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Invited Talk on CNI's 6G research on VDE/ITG conference "Future of Networking 2025" at TU Ilmenau

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Presentation of HELIOS at TU Ilmenau
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Group Photo of the participants of the conference on Sept 4, 2025
As part of this year’s NetSys conference, the Future of Networking (ZdN) symposium took place on 4 September 2025 at TU Ilmenau, bringing together leading experts from academia and industry to discuss the next era of communication networks. In the session on 6G research, contributions addressed innovative concepts for mmWave communication, reconfigurable surfaces, and wireless-friendly scheduling in demanding environments.

The one-day event was structured into four sessions, covering topics such as standardization, 6G research, cloud-edge orchestration, and security. Renowned speakers from companies, research institutes, and universities outlined current challenges and emerging opportunities for future networks.

TU Dortmund's Prof. Christian Wietfeld presented the HELIOS approach for addressing mmWave coverage challenges with passive reflectors, demonstrating how this Zero-Energy and Zero-Touch reflective surface can help overcome fundamental propagation limits. The work on the different aspects of HELIOS is part of the BMFTR-funded research projects 6GEM and 6G-ANNA as well as the Startup.Connect project Pangolin.

Beyond 6G, the symposium also featured discussions on multi-provider cloud-edge integration, AI-driven orchestration, and approaches to resilience and security in open network architectures. Together, these insights painted a comprehensive picture of the technological directions that will shape the coming decade.

By combining perspectives from industry and academia, the Future of Networking (ZdN) symposium at NetSys 2025 once again underlined its role as an important platform for dialogue and for discussing national and international research agendas on the path toward 6G and beyond.

Further information about the most recent work related to HELIOS and 6G mmWave networks can be found here:

  • ​​​​​M. Danger, M. Khalili, S. Böcker, C. Wietfeld, "Improving Energy Efficiency of Industrial mmWave Connectivity with Context-Sensitive IRS Support," in IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Istanbul, Türkiye, September 2025.  [pdf] [Details] 
  • S. Häger, M. Kaudewitz, F. Schmickmann, S. Böcker, C. Wietfeld, "Field Performance Evaluation of a Mechatronic Reflector System in a Private mmWave Network Environment," in IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, vol. 6, pp. 5005-5029, June 2025. DOI: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2025.3572723. [pdf] [IEEE Xplore] [Code] [Details]
  • K. Heimann, J. An, L. Hito, S. Saidi, C. Wietfeld, "Obstacle-Aware Proactive Beam Management Based on Real-Time Ray Tracing for mmWave Networks", in IEEE 101st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Spring), Workshop on Advanced Digital Twin and Pervasive Intelligence Integration for Next-Gen Vehicular Networks (ADT-NGVNet), Oslo, Norway, June 2025. (Forthcoming.) [pdf] [Details]
  • M. Danger, C. Arendt, H. Schippers, S. Böcker, N. Beckmann, R. Schmitt, C. Wietfeld, "6G Industrial Networks: Mobility-Centric Evaluation of Multi-cell mmWave Systems," in IEEE 101st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Spring), Oslo, Norway, June 2025. (Forthcoming.) [pdf] [Details] 
  • S. Häger, S. Böcker, C. Wietfeld, "Reflection Modeling of Modular Passive IRS Geometries," in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 1366-1370, May 2025. DOI: 10.1109/LWC.2025.3542564. [pdf] [IEEE Xplore] [Details] 
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