IEEE ICC 2022 4th Workshop on Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC)

16-20 May 2022 Seoul, South Kore

CALL FOR PAPERS

As the standardization of 5G has gradually been solidified, researchers have speculated what 6G will be. A common theme in many perspectives is that 6G Radio Access Network (RAN) should serve as edge infrastructure to provide site-specific services for surrounding users, rather than communication-only functionality. Jointly suggested by recent advances from the signal processing society and the communications society, radio sensing functionality can be integrated into 6G RAN in a cheap and fast manner. Therefore, the future cellular network could image and measure the surrounding environment to enable advanced location-aware services, ranging from the physical layer (e.g., fast and training-free beam alignment) to application layers (e.g., city-wide weather monitoring, mmWave-specified). This type of research is typically referred to as Integrated Sensing And Communication (ISAC).

In essence, ISAC can acquire two main advantages over dedicated sensing and communication functionalities: 1) Integration gain to efficiently utilize congested resources for dual use of both communications and sensing, and even more interesting, 2) Coordination gain to balance dual-functional performance or/and perform mutual assistance. That is, via the shared use of spectrum and hardware resources, ISAC can be realized through a synergistic design to pursue the integration gain, e.g., cohabitation strategies with interference management. Moreover, it can also be implemented from a co-design perspective, wherein the communications and sensing functionalities are simultaneously performed via unified waveform to optimize the performance to acquire the coordination gain jointly. Benefiting from these two advantages, applications of ISAC have been extended to numerous emerging areas, including vehicular networks, environmental monitoring, Internet of Things, as well as in-door services such as human activity recognition.

Despite having drawn huge attention from both academia and industry, many open problems still remain to be investigated. This workshop aims at bringing together researchers from academia and industry to identify and discuss the major technical challenges, recent breakthroughs, and novel applications related to ISAC..

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  • Fundamental information theoretical limits for ISAC
  • Network architectures/transmission protocols/frame designs for ISAC
  • Spectrum analysis and management of ISAC
  • Full duplex/interference management techniques of ISAC
  • Precoding/waveform/modulation/receiver design for ISAC
  • Security and privacy issues for ISAC
  • Machine learning for ISAC
  • Network intelligence for ISAC
  • MIMO/Massive MIMO/intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)/Holographic MIMO surface for ISAC
  • Millimeter wave/THz technologies for ISAC
  • ISAC for 6G unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) ISAC for 6G vehicular-to-everything (V2X) networks
  • Wi-Fi sensing/positioning/detection for ISAC
  • Experimental demonstrations and prototypes

Important Dates

Submissions deadline

Jan 22, 2022

Notification of acceptance

Mar 06, 2022

Camera-ready deadline

Mar 15, 2022

Workshop date

will be updated shortly

Organizers

Wen Tong

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Canada

Fan Liu

Southern University of Science and Technology, China

Jie Xu

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), China

J. Andrew Zhang

University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Taneli Riihonen

Tempare University, Finland

Yuanhao Cui

Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

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Instructions for Authors

Submission Instructions

Proposal submissions should be submitted as a single PDF file online via EDAS. Proposals that address exciting topics in creative formats that generate lively interactions among participants are highly encouraged. Examples include facilitating multi-disciplinary discussions across academicians, practitioners, and policymakers leading to high impact and transformative research. Conference content will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing(A&I) databases.

Template

This LaTeX template should be useful in complying with the above requirements, but as an author you bear the final responsibility to verify that your submission is format-compliant. For more information, please visit https://www.ieee.org/conferences /publishing/templates.html

Submission Portal

Submit your paper at https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=28932&track=108899. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE ICC 2022 Workshop Proceedings and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore.

Endorsed By

IEEE Communications Society Integrated Sensing and Communication Emerging Technology Initiative

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