6G AI-Driven Air Interface — Hexa-X-II View
Journal article, 2025

This article presents the European 6G Flagship project Hexa-X-II's view on 6G AI-driven air interface. It outlines motivations for AI in the physical layer, selected applications of AI for communication and sensing, their achieved performance, and the challenges to be addressed. The article also provides an overview of the relevant standardization activities.

Applications of AI

Physical layers

Performance

Air interface

Author

Hamed Farhadi

Ericsson

Bitan Banerjee

Technische Universität Dresden

Rafael Berkvens

University of Antwerp

Nabeel Nisar Bhat

University of Antwerp

Emmanuelle Bodji

Orange

Dilin Dampahalage

University of Oulu

Eslam Eldeeb

University of Oulu

Jeroen Famaey

University of Antwerp

G. Fettweis

Technische Universität Dresden

Jaeseong Jeong

Ericsson

Dani Korpi

Nokia

Siddhartha Kumar

Qamcom Research & Technology

Yann Lebrun

Qualcomm Technologies

Rodolphe Legouable

Orange

José Miguel Mateos Ramos

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Nurul Huda Mahmood

University of Oulu

Mohammad H. Moghaddam

Qamcom Research & Technology

Ahmad Nimr

Technische Universität Dresden

Nandana Rajatheva

University of Oulu

Nuwanthika Rajapaksha

University of Oulu

Athanasios Stavridis

Ericsson

Tommy Svensson

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Han Yu

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Leif Wilhelmsson

Ericsson

Henk Wymeersch

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

IEEE Communications Magazine

0163-6804 (ISSN) 15581896 (eISSN)

Vol. 63 10 118-125

A holistic flagship towards the 6G network platform and system, to inspire digital transformation, for the world to act together in meeting needs in society and ecosystems with novel 6G services

European Commission (EC) (101095759-Hexa-X-II), 2022-12-01 -- 2025-06-30.

Subject Categories (SSIF 2025)

Communication Systems

Computer Engineering

Telecommunications

DOI

10.1109/MCOM.001.2400394

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11/18/2025