T4: Localization and Sensing in RIS-Aided Wireless Communication Systems
Organizer: Henk Wymeersch, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Organizer: Davide Dardari, University of Bologna, Italy
Organizer: Hyowon Kim, Chungnam National University, South Korea
Organizer: Hui Chen, Technology Innovation Institute, UAE
Abstract: Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are planar arrays consisting of large numbers of metamaterials, which can be dynamically optimized to customize the propagation channel of the radio signals. As a breakthrough technology for future communication systems, RISs also have a huge potential in localization and sensing, providing improved performance and ubiquitous coverage. As a consequence, new applications that require location information and situation awareness, such as intelligent transportation and the Internet of Things, will be supported in future systems.
This tutorial aims to provide the audience with an overview of the state-of-the-art in RIS-aided localization and sensing, tackling the practical issues and solutions for RIS anchor calibration, and future applications. Five sections will be covered within this tutorial as follows: (i) 5G/6G localization and Sensing Basics; (ii) RIS-aided Localization; (iii) Sensing in RIS-aided Systems; (iv) Calibration of RIS anchors; (v) Future applications and research directions.
The materials of this tutorial are self-contained, aiming to provide background knowledge for the attendees with the intention of starting research in this area and to provide insights for the researchers already in this area.
Organizer’s bios:
Henk Wymeersch obtained the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering/Applied Sciences in 2005 from Ghent University, Belgium. He is currently a Professor of Communication Systems with the Department of Electrical Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. He is also a Distinguished Research Associate with Eindhoven University of Technology. Prior to joining Chalmers, he was a postdoctoral researcher from 2005 until 2009 with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prof. Wymeersch served as Associate Editor for IEEE Communication Letters (2009-2013), IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (since 2013), and IEEE Transactions on Communications (2016-2018) and is currently Senior Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Editorial Board. During 2019-2021, he was an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer with the Vehicular Technology Society. His current research interests include the convergence of communication and sensing, in a 5G and Beyond 5G context.
Davide Dardari (Senior Member, IEEE) is currently a Full Professor with the University of Bologna, Italy. He has been a Research Affiliate with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. His research interests include wireless communications, localization techniques, and distributed signal processing. He has published more than 250 technical articles and played several important roles in various national and European projects. He received the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society’s M. Barry Carlton Award in 2011 and the IEEE Communications Society’s Fred W. Ellersick Prize in 2012. He was the Chair of the IEEE Radio Communications Committee. He was the Co-General Chair of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband and a Co-Organizer of the IEEE International Workshop on Advances in Network Localization and Navigation (ANLN)—ICC 2013–2016 editions. He was also the TPC Chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications, the TPC Co-Chair of the Wireless Communications Symposium of the 2007/2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications, and the TPC Co-Chair of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband. He served as an Editor for IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications from 2006 to 2012 and as a guest editor for several journals. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communication Society from 2018 to 2019.
Hyowon Kim (S’17-M’21) received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea in 2021. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics Engineering at Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea. He was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow/Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, from 2021 to 2023. He was a Visiting Researcher with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, from 2019 to 2020. He has served as an Associate Editor for EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, as a TPC member for several IEEE conferences, and as a Reviewer for several journals. His main research interests include wireless communication systems, radio-based simultaneous localization and mapping, and integrated sensing/localization/communications in 5G and Beyon 5G communication systems.
Hui Chen received the Ph.D. Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, in 2021. He is currently a senior researcher at Technology Innovation Institute (TII), Abu Dhabi, UAE. From 2021 to 2023, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. He is serving/has served as the Reviewer for several journals (e.g., IEEE COMST, JSAC, JSTSP, TWC, TSP, TVT, Nature, etc.), the TPC CoChair for VTC 2024 Spring, the TPC Member for several conferences (ICC 2024, ICC 2023, VTC 2023 Spring, EuCNC & 6G Summit 2023). He is the recipient of ‘Seal of Excellence’ of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship (2022), and the Ericsson Research Grant (2023). His current research interests include 5G/6G (mmWave/THz) and RIS-aided localization.