First International Workshop on
Artificial Intelligence
in Beyond 5G and 6G
Wireless Networks

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning will play an increasing role in designing and optimizing Next Generation Wireless Networks (NGWN). The fourth (4G), fifth (5G) and subsequent generations, including those Beyond 5G (B5G), of cellular networks not only allow billions of people to communicate with each other but also have the potential to support the digitisation of industries and public administrations, machine-to-machine communication, distributed wireless computing and several advanced services tailored for a wide range of customers. Even though 5G is still in its infancy, academia and industry started to look at B5G and to conceive the sixth generation (6G) of cellular networks, which is expected to start being deployed from 2030. Future 6G networks are envisioned to be much more complex and dynamic than 4G and 5G networks. Heterogeneous end-user applications, such as high-precision manufacturing and smart transportation will lead to stringent requirements in terms of reliability and latency. Moreover, an increasing volume of devices will join the network and new coordination and orchestration schemes will be necessary to support all operations and services.

Indeed, tools and techniques from the three big areas of Computational Intelligence (CI) will underpin the NGWN and will be crucial to fulfill the requirements of performance, sustainability and trustworthiness, to offer innovative services and to handle the increasing complexity of the network. At the same time, the future 6G network architecture will foster novel applications of AI/CI, featuring an ever-increasing number of intelligent edge devices connected over a flexible platform.

The workshop aims at bringing together researchers, professionals and technologists working in Computational Intelligence and Wireless Communication fields, providing an international and multidisciplinary forum to share information on their latest investigation related to the adoption of AI/CI techniques in NGWN.

The workshop is a satellite event of the WCCI2022 - IEEE WORLD CONGRESS ON COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE which is is the world’s largest technical event on computational intelligence, featuring the three flagship conferences of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) under one roof: the 2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2022), the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2022), and the 2022 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2022).

The workshop is scientifically and technically sponsored by the European 6G Flagship project HEXA-X.