Prof. Dr. Admela Jukan

The fundamentally new nature of 6G communications technology is also calling for new networking and computing paradigms with autonomous, pervasive and dependable network management. The emerging 6G ecosystem opens up opportunities to developing innovative network management strategies while navigating the network architecture evolution towards holistic optimizations of communications, computing, caching, control and learning, over RAN-, CORE-, Transport Network and cloud/edge computing infrastructures. The future deployment of 6G networks is inextricably connected with diverse hardware elements and infrastructures, thus leading not only to a highly heterogeneous environment, but also to functions and features that cannot be anticipated at the time of design. In 6G-RIC, new aspects of control and management, such as intent-based networking, are proposed and the methods of AI/ML-based systems with „Human-In-The-Loop“ features. Telemetry and data acquisition and pipelining play a critical role, as well as end-to-end-network monitoring, to name a few.