The 6G-REFERENCE project partners will attend the EuCNC & 6G Summit 2025, celebrated form the 3rd to the 6th of June in Poznań (Poland), to present our research activities with a poster and a publication, and to network with the stakeholders of the ecosystem in the booth of our coordinator Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), PB2, where our partner AUSTRALO will also be present.
This is the second time we attend the EuCNC & 6G Summit; in fact, last year we focused on explaining the project goals to the telecommunications ecosystem.
The 6G-REFERENCE Poster at the EuCNC & 6G Summit 2025
Our coordinator, CTTC, will have a poster presentation by Ignacio Llamas and Zabdiel Brito-Brito:
- Poster Session I: P-1.16 Radio Frequency Low-Cost Temperature Sensor in PB2.
- Wednesday, 4 June 2025, 12:30h-13:00h, level 1.
In this work, preliminary results regarding a radio frequency planar low-cost temperature sensor, with potential for sensing and communications integration, are described. The sensor is based on a ring resonator onto which a layer of PDMS is added as the sensor active layer, allowing resonant frequency shift according to varying temperature since the permittivity of the PDMS changes when exposed to different temperatures. The combination of a ring resonator with a layer of PDMS on top allows the development of a thermal sensor using microwave signals, such as those used for communications. The resonant frequency changes at a rate of 1.01 MHz per degree Celsius. The resonant frequency of the ring resonator at room temperature was designed to resonate at 3GHz. This work is proof of concept towards integrated sensing and communication components.
The 6G-REFERENCE Scientific Publication at the EuCNC & 6G Summit 2025
Two of our researchers, Viswesh Kendae Ramkumar (University of Twente) and Basem Abdelaziz Abdelmagid (ETH Zürich), will also spread the word about 6G-REFERENCE, in this case with the presentation of a publication titled “Time Modulated Array and Time Variant Filter Techniques to Reduce Receiver Hardware Complexity and Power Consumption“:
- Session PHY-4: Transceiver Models and Performance (third slot).
- Thursday, 5 June 2025, starting at 16:00h in Room 1.E.
Sustainability is a key goal for 6G, which focuses on minimizing the environmental impact of network operations through energy-efficient designs, agile architectures, and renewable energy sources. While traditional hardware is designed to optimize its performance with maximum functionalities to cover all possible scenarios, this often results in high system complexity. Therefore, scalable system performance with good power efficiency and moderate hardware complexity is key to 6G sustainability. This paper explores power reduction and performance/functionalities trade-offs combining two recently proposed time-variant CMOS radio receiver techniques: 1) a Time Modulated Array (TMA) technique that re-uses a single 4-element phased array to concurrently receive data streams from 5 different beam directions; 2) a time-interleaved Analog Finite Impulse Response Filter (AFIR) with embedded frequency translation realizing the selectivity to separate the 5 data streams. The aim of the paper is to assess the realistically achievable power and hardware complexity savings and relevant trade-offs with radio performance.
EuCNC & 6G Summit 2025: Towards the 6G World
The 2025 EuCNC & 6G Summit builds on putting together two successful conferences in the area of telecommunications: EuCNC (European Conference on Networks and Communications), supported by the European Commission, and the 6G Summit, originated from the 6G Flagship programme in Finland, one of the very first in its area. The conference is sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) and the European Association on Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP), and focuses on all aspects of telecommunications ranging from 5G deployment and mobile IoT to 6G exploration and future communications systems and networks, including experimentation and testbeds, and applications and services. It brings together cutting-edge research and world-renown industries and businesses, globally attracting in the last years more than 1000 delegates from more than 40 countries all over the world, to present and discuss the latest results, and an exhibition with more than 50 exhibitors, for demonstrating the technology developed in the area, namely within research projects from EU R&I programmes.