6G in the sky: On-demand intelligence at the edge of 3D networks (Invited paper) |
Strinati, Emilio Calvanese
(CEA-Leti)
Barbarossa, Sergio (Sapienza University of Rome, DIET) Choi, Taesang (Telecommunications & Media Research Laboratory, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) Pietrabissa, Antonio (Sapienza University of Rome and Space Research Group of CRAT) Giuseppi, Alessandro (Sapienza University of Rome and Space Research Group of CRAT) De Santis, Emanuele (Sapienza University of Rome and Space Research Group of CRAT) Vidal, Josep (Department Signal Theory and Communications, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya) Becvar, Zdenek (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague) Haustein, Thomas (Wireless Communications and Networks, Fraunhofer HHI) Cassiau, Nicolas (CEA-Leti) Costanzo, Francesca (Sapienza University of Rome, DIET) Kim, Junhyeong (Telecommunications & Media Research Laboratory, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) Kim, Ilgyu (Telecommunications & Media Research Laboratory, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) |
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