International Workshop on Synergies in Communications and Localization (SyCoLo 2009)
Final Program
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June 18, 2009, in conjunction with ICC 2009, Dresden, Germany
The main objective of this one-day Workshop is to show how wireless communications and navigation/localization techniques can benefit from each other. With respect to these synergies the Workshop aims at the following fundamental questions:
- How can navigation systems benefit from existing communications systems?
- How can communications systems benefit from positioning information of mobile terminals?
This Workshop, whose proposal was jointly generated by the EU Research Projects WHERE and NEWCOM++, aims at inspiring the development of new position-aware procedures to enhance the efficiency of communication networks, and of new positioning algorithms based both on (outdoor or indoor) wireless communications and on satellite navigation systems.
We invite you to submit your original full papers on the most recent results and technology trends in the fields of:
- Hybrid positioning using both wireless communications and satellite navigation systems;
- Resource management with positioning information;
- Location-aware PHY/MAC algorithms/procedures;
- Indoor positioning combined with short range communications;
- Signal Processing techniques for (seamless) indoor/outdoor localization.
Final Program
- 8:15 Location-Aware Routing Networks
- 9:00 GNSS Positioning in Critical Scenarios: Hybrid Data Fusion with Communications Signals
- Christian Mensing (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany); Stephan Sand (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany); Armin Dammann (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany)
- 9:20 On the Performance of Hybrid GPS/GSM Mobile Terminal Tracking
- Carsten Fritsche (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany); Anja Klein (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
- 9:40 Assessing GPS Robustness in Presence of Communication Signals
- Beatrice Motella (Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Italy); Simone Savasta (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Davide Margaria (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Fabio Dovis (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
- 10:00 Improving the performance of TOA over wireless systems to track mobile targets
- Marc Ciurana (Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain); Francisco Barcelo-Arroyo (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain); Marc Llombart (Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain)
- 10:50 Cluster-Based Ranging for Accurate Localization in Wireless Sensor Neworks
- Simone Sergi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy); Fabrizio Pancaldi (University of Modena, Italy); Giorgio M. Vitetta (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)
- 11:10 Fundamental Performance Limits of TOA-based Cooperative Localization
- Monica Nicoli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Diana Fontanella (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
- 11:30 Coexistence Strategies and Capacity Theorems of Interference Awareness Cognitive Radio
- Yi Ma (University of Surrey, United Kingdom); Na Yi (University of Surrey, United Kingdom); Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey, United Kingdom)
- 11:50 Performance Limits on Ranging with Cognitive Radio
- Davide Dardari (University of Bologna, Italy); Yasir Karisan (Bilkent University, Turkey); Sinan Gezici (Bilkent University, Turkey); Antonio Alberto D'Amico (University of Pisa, Italy); Umberto Mengali (University of Pisa, Italy)
- 14:00 Creating Smart Positioning Solutions
- 14:45 Synergies on Communications and Localization
- 16:00 High-Performance Indoor Localization with Full-Band GSM Fingerprints
- Bruce Denby (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France); Yacine Oussar (ESPCI - Paristech, France); Iness Ahriz (ESPCI - Paristech, France); Gerard Dreyfus (ESPCI - Paristech, France)
- 16:20 A scheme for indoor localization through RF profilling
- Israat Tanzeena Haque (University of Alberta, Canada); Ioanis Nikolaidis (University of Alberta, Canada); Pawel Gburzynski (University of Alberta, Canada)
- 16:40 Joint Estimation of Position and Channel Propagation Model Parameters in a Bluetooth Network
- Javier Rodas Gonzalez (Universidade da Coruna, Spain); Carlos Escudero (Professor, Spain)
- 17:00 Solving the Source Localization Problem via Global Distance Continuation
- Giuseppe Destino (Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland); Giuseppe Abreu (CWC, University of Oulu, Finland)
Extended Deadline of Paper Submission: November 15, 2008 - Paper Acceptance Notification: January 15, 2009
- Latest Registration: June 18th, 2009
- Camera-Ready Paper: Mar. 1, 2009
Keynote I (Moe Win, MIT, USA)
Session 1: Positioning with GNSS and Communication Systems
Session 2: Cooperative Positioning and Cognitive Radio
12.20 - 14.00 Lunch Break
Keynote II (David Park, Geospatial Research Centre, New Zealand)
Expert Panel: (David Park, Geospatial Research Centre), Hans Schotten (Technical University of Kaiserslautern), Dirk Slock (Eurecom), Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University)
Session 3: Fingerprinting and Positioning Algorithms
Call for Papers
Deadlines
Paper Submission
Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published. Paper length should not exceed five-page technical paper manuscript.
Papers should be submitted in a .pdf format by selecting ICC 2009 at the EDAS paper submission website and then selecting the workshop submission link. Please use the submission procedure as describe on the ICC 2009 website. All papers are also included in the IEEE Xplore.