W1: 1st International Workshop on Sensing Advances in Wireless Networks (SAWN)

This workshop will be presented in a hybrid mode.  Look for more details later.

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

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. The role of wireless channels that experienced by ubiquitous radio waves should be rethought for its potentials for sensing the objects and environment in addition to communication.

The goal of the workshop is to pursue advanced sensing techniques including localization, radar sensing and imaging and their applications in wireless networks. This workshop aims at bringing together researchers and engineers from academia and industry in an effort to identify and discuss the major technical challenges, recent breakthroughs, and new applications related to sensing advances in wireless networks (SAWN).

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
-Fundamental performance limits and trade-off optimization in SAWN
-Localization advances in wireless networks
-Radar detection advances in wireless networks
-Radar imaging advances in wireless networks
-Wireless channel estimation, learning and modeling for sensing
-Interference management and waveform/coding design for functional integrations
-Resilience, security and privacy issues in SAWN
-Machine learning/AI empowered SAWN
-Reconfigurable intelligent surface aided SAWN
-Network architectures and communication protocols for SAWN
-Experimental performance demonstrations, prototyping, and field-tests of SAWN
-Sensing advances in applications of autonomous vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
-Sensing advances in applications of mobile communication networks and IoT
-Sensing advances in applications of space-air-ground large-scale networks

Program:

session 1:	(09:00-10:30)
	1. Welcome and introduction of the 1st keynote speaker (10 mins)
	2. Keynote – Prof Andrea Conti – topic   (45mins, with Q&A)
	3. Paper presentations – on core research
		i. ‘Resource Optimization in Time-Varying Wireless Sensing and Localization Networks’  (15mins, with Q&A)
		ii. ‘Channel Interference Sensing Transformer for Spread Spectrum Communications with Attention Mechanism’ (15mins, with Q&A)
session 2:	(11:00-12:30)
	1. Introduction of the 2nd keynote speaker (5 mins)
	2. Keynote – Dr Qammer Abbasi – topic (45 mins incl Q&A)
	3. Paper presentations – on application based research
		i. ‘Radio-Based Sensing in Vehicular Environments: Robust Localization and Tracking of VRUs’  (15mins, with Q&A)
		ii. ‘Drone-based Underwater Sensor Network with Optical Camera Communication’  (15mins, with Q&A)
session 3:	(14:00-15:30)
	Panel session: Future Directions for Advanced Sensing in Research, Standards and Commercialization
	1. Panelist presentations (10 mins each)
	2. Open Q and A session (~40 mins)
session 4:	(15:30-17:00)
	1. Introduction of the 2nd keynote speaker (5 mins)
	2. Keynote -Prof. Aly Fathy ‘Review of Advanced Antennas for 5G and Beyond’  (45mins, with Q&A)
	3. Paper presentations – on core research
		i. ‘Diagonal Waveform and Algorithm to Estimate Range and Velocity in Multi-Object Scenarios’ (15mins, with Q&A)
		ii. ‘Online Tensor Method for Moving Objective Detection with FMCW Radar’ (15mins, with Q&A)

 

Co-chair 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 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:
Workshop paper submissions due Extended: 9 March 2023
Acceptance notification: 16 April 2023
Final paper submission due: 30 April 2023

To submit a paper to this workshop, please visit: https://vtc2023s-rr-wks.trackchair.com/track/2158