W14: 1st Workshop on Positioning Technologies for 5G & 6G (POSIT-6G)
Chair: Pedro Santos, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal
Co-Chair: Miguel Gutiérrez Gaitán, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, Chile
Abstract: Positioning remains a wide spread solutions from a variety of use cases and scenarios in 5G & 6G, such as autonomous driving, precision agriculture and asset tracking. On the last use case, as the trend towards deploying private 5G networks (e.g., in ports, production facilities, warehouses, etc.) gains traction, 5G could offer a single communication and tracking solution to serve an entire campus. The first release of 5G-Advanced, in Release-18, calls for expanded and improved positioning targetting sub-10cm accuracy. This challenging goal will require researchers and developers to improve positioning technology to deal with the wide variety of scenarios that can emerge.
Topics include but are not limited to:
– Fundamental Localization Limits
– Phase difference techniques and related
– Time-of-flight techniques and related
– Sidelink and Cooperative positioning
– Carrier phase positioning
– NLoS & in-building positioning
– Positioning in 5G NR networks and beyond
– Integration of positioning services in the 5G/6G core
– mmWave and Terahertz positioning
– Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS)-assisted localization and sensing
– Artificial intelligence for localization and sensing
– Joint communication and positioning
– Backscatter-based localization
– Positioning in Non-Public 5G Networks (ports, airports, industrial facilities)
– Industrial IoT applications of positioning
– Vehicular and UAV applications of positioning
– Secure localization and privacy
– Testbeds and experimentation
Co-Chair bios:
Pedro Santos
Bio: Pedro Santos (Ph.D., U. Porto, Portugal) holds a full-time Research Fellow position at the CISTER research center, part of the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP), Portugal, and an appointment as invited lecturer at the Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP). Pedro has been technical leader in international projects addressing vehicular applications (CMU|Portugal FLOYD project) and cybersecurity at the edge (Eureka MIRAI project). Prior to leadearship, Pedro acquired extensive participation experience in Portuguese and international projects. Pedro is (co-)author to 40 publications in international peer-reviewed conference proceedings and journals, has been part of organizing committees and TPCs of well-established conferences (e.g., IEEE VNC), and has been reviewer for notable journals (e.g., IEEE TWC). His supervision service includes 2 graduated Ph.D. students and 2 on-going, and 13 graduated M.Sc. students. His interests are in wireless systems, 5G/6G Core and RAN, wireless positioning, vehicular communications and their interplay with autonomous driving.
Bio: Miguel Gutiérrez Gaitan is an Assistant Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, Chile. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Porto, Portugal, an M.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and a B.Sc. in Electronics Engineering from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile. His research covers various aspects of real-time network systems and the IoT, focusing on wireless communication and sensor networks in industrial, vehicular, and maritime applications. Over the past five years, he has co-authored more than 40 peer-reviewed publications in relevant IEEE/ACM journals and conferences, including IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE ESL, ACM TECS, IEEE VTC, IEEE WF-IoT, and IEEE GLOBECOM.