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W7: Localization and Sensing with Intelligent Surfaces for 6G Networks - VTC2022-Fall - London/Beijing

W7: Localization and Sensing with Intelligent Surfaces for 6G Networks

Co-chair: Benoit Denis, French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, France
Co-chair: Ahmed Elzanaty, University of Surrey, UK
Co-chair: Anna Guerra, University of Bologna/National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy
Co-chair: Francesco Guidi, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy
Co-chair: Yuan Chen, Tsinghua University, China
Co-chair: Tingting Zhang, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China

 

Scope: The next 6G cellular networks will be a rendezvous between localization, sensing, and communication. Indeed, through their design, new applications, such as cross/augmented reality, radio holography, and autonomous vehicle navigation, will be enabled at an unprecedented accuracy and reliability. . In addition, localization and sensing will coexist with communication in the same radio spectrum by sharing the same hardware. Hence, their codesign will be another aspect to be investigated, as well as the capability to minimize overhead, power consumption, and re-deployment cost, i.e., in comparison with ad-hoc conventional localization and sensing approaches.

Towards this vision, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have already been identified as a potential technology thanks to the possibility to shape the electromagnetic environment intelligently, enhancing ambient awareness.  For example, the high mobility of users (e.g., drones and vehicles) might be assisted by RIS for easing the handover failures or supporting autonomous navigation and localization-based applications. Nevertheless, RISs are expected to be beneficial not only in terms of achievable spatial accuracy or system scalability but also continuity, e.g., for overcoming most pathological non-line-of-sight conditions. They shall indeed enable a timely/localized adaptation to various location-based application requirements and on-demand service provision in complex multi-user multi-operator contexts, e.g., in terms of both localization and sensing accuracy and/or addressed/preferred spatial dimensions.

Besides RIS, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and adopting higher frequency bands (e.g., millimeter-waves and TeraHertz) are expected to be key enablers for joint localization, sensing, and communications in 6G networks.  All these capabilities raise open research questions related to, e.g., multi-objective multi-constraint optimization, localization-oriented RIS and UAV control, and suitable estimation algorithms at both single-link and multi-link levels

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and experts from academia and industry, and to discuss and promote the research and development needed to overcome the major challenges on the related topics that include, but are not limited to, the following:

Program

2pm-2.05pm: Welcome

2.05pm-2.45pm: 1st Keynote Speech: Davide Dardari (University of Bologna, Italy) – e-mail: davide.dardari@unibo.it (30 mins + 10 Q&A) – pre-recorded video

2.45-3.05: Paper #1 – ” Cooperative Positioning with the Aid of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces and Zero Access Points” Mustafa Ammous, University of Toronto, Shahrokh Valaee, University of Toronto

3.05-3.25: Paper #2 – “Early Wildfire Detection using UAVs Integrated with Air Quality and LiDAR Sensors” Doaa Rjoub, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Ahmad Alsharoa, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Alaeddin Masadeh, Al-Balqa Applied University

3.25-3.35: Coffee Break

3.35pm-3.55pm: Paper #3 “Joint RIS Calibration and Multi-User Positioning” Yi Lu, Tampere University, Hui Chen, Chalmers University of Technology, Jukka Talvitie, Tampere University, Henk Wymeersch, Chalmers University of Technology, Mikko Valkama, Tampere University

3.55pm-4.15pm: Paper #4 “Power Allocation in Infrastructure Limited Integration Sensing and Localization Wireless Networks” Mu Jia, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Jiayan Yang, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Tingting Zhang, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen)

4.15pm-4.55pm: 2nd Keynote Speech: Moe Win (MIT, USA) – e-mail: moewin@mit.edu (30 mins+10 Q&A)

4.55pm-5:00pm: Workshop Closing

 

Organizer: Benoit Denis

  • Title: Dr.
  • Affiliation: French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, Laboratory of Electronics and Information Technology (CEA-LETI), France
  • Email: benoit.denis@cea.fr

Bio: Benoit Denis received the E.E. (2002), M.Sc. (2002), and Ph.D. (2005) degrees in electronics and communication systems from INSA (Rennes, France). Since 2005, he has been with CEA-Leti (Grenoble, France), as a permanent researcher. His main interests concern wireless localization and sensing, including cooperative, fusion-based, and multipath-aided approaches, channel modeling and cross-layer protocols design, enabling radio technologies (ultra-wideband, millimeter waves, reconfigurable surfaces…), as well as location-based services. He is the co-author of 120+ scientific papers on related topics.

 

Organizer: Ahmed Elzanaty

  • Title: Dr.
  • Affiliation: University of Surrey, UK
  • Email: a.elzanaty@surrey.ac.uk

Bio: Ahmed Elzanaty (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree (excellent cum laude) in electronics, telecommunications, and information technology from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2018. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Surrey, UK. From 2017 to 2019 he was a Research Fellow at the University of Bologna. From 2019 to 2021 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia. He has participated in several national and European projects, such as GRETA and EuroCPS. His research interests include cellular network design with EMF constraints, coded modulation, compressive sensing, and distributed training of neural networks.

 

Organizer: Anna Guerra

  • Title: Dr.
  • Affiliation: University of Bologna/National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy
  • Email: anna.guerra3@unibo.it

Bio: Anna Guerra (Member, IEEE) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronics and telecommunications engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electronics, telecommunications, and information technologies from the University of Bologna (UNIBO), Bologna, Italy, in 2009, 2011, and 2016, respectively. From 2016 to 2021, she has been a Research Fellow or a Research Affiliate with the University of Bologna and, since 2021, she is a researcher at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR). In 2012, she was a Research Assistant in a collaboration project between the Italian National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications and the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA-LETI), Grenoble, France. From 2014 to 2015, she was a Visiting PhD Student with CEA-LETI. She was the recipient of the H2020 IF-GF Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship (AirSens project) in collaboration between UNIBO and Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA, in 2018. She was the recipient of the Best Student Paper Award at the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband held in Paris, France, and the Best Paper Awards at the 2019 IEEE RFID-TA Conference, Pisa, and at the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Systems, Montreal, Canada. She is a Reviewer for numerous IEEE journals and international conferences. She is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Communications Letters.

 

Organizer: Francesco Guidi

  • Title: Dr.
  • Affiliation: National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy
  • Email: Francesco.guidi@ieiit.cnr.it

Bio: Francesco Guidi (Member, IEEE) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees (both summa cum laude) from the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, in biomedical and in electronics and telecommunications engineering, in 2006 and 2009, respectively, the Ph.D. degree in electronics, telecommunications and information technologies both from Ecole Polytechnique Paris-Tech, France (Computer Science Specialty) and from the University of Bologna, in 2013. He is currently a Researcher with IEIIT-CNR, Italy. From mid-2013 to mid-2015, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the University of Bologna, and from 2015 to 2017, he was the recipient of an individual European Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA-LETI), Grenoble, France. His research interests include RFID and radar technologies, joint antenna and channel characterization, signal processing, UWB and mm-waves technologies. He was the recipient of the Best Student Paper Award at the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband, and the Best Paper Award at the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Systems, Montreal, Canada. Dr. Guidi organized a number of Special Sessions at conferences, serves as a Reviewer for numerous IEEE Journals, as a reviewer or TPC member for several conferences, and was a Member of the local organization committee for the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband.

Organizer: Yuan Shen

  • Title: Dr.
  • Affiliation: Tsinghua University, China
  • Email: shenyuan_ee@tsinghua.edu.cn

Bio: Yuan Shen (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.E. degree (Highest Hons.) in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2005, and the S.M. degree in electrical engineering and computer science and the Ph.D. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, in 2014 and 2008, respectively. He is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University. His research focuses on network localization and navigation, inference techniques, resource allocation, and cooperative networks. Dr. Shen’s papers received the IEEE ComSoc Fred W. Ellersick Prize and three Best Paper Awards from the IEEE conferences. He was the elected Chair for the IEEE ComSoc Radio Communications Committee for the period of 2019 to 2020, and has served as the TPC symposium Co-Chair for IEEE ICC and Globecom. He is an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, and China Communications.

 

Organizer: Tingting Zhang

  • Title: Dr.
  • Affiliation: Harbin Institute of Technology, China
  • Email: zhangtt@hit.edu.cn

Bio: Tingting Zhang (M’12) received the B.S. (with honors), M. S. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin, China, in 2003, 2005 and 2009, respectively. He is currently a Professor with Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen. His main research interests include wireless localization, integration of sensing and communication, and autonomous vehicle navigation and control, etc. Dr. Zhang serves as the Associate Editor of Frontiers in Communications and Networks, Guest Editor of IEEE Communications Magazine, also organizer and TPC member for several international conferences, such as ICC, GLOBECOM, ICCC, and VTC. He received the Outstanding Postdoctoral Award of HIT, Shenzhen Graduate School in 2011. He also received Shenzhen High Level Talent Program award in 2012.

 

 

Deadlines:
Workshop paper submissions due: 14 August 2022
Acceptance notification: 20 August 2022
Final paper submission due: 24 August 2022

To submit a paper to this workshop, please visit: https://vtc2022f-rr-wks.trackchair.com/track/2133