International Workshop on Emerging Trade-offs in Networking: Sovereignty, Security, ReSilience, and Sustainability (4S-Net)

Future communication networks must balance multiple, often conflicting requirements, including sovereignty, security, resilience, and sustainability, alongside traditional Quality of Service and important user-centric metrics. These dimensions are deeply interdependent: for example, security can raise energy costs, resilience demands redundancy, security may conflict with latency or availability. Addressing such trade-offs is critical for next-generation systems like 6G, non-terrestrial networks, and AI-driven infrastructures, where data protection, explainability, and efficiency are central challenges. Consequently, the 4S-Net workshop explores methods, architectures, and operational strategies to design networks that align technical performance with societal, industrial, and environmental priorities. A key focus is the development of measurable metrics and indicators to guide decisions across diverse network types and scales.

International Workshop on Emerging Trade-offs in Networking: Sovereignty, Security, ReSilience, and Sustainability (4S-Net)
26 or 30 October, 2026
Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), Spain
https://sites.google.com/view/4s-net2026/home
In conjunction with 22nd International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2026)

Organizing Committee

• Frank Loh, University of Würzburg, Germany (frank.loh@uni-wuerzburg.de)
• Jacopo Talpini, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Switzerland (jacopo.talpini@supsi.ch)
• Christoph Lipps, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany (christoph.lipps@dfki.de)
• Carlos Natalino Da Silva, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden (carlos.natalino@chalmers.se)
• Benedict Herzog, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany (benedict.herzog@rub.de)