WiOpt 2023 Workshop on “Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC)”

(August 24-27, 2023, Singapore)

Scope of the workshop

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 RAN should serve as edge infrastructure to provide site-specified services for surrounding users, rather than communication-only functionality. Jointly suggested by recent advances from signal processing society and communication 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 Communications (ISAC).

In essence, ISAC can acquire two main advantages over dedicated sensing and communication functionalities: 1) Integration gain to efficiently utilize congested resources, and even more interesting, 2) Coordination gain to balance dual-functional performance or/and perform mutual assistance. That is, via the shared use of spectral and hardware resources, ISAC can be realized through a synergistic design to pursue 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 network, environmental monitoring, Internet of Things, as well as in-door services such as human activity and gesture recognition.

Despite having drawn huge attention from both academia and industry, many open problems are still 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. 

This workshop seeks to assemble cross-cutting and high-quality original research papers on topics including, but not limited to:

Workshop organizers

Keynote speaker

Important dates

Submission link

https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=30569

Submission guideline

The submitted and published versions of papers are limited to eight (8) pages in the standard IEEE conference format. Submitted papers should be of sufficient detail to be evaluated by expert reviewers in the field. If full proofs cannot be accommodated due to space limitations, authors are encouraged to cite a publicly accessible long version of the submission that may be considered in the review. 

For more information, authors are encouraged to check the following website:esd.sutd.edu.sg/wiopt2023/ifa.html .

Contact

Authors could contact workshop organizers for more information if needed.