-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP: First Workshop on Native AI in Future Networks including 6G (NAIFN) : co-located with IEEE NetSoft 2025 deadline March 14th Datum: Sun, 16 Feb 2025 20:55:10 +0100 Von: Antonio Skarmeta skarmeta@um.es An: tciin@COMSOC.ORG

===================================================== IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization NetSoft 2025 23 - 27 June 2025 // Budapest, Hungary

Call for Papers for the First Workshop on Native AI in Future Networks including 6G (NAIFN)

https://naifnet.github.io/

===================================================== SCOPE AND MOTIVATION New architecture enablers and vision are needed for future networks, including  6G, which is flexible, efficient, and able to cope with dynamically changed demands and environments. In recent years, we have witnessed a growing interest in leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) tools to innovate network design and operations at all layers, domains, and planes. Such integration of AI with networking functions, called the “native AI” approach, is seen as a key technology for future networks. Using new concepts and technologies like cloud-native and cloud continuum extends the applicability of AI supporting the AI as a Service approach that needs management and orchestration of AI components. The  NAIFN workshop will focus on native AI architectures, i.e., network system architectures that assume deep integration of network and AI functions by design; however, other native AI-related topics are also in scope. It aims to bring together researchers from academia and industry committed to making AI in networks a reality and interested in the evolution of network architectures and infrastructures for native AI support.

This workshop is supported by EU projects 6GCLOUD, 6G-XCEL

TOPICS OF INTEREST Within its scope, the workshop solicits research and industry papers identifying research and engineering challenges on the following topics but not limited to: * Native AI architectures * Native AI supporting data ingestion, storage and processing * Native AI models lifecycle management (LCM), mechanisms to deploy and manage AI models * Distributed AI models supporting native AI * Native AI and XAI integration * Security of native AI networks * Native AI-based RAN and Core networks * Native AI in a multistakeholder environment * Native AI support for Intent-based Networking * Native AI techniques for network security * Native AI supporting energy-efficient networking * Native AI based Zero-touch networks * Native AI-supporting software technologies * Impact of regulatory guidelines and rules on native AI * Future advances in AI/ML frameworks to support 5G/6G * Inter-model communication for native AI models * AI/ML architectures for lower power and complexity devices such as the Internet of Things * Distributed AI/ML algorithms for future communication networks * Native AI end-to-end * Methods to secure the AI/ML models in a distributed environment * AI/ML-driven protocol design and security issues for future networks * Preserving privacy in AI-native networks * Governance and trustworthiness in AI-native networks * Networking solutions that are native AI-ready * Measurement and benchmarking of native-AI * Data collection and exposure for native AI * AI/ML-enabled novel applications in future communication networks * Experimental deployments of AI in networks SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS * Slawomir Kuklinski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland * Antonio Skarmeta, Universidad de Murcia, Spain * Diego R. Lopez, Telefónica, Spain * Marius Corici, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany * Daniel Kilper, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland PAPER SUBMISSION Interested authors are invited to submit papers according to the following guidelines: * papers must be up to 6 pages long, including tables, figures and references; * the style to be used is IEEE 2-column US-letter style using IEEE Conference template, and papers must be submitted in pdf format.

Accepted and presented workshop papers will be published in the conference proceedings and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore.  For more details about submission form and procedure, please check the NetSoft conference website at https://netsoft2025.ieee-netsoft.org/authors/. Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all manuscripts must be electronically submitted through EDAS. Important: Please check NetSoft 2025 publication and no-show policy in the conference website. DEADLINES Workshop paper submission deadline:          March 14, 2025 Workshop paper notification of acceptance:    April 11, 2025 Camera-ready submission:              May 2, 2025 Workshop date:                     June 23 or June 27, 2025 Submission link:  https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=33483