The Road towards 6G: Opportunities, Challenges, and Applications

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

Content.- PREFACE.- Chapter 1: The "transitioning" from 5G to 6G  .- Andrea Detti: First Glance on use-cases and requirements of 6G systems.- Michele Nitti: Internet of Things Technology.- Andrea Detti: 5G technology and its evolution towards 6G.- Chapter 2: Principles of 6G Wireless Networks.- Qinghe Du, Houbing Song, Xiao Tang, Zixiao Zhao, Chunge Xu, Yuquan Xiao, Zhongmin Ma: Principles of 6G Wireless Networks.- Chapter 3: 6G Wireless Technologies.- Carmen D'Andrea: Cell-free massive MIMO.- Josep Miquel Jornet, Arjun Singh and Priyangshu Sen: Terahertz Communications for 6G Networks: How Far Are We?.- Zabih Ghassemlooy1, Stanislav Zvanovec2, Shivani Rajendra Teli2, and Asghar Gholami: Free Space Optical (FSO) in 6G.- Chapter 4: 6G Wireless Architectures.- Giacomo Oliveri, Francesco Zardi, Arianna Benoni, Marco Salucci, and Andrea Massa: EM Static and Reconfigurable Passive Skins within the Smart ElectroMagnetic Environment Paradigm.- Ernestina Cianca: LEO Constellations .- Debashisha Mishra, Evgenii Vinogradov, and Enrico Natalizio: On the role of Non-terrestrial Networks in 6G.- Chapter 5: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in 6G.- Shashwat Mishra, Muhammad Karam S., Chung Shue Chen, and Luca Rose: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in 6G.- Chapter 6: 6G Cyber Security.- Valeria Loscri: Cyber Security in 6G Networks.- Chapter 7: 6G EM Exposure.- Jack Rowley: 6G EM Exposure.