W12: Workshop on Integrated Sensing,Communication, and Computation towards 6G

Co-organizer: J. Andrew Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Co-organizer: Jie Xu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), China
Co-organizer: Fan Liu, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
Co-organizer: Guangxu Zhu, Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, China
Co-organizer: Yuanhao Cui, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
Co-organizer: Xiaowen Cao, Shenzhen University, China

Abstract:To enable the emerging intelligent applications, e.g., smart cities, auto-diriving, industrial Internet, and metaverse in the future sixth generation (6G) systems, it calls for a paradigm shift of the mobile network from a pure data-delivery pipeline toward a comprehensive information infrastructure with versatile functionalities of environmental perception, advanced signal processing, ubiquitous connectivity, and pervasive intelligence. To achieve this, the concept of integrated sensing,communication, and computation (ISCC), has emerged to endow sensing and computing to be significant parts of completely new mobile communications and networks. This paradigm could optimally utilize the diverse resources of the network and the collected information from vast network nodes, thus protentially trigger a paradigm shift to the future intelligent network, and drive the proliferation of diversified application.For adapting to the evolving system objectives, it is extremely urgent to explore new network architecture and enabling technology for ISCC.

Jointly suggested by recent advances in signal processing and communication technologies, there exist two enabling technologies to empower in an efficient manner, namely the integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) and mobile edge computing (MEC). The ISAC can be implemented through a synergistic design of communications and radar/sensing systems with shared spectral and hardware resources, wherein the strategies of cohabitation designs and/or dynamic spectrum allocation/access with interference suppression or management are mainly devised. The main feature of MEC is to push mobile computing, network control and storage to the network edges so as to enable computation-intensive and latency-critical applications at mobile devices. 

Although the excitement about ISCC, many important research problems are yet to be addressed in order to realize its potential. This workshop aims at bringing together researchers from academia and industry to identify and discuss the major technical challenges, recent breakthroughs, and novel applications related to ISCC. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

– Fundamental information theoretical limits of ISCC
– Edge computing/computing offloading
– Over-the-Air Computation
– Network architectures/transmission protocols/frame designs for ISCC
– Spectrum analysis and management for ISCC
– Full duplex/interference management techniques for ISC
– Modulation/waveform/precoding/receiver design for ISCC
– Security and privacy issues for ISCC
– ISCC for edge intelligence
– MIMO/Massive MIMO/intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)/Holographic MIMO surface assisted ISCC
– Millimeter wave/THz technologies for ISAC
– ISCC over UAV networks
– ISCC for IoT/IIoT/IoE
– ISCC for 6G vehicular-to-everything (V2X) network
– Standardization progress
– Wi-Fi sensing/positioning/detection
– Experimental demonstrations, testbeds and prototypes

Co-organizer’s bios:

J. Andrew Zhang:

J. Andrew Zhang received the B.Sc. degree from Xi’an JiaoTong University, China, in 1996, the M.Sc. degree from the Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree from the Australian National University, in 2004. He is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Electrical and Data Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He was a Researcher with Data61, CSIRO, Australia from 2010 to 2016, the Networked Systems, NICTA, Australia from 2004 to 2010, and ZTE Corp., Nanjing, China from 1999 to 2001. He has authored or coauthored more than 200 papers in leading international Journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Zhang’s research interests include signal processing for wireless communications and sensing. He was the recipient of five Best Paper Awards. He was the recipient of CSIRO Chairman’s Medal and the Australian Engineering Innovation Award in 2012 for exceptional research achievements in multi-gigabit wireless communications. He was the Editor of IEEE Transaction on Communications.

Jie Xu:

Jie Xu received the B.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2007 and 2012, respectively. From 2012 to 2014, he was a Research Fellow with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. From 2015 to 2016, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Engineering Systems and Design Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design. From 2016 to 2019, he was a Professor with the School of Information Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, China. He is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), China. His research interests include wireless communications, wireless information and power transfer, UAV communications, edge computing and intelligence, and integrated sensing and communication (ISAC). He was a recipient of the 2017 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award, the IEEE/CIC ICCC 2019 Best Paper Award, the 2019 IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award, and the 2019 Wireless Communications Technical Committee Outstanding Young Researcher Award. He is the Symposium Co-Chair of the IEEE GLOBECOM 2019 Wireless Communications Symposium, the workshop co-chair of several IEEE ICC and GLOBECOM workshops, the Tutorial Co-Chair of the IEEE/CIC ICCC 2019, and the Vice Co-chair of the IEEE Emerging Technology Initiative (ETI) on ISAC. He served or is serving as an Editor of theIEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS, IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS, and Journal of Communications and Information Networks, an Associate Editor of IEEE ACCESS, and a Guest Editor of the IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS, and Science China Information Sciences.

Fan Liu:

Fan Liu received the B.Eng. and the Ph.D. degrees from Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), Beijing, China, in 2013 and 2018, respectively is currently an Assistant Professor of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). He has previously held academic positions with the University College London, London, U.K., first as a Visiting Researcher from 2016 to 2018, and then as a Marie Curie Research Fellow from 2018 to 2020. His research interests incllude the general area of signal processing and wireless communications, and in particular in the area of Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC). He has 10 publications selected as IEEE ComSoc Besting Readings in ISAC. He is the Founding Academic Chair of the IEEE ComSoc ISAC Emerging Technology Initiative (ISAC-ETI), an Associate Editor for the IEEECommunications Letters and the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, and the Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, and China Communications. He was also an organizer and the Co-Chair of numerous workshops, special sessions and tutorials in flagship IEEE/ACM conferences, including ICC, GLOBECOM, ICASSP, and MobiCom. He is the TPC Co-Chair of the 2nd-4th IEEE Joint Communication and Sensing Symposium (JC&S), the Track Chair of the ISAC Track of the IEEE GLOBECOM 2023 Selected Areas in Communications Symposium, and will serve as the Track Co-Chair for the IEEE WCNC 2024. He is a Member of the IMT-2030 (6G) ISAC Task Group. He was the recipient of the 2023 IEEE ComSoc Stephan O. Rice Prize, 2023 IEEE ICC Best Paper Award, 2021 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award, the 2019 Best Ph.D. Thesis Award of Chinese Institute of Electronics, and the 2018 EU Marie Curie Individual Fellowship. Dr. Fan Liu was listed in the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University for citation impact in 2021 and 2022.

Yuanhao Cui:

Yuanhao Cui received the B.Eng. (Hons.) from Henan University, and Ph.D. degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. From 2016 to 2018, he has visited Aalto University in Finland. From 2019, he is the CTO and co-founder of Huawenmingde Inc, and Baichen Inc, focusing on the implementation and commercial usage of joint radar and communication systems, where he has been invested more than $3 million dollars. He is the co-chair of IWCMC 2021 workshop, WCNC 2021 workshop on ISAC, and has regularly served as a reviewer for various IEEE Transactions and Journals, as well as a TPC member for flagship IEEE conferences. He is now a consultant for Alibaba DAMO Academy on wireless communications, the chair-assistant of Science Communication Standing Committee of China Computer Federation (CCF). His research interests include precoding and protocol designs in ISAC, information theory, and stochastic signal processing.

Guangxu Zhu:

Guangxu Zhu received the Ph.D. degree from The University of Hong Kong in 2019. He is now a research scientist with the Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data. His research interests include edge intelligence, federated learning, and integrated sensing and communications. He is a recipient of the 2022 “AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention”, the UCOM 2023 Young Scientist Award, and the First Prize of National “Bloom Cup” 5G Industrial Competition in 2022. He served as a track/symposium/workshop co-chair of many IEEE conferences including IEEE PIMRC 2021, WCSP 2023, and IEEE Globecom 2023.

Xiaowen Cao:

Xiaowen Cao received the B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from the  Guangdong University of Technology in 2017 and 2022, respectively. She is now an assistant professor in College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China, and a visiting scholar at the Future Network of Intelligence Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), Shenzhen, China. Her research interests include edge learning, over-the-air computation, as well as integrated sensing, communication, and computation.

Deadlines:
Paper submission deadline: August 28, 2023
Acceptance notification: September 03, 2023
Final paper submission deadline:September 09, 2023

To submit a paper, please visit: https://vtc2023f-rr-wks.trackchair.com/track/2214