1st Workshop on Open Research Infrastructures and Toolkits for 6G (OpenRIT6G)
Monday, September 8th | Half-day Workshop (Afternoon)
Location
The workshop will take place at Room Centro.
Program
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08:00 — 08:45 | Registration |
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10:30 — 11:00 | Morning coffee break |
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12:45 — 14:00 | Lunch Break |
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14:00 — 14:10 | Opening Remarks | Serge Fdida (Sorbonne Université, France) & Aki Nakao (University of Tokyo, Japan) |
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14:10 — 14:45 | Keynote: Out with the old, in with the new — AI-driven networking requires new and improved AI pipelines | Walter Willinger (NIKSUN Inc, USA) |
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14:45 — 15:05 | Paper Session 1 | Chair: Serge Fdida (Sorbonne University, France) Proof-of-Concept Implementation of Mission Critical Push-to-Talk Services in Private 5G Networks Erdem Kara (Fraunhofer FOKUS Institute, Germany), Elena-Ramona Modroiu (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany), Marius Corici (Fraunhofer FOKUS Institute, Germany), Thomas Magedanz (Fraunhofer FOKUS Institute, Germany) |
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15:05 — 15:25 | Paper Session 2 | Chair: Aki Nakao (Tokyo University, Japan) EcoRAN: A Novel Programmable Framework for Dynamic and Energy-Efficient Resource Optimization in Multi-Tenant, Neutral Host O-RAN Systems Mattia Bevilacqua (Politecnico di Milano, SIAE Microelettronica, Italy), Marco Mezzavilla (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Eugenio Moro (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Christian Mazzucco (SIAE Microelettronica, Italy), Maurizio Magarini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) |
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15:25 — 15:45 | Paper Session 3 | Chair: Aki Nakao (Tokyo University, Japan) VOTA: Parallelizing 6G-RAN Experimentation with Virtualized Over-The-Air Workloads Chang Liu (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands), Ta Dang Khoa Le (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands), Rahul Saini (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands), Kishor Joshi (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands), Georgios Exarchakos (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands) |
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15:45 — 16:15 | Afternoon Coffee Break |
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16:15 — 16:35 | Paper Session 4 | Chair: Manu Gosain (Northeastern University, USA) Towards URLLC with Open-Source 5G Software Aoyu Gong (EPFL, Switzerland), Arman Maghsoudnia (EPFL, Switzerland), Raphael Cannatà (EPFL, Switzerland), Eduard Vlad (RWTH Aachen, Germany), Néstor Lomba Lomba (EPFL, Switzerland), Dan Mihai Dumitriu (Pavonis LLC, USA), Haitham Hassanieh (EPFL, Switzerland) |
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16:35 — 16:55 | Paper Session 5 | Chair: Manu Gosain (Northeastern University, USA) In-Band Context Signaling for Cross-Layer QoS in Software-Defined Local 5G Akihiro Nakao (The University of Tokyo, Japan) |
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16:55 — 17:50 | Panel Discussion | Moderator: Serge Fdida (Sorbonne University, France) | Panellists: Jim Kurose (University of Massachusetts, USA), Georg Carle (Technische Universität München), Rui L. Aguiar (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal), Aki Nakao (The University of Tokyo, Japan) |
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17:50 — 18:00 | Closing Remarks | Serge Fdida (Sorbonne Université, France) & Aki Nakao (University of Tokyo, Japan) |
Call for Papers
The transition from 5G to 6G requires a fundamental shift towards AI-driven, programmable, and federated research infrastructures that support large-scale, reproducible, and practical experimentation, as well as promote small-scale, local innovations for connecting the unconnected. Unlike previous generations, 6G networks will integrate AI/ML, cloud-edge continuum, and network automation to enable autonomous network management, optimized resource allocation, and intelligent traffic engineering. However, achieving this vision requires open, vendor-neutral testbeds and software toolkits that facilitate hands-on experimentation and real-world validation of emerging technologies.
The Open Research Infrastructures and Toolkits for 6G (OpenRIT6G) workshop addresses this critical need by providing a platform for researchers and practitioners to discuss and showcase experimental, AI-driven, and federated 6G testbeds. It also includes shared-open data, which is essential for advancing AI/ML-driven scientific research. The workshop will explore practical methodologies, open-source frameworks, and real-world deployments that enable scalable and reproducible 6G research. Topics of interest include AI-powered network automation, federated cloud-edge testbeds, multi-domain interoperability, and digital twin-based experimentation.
OpenRIT6G Workshop aims to bring together researchers, industry leaders, and open-source communities to advance AI-driven, programmable, and federated 6G research infrastructures. As 6G networks move towards AI-native, cloud-native, and highly adaptive architectures, the need for scalable, reproducible, and open experimental testbeds becomes increasingly critical.
This workshop invites original research papers, experimental reports, and case studies that contribute to the development, deployment, and operation of open, federated, AI-powered 6G testbeds and research infrastructures. We particularly encourage hands-on, experimentation-driven research that utilizes real-world testbeds, open data, open-source toolkits, and federated AI/ML frameworks to drive innovation in 6G.
Topics of Interest
- Advanced wireless networking experimentation
- New waveforms
- Higher frequencies up to THz
- Next Generation Networks
- Nomadic Networks
- Dynamic Spectrum and wireless management
- Integrated sensing and communication
- Multiple heterogeneous radio management
- AI/ML support
- Testing Smart/intelligent infrastructure operation and management
- Advanced protocols and architecture (virtualization, softwarization, programmability)
- Federation and Interoperability
- AI applied to infrastructure operation and optimization at all layers
- Generation of data to train algorithms
- Distribution of intelligence into the Edge of the network
- RICs, SMOs, and SOM
- Design and validation of new Edge/Cloud/Open RAN and Core Infrastructures for different Vertical needs
- Software and components deployment, management, and optimization
- Open Source Toolkits
- CI/CD/CT and Infrastructure Openness and Customization
- Distributed resource management
- Geo-distributed data management
- Federated deep-learning
- Use Cases and deployment best practices
- Private and public Campus Networks vs large Carrier networks
- Methodology for designing and operating scientific instruments
- Instrumentation and measurement
- Architecture and APIs
- Experiment design and life-cycle management
- Data management and reproducibility
- Testbed implementation and operation
Submission Instructions
Submissions must be original, unpublished work, and not in submission to other venues. Submitted papers must be at most six pages long, including all figures, tables, references, and appendices in two-column 10pt ACM SIGCOMM format, 6 pages, including figures, tables, and any appendices and references.
Please submit your paper via https://openrit6g25.hotcrp.com/
Important Dates
| Submission deadline | May 22nd, 2025, 12 AM AoE (Updated) |
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| Acceptance notification | June 26th, 2025, 12 AM AoE (Updated) |
| Camera-ready deadline | July 1st, 2025, 12 AM AoE |
| Workshop date | September 8th, 2025 |
Organizers
| General Co-Chairs | Institution |
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| Akihiro Nakao | The University of Tokyo, Japan |
| Thomas Magedanz | Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany |
| Serge Fdida | Sorbonne Université, France |
| Manu Gosain | Northeastern University, USA |
| Joyce Mwangama | University of Cape Town, South Africa |
| Technical Program Committee | Institution |
| Alberto Lysko | CSIR, South Africa |
| José Rezende | RNP, Brazil |
| JongWon Kim | GIST, Korea |
| Tony Quek | SUTD, Singapore |
| Thanh Nguyen | Hust, Vietnam |
| Kenjiro Cho | IIJ, Japan |
| Shunsuke Saruwatari | Osaka University, Japan |
| Ved Kafle | NICT, Japan |
| Hans Schotten | DFKI, Germany |
| Marius Corici | Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany |
| Ramona Modroiu | TU Berlin, Germany |
| Anastasius Gavras | Eurescom, Germany |
| Arturo Azcorra | IMDEA, Spain |
| Rui Aguiar | University of Aveiro, Portugal |
| Yezid Enrique Donoso Meisel | Universitat des Andes, Colombia |
| Georg Carle | TU München, Germany |
| Aloizio Pereira da Silva | Commonwealth Cyber Initiative & Virginia Tech, USA |
| Tommaso Melodia | Northeastern University, USA |
| Ivan Seskar | Rutgers University, USA |
| Daniel Kilper | TCD, Ireland |
| Hongwei Zhang | Iowa State University, USA |
| Thanasis Korakis | University of Thessaly, Greece |
| Andrea Passarella | CNR, Italy |
| Bartosz Belter | PSNC, Poland |
| Yuri Demchenko | University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Antonio de la Oliva | University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain |
| Raymond Knopp | Eurecom, France |
| Zhen Liu | ICT CAS, China |
| Falko Dressler | TU Berlin, Germany |
| Frank Fitzek | TU Dresden, Germany |
| Nikos Makris | UTH, Greece |
| Damien Saucez | INRIA, France |
| Panayiotis Andreou | UCLAN, Cyprus |
| Magreth Mushi | NC State College of Engineering |
| Luis Pessoa | INESC TEC, Portugal |
