Towards an AI-native, user-centric air interface for 6G networks

Project Information

CENTRIC

Grant agreement ID: 101096379

DOI

10.3030/101096379

Project closed

EC signature date 16 November 2022

Start date 1 January 2023

End date 30 June 2025

Funded under

• Digital, Industry and Space

Total cost

€ 4 512 778,06

EU contribution

€ 4 215 999,00

Coordinated by

EURESCOM-EUROPEAN INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND STRATEGIC STUDIES IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS GMBH
Germany

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (1)

Early results on KPIs/KVIs, testing methodologies and benchmarking

This report will contain draft definitions of key performance/value indicators that CENTRIC would like to propose for 6G networks. This summarises initial results from T5.1 and T5.2.

Publications

Conference proceedings (25)

DIN: A Decentralized Inexact Newton Algorithm for Consensus Optimization

Author(s): Abdulmomen Ghalka, Chaouki Ben Issaid, Anis Elgabli, Mehdi Bennis
Published in: ICC 2023 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2023, ISSN 1938-1883
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICC45041.2023.10278721

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

Author(s): S. Tripathi and C. F. Chiasserini
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Issue Volume: 18, Issue: 3, 2023, ISSN 1932-4537
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/GLOBECOM54140.2023.10437278

Resource-aware Deployment of Dynamic DNNs over Multi-tiered Interconnected Systems

Author(s): C. Singhal, Y. Wu, F. Malandrino, M. Levorato, C. F. Chiasserini
Published in: IEEE INFOCOM 2024 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, 2024, ISSN 2641-9874
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/INFOCOM52122.2024.10621218

Comparative Analysis of Sub-Band Allocation Algorithms in In-Body Sub-Networks Supporting XR Applications

Author(s): Saeed Bagherinejad, Thomas Jacobsen, Nuno K. Pratas, Ramoni O. Adeogun
Published in: 2024 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2024, ISBN 979-8-3503-0358-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/WCNC57260.2024.10570689

EMF-Aware Power Control for Massive MIMO: Cell-Free Versus Cellular Networks

Author(s): Sergi Liesegang, Stefano Buzzi
Published in: 2024 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2024, ISSN 1558-2612
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/WCNC57260.2024.10570879

Unsupervised Graph-based Learning Method for Sub-band Allocation in 6G Subnetworks

Author(s): Daniel Abode, Ramoni Adeogun, Lou Salaün, Renato Abreu, Thomas Jacobsen, Gilberto Berardinelli
Published in: 2024 IEEE 100th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2024-Fall), 2024, ISBN 979-8-3315-1778-6
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/VTC2024-Fall63153.2024.10757647

A Lossless Compression Technique for the Downlink Control Information Message

Author(s): Bryan Liu, Alvaro Valcarce, K. Pavan Srinath
Published in: 2024 IEEE 25th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SPAWC60668.2024.10694087

Network-first Separate Training with Raw Dataset Sharing: A Training Approach for AI/ML-Driven CSI Feedback

Author(s): Aakash Saini, Jee Hyun Kim, Amir Ahmadian Tehrani, Yunchou Xing, Wolfgang Gerstacker
Published in: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops), 2024, ISBN 979-8-3503-0405-3
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICCWorkshops59551.2024.10615736

Matching DNN Compression and Cooperative Training with Resources and Data Availability

Author(s): Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Francesco Malandrino, Giuseppe Di Giacomo, Marco Levorato, Armin Karamaza
Published in: 2023, ISSN 2641-9874
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2212.02304

Intent Profiling and Translation Through Emergent Communication

Author(s): Salwa Mostafa, Mohammed S. Elbamby, Mohamed K. Abdel-Aziz, Mehdi Bennis
Published in: ICC 2024 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2024, ISBN 978-1-7281-9054-9
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICC51166.2024.10622580

Performance Evaluation of AI-enabled Refined Beam Prediction with Wide Beam Measurements

Author(s): Amir Ahmadian Tehrani, Aakash Saini
Published in: 2024 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CSCN63874.2024.10849734

Modular Model-Based Bayesian Learning for Uncertainty-Aware and Reliable Deep MIMO Receivers

Author(s): Raviv, Tomer; Park, Sangwoo; Simeone, Osvaldo; Shlezinger, Nir
Published in: IEEE International Conference on Communications 2023, 2023, ISSN 2694-2941
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2302.02436

Communication-Efficient Second-Order Newton-Type Approach for Decentralized Learning

Author(s): Mounssif Krouka, Anis Elgabli, Chaouki Ben Issaid, Mehdi Bennis
Published in: 2023, ISSN 1558-2612
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/WCNC55385.2023.10118646

On Scaling Latency-Aware MAC Communication Protocols with a Hierarchical Network Topology

Author(s): Septimia Sarbu, Mateus P. Mota, Mehdi Bennis
Published in: ICC 2024 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICC51166.2024.10623079

Sionna RT: Differentiable Ray Tracing for Radio Propagation Modeling

Author(s): Hoydis, Jakob; Aoudia, Fayçal Aït; Cammerer, Sebastian; Nimier-David, Merlin; Binder, Nikolaus; Marcus, Guillermo; Keller, Alexander
Published in: IEEE Globecom 2023, 2023
Publisher: -
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2303.11103

Emergent Communication Protocol Learning for Task Offloading in Industrial Internet of Things

Author(s): Salwa Mostafa, Mateus P. Mota, Alvaro Valcarce, Mehdi Bennis
Published in: 2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference: IoT and Sensor Networks, 2023
Publisher: -
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2401.12914

Federated Multi-Agent DRL for Radio Resource Management in Industrial 6G in-X subnetworks

Author(s): Bjarke Madsen, Ramoni Adeogun
Published in: 2024 IEEE 35th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2024, ISBN 979-8-3503-6225-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/PIMRC59610.2024.10817320

SwinLSTM Autoencoder for Temporal-Spatial-Frequency Domain CSI Compression in Massive MIMO Systems

Author(s): Aakash Saini, Yunchou Xing, Jee Hyun Kim, Amir Ahmadian Tehrani, Wolfgang Gerstacker
Published in: 2025
Publisher: arXiv
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2505.04432

Deep Learning based Adaptive Joint mmWave Beam Alignment

Author(s): Daniel Tandler, Marc Gauger, Ahmet Serdar Tan, Sebastian Dörner, Stephan ten Brink
Published in: 2024 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2024, ISBN 979-8-3503-0358-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/WCNC57260.2024.10570969

Cluster-then-Match: Efficient Management of Human-Centric, Cell-Less 6G Networks

Author(s): E. Chiaramello, C. F. Chiasserini, F. Malandrino, A. Nordio, M. Parazzini, A. Valcarce
Published in: 2024 IEEE 25th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/WoWMoM60985.2024.00038

Distributed Learning with Memory: Optimizing Model Usage Across Training Tasks

Author(s): F. Malandrino, C. F. Chiasserini
Published in: 2024 22nd Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference (MedComNet), 2024, ISBN 979-8-3503-9047-6
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/MEDCOMNET62012.2024.10578134

nRMap: An Online Radio Mapping Approach for Large Intelligent Surfaces

Author(s): Herman L. Santos, Victor Croisfelt, Cristian J. Vaca-Rubio, Taufik Abrao, Petar Popovski
Published in: 2023, ISSN 2694-2941
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2302.02638

A Neural Receiver for 5G NR Multi-user MIMO

Author(s): Sebastian Cammerer, Fayçal Aït Aoudia, Jakob Hoydis, Andreas Oeldemann, Andreas Roessler, Timo Mayer, Alexander Keller
Published in: IEEE Globecom 2023, 2023
Publisher: -
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2312.02601

Coexistence of eMBB+ and mMTC+ in Uplink Cell-Free Massive MIMO Networks

Author(s): Sergi Liesegang, Stefano Buzzi
Published in: 2025 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2025, ISSN 1558-2612
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/WCNC61545.2025.10978323

OffloaDNN: Shaping DNNs for Scalable Offloading of Computer Vision Tasks at the Edge

Author(s): Corrado Puligheddu, Nancy Varshney, Tanzil Hassan, Jonathan Ashdown, Francesco Restuccia, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini
Published in: 2024 IEEE 44th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICDCS60910.2024.00064

Other (8)

CENTRIC Flyer

Author(s): Audrey Bienvenu
Published in: 2023
Publisher: CENTRIC
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10722673

Whitepaper - The CENTRIC Project Vision on Sustainable AI-native Air-interface for 6G Networks

Author(s): Ramoni Ojekunle Adeogun, Halid Hrasnica, Carles Navarro Manchon, Audrey Bienvenu
Published in: 2024
Publisher: -
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10720915

European Vision for the 6G Network Ecosystem

Author(s): Uusitalo, M., Bernardos, C. J., Kaloxylos, A., Bourse, D. A., Norp, T., Lønsethagen, H., Hecker, A., Rugeland, P., Papagianni, C., Bulakci, Ö., Li, X., Ericson, M., Anton-Haro, C., Massod Khorsandi, B., Ramos-Lopez, A., Frascolla, V., Marco, G., Gavras, A
Published in: Zenodo, 2024
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14230482

The Role of AI on 6G MAC

Author(s): Harish Viswanathan, Silvio Mandelli, Petteri Kela, Alvaro Valcarce Rial
Published in: IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE, 2023
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.36227/techrxiv.23708310

6G KPIs - Definitions and Target Values

Author(s): Mesogiti, I., Gavras, A., Trichias, K., Kaloxylos, A., Fontes, F., Charemis, A., Ghoraishi, M., Mollà Roselló, M., Yadranjee Aghdam, P., Agapiou, G., Sgambelluri, A., Al-Rawi, M., Marques, C., & Mohr, W.
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15011631

Sionna RT: Differentiable Ray Tracing for Radio Propagation Modeling

Author(s): Hoydis, Jakob; Aoudia, Fayçal Aït; Cammerer, Sebastian; Nimier-David, Merlin; Binder, Nikolaus; Marcus, Guillermo; Keller, Alexander
Published in: 2023 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps), 2023
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2303.11103

AI/ML as a Key Enabler of 6G Networks: Methodology, Approach and AI-Mechanisms in SNS JU

Author(s): Trichias, Konstantinos; Christopoulou, Maria; Porambage, Pawani; Benzaid, Chafika; Vassiliou, Vasos; Artuñedo Guillén, David; Tsolkas, Dimitris; Avgeris, Marios; Papagianni, Chrysa; Jain, Akshay; Kilper, Daniel; Chen, Tao
Published in: 2025
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14623106

Booth rollup featuring CENTRIC & 6G-BRAINS research topics

Author(s): Anastasius Gavras, Audrey Bienvenu
Published in: 2023
Publisher: FOKUS FUSECO Forum 2023
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10033728

Peer reviewed articles (17)

Information Bottleneck-Inspired Type Based Multiple Access for Remote Estimation in IoT Systems

Author(s): Meiyi Zhu; Chunyan Feng; Caili Guo; Nan Jiang; Osvaldo Simeone
Published in: IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS, Issue 30, 2023, ISSN 1558-2361
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2212.09337

Cooperative Navigation via Relational Graphs and State Abstraction

Author(s): Salwa Mostafa; Mohamed K. Abdel-Aziz; Mehdi Bennis
Published in: IEEE Networking Letters, 2023, ISSN 2576-3156
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/LNET.2023.3285295

Guaranteed Dynamic Scheduling of Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Traffic via Conformal Prediction

Author(s): Kfir M. Cohen; Sangwoo Park; Osvaldo Simeone; Petar Popovski; Shlomo Shamai
Published in: IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS, Issue 30, 2023, ISSN 1558-2361
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2302.07675

Scalable and Resource-Efficient Second-Order Federated Learning via Over-the-Air Aggregation

Author(s): A. Ghalkha, C. Ben Issaid and M. Bennis
Published in: IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, Issue 14, 2024, ISSN 2162-2345
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/LWC.2024.3521027

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Author(s): Chetna Singhal; Yashuo Wu; Francesco Malandrino; Marco Levorato; Carla Fabiana Chiasserini
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Networking, 2025, ISSN 1063-6692
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/TON.2025.3543848

Bayesian and Multi-Armed Contextual Meta-Optimization for Efficient Wireless Radio Resource Management

Author(s): Yunchuan Zhang; Osvaldo Simeone; Sharu Theresa Jose; Lorenzo Maggi; Alvaro Valcarce Rial
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, Issue Vol. 9, Issue 5, 2023, ISSN 2332-7731
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2301.06510

The Role of AI in 6G MAC

Author(s): Valcarce Rial, Alvaro; Kela, Petteri; Mandelli, Silvio; Viswanathan, Harish
Published in: 2024 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit), 2023, ISSN 2575-4912
Publisher: IEEE Communications Magazine
DOI: 10.1109/eucnc/6gsummit60053.2024.10597082

Learning Latent Wireless Dynamics From Channel State Information

Author(s): Charbel Bou Chaaya, Abanoub M. Girgis, Mehdi Bennis
Published in: IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, Issue 14, 2024, ISSN 2162-2337
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/LWC.2024.3510943

Tuning DNN Model Compression to Resource and Data Availability in Cooperative Training

Author(s): Francesco Malandrino, Giuseppe Di Giacomo, Armin Karamzade, Marco Levorato, Carla Fabiani Chiasserini
Published in: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2023, ISSN 1558-2566
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2023.3323023

IEEE Internet of Things Journal

Author(s): Abanoub M. Girgis; Hyowoon Seo; Jihong Park; Mehdi Bennis
Published in: IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2023, ISSN 2327-4662
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2023.3337109

Human-centric decision-making in cell-less 6G networks

Author(s): Emma Chiaramello, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Francesco Malandrino, Alessandro Nordio, Marta Parazzini, Alvaro Valcarce
Published in: Computer Networks, Issue 270, 2025, ISSN 1389-1286
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.COMNET.2025.111522

Computer Networks

Author(s): Francesco Malandrino, Alessandro Nordio, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini
Published in: Computer Networks, 2024, 2024, ISSN 1389-1286
Publisher: COMPUTER NETWORKS
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2402.14737

Robust PACm: Training Ensemble Models Under Misspecification and Outliers

Author(s): Matteo Zecchin; Sangwoo Park; Osvaldo Simeone; Marios Kountouris; David Gesbert
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2023, ISSN 2162-2388
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2203.01859

Towards sustainable 6G: A collaborative call to action for addressing environmental challenges in (and thanks to) future mobile networks

Author(s): Regis Decorme; Sébastien Faye; Monique Calisti; Simon Pryor; Indrakshi Dey; Maria Pia Fanti; Francesco Malandrino; Chiara Lombardo
Published in: Sustainable Places 2024, 2024, ISSN 1558-2361
Publisher: Open Research Europe
DOI: 10.12688/OPENRESEUROPE.18767.1

On Learning Generalized Wireless MAC Communication Protocols via a Feasible Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Framework

Author(s): Luciano Miuccio, Salvatore Riolo, Sumudu Samarakoon, Mehdi Bennis, Daniela Panno
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking, Issue 2, 2024, ISSN 2831-316X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TMLCN.2024.3368367

IEEE Internet of Things Journal

Author(s): Abanoub M. Girgis; Hyowoon Seo; Jihong Park; Mehdi Bennis
Published in: IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Issue 7, 2024, ISSN 2327-4662
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2023.3337109

Cooperative Navigation via Relational Graphs and State Abstraction

Author(s): Mohamed K. Abdel-Aziz, Mohammed S. Elbamby, Sumudu Samarakoon, Mehdi Bennis
Published in: IEEE Networking Letters, 2023, ISSN 2576-3156
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/LNET.2023.3285295