Integrated Localization and Communication: Advances and Challenges
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Communications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 April 2025 | Viewed by 3706
Special Issue Editors
Interests: radio signal propagation; radio channel modeling and measurements; localization and sensing; terrestrial and satellite communications
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Interests: measurement and modeling of wireless propagation channels; high-speed railway communications; ray-tracing and machine-learning-based digital twin of electromagnetic environments in various complex scenarios; such as vehicle-to-x communications; terahertz communication systems; integrated sensing and communications; space–air–ground integrated networks
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Interests: joint communication and sensing; antenna and radio propagation; channel modeling and parameter estimation; MIMO
Interests: Internet of Things (IoT) protocols and applications; industrial IoT; IoT for healthcare; next-generation network architectures and applications; cross-layer protocol design; wireless sensor networks
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to contribute to a Special Issue of Sensors on the subject area of "Integrated Localization and Communication: Advances and Challenges". New 6G communication systems are introducing radically new services that require terabits per second (Tb/s) data rates and sub-millisecond delays. The accurate location of the user (mobile device) is important not only for location-based services, but also for achieving the required communication performance and improving network efficiency. The location information can be used for channel estimation, bean alignment, medium access control, routing, and network optimization. On the other hand, advances in communication technologies, such as mmWave and THz technologies, extremely large antenna arrays (ELAA), ultra-dense networks (UDN), reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), and artificial intelligence (AI), offer the possibility of moving localization accuracy into the centimeter range. Research on integrated localization and communication (ILAC) is needed to achieve high-throughput, low-latency communication with centimeter-level localization accuracy. Separate extensive studies on localization and wireless communication exist, while there is a gap in the research on ILAC where both functions can be developed together for the efficient use of resources. ILAC is expected to influence the traditional algorithm and protocol design and evolve the future wireless networks into intelligent and interactive networks. However, many challenges still need to be overcome, especially resource sharing, information exchange, and performance trade-offs between communication and localization.
This Special Issue will deal with novel approaches, concepts, algorithms, and protocols for ILAC in 6G wireless networks. We are soliciting high-quality original research papers on topics including, but not limited to:
- Fundamental information, network architectures, and transmission protocols for ILAC;
- Key enabling technologies for ILAC;
- Location-assisted mmWave and THz communications;
- Massive MIMO, extremely large antenna array (ELAA), and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) for ILAC;
- ILAC in vehicular-to-everything (V2X) networks and automotive radar;
- ILAC in aerial–ground networks;
- ILAC in (Industrial) Internet of Things (I)IoT networks;
- Advancements in algorithms and protocols for ILAC;
- Machine learning/AI-enhanced ILAC.
Dr. Andrej Hrovat
Prof. Dr. Ke Guan
Dr. Yang Miao
Prof. Dr. Gordana Gardasevic
Guest Editors
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