=========CALL FOR PAPERS==========
IV 6G Networks Workshop (W6G 2024) in conjunction with SBRC 2024

===Important Dates===
Paper Submission Deadline: 03/29/2024
Authors Notification: 04/29/2024
Final Version Submission: 05/06/2024
Event Date: 05/20/2024 (Niterói)
JEMS Submission Link – https://jems3.sbc.org.br/w6g2024
For More Information: IV 6G Networks Workshop (W6G 2024) - SBRC 2024 - Niterói, RJ, Brazil (sbc.org.br)

===Presentation===
The fifth generation of mobile communication systems (5G) is currently being deployed and evolving globally, significantly impacting our society. This is the opportune moment for research related to the next generation of mobile networks, 6G. In the era of virtualization, programmability, and artificial intelligence, new applications such as connected robots, fully autonomous vehicles, industrial internet, holographic verticals, and society, among others, pose requirements that translate into necessary challenges to be addressed and research opportunities. In this regard, for 6G, an enhancement of the network's capabilities is expected to meet strict and heterogeneous requirements for applications. It will increasingly be assisted and managed by Artificial Intelligence (AI) at various levels of the structural block of the 6G architecture, bringing about profound paradigm shifts such as global coverage, green networks, and significant improvements in security and privacy. Particularly in scenarios of dynamic topology given the integration of connectivity environments aimed at providing connection anytime and anywhere.

The IV 6G Workshop (W6G) encourages high-quality papers containing theoretical, practical, experimental approaches, or advancements in the state of the art addressing application scenarios or technological enablers and developments that will potentially impact the structural block of the sixth-generation mobile networks (6G). The topics of interest aim to integrate research initiatives from industry and academia seeking artifacts for discussing challenges and opportunities.

===Topics of Interest===
The topics of interest encompass a wide range of subjects. The following list describes some examples, which are not exhaustive:
• Applications and Networks involving Cloud, Fog, and Edge Computing
• Network Virtualization and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications for 6G
• Novel signal processing techniques for 6G
• Smart Antenna schemes for 6G
• 6G Testbeds
• 6G communications at the Terahertz band
• Technologies for Tbps transmission
• Advanced Full Duplex strategies for 6G
• Meta surfaces implementation at 6G
• New Quality of Service (QoS) metrics for 6G
• Multiple Access schemes suitable for 6G
• Dynamic spectrum access/sharing at 6G band
• New network architectures in 6G
• Self-organizing 6G-enabled IoT
• Self-sustaining 6G-enabled Networks
• Interference management at 6G
• New security concepts within 6G
• Spectrum regulatory for 6G bands
• 6G Testbeds and Applications
• 3D imaging and sensing with localization
• New transceiver architectures and computing paradigms
• New component technologies and materials
• Telepresence and mixed reality ML/AI for autonomous systems optimization
• Massive 6G IoT
• New security paradigms
• Novel network architectures
• Connectivity for remote areas
• 6G Spectrum
• Blockchain technology in mobile networks
• Quantum Communication

===Author Information===
Paper submissions will be exclusively electronic via the JEMS system. Articles can be written in Portuguese or English, exclusively in PDF format. The text should contain up to eight (8) pages, including an abstract (and an abstract for articles in Portuguese), figures, diagrams, references, and annexes. Formatting should follow the SBC standard.
Papers submitted to W6G will be evaluated by the Workshop's program committee, and the best ones will be selected for presentation and publication in the event's proceedings, available on the SBC's SOL platform. There will be an award for the best W6G paper. At least one of the authors of each selected article must register for SBRC2024 and W6G, as well as present it at the event.
JEMS3 Submission: jems3.sbc.org.br/w6g2024
The Workshop proceedings will be published on the SBC OpenLib Platform (SOL), the digital library maintained by the Brazilian Computing Society (SBC), and will be freely available to the entire society.

===Program Committee===
Aldebaro B. R. Klautau – Universidade Federal do Pará
André Riker – Universidade Federal do Pará
Cristiano Bonato Both – Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos
Fabrício Aguiar Silva – Universidade Federal de Viçosa
Felipe Figueiredo – Instituto Nacional de Telecomunicações
Flávio Geraldo Coelho Rocha – Universidade Federal de Goiás