ICL-GNSS 2018 International Conference on Localization and GNSS 2018

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Between 26^thand 28^thof June 2018, Guimaraes city in Portugal hosted the eighth edition of the International Conference on Localization and GNSS. The conference was organized jointly by Centro de Computação Gráfica (CCG), University of Minho, and Tampere University of Technology (TUT), and chaired by Prof. Adriano Moreira from University of Minho and Professor Jari Nurmi from TUT. Dr. Filipe Meneses from University of Minho and Dr. Estefanía Muñoz Díaz from DLR, Germany, were TPC Chairs. The conference was technically co-sponsored by IEEE through the Portuguese Section, the IEEE COMSOC society and IMS society (Portuguese Chapters), and by IEEE GRSS. The event brought together around 40 participants from the academy and industry for three days to the conference center in CCG, inside the University of Minho campus, located in the city of Guimaraes, in the North-Western part of Portugal.

There were four international keynote speakers, well known to the wireless localization and communication community. Dr. Kari Leppänen, the Director of 5G radio network technologies from Huawei technologies (Finland) talked about the new positioning opportunities in 5G. Dr. Justyna Redelkiewicz Musial, the head of sector LBS and IoT from European Global Navigation satellite Systems Agency (GSA) discussed the innovations around Galileo and GNSS receivers. Dr. Fabian de Ponte Müller, a senior researcher in vehicular applications at DLR, Germany raised the issue of safety in vehicular environments during his presentation entitled attractively: ”Where is your guardian angel? – Locating and protecting vulnerable road users”. Jessica García Soriano from Ficosa international SA presented the role and challenges of GNSS in autonomous driving.

The wireless localization research is nowadays tightly connected to the research on wireless communications and this fact was also reflected in this implementation of ICL-GNSS. A special session on Industrial Internet, chaired by Dr. Helena Leppäkoski from TUT emphasized several major trends in the Industrial IoT nowadays, such as the 5G positioning and mmWave communications and reflected also the initial results of an on-going Academy of Finland project on Positioning-aided Reliably-connected Industrial Systems with Mobile mmWave Access (PRISMA, http://www.tut.fi/prisma/). Other session focused on modernized GNSS algorithms, such as multi-frequency multi-system GNSS solutions, phase-screen models, or data-driven approaches in GNSS, and on indoor localization solutions via fingerprinting. Privacy and security aspects of the localization solutions were also discussed during the presentations at the conference. There were in total 18 oral presentations.

There was one award given in the event: the best paper award for the paper by Daniel Egea-Roca, Antonio Tripiana-Caballero, José A. López-Salcedo, Gonzalo Seco-Granados, entitled “GNSS Measurement Exclusion and Weighting with Dual Polarized Antenna: The FANTASTIC project”. This year’s edition of the conference covered not only indoor and outdoor positioning aspects, but also 5G-related aspects in both communication and navigation domain.

The social events complemented the interesting technical sessions and facilitated the social networking of the participants. On the first evening, participants met together on an informal Welcome Reception held at the Centro Cultural Vila Flor. On the second day of the event, participants were guided on a tour around Guimarães city centre, an area classified by UNESCO as World Heritage. A Gala Dinner followed the tour, where participants had the chance to taste local food while getting together on a relaxing moment.

In 2018, the seventh edition of ICL-GNSS will be organized in Nuremberg, Germany. For more information, see www.icl-gnss.org

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DETAILED PROGRAM - TECHNICAL SESSIONS
Technical session 1 - Limits on Positioning
Chair: Kari Leppänen
On Trade-off Between 5G Positioning and mmWave Communication in a Multi-user Scenario
Dileep Kumar, Jani Saloranta, Giuseppe Destino, Antti Tolli
AoA and ToA accuracy for antenna arrays in dense multipath channels
Thomas Wilding, Stefan Grebien, Ulrich Muhlmann, Klaus Witrisal

Technical session 2 - Fingerprinting
Chair: Joaquín Torres Sospedra
Mobile Station Localization Emitter in Urban NLoS using Multipath Ray Tracing Fingerprints and Machine Learning
Marcelo N. de Sousa, Reiner S. Thoma
Comparing 433 and 868 MHz Active RFID for Indoor Localization Using Multi-Wall Model
Rafael Berkvens, Frederik Smolders, Ben Bellekens, Michiel Aernouts, and Maarten Weyn
Device Diversity Effects on RF Fingerprinting Based 3D Positioning System
Syed Khandker, Riaz Mondal, Tapani Ristaniemi
Received Signal Strength quantization for secure indoor positioning via fingerprinting
P. Richter, Z. Yang, O. Tkachenko, H. Leppakoski, K. Jarvinen, T. Schneider, E. S. Lohan

Technical session 3 - GNSS 1
Chair: Fabian de Ponte Müller
Joint Tracking of Multiple Frequency Signals from the same GNSS satellite
Padma Bolla, Jari Nurmi, Dr. Jong-Hoon Won, Elena Simona Lohan
Robust initial position estimate of GEO/IGSO satellite from projection based processing of range observables
Anand S.K
Analytic Phase-screen Model for Fast Simulation of Ionospheric Scintillation in GNSS Signals
Fernando D. Nunes, Fernando M. G. Sousa, José M. V. Marçal

Technical session 4 - Localization Algorithms
Chair: Estefanía Muñoz Díaz
Minimizing Indoor Localization Errors for Non-Line-of-Sight Propagation
Mathias Pelka, Peter Bartmann, Swen Leugner, Horst Hellbruck
Localization and Tracking in mmWave Radio Networks using Beam-Based DoD Measurements
Elizaveta Rastorgueva-Foi, Mario Costa, Mike Koivisto, Kari Leppanen, Mikko Valkama
Direct Localisation using Ray-tracing and Least-Squares Support Vector Machines
Benny Chitambira, Simon Armour, Stephen Wales, Mark Beach

Technical session 5 - Industrial Internet
Chair: Helena Leppäkoski
Opportunities and Challenges in Industrial Internet of Things based on 5G positioning
Yi Lu, Philipp Richter, Elena Simona Lohan
Improved NLOS Propagation Models for Wireless Communication in mmWave bands
Krystof Zeman, Martin Stusek, Pavel Masek, Jiri Hosek
Direct Position Estimation from Wavefront Curvature with Single Antenna Array
Davide Dardari, Francesco Guidi
Applicability of 3GPP Indoor Hotspot Models to the Industrial Environments
Wenbo Wang, Elena Simona Lohan

Technical session 6 - GNSS 2
Chair: Jari Nurmi
Data-driven approach to satellite selection in multi-constellation GNSS receivers
Tero Soininen, Paula Syrjarinne, Simo Ali-Loytty, Christoph Schmid
GNSS Measurement Exclusion and Weighting with Dual Polarized Antenna: The FANTASTIC project
Daniel Egea-Roca, Antonio Tripiana-Caballero, José A. López-Salcedo, Gonzalo Seco-Granados

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