The 6th plenary meeting of the BMBF-funded 6G Platform Germany in Aachen

On June 26 and 27, 2024, the 6th plenary meeting of the BMBF-funded 6G Platform Germany (https://www.6g-plattform.de/) research hub 6GEM (https://6gem.de/en/) took place in Aachen with more than 120 participants. In addition to project leaders, postdoc researchers and PhD students from the participating universities and Fraunhofer institutes, a delegation from Japan as well as industry partners participated. More than 50 6GEM posters of ongoing work were presented, along with 21 demonstrators and 3 testfield demos from smart production, smart logistics, and self-driving cars. We discussed our ongoing research by presenting three research posters and demonstrating our mmWave multi-user MIMO communications testbed with beam tracking and Augmented Reality functionalities.

Prof. Gacanin gave a presentation at 6G Summit 2024 in Dresden

Prof. Gacanin presented the research results of the 6GEM Research Hub at the 6G Summit 2024 in Dresden. The results included different applications of communication systems and networks to further digitalize industries. The talk summarized the 6GEM vision and the next steps of the project. The practical demonstrations of developed technologies were done in the demo area within the 6G Platform booth.

The 3rd B5G/6G German-Japan Workshop in Tokyo, Japan

In collaboration with Dr. K. Ishizu from NICT, Prof. Gacanin co-organized the 3rd B5G/6G German-Japan Workshop in Tokyo, Japan, supported by 6G Platform and NICT. This event brought together approximately one hundred researchers from both Germany and Japan, featuring poster and demo sessions, presentations on Japanese B5G projects, and two dynamic panel discussions. The workshop's diverse audience, consisting of academics and industry participants from both countries, illuminated the potential for new collaborations. In a poster session, Prof. Gacanin highlighted the ongoing research endeavors of the DSP chair, particularly focusing on the BMBF 6GEM and 6G-ANNA projects, along with collaborative efforts with Prof. K. Sakaguchi from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. On the second day, Prof. Gacanin facilitated a discussion during the panel, delving into topics concerning new applications, 6G technology enablers, and notably, practical implementations. The panel was a mix of academics and industry practitioners. The critical focus on energy efficiency emerged as a significant objective, yet one that has been largely overlooked. Prof. U. Rüdiger, the Rector of RWTH Aachen University, graced the workshop with a visit on the second day and actively participated in the networking event. The presence of Prof. H. Tokuda, President of NICT, along with presentations from the German project management agency VDI/VDE and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), added to the workshop's significance. Anticipation is high for the forthcoming steps in collaboration with our esteemed Japanese colleagues!

5th General Assembly in Duisburg

The 5th General Assembly Meeting took place in Duisburg from November 15th to 16th, 2023.
In total there were around 130 participants and 20 demos and 55 posters were presented.

Piggyback Network to enable Beyond 5G Society

supported by Autonomous Mobilities, Terahertz, & Space-Time Synchronization

Talk by:
Yozo Shoji, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)

BMBF event „6G Platform networking event”, June 2023 in Berlin

6GEM hat am BMBF Event “6G Plattform Networking Event” teilgenommen, das vom 26. - 29.06.23 in Berlin stattfand.
Bei diesem Event wurden unter anderem deutsche 6G-Projekte und deren erste Ergebnisse vorgestellt.

Zudem wurden auch andere EU- und internationale 6G Programme präsentiert und es wurden regulatorische Fragen in Bezug auf 6G (Spektrum, elektromagnetische Exposition, Datenschutz und Privatsphäre, KI-Nutzung, Nachhaltigkeit uvm.) geklärt.

6GEM hat auf dem Gemeinschaftsstand verschiedene Demos präsentiert und hat an verschiedenen angebotenen Workshops teilgenommen. Durch die Teilnahme konnte das Netzwerk ausgebaut werden und sich mit anderen Teilnehmern ausgetauscht werden.

4th General Assembly Meeting in Dortmund

Vom 15.06.2023 – 16.06.2023 fand das vierte 6GEM General Assembly Meeting in Dortmund am LogistikCampus der TU Dortmund statt. Das Treffen wurde gemeinsam von der TU Dortmund und dem Fraunhofer IML organisiert.
An diesem zweitägigen Meeting haben über 130 Teilnehmer teilgenommen.
 

DSP presents 6GEM demo at the 6G Conference 2023 in Berlin

RWTH-DSP demonstrated a demo regarding AR-assisted wireless diagnostic system as a part of BMBF funded 6-GEM project at Berlin 6G platform 2023. In addition, the AR-assisted object tracking and object detection is realized by XR-wireless solution provided by RWTH-DSP which demonstrated at the conference.

2nd German-Japan B5G/6G Workshop in Berlin

Following the success of the first German-Japan B5G/6G Workshop in April 2023 in Tokyo, the second workshop is organized in Berlin. The workshop was collocated with the 6G Conference 2023 in Berlin. The goal of the workshop was to strengthen global collaborations and promote joint activities between Germany and Japan ranging from fundamental technology development to joint demonstrations. During the workshop Prof. Gačanin put forward the collaborative research proposal in cooperation with the National Institute of Information and Communication Technology (NICT) and Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT) .

Cooperation with NICT in Japan

On June 13, 2023 a delegation from NICT visited RWTH Aachen University. Within the recent research program of BMBF - 6GEM Research Hub - Prof. H. Gačanin, head of the Chair for Distributed Signal Processing at RWTH Aachen University, established research cooperation with colleagues from the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in Japan. We discuss how to enhance academic and student exchanges as well as new research projects. The delegation was led by the President of NICT, Prof. H. Tokuda who signed the Memorandum of Understanding with Prof. U. Rudiger the rector of RWTH University.

BMBF event "6G Platform networking event", June 2023 in Berlin

Participation in the BMBF event "6G Platform networking event", June 2023 in Berlin. 6GEM joint booth and demonstration of demos, report on research work and participation in workshops

6GEM booth, ICC 2023 Rome, May 2023

Joint booth at the ICC 2023 in Rome and demonstration of demos

Prof. Gačanin and Ms. Ding visited the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan on 28.04.2023

The Tokyo Institute of Technology is the strategic partner of RWTH Aachen University and this visit was planned to discuss collaboration projects and further strengthen partnership. Prof. Gačanin gave a talk and together with Ms. Ding had an opportunity to see new technologies developed by the Sakaguchi-laboratory of Mobile Communications Research Group at Tokyo Institute of Technology.

1st Germany-Japan Beyond 5G/6G Research Workshop

As a part of the 6GEM Research Hub international cooperation with Japan the 6GEM team participated in
the 1st Germany-Japanon 24-25.04.2023 in the headquarters of NICT in Tokyo.

Prof. Sezgin, Prof. Wietfeld, and Prof. Gačanin gave a talk at the workshop.

6GEM booth, National Conference IT-Security 2023, Berlin, March 2023

6GEM booth, "post quantum cryptography with respect to open challenges especially in the context of 6G research", National Conference IT Security Research 2023, Berlin, March 2023

Invited talk, Wireless World Research Forum, March 2023, Poland

Invited talk, “Towards sustainable and automated communications”, Wireless World Research Forum, March 2023, Poland

Nationale Konferenz IT-Security, March 2023, Berlin

Demo exhibition/presentation "IRShield", National Conference on IT Security Research, "Strengthening the digitally networked society", March 2023, Berlin

Mobile World Congress, 6GEM booth, Barcelona, ​​February 2023

RWTH-DSP team and Rohde & Schwarz at Mobile World Congress 2023 in Barcelona will jointly demonstrate interactive and immersive visualization of measurement instruments via augmented reality. DSP team integrates “XR-Wireless” technology based on an augmented reality solution with Rohde & Schwarz mobile terminal measurement product. XR-Wireless technology is developed with the support of the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under the 6G Hub Research Project – 6GEM and further integrated under an industrial project 6G-ANNA. The handling and interaction with test and measurement instruments may drastically change in the future due to innovative ideas involving the integration of wireless and augmented reality technologies.

6GEM took part in Globecom 2022

The consortium partner ICE of RWTH Aachen and DKS of Ruhr-University Bochum have presented their latest works
and promoted the capabilities of the consortium.

6GEM Exhibited in VTC 2022-Fall in London

The two 6GEM partners, Institute for Communication Technologies and Embedded Systems of RWTH Aachen and
the Chair of Digital Communication Systems of Ruhr University Bochum, have attended to
Vehicular Technology Conference 2022 Fall in London. Both groups have presented their latest research results and
applications on AR and IRS respectively. The partners have emphasised the implementational focus of 6GEM in
addition to in-depth research capabilities.

6GEM presented at 6G Summit in Munich

The current status of the 6GEM research hub was presented by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Wietfeld
at the most recent Thinknet 6G Summit on 17.9.2022 in Munich.

The 6G Summit 2022 featured a welcome address from Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ina Schieferdecker who heads
the research on digitalization and innovation at BMBF and is responsible for the around 700 million
Euro 6G research program launched in 2021 by BMBF. The research hubs are a key element of this
research program. 6GEM was presented in a session along with the other German research hubs 6G-life,
Open6G and 6G-RIC. Furthermore, international 56G research initiatives were introduced.

Future-Proof Data Encryption

RUB security researchers win worldwide NIST standardization process for post-quantum cryptography.
This means that encryption methods developed in Bochum, which even quantum computers cannot crack, will become standard in the USA.

Secure encrypted communication is the basis for a global connected mobile world. However, the closer
quantum computers, ultra-powerful computers, come to a realistic reach, the more tangible the risks to IT
security become. The American National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has recognized
these risks posed by quantum computers for secure data encryption and started a process to standardize
quantum computer-resistant cryptographic methods in 2016 already.

Research groups from all over the world submitted concepts for new encryption methods, and 15 methods
made it to the finals of the competition. Three out of four of the now finally accepted submissions were
developed by researchers from the Cluster of Excellence CASA "Cyber Security in the Age of Large-Scale Adversaries"
at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), which has the goal of enabling sustainable IT security against large-scale,
adversaries, in particular nation-state attackers. In doing so, they gained a worldwide recognized standardization
competition that will significantly influence the quantum computer-resistant encryption methods of the future.

COST CA20120 INTERACT 2nd technical Meeting

COST CA20120 INTERACT 2nd technical Meeting, Campus LyonTech, Frankreich

6GEM presentation at the HF‐Professorium 2022 at University Ulm

Nils Pohl has presented 6GEM ath the HF‐Professorium 2022 at University Ulm.

Aydin Sezgin will give a talk on Wireless Security

Aydin Sezgin was invited to give a talk on Wireless Security
at a 6G expert-roundable by the Medienakademie Köln on May 18th, 2022.

DSP team joined the general assembly of the German 6G Research Hub 6GEM

From 29/06/2022 to 30/06/2022 DSP team joined the general assembly of the German 6G Research Hub 6GEM (https://www.6gem.de/en/) . We discussed in poster and synergy sessions about 6G testfields, intelligent reconfigurable surfaces, 6G THz, and many other 6G related topic

Einrichtung eines Studentenaustauschprogramms, NICT/6GEM

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) is Japan's primary national research institute for information and communications. NICT hopes to establish long-term international research cooperation with research/academic institutions in Germany. Ms. Ding was accepted as an intern at NICT in April 2023. The internship aims at contributing to the development of Beyond 5G Proof-of-Concept based on the defined use cases and studying Beyond 5G use cases with verification of relevant communication functions and interfaces

„6G perspective in 6GEM Research Hub“, NICT Symposium

H. Gacanin was invited to give a talk on „6G perspective in 6GEM Research Hub“
at the NICT Symposium, Japan, March 2022

DSP team presented a 6GEM research project demo at the IEEE VTC2022-Fall

DSP team presented a 6GEM research project demo at the IEEE VTC2022-Fall

Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) for 6G networks

6G imposes new challenges on both the infrastructure and the user equipment.
One promising concept for 6G networks is the Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS), or Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS).
The IRS is a synthetically produced meta-surface that can programmatically manipulate the phase of a radio wave reflected from it.
Thus, for the first time, it is possible to optimize the radio channel for various applications by means of an IRS instead of considering it
unchangeably given. This new concept, which besides the optimization of the spectral efficiency during communication, enables many other applications, will therefore be an elementary component in 6G and thus also in 6GEM.

"6GEM" VISITS DRZ LIVING LAB FOR EVALUATION EXPERIMENTS

Which added value can future 6G mobile communications systems provide for highly relevant use cases in society and industry? This is one of the questions that the 6G Research Hub "6GEM", funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), is addressing since August 2021. One of the seven test fields in which different facets of 6G innovation are being tested is the German Rescue Robotics Center (DRZ), which is also funded by the BMBF. Just recently, TU Dortmund University has conducted initial tests with its new robot system in the DRZ environment. The tests focused on maintaining communication between the ground robot and the control system in a Search & Rescue mission. Various aspects of the test setup in the DRZ outdoor environment were used for this purpose. Here, the wireless communication systems investigated in 6GEM meet complex evaluation environments for testing of tasks in rescue and disaster areas, which enable the mapping of realistic and radio challenging environments through collapse scenarios, tunnel systems or containers.

Discussion on 6G cooperation topics, NICT/6GEM

6GEM Research Hub intro at the NYU Wireless

6GEM Research Hub was introduced at the NYU Wireless | Terahertz, 6G & Beyond.

“THz Meets Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces”

A. Sezgin is giving a workshop on “THz Meets Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: Challenges and Developments towards 6G Systems” at the conference COMMNET, Dezember 2021

Kickoff-Meeting

The kickoff meeting for 6GEM was held on 21 November 2021.

“Open, Efficient and Secure 6G Wireless as a part of the 6GEM Research Hub”

H. Gacanin was invited to give a talk on "Open, Efficient and Secure 6G Wireless as a part of the 6GEM Research Hub"
at the conference IEEE Asia-Pacific Communications Conference (APCC) 2021, Oktober 2021.

6G perspective in 6GEM Research Hub, Thinknet 6G Summit

H. Gacanin was invited to give a talk on "6G perspective in 6GEM Research Hub"
at the conference Thinknet 6G Summit in Oktober 2021.

Prof. Gačanin: Invited talk at Thinknet 6G Summit

Prof. Gačanin gives an invited talk on 6G perspective in 6GEM Research Hub at Thinknet 6G Summit on October 28th, 2021

“Security, privacy, trust, and resilience in 6G” workshop

A. Sezgin, participation at the “Security, privacy, trust, and resilience in 6G” workshop

organized by MÜNCHNER KREIS and Thinknet 6G (Bayern Innovativ)

September 2021

“6GEM – 6G Wireless with Connected Intelligence: Open, Efficient and Secure”

H. Gacanin was invited to give a talk on „6GEM – 6G Wireless with Connected Intelligence: Open, Efficient and Secure“
at the conference IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) 2021, September 2021.

Internationales Panel zu 6G, mit Vorstellung des 6GEM Hubs

C. Wietfeld is organizing a international Panel towards 6G including the presentation of the 6GEM Hubs
 at the 5G.NRWeek, Düsseldorf, September 2021.