EUCNC 2026 · Malaga, Spain

Edge AI 6G & Goal-Oriented Connectivity

Network Differently. Send Less. Know More.

FRESHDATA is shaping the future of 6G networks through information freshness, sustainable AI, and goal-oriented communication architectures.

June 4, 2026
EUCNC 2026, Malaga, Spain
Prof. Elif Uysal — 6G Architecture Panel

Our Vision for 6G Networks

Edge AI 6G needs sustainable information selection, not unlimited data movement. The network decides when to transmit, what to sample, and what to drop.

Edge AI

The network starts at the point of data generation. AoI-aware control outperforms traffic prediction with energy-efficient AI.

Autonomous Agents

Distributed intelligence with local decisions under uncertainty. Deciding when action is valuable and when silence is better.

Freshness as a Service

Service contracts defined by AoI and decision staleness. Moving from Mbps to freshness guarantees.

Paradigm Shift

From centralized reaction to distributed value-aware agency

NTN-Native Architecture

Store-and-forward becomes first-class. AoI-optimal routing differs from terrestrial. Group handover and handover-free regions enable massive MTC scalability.

Edge for Timely Decisions

Compute where AoI reduction is maximal. Digital twins need information freshness, not volume. Satellite edge acts as a decision node with compute-in-orbit capability.

Goal-Oriented Connectivity

Communications and computation co-design. Raw data transforms to features, then to decisions. 6G becomes goal-oriented, not data-oriented.

Sustainable AI

Academic research and standards need to catch up to what is possible by AI—but energy-efficient AI. Local computation followed by a fresh decision update.

The 6G Data Pipeline

Local computation followed by a fresh decision update

Raw Data
Features
Decisions

Architecture Diagrams

Key architectural concepts from our 6G research

Edge AI Data Selection Architecture

Edge AI Information Selection & Store-Compute-Forward Architecture

NTN-Native 6G Architecture

NTN-Native 6G Architecture with Store-and-Forward

Edge Computing Age-of-Inference

Age-of-Inference Control Layer: Satellite-to-Ground Semantic Processing

Freshness as a Service

Freshness as a Service: AoI-Based SLA Contracts

Freshness as a Service

From Mbps to freshness guarantees

Maximum AoI ≤ 100 ms

Guaranteed maximum Age of Information thresholds for real-time IoT applications.

Peak AoI ≤ 500 ms

Peak Age of Information control for critical monitoring and decision systems.

Decision Staleness ≤ X sec

Pricing based on decision quality, not raw throughput. A natural fit for IoT and NTN.

Shaping the Future of 6G Connectivity

Discover how FRESHDATA's research and products are building the foundation for next-generation networks