Areas of interest and topics include, but are not limited to:

– Distributed network intelligence:

6G use cases and requirements
Federation of service-based architectures
Coverage extension approaches
Disruptive intelligent infrastructure deployment models
Intelligence and cooperation models across network segments
Intelligent and flexible networks and services for high adaptability
Reliability, resilience and robustness
Cross-network intelligence and services trustworthiness enablers

– Edge-to-cloud continuum and intelligent softwarized networks evolution:

Intelligent edge for vertical industries
Digital twins challenges
Automotive and vehicular networking, vehicular cloud services
Industrial networks and intelligent automation
Tactile Internet and precision networking
Functional decomposition and orchestration, service chaining
Protocols for ultra-low latency and ultra-high reliability
Fog, edge and multi-access computing and networking
Security, trust and privacy

– Enablers and services for intelligent wireless and mobile networks:

Network and service architecture, protocols, application-network layer interworking,
Scalability and multi-tenancy in beyond 5G and emerging networks
Green networking and efficient resource usage and service delivery
Security, trust and privacy management in large systems and smart environments

– Network automation and orchestration architectures and protocols:

Zero-touch network and service management and orchestration
Artificial intelligence for networks and networks for artificial intelligence
Orchestration of mobile and ephemeral resources, automated infrastructure discovery
Network data analytics, anomaly detection, and feature extraction
Autonomic and cognitive networking
Automated data, control, and management planes
Intent-based network management 
Network programmability
Automated QoS and QoE management
Orchestration of distributed cloud and network resources
Security, societal and legal aspects of network automation

– Technologies for innovation in clouds, Internet and networks:

SDN, NFV, service function chaining, function placement and network embedding
Cloud-native design applied to network planes
Serverless computing and FaaS
Application-aware networking
Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies in networking and network services
Advanced multimedia and real-time communications, QoE/QoS Assurance
Lightweight virtualization technologies, software and hardware acceleration
Energy-efficient software-defined infrastructures
Measurement, monitoring and telemetry
Open-source projects and open standards