Call for papers: 2nd international workshop on Sustainable and Sustainability-Enabling 6G

6G versus sustainability: does it risk to be mostly contributing to the problem? Or can it be a driver for solutions?

As a matter of fact, 6G should be both a potential enabler of sustainability in other sectors (6G for Sustainability), and a sustainable technology itself (Sustainable 6G). To achieve this objective, sustainability must be integrated from the very beginning of the design phase and across the full life cycle of products and services pertaining to 6G.

This workshop advocates for a broad approach to sustainability that goes beyond energy efficiency, considering other aspects related to environmental sustainability, and addresses the other two sustainability pillars, namely social and economic sustainability. The scope of the workshop encompasses both foundational research and applied innovations across diverse verticals such as smart agriculture, energy systems, healthcare, mobility, logistics, and many others. It invites contributions that demonstrate how 6G can be leveraged to reduce environmental footprint (i.e., negative first order effects), enhance digital inclusion, and foster resilient infrastructures, but also show innovations that can make 6G a sustainable technology by design. Special emphasis will be placed on interdisciplinary collaborations that integrate technological advancements with ethical, regulatory, and socio-economic aspects. As next-generation networks evolve, it is imperative to embed sustainability at the core of their design, deployment, and application.

• Environmental sustainability
  • Sustainable ICT metrics and indicators for 6G
  • Climate-resilient network design
  • Environmental impact of computing from design to
    usage and orchestration
• Social sustainability
  • Digital inclusion and accessibility in 6G
  • Ethical AI and data governance in 6G systems
  • Human-centric design, social value creation and
    acceptability
  • Privacy, security, resilience, trust, and transparency in
    sustainable 6G applications
• Economic sustainability
  • Business models for sustainable 6G innovation
  • Cost-benefit analysis of sustainable 6G
  • The economic incentives and regulatory frameworks
    for green 6G deployment
  • Total cost of ownership reduction through efficient
    architectural and lifecycle management

• 6G technologies & sustainability alignment
  • Sustainable architecture and design
    principles for 6G networks
  • Lifecycle assessment and circular
    economy models for 6G infrastructure
  • Sustainability indicators, metrics,
    evaluation and benchmarking
  • Responsible AI in communications
  • Sustainable computing
• Application use cases with sustainability impact
  • Smart agriculture powered by 6G:
    precision farming, water management
  • Sustainable energy systems: 6G-enabled
    smart grids, demand-response
  • e-Health and telemedicine: reducing first
    order effects of healthcare through 6G
  • Mobility and transport: 6G for lowemission logistics and autonomous
    systems
  • Interconnection between 6G and verticals