INFOCOM 2023 | NCSRD | 14th December 2023 | 6G-SANDBOX Overview |
| 31 | Mobile World Congress 2024 | Open Nebula | 27th February 2024 | 6G-SANDBOX Presentation at the Spanish Pavillion |
| 32 | 1st Internation Workshop on Open Research Infrastructures and Toolkits for 5G/6G R&D (OpenRIT 6G) | EURESCOM | 20th March 2024 | On the stimulation of an evolution of test and experimentation infrastructures to measure value PDF |
| 33 | 18th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation | QUB | 17th – 20th March 2024 | Wideband, dual-polarization, 1-bit Unit-cell Design for millimeter-wave Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Applications PDF |
| 34 | ETSI Conference on “Non-Terrestrial Networks, a Native Component of 6G” | Telefonica | 3rd-4th April 2024 | 6G-SANDBOX Activities towards NTN-6G PDF |
| 35 | IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference | University of Oulu | 22nd April 2024 | Joint Network Slicing, Routing, and In-Network Computing for Energy-Efficient 6G PDF |
| 36 | IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference | University of Oulu | 22nd April 2024 | A Semantic-Aware Multiple Access Scheme for Distributed, Dynamic 6G-Based Applications PDF |
| 37 | IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference | University of Oulu | 22nd April 2024 | A Federated Continual Learning Framework for Sustainable Network Anomaly Detection in O-RAN PDF |
| 38 | 5G FORUM 2024 | Telefonica | 6th May 2024 | Innovación tecnológica para el desarrollo de 6G PDF |
| 39 | EuCNC 2024 & 6G Summit Workshop 4 | Keysight | 3rd June 2024 | 6G-SANDBOX Presentation PDF |
| 40 | EuCNC 2024 & 6G Summit Workshop 8 | Collaborative presentation by FLEXCALE, DETERMINISTIC-6G, DESIRE-6G, PREDICT-6G, ETHER and 6G-SANDBOX | 3rd June 2024 | Hyper Reliable and Low-Latency Communications for Robotics’ |
| 41 | EuCNC 2024 & 6G Summit Workshop 8 | Collaborative presentation by ETHER, 6G NTN, 5G-STARDUST and 6G-SANDBOX | 3rd June 2024 | Ubiquitous Connectivity for the Unconnected |
| 42 | EuCNC 2024 & 6G Summit Workshop 9 | Keysight | 3rd June 2024 | Selected use case experimentation with 6G-SANDBOX: initial results PDF |
| 43 | EuCNC 2024 & 6G Summit Workshop 12 | Collaborative presentation by 5G-STARDUST, 6G-NTN, ETHER, and 6G-SANDBOX. | 3rd June 2024 | Enabling Technologies towards NTN-6G systems: Tools and Demonstrators’ |
| 44 | EuCNC 2024 & 6G Summit Special Session 2 | Keysight | 4th of June 2024 | 6G-SANDBOX project |
| 45 | EuCNC 2024 & 6G Summit Special Session 6 | FOGUS | 4th of June 2024 | Implementation aspects and evolution path of OpenCAPIF within ETS |
| 46 | EuCNC 2024 & 6G Summit Special Session 6 | Telefonica | 4th of June 2024 | The Role of API Management on Enabling the Concept of Trial Networks |
| 47 | EuCNC 2024 & 6G Summit OPE2 | University of Malaga | 5th of June 2024 | On-demand Trial Networks over 6G-SANDBOX infrastructure |
| 48 | EuCNC 2024 & 6G Summit NET3 | NCSR ‘Demokritos’ | 5th of June 2024 | On-demand Trial Networks over 6G-SANDBOX infrastructure |
| 49 | The Conference on Concurrency and Distributed Systems (JCSD 2024) | University of Malaga | 10th-11th June 2024 | Verification of a multi-connectivity protocol for Tactile Internet applications |
| 50 | IEEE International Conference on Communications 2024 | University of Oulu | 9th – 13th June 2024 | User Request Provisioning Oriented Slice Anomaly Prediction and Resource Allocation in 6G Networks |
| 51 | IEEE International Conference on Communications 2024 | University of Oulu | 9th – 13th June 2024 | ORIENT: A Priority-Aware Energy-Efficient Approach for Latency-Sensitive Applications in 6G |
| 52 | IEEE International Conference on Communications 2024 | University of Oulu | 9th – 13th June 2024 | Profit-Aware Proactive Slicing Resource Provisioning with Traffic Uncertainty in Multi-Tenant FlexE-over-WDM Networks |
| 53 | IEEE International Conference on Communications 2024 | University of Oulu | 9th – 13th June 2024 | Dynamic Edge AI Service Management and Adaptation via Off-Policy Meta-Reinforcement Learning and Digital Twin |
| 54 | Keysight Tech Day, Taipei, Taiwan | Keysight | 19th June 2024 | Conference keynote presenting 6G-SANDBOX testbed |
| 55 | 6GEM General Assembly, Aachen, Germany | Keysight | 26th of June 2024 | 6G-SANDBOX as an AI dataset generating platform |
| 56 | IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation & ITNC-USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, Florence, Italy | QUB | 14th-19th July 2024 | A Modified 1-Bit Unit-Cell for mmWave RIS Optimized at Extreme Incident Angle |
| 57 | 2nd Conference on Radiocommunications and Teleinformatics | IS-WIRELESS | 11th -14th September 2024 | 6G-SANDBOX as an AI dataset generating platform |
| 58 | SNS JU Webinar ‘Collaborations between C/D and A/B projects’ | University of Malaga | 4th October 2024 | The 6G-SANDBOX Case PDF |
| 59 | 3rd EU-TAIWAN 6G SNS Joint Workshop, EU-TAIWAN Projects Experience Sharing anf Future Plan Session, Tapei, Taiwan | Keysight | 8th October 2024 | 6G-SANDBOX Experimentation |
| 60 | IEEE Future Networks World Forum, Symposium on 6G Communications, Dubai, UE | Keysight | 15th-17th October 2024 | 6G-SANDBOX Research Program Portfolio PDF |
| 61 | IEEE CAMAD 2024 -Empowering 6G Networks: First Workshop on Advancements in Research Infrastructures, Adaptive Frameworks and Global Architectural Evolution (Athena 2024) – Part 1, Athens. Greece | Lenovo | 21st-23rd October 2024 | Multi-Connectivity Enhancements for the 6G era |
| 62 | IEEE CAMAD 2024 -Empowering 6G Networks: First Workshop on Advancements in Research Infrastructures, Adaptive Frameworks and Global Architectural Evolution (Athena 2024) – Part 2, Athens. Greece | INFOLYSiS | 21st-23rd October 2024 | An AI-assisted User-Intent 6G System for Dynamic Throughput Provision |
| 63 | IEEE CAMAD 2024 -Empowering 6G Networks: First Workshop on Advancements in Research Infrastructures, Adaptive Frameworks and Global Architectural Evolution (Athena 2024) – Part 3, Athens. Greece | NCSRD “DEMOKRITOS” | 21st-23rd October 2024 | Field Trial Validation of 5G-Connected UAVs towards QoS and Handover Analysis |
| 64 | Annual CWI Symposium – Intelligent & Sustainable Wireless Networks, Belfast, UK | QUB | 24th October 2024 | Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces and antennas for mm-wave applications |
| 65 | 12th Fuseco Forum, rack 2 | Session 2 | Workshop “How Campus Networks Enable 6G – Ecosystems and Technologies Beyond 5G” (Part 1) | Keysight | 7th-8th November 2024 | 6G-SANDBOX: Update on Experimentation Results |
| 66 | 12th Fuseco Forum, rack 2 | Session 2 | Workshop “How Campus Networks Enable 6G – Ecosystems and Technologies Beyond 5G” (Part 2) | Telefonica | 7th-8th November 2024 | Technology Validation and Measurement Campaigns for Non-terrestrial Networks |
| 67 | NTN Workshop – Hexa-X-II | Keysight | 7th November 2024 | Study in digital twin to assess the impact of massive random access in sparse NTN Leo constellation |
| 68 | NTN Workshop – Hexa-X-II | University of Malaga | 7th November 2024 | NTN/TN integration with a focus on multi-connectivity |
| 69 | ETSI, Software and Standards for Smart Networks and Services Conference & Hackfests, France, SESSION 4 | FOGUS | 12th-14th November 2024 | SDG OpenCAPIF – A Common Framework for API Exposure and Consumption |
| 70 | 6G Laboratory Opening, University of Malaga | Keysight | 17th January 2025 | 6G-SANDBOX & 6G Lab – Let’s run experiment! |
| 71 | New Space and Solutions Event, Spain | University of Malaga | 17th -21st March 2025 | Victoria Satélite: Integración de redes 6G y satélite en la Red Victoria en el contexto de 6G-SANDBOX |
| 72 | ETSI 6G Monday | FOGUS | 14th April 2025 | The 6G-SANDBOX Approach on Leveraging and Contributing to Open Source |
| 73 | 5G FORUM 2025 | University of Malaga | 12th-16th May 2024 | Los Proyectos Europeos que desarrollan y prueban 6G sobre Red Victoria |
Panel Discussions
| # | EVENT | Partner | DATE / LOCATION | TITLE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Transfiere 2023 | UMA | 15th February 2023 | 6G-SANDBOX presentation in Panel Discussion |
| 2 | CYBERSEC FORUM/EXPO 2023 | IS-WIRELESS | 22nd of June 2023 | Panel Discussion about 6G |
| 3 | European Big Data Value Forum | Keysight | 26th May 2023 | Panel Discussion ‘Virtual Worlds: the EU funded project views’ |
| 4 | EuCNC 2024 & 6G Summit Workshop 5 | OpenNebula, University of Malaga | 3rd June 2024 | Panel Discussion on the impact of 6G. What are the technical and market key drivers? What are the gaps? What will be different? Is something missing? |
| 5 | EuCNC 2024 & 6G Summit Workshop 5 | Keysight, Telefonica | 3rd June 2024 | Panel by SNS JU Software Networks WG Chairman |
| 6 | EuCNC 2024 & 6G Summit Workshop 9 | University of Malaga, Keysight, Nokia | 3rd June 2024 | Panel Discussion ‘Challenges, lesson learnt and promising 6G technologies identified in SNS Trials and Pilots’ |
| 7 | 3rd EU-TAIWAN 6G SNS Joint Workshop | Keysight | 8th October 2024 | Panel Discussion: 6G Trial Network |
| 8 | SMART LIVING MARBELLA EVENT | University of Malaga | 27th -28th March 2025 | Panel Discussion: Smart Tourism: How 5G and 6G Technology Influence Various Aspects of Tourism |
Poster Sessions
| # | EVENT | Partner | DATE / LOCATION | TITLE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Transfiere 2023 | UMA | 15th February 2023 | Poster Session |
| 2 | 5G FORUM | NOKIA | 8-12th May 2023 | Poster Session |
| 3 | 6GEM General Assembly | Keysight | 6th-7th November | Poster Session |
Interviews
| # | EVENT | Partner | DATE / LOCATION | TITLE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | EuCNC & 6G Summit 2023` | Keysight | 7th of June 2023 | Project Coordinator’s Interview ‘Views on 6G’ at the context of EuCNC (LINK) |
| 2 | Canal Malaga. Radio y Televisión | UMA | 13th February 2024 | 6G-SANDBOX Presentation – Interview in Spanish. MP3 |
| 3 | Canal Malaga. Radio y Televisión | UMA | 21st January 2025 | Technical Coordinator, Pedro Merio Gomez, presents the two new 6G research infrastructures installed at the University of Málaga in collaboration with Keysight. LINK |
| 4 | Canal Sur, Radio y Televisión | UMA | February 2025 | 6G: una nueva generación de tecnologías de la comunicación. LINK |
Workshops, Webinars & Special Sessions
| # | EVENT | ORGANIZER | DATE / LOCATION | TITLE | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tech Day Madrid | 6G-SANDBOX & Open Nebula | 8th May 2023 | Workshop on ‘Open Source for Europe’s Next Generation Edge Cloud’ | In conjunction with the European initiative 6G-SANDBOX, in which OpenNebula Systems is a proud participant, we are excited to announce this new edition of our TechDay Madrid! This exclusive event will provide you with an unparalleled opportunity to explore the latest advances in Edge Computing. For more info opennebula.io/techdays/techday-madrid-2023 |
| 2 | EuCNC and 6G Summit 2023 | Eurescom on behalf 6G-SANDBOX | 6th June 2023 | Aligning European NTN Convergence and Integration. | A co-organised Workshop entitled “Aligning European NTN Convergence and Integration” was submitted and accepted in EuCNC as a full day workshop. More info here www.eucnc.eu/programme/workshops/workshop-7/ |
| 3 | EuCNC and 6G Summit 2023 | 6G-SANDBOX Consortium | 7th June 2023 | 6G-SANDBOX Overview & Open Call Information Session’ | The event took place on the 7th of June in the context of EuCNC 2023. If you have missed it but you are interested to learn more about the our Open Call please follow the link and the watch the video => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNYRGtwm5Pc |
| 4 | OpenNebula Conference 2023 | OpenNebula & 6G-SANDBOX | 20 – 22 June 2023 | Leveraging NFV Capabilities for Telco Edge Clouds | “In the context of their 10th edition of OpenNebula Conference, OpenNebula partner in collaboration with 6G-SANDBOX project invites you to register to the following special session ‘Leveraging NFV capabilities for Telco Edge Clouds’! David Artuñedo from Telefonica partner, Alfonso Carrillo Aspiazu from OpenNebula and Francesc Guim PhD from Intel Corporation will be there! Register here => opennebula.io/opennebula-conferences/opennebulacon2023 |
| 5 | OpenNebula Conference | OpenNebula & 6G-SANDBOX | 20th – 22nd June 2023 | Deploying Kubernetes on an OpenNebula Multi-Cloud | Session: ‘Deploying Kubernetes on an OpenNebula Multi-Cloud’ |
| 6 | IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking 2023 | 6GSANDBOX, EU Charity, EU RIGOUROUS & AerOS | November 2023 | “IEEE CLOUDNET’23 WORKSHOP ‘On Intelligent Cloud Continuum For B5G Services’ ” | For more info: cloudnet2023.ieee-cloudnet |
| 7 | 6G-SANDBOX Online Event | 6G-SANDBOX Consortium | 13th December 2023 | 6G-SANDBOX Open Call 2 Info Session’ | For more info: https://6g-sandbox.eu/oc-2-registration/ |
| 8 | EuCNC 2024 & 6G Summit Workshop 8 | Eurescom on behalf 6G-SANDBOX | 3rd June 2024 | Architectural Considerations Enabling the IMT 2030 Framework by European 6G R&D Activities | Architectural Considerations Enabling the IMT 2030 Framework by European 6G R&D Activities |
| 9 | EuCNC 2024 & 6G Summit Workshop 9 | SNS-ICE, FIDAL PROJECT, 6G-XR , PREDICT-6G Project, 6G-SANDBOX Project | 3rd June 2024 | Trials, Pilots and Demos for Selected Verticals: The Experimental Way Forward towards 6G | Trials, Pilots and Demos for Selected Verticals: The Experimental Way Forward towards 6G |
| 10 | IEEE CAMAD 2024 | 6G-SANDBOX, SAFE-6G, ENVELOPE, ECOeNET, OPTIMIST, ORIGAMI, SOVEREIGN, 5G TACTIC, 6G EWOC | 21-23 October 2024 | Empowering 6G Networks: Workshop on Advancements in Research Infrastructures, Adaptive Frameworks, and Global Architectural Evolution (ATHENA 2024) | On the 21st – 23rd of October, the IEEE CAMAD 2024 was successfully held in Athens. 6G-SANDBOX, technically sponsored the conference, along with other projects. Additionally, 6G-SANDBOX co-organised a workshop titled ‘Empowering 6G Networks: First Workshop on Advancements in Research Infrastructures, Adaptive Frameworks and Global Architectural Evolution (Athena 2024). This workshop was chaired Dr. Harilaos Koumaras from NCSR Demokritos – Future Communication Networks – FRONT Research Group. The workshop had announced Call for Papers, and 19 papers were accepted and presented. For more info => https://camad2024.ieee-camad.org/ |
Grant Agreement
6G-SANDBOX has received funding from the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) under the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 101096328
