IEEE Global Communications Conference
8–10 December 2020 // In-person (Taipei, Taiwan)
7-11 December 2020 // Virtual
Communications for Human and Machine Intelligence

WS-05: Workshop on Integrated Sensing And Communication (ISAC)

WS-05: Workshop on Integrated Sensing And Communication (ISAC)

Welcome to The Integrated Sensing And Communication (ISAC)

 December 7, 2020, Taipei, Taiwan

Workshop Co-Chairs:

Steering Committee Members:

  • Prof. Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK
  • Prof. Rui Zhang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • Prof. Michael L. Honig, Northwestern University, USA
  • Dr. Jianmin Lu, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China

TPC Co-Chairs:

  • Prof. Kevin Chetty, University College London, UK
  • Prof. Rui Wang, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
  • Prof. Wei Wang, Nanjing University, China

Keynote Speakers:

  • Prof. Robert W. Heath Jr., University of Texas at Austin, USA
  • Prof. Giuseppe Caire, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
  • Dr. Peiying Zhu, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China

Scope and topics of the workshop

Recently, many important application scenarios in 5G and beyond, such as autonomous vehicles, Wi-Fi sensing and extended reality (XR), have encouraged the integration of sensing and wireless communication. The integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), in which the sensing and communication share the same frequency band and hardware, has emerged as a key technology in future wireless systems. Thanks to the mmWave and massive MIMO technologies that will be widely employed in 5G and beyond, the future communication signals tend to have high-resolution in both time and angular domain, opening up the possibility for ISAC. For example, in future autonomous vehicle networks, the autonomous vehicles will obtain a large amount of information from the network, including ultra-high resolution maps and near real-time information to help navigate and avoid upcoming traffic congestion. In the same scenario, radar sensing in the autonomous vehicles should be able to provide robust, high-resolution obstacle detection on the order of a centimeter. The ISAC technology for autonomous vehicles provides the potential to achieve both high-data rate communications and high-resolution obstacle detection using the same hardware and spectrum resource. Other applications of ISAC include Wi-Fi based indoor localization and activity recognition, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication and sensing, extended reality (XR), etc.

In fact, ISAC has become a hot research topic in wireless communications. For example, recently there have been an increasing number of academic publications on ISAC. Furthermore, in September and November 2019, IEEE 802.11 formed the WLAN Sensing Topic Interest Group and Study Group, respectively, and may form a new official Task Group IEEE 802.11bf in the end of this year, with the objective of incorporating wireless sensing as a new feature for next-generation WiFi systems (e.g., Wi-Fi 7). Despite these early research efforts on ISAC, many open problems about ISAC still remain open, such as the unified theoretical frameworks, the fundamental performance limits, the ISAC waveform design, and the optimal ISAC schemes and signal processing algorithms. This workshop aims at bringing together academic and industrial researchers in an effort to identify and discuss the major technical challenges, recent breakthroughs, and new applications related to ISAC.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Theoretical frameworks for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC)
  • Unified approach/model/metric for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC)
  • Fundamental performance limits for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC)
  • Information theory of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC)
  • Network architectures and communication protocols for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC)
  • Waveform/sequence/coding/modulation design for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems
  • Joint precoding/beamforming design for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems
  • Joint receiver design for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems
  • Signal processing for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC)
  • Security and privacy issues in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC)
  • MIMO and massive MIMO for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems
  • Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) in millimeter wave
  • Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) design for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)
  • Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) for vehicular-to-everything (V2X) network
  • Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) based on 6G network
  • Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) based on Wi-Fi network
  • Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) based on Radar technology
  • Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) based on machine learning/AI
  • Channel measurement and modeling for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC)
  • System-level simulation for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC)
  • Experimental performance demonstrations, prototyping, and field-tests of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC)
  • Standardization progress of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC)
  • Economical frameworks for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), e.g., cost studies, business models.

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