Peiying Zhu

Title: Visualizing the Environment with the Aid of Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) as well as AI

Abstract: 6G will integrate sensing with communication in a single system. Radio waves can be exploited to “see” the physical world, open the door to create digital twins in the cyber world. The concept of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has now been evolving for a while, which has attracted wide-ranging research activities in the investigation of use cases, requirements, joint radio waveform and/or beamforming design, channel modelling, detection and estimation algorithms, system architecture design etc. In June 2023, ISAC has formally been agreed as one of the new usage scenarios in the ITU-R Framework Recommendation for IMT-2030. In this talk, we will discuss the new possibilities brought about by ISAC in the context of future 6G networks, emphasizing the new use case of reconstructing the environment in both indoor and outdoor scenarios with collaboration between base stations or between base station and user devices. We will explore how ISAC, combined with AI, can further enhance the feasibility of understanding the surrounding environment. Challenges in ISAC system evaluation including the need for a hybrid channel model will also be discussed. Last but not least, a sensing data set open to researchers for evaluations will also be included at the end of the talk.

Bio: Dr. Peiying Zhu, Senior Vice President of Wireless Research, is a Huawei Fellow, IEEE Fellow and Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering. She is currently leading 6G wireless research and standardization in Huawei. The focus of her research is advanced radio access technologies. She is actively involved in 3GPP and IEEE 802 standards development. Prior to joining Huawei in 2009, Peiying was a Nortel Fellow and Director of Advanced Wireless Access Technology in the Nortel Wireless Technology Lab.