W2: 2nd International Workshop on Sensing Advances in Wireless Networks (SAWN)

Co-organizer: Husheng Li, Purdue University, USA
Co-organizer: Pan Cao, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Co-organizer: Tingting Zhang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Co-organizer: Mythri Hunukumbure, Samsung R&D Institute, United Kingdom

Abstract: The increasingly wide deployment of space-air-ground-underwater communication networks, 4G/5G mobile communication networks, WiFi networks, vehicle-to-everything (V2X) networks, Internet of Things (IoT), and other wireless sensor networks or side-links becomes making all connected seamlessly with the aid of ubiquitous radio waves. Radio waves in the transmission experience wireless channel that varies with both propagation environment and spectrum frequency, thereby resulting in the channel features such as line-of-sight (LOS) or non-line-of-sight (NLOS) and sparse or many multiple paths that experienced in rich or low scattering environment at sub-6GHz microwave or mmwave/THz/visible light. From communication perspective, the channel gain matters much in the link budget design. However, more detailed information contained in the wireless channel need to be retrieved and utilised for the potentials of sensing objects and environment in addition to communication.

Research efforts are well underway to address the applications of sensing in wireless networks via radio waves, e.g., localisation, sensing and imaging. As wireless networks are expanding rapidly with aid of modern digital technologies and artificial intelligence (AI), more advanced sensing functionalities and capacities are desired to be achieved in wireless networks but meanwhile many challenges arise.

The goal of the workshop is to pursue advanced sensing techniques including localization, radar sensing and imaging and their applications in wireless networks, since new or more advanced sensing techniques need to be developed, especially when they adapt to different types of wireless networks or meet different sensing service needs. This workshop aims at bringing together researchers and engineers from academia and industry in order to identify and discuss the major technical challenges, recent breakthroughs, and new applications related to sensing advances in wireless networks (SAWN).

Co-organizer’s bios:

Husheng Li:

Husheng Li received the BS and MS degrees in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1998 and 2000, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, in 2005. From 2005 to 2007, he worked as a senior engineer at Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, CA. In 2007, he joined the EECS department of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, as an assistant professor. He is promoted to associate professor and full professor in 2013 and 2019, respectively. In 2022, he joins the school of aeronautics and astronautics and the school of electric and computer engineering, Purdue University.

His research is mainly focused on statistical signal processing, wireless communications, networking, smart grid and game theory. Dr. Li is the recipient of the Best Paper Awards of EURASIP Journal of Wireless Communications and Networks, 2005, EURASIP Journal of Advances in Signal Processing, 2015, IEEE Globecom 2017, IEEE ICC 2011 and IEEE SmartGridComm 2012, the Best Demo Award of IEEE Globecom 2010, and the Professional Research Award, Tickle College of Engineering, the University of Tennessee, 2017.

Pan Cao:

Pan Cao received the BEng and MEng degrees in signal and information processing at Xidian University, from 2008 and 2011, respectively, and Dr. Ing (Ph.D.) degree in electrical engineering from TU Dresden, Germany, in 2015. He worked on radar imaging at National Lab of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, during 2008-2010. After completing PhD study at TU Dresden, he worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at University of Edinburgh from 2015 to 2017 as well as a visiting researcher at Princeton University, US, in 2017. He has been a Senior Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, U.K., since 2017.

His current research interests mainly include millimeter-wave communication, antenna array signal processing, localization and radar signal processing and imaging. He received the Best Paper Awards of IEEE SPAWC 2012 and International Conference on Machine Learning and Networking 2018, and the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Award (QInF) in 2013. He is the Vice-Chair of the Special Interest Group on the integration of sensing and communication in IEEE ComSoc Radio Communications Committee (RCC). He is the task leader on “localization and sensing for metasurfaces” in EU Horizon JUSNS-2022 6G project TERRAMETA (6.33 mi EURO). He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking.

Tingting Zhang: 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, 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.

Mythri Hunukumbure:

Mythri Hunukumbure (M’08) is a Chief Engineer and a Project Lead at Samsung R&D Institute UK. He currently leads Samsung research in the LOCUS EU project and is also a work package leader for Localization enablers and a task lead for standardisation in this project. He has previously played similar roles in ONE5G and mmMAGIC EU projects. He also supports 3GPP standardization activities in SA2 and RAN2 in topics related to Localization and the use of AI/ML. In an industry career spanning over 15 years, he has contributed to and later led mobile communications research, standardisation and product development activities. Prior to joining Samsung UK, he was with Fujitsu Research Labs Europe. He has filed over 40 patents and has also published extensively in leading IEEE conferences and journals. He is the lead author of the recent book ‘The Technology and Business of Mobile Communications – An Introduction’, published by Wiley/IEEE. He was the lead organizer and moderator for the Industry panel ‘Industry Roadmap to 5G: Standards Timeline and Spectrum Requirement‘ previously at IEEE ICC 2016. He has taken part in industry panels in ICC and Globecom workshops and in VTC from 2017 to 2019. Mythri holds Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in wireless communications from University of Bristol, UK.

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/2204