IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecture: Ubiquitous Sensing in 6G Cellular Networks
Recently, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has identified integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) as a primary usage scenario for the sixth-generation (6G) cellular networks in IMT-2030 Framework. As a result, future cellular networks will provide not only communication services, but also sensing services such as localization and tracking. However, how to exploit the existing communication infrastructure to effectively achieve sensing functions remains an open problem for 6G. In this talk, we will introduce the methodologies to leverage various types of communication nodes in cellular networks as anchors, including base stations, user equipments, and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, to perform ubiquitous sensing. Specifically, the advantages and disadvantages of each type of anchors will be listed, and the efficient solutions to overcome these disadvantages will be outlined. Apart from theoretical works, this talk will also present our latest achievements in building a 6G ISAC platform that operates at the millimeter-wave band. We will conclude this talk by discussing some promising future directions that will be beneficial to the transformation of the world’s largest communication network into the world’s largest sensing network.
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Workshop on Sensing, Coding, and Communications
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- Date: 17 Jun 2025
- Time: 02:45 PM UTC to 03:30 PM UTC
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- University of Toronto
- Toronto, Ontario
- Canada
- Building: Bahen Centre for Information Technology
- Room Number: BA 2135
- Starts 03 June 2025 07:00 PM UTC
- Ends 11 June 2025 03:55 AM UTC
- No Admission Charge
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Dr. Liang Liu
Biography:
Dr. Liang Liu received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2014. He was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Toronto from 2015 to 2017, a research fellow at NUS from 2017 to 2019, and an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) from 2019 to 2024. Currently, he is an associate professor in the Department of EEE at PolyU. His research interests include wireless communications and networking, advanced signal processing and optimization techniques, and Internet-of-Things (IoT).
Dr. Liang LIU is an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer for the class of 2025-2026. He is the recipient of the 2021 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, the 2017 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award, the Best Student Paper Award for 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), and the Best Paper Award for 2011 International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP). He was listed in Highly Cited Researchers, also known as World's Most Influential Scientific Minds, by Clarivate Analytics (Thomson Reuters) in 2018. He is an editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and was a leading guest editor for IEEE Wireless Communications special issue on "Massive Machine-Type Communications for IoT". He is a co-author of the book "Next Generation Multiple Access" published at Wiley-IEEE Press.
