VTC WRTC 2024

Call for papers

Ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC), one of the three main scenarios in the 5G networks, can be served as an enabler for mission-critical applications. However, 5G URLLC is not sufficient to support diverse applications in real-time Internet of Things (IoT) such as industry automation, unmanned and autonomous systems. In such applications, information freshness is essential to support real-time communication, sensing and control. Unlike the conventional latency metric that measures the end-to-end time of each packet, Age of Information (AoI) is introduced in 6G URLLC and defined as the time elapsed since the generation of the latest received packet, to exactly measure the freshness of information. Other AoI-based variants such as Value of Information (VoI) and Urgency of Information (UoI) are also introduced to quantify the content relevance and importance of the updates for real-time monitoring and control applications.

In this context, the objective of the workshop is to foster discussion on the practical integration of latency, reliability and AoI in the 6G real-time IoT, considering the aspects discussed above, as well as case studies and measurement studies in real deployments. This workshop aims to bring together world-renowned researchers to report their recent advances and portray future research directions, significantly prompting the research areas of real-time IoT, including but not limited to the following topics:

• Fundamental trade-offs and performance limits for 6G real-time IoT
• AoI and beyond metrics for real-time IoT applications and their optimization
• Semantic and goal-oriented communications for real-time IoT
• Short-packet URLLC for real-time IoT
• Resource allocation and access management for real-time traffic
• Machine learning-aided design of real-time protocols
• Hardware imperfection and limitation aware real-time IoT design
• Applications and practical use cases for metrics and designs beyond URLLC
• Fundamental trade-offs, performance limits, and theoretical bounds for multiple KPIs
• Semantic-aware and goal-oriented communications in real-time IoT
• Algorithms, protocols, and systematic design for real-time IoT design
• Short-packet communication based URLLC for real-time IoT
• Resource allocation and access management for real-time IoT
• Integrated sensing and communication for real-time V2X communications
• Experimental demonstrations and prototypes designs for real-time IoT

Accepted papers will be published on the IEEEXplore website as part of the IEEE VTC-Spring 2024 Workshops Proceedings.

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Submissions must follow the standard two-column IEEE conference style with 10 point size font. The maximum length is 5 pages for initial submissions. One additional page can be added to the camera-ready version for accepted papers conditional on the payment of overlength charges, for a total maximum length of 7 pages. The template for submissions may be found on the IEEE templates page. Papers can be submitted through TrackChair.

Important dates

• February 23, 2024January 18, 2024: paper submission deadline
• March 14, 2024March 1, 2024: paper selection
• March 22, 2024March 8, 2024: camera ready submission deadline