Signal Processing and Tensor Techniques for Communication and Positioning Systems

Dear Colleagues,

The 5G standard for broadband wireless communication addresses location-specific services requiring positioning information alongside its high accuracy, low latency and enhanced reliability communication. Such requirements will be further emphasized in the future vision of 6G wireless communication, which emerges as a further evolution of advanced telecommunications well beyond 5G. Such future systems will be designed not only to allow reliable transmission of information, but also to allow accurate localization. Hence, communication and positioning will become intertwined in modern wireless communication, posing new challenges for information theory and signal processing research. Tensors provide a convenient mathematical framework to represent, analyze and design such complex systems.

This Special Issue addresses the challenges of advanced signal processing and system design techniques for wireless communication and positioning applications. Of interest are works considering signal processing and tensor techniques for integrated communication and positioning, as well as separated such applications. Suitable topics for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Information-theoretical limits to communication and positioning in wireless systems.
• Information-theory-inspired techniques for communication and positioning.
• Modulation and coding for communication and positioning.
• Tensor techniques for information transmission and positioning.
• Tensor-based methods for interference robust communication and positioning.
• Tensor applications in satellite navigation and communication.
• Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces for localization and communication.
• Networking aspects of information transmission and positioning.
• Resource allocation techniques for communication and positioning.
• Sensing and communication aspects for positioning.
• AI-assisted techniques for communication and positioning application.
• Wireless federated learning for positioning.
• Satellite-based communication and positioning for future wireless communication services.
• Applications such as 6G, autonomous driving vehicles, UAVs, IoT, safety and security, visible light systems and satellite systems.

Prof. Dr. Harry Leib
Guest Editor

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• ultra-reliable communication
• localization
• GNSS
• modulation
• channel coding
• tensors
• reconfigurable intelligent surfaces
• machine learning
• 6G
• IoT