Dr Ana Garcia Armada: On the way towards immersive Communications: Careers in Technology

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Professor Ana Garcia Armada, PhD Careers in Technology

Affiliation: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Talk Title: On the way towards immersive communications – from the PHY to the end-to-end system

Name: Professor Ana Garcia Armada, PhD

Live Talk Abstract:

The evolution of mobile communications towards 6G will enable new applications and services that will require a new radio interface to meet new and challenging key performance indicators (KPIs). It is expected to work ubiquitously in all types of environments, including some challenging ones that were not fully covered by 5G. If we aim at fully immersive communications, what new requirements do we have for the waveform and the way the radio resources are organized? These have an enormous impact on the achievability of the KPIs and the ubiquitous provision of mobile services.

The talk will start by presenting the main new features of 5G networks that are producing a substantial leap in the technology, enabling virtual and augmented reality (XR) services. With the example of AMATISTA, a project that is offering immersive music therapy based on virtual reality in a nursing home, the status of the technology will be presented. Further developments in projects dealing with XR will be explained, summarizing the current state of the art and what is missing, that 6G should achieve.

Waveforms and the way radio resources are organized have a major impact on the viability of these KPIs. Then, the talk examines some of the possible solutions for the physical layer of next generation radio access, with a focus on the waveforms and signaling structure required for channel estimation, looking at a joint optimisation of the communications and sensing that the new applications are requiring.

Brief bio

Ana Garcia Armada is an IEEE Fellow. She is currently a Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, where she has served in a variety of management 
positions (Head of Signal Theory and Communications Department, Vice-dean of Electrical Engineering, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of International Relations). 
She is leading the Communications Research Group at this university. She has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University, Bell Labs and 
University of Southampton. She has participated and coordinated a large number of national and international research projects as well as 
contracts with the industry. She is the co-author of eight book chapters on wireless communications and signal processing. She has published more 
than 250 papers in international journals and conference proceedings and she holds six granted patents. She is serving on the editorial board of 
IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (Associate Editor in Chief since 2024) and ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies. 
She is the Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Signal Processing and Computing for Communications technical committee and the Vice President of 
Member and Global Activities of IEEE ComSoc. She has been awarded the third place Bell Labs Prize for shaping the future of information and 
communications technology. She has received the outstanding service award from the IEEE ComSoc Signal Processing and Communications Electronics 
technical committee, the outstanding service award from the IEEE ComSoc Women in Communications Engineering Standing Committee, and the 
IEEE ComSoc/KICS Exemplary Global Service award.

Ana Garcia Armada, PhD: On the way towards immersive communications – from the PHY to the end-to-end system