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Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations. AIAI 2024 IFIP WG 12.5 International Workshops (AIAI 2024)

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This paper discusses the proposed approaches to the 6G System architecture against the background of the fundamental principles of the 5G network and challenges towards 6G network, focusing also on drawbacks of already adopted solutions and their further impact on the future 6G System performance. The user-centric architectural framework, based on a dynamic stateless procedural approach, extending the organic core concept, has been proposed that simplifies and accelerates Control Plane interactions, introducing also the mechanisms of network self-cognition, self-awareness, and self-control into the new core.

ETHER project has received funding from the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) under the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 101096526. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

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The authors wish to thank Dr. Marius Iulian Corici and Mr. Masayuki Kurata for inspiring presentations and discussions during the 11th FOKUS FUSECO Forum (Berlin, 2023).

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Tomaszewski, L., Kołakowski, R. (2024). On the Efficient Architecture for 6G System. In: Maglogiannis, I., Iliadis, L., Karydis, I., Papaleonidas, A., Chochliouros, I. (eds) Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations. AIAI 2024 IFIP WG 12.5 International Workshops. AIAI 2024. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 715. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-63227-3_10

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