Program 2015

Program 2015

 
 

EDAS program with links to accepted papers: (for authors)

http://edas.info/p18687

Academic Keynote:

Vincent Poor (Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA)

Privacy in Networks of Interacting Agents

Network localization and navigation often involve distributed agents, or sensors, who must exchange information in order to make inferences about their environments. Though such agents can clearly benefit from exchanging information, they may also wish to maintain a degree of privacy in that information exchange. Such situations give rise to a notion of competitive privacy, which can be explored through a combination of information theory and game theory. In particular, information theory can be used to characterize the tradeoff between privacy of data and the usefulness of that data for an individual agent, while game theory can be used to model the interactions between multiple agents each of whom is mindful of that tradeoff. These ideas will be explored in this talk in a general setting, and then particularly in the context of data exchange for distributed state estimation, in which specific solutions can be obtained. Other potential applications areas and open issues will also be discussed.

Biography

H. Vincent Poor is the Michael Henry Strater University Professor at Princeton University, where is also Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. He has held visiting appointments at a number of other universities, including most recently at Stanford and Imperial College. His research interests are in wireless networks, smart grid and related areas. Dr. Poor is a Member of the U. S. National Academy of Engineering and the U. S. National Academy of Sciences, and is a Foreign Member of the Royal Society. An IEEE Fellow, he is also a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering of the U.K. A recipient of ComSoc’s Marconi and Armstrong Awards in 2007 and 2009, respectively, recent recognition of his work includes the 2014 URSI Booker Gold Medal, and honorary doctorates from several universities in Asia and Europe.

Industry Keynote:

Frank Schubert (Airbus Defence and Space, Germany)

From Space Receivers to Integrity on the Ground - Navigation Signal Processing at Airbus Defence and Space

The talk's first part will illustrate the diversity of applications of positioning and navigation by reviewing selected projects on the topic that are currently on-going in the Space Systems Division of Airbus Defence and Space. For example, we will show the peculiarities needed to make receivers for Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) work aboard satellites and the architecture of the future generation of the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS). Additionally, non-satellite-based systems for local positioning and guidance will be showcased, such as DeckFinder, a system for automated landings of aerial vehicles on ships' flight decks as well as I-Lite, an indoor localization system.The talk's second part will address selected technical aspects and challenges, as well as innovative solutions, for tracking of modern GNSS signals, robust navigation, and providing integrity for land users. We will also explain how the requirements from multiple projects govern the design and implementation of the Positioning and Integrity Performance Evaluator (PIPE), a tool which is not only being used for algorithm development for new GNSS software and hardware receivers but which also facilitates end-to-end simulations.

Biography

Dr. Frank M. Schubert obtained his Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering in 2007 from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. From 2007 until 2011 he was a member of the scientific staff at the Institute of Communications and Navigation of the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Simultaneously, he was also part of the Wave Propagation and Interaction Section at the European Space Agency (ESA) in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, within the Networking/Partnering Initiative from 2008 until 2010. From 2009 until 2012 Dr. Schubert was an external Ph.D. student in the Navigation and Communications Section at Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark. He obtained the Ph.D. degree in wireless communications from AAU in October 2012. The following month he joined the PRS and Signals Department at Airbus Defence and Space in Ottobrunn, Germany, as a system engineer for navigation signal processing. He is currently working on receiver prototypes for Galileo’s Public Regulated Service, integrity algorithms for land-mobile users, and a testbed for the Navigation Land-Earth Station of the future EGNOS v3 system.

Detailed Program for ICC'15 - W15: Workshop on Advances in Network Localization and Navigation

Monday, June 8

09:00 - 09:50 WS-15-01: Industry Keynote

From Space Receivers to Integrity on the Ground - Navigation Signal Processing at Airbus Defence and Space

Frank Schubert, Airbus Defence and Space, Germany

Room: Capital Suite 4
Chairs: Klaus Witrisal (Graz University of Technology, Austria) and Davide Dardari (Univ. of Bologna, Italy)

09:50 - 10:30 WS-15-02: Fundamental Limits 1

Room: Capital Suite 4
Chair: Michael Buehrer (Verginia Tech, USA)

Tracking and positioning using phase information from estimated multi-path components

Meifang Zhu, Joao Vieira, Yubin Kuang and Kalle Åström (Lund University, Sweden); Andreas Molisch (University of Southern California, USA); Fredrik Tufvesson (Lund University, Sweden)

Robust Power Allocation for OFDM Wireless Network Localization

Arash Shahmansoori (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain); Gonzalo Seco-Granados (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain); Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

10:30 - 11:00 WS-15-I1: Cooperative Localization and Testbeds

Room: Capital Suite 3 Interactive Session
Chair: Andrea Conti (ENDIF University of Ferrara, WiLAB University of Bologna, Italy)

Cooperative hybrid localization using Gaussian processes and belief propagation

Samuel Van de Velde (Ghent University, Belgium); Gundeep Arora (Indian Institute of Technology, India); Luigi Vallozzi, Hendrik Rogier and Heidi Steendam (Ghent University, Belgium)

Frequentist Inference for WiFi Fingerprinting 3D Indoor Positioning

Giuseppe Caso (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Luca De Nardis (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy); Maria Gabriella Di Benedetto (University of Rome La Sapienza Italy, Italy)

On the RSS biases in WLAN-based indoor positioning

Elina Laitinen, Jukka Talvitie and Elena Simona Lohan (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)

Localization Method for Device-to-Device through User Movement

The Dang Huynh (Alcatel-Lucent France, France); Chung Shue Chen (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France); Siu-Wai Ho (University of South Australia, Australia)

Web-based Platform for Evaluation of RF-based Indoor Localization Algorithms

Filip Lemic (Technical University of Berlin (TUB) & Telecommunication Network Group (TKN), Germany); Vlado Handziski (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Niklas Johan Wirström (SICS, Sweden); Tom Van Haute (Ghent University - iMinds, Germany); Eli De Poorter (Ghent University & IBBT, Belgium); Thiemo Voigt (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden); Adam Wolisz (TUB, Germany)

Nonparametric Belief Propagation based Positioning via Distributed Network Formation

Xiaopeng Li, Hui Gao and Tiejun Lv (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Xin Su (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

11:00 - 12:15 WS-15-03: Robust Localization

Room: Capital Suite 4
Chair: Yuan Shen (Tsinghua University, China)

Joint Scheduling and Localization in UWB Networks

Gabriel E. Garcia (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Wuhua Hu and Wee Peng Tay (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

Bayesian Ranging for Radio Localization with and without Line-of-Sight Detection

Lishuai Jing (Aalborg University & Aalborg Universitet, Denmark); Troels Pedersen and Bernard Henri Fleury (Aalborg University, Denmark)

An Area State-Aided Indoor Localization Algorithm and Its Implementation

Kaiqing Zhang and Hong Hu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Wenhan Dai (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Yuan Shen (Tsinghua University & Massachusetts Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Moe Win (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

Sensor Localization in NLOS Environments with Anchor Uncertainty and Unknown Clock Parameters

Siamak Yousefi (McGill University, Ireland); Reza Monir Vaghefi (Virginia Tech, USA); Xiao-Wen Chang and Benoit Champagne (McGill University, Canada); Michael Buehrer (Virginia Tech, USA)

12:15 - 13:00 WS-15-04: Academic Keynote

Privacy in Networks of Interacting Agents

Vincent Poor, Princeton University

Room: Capital Suite 4
Chair: Andrea Conti (ENDIF University of Ferrara, WiLAB University of Bologna, Italy)

14:30 - 16:00 WS-15-05: SLAM and Map-Awareness

Room: Capital Suite 4
Chair: Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

Bayesian Multi-Target Localization using Blocking Statistics in Multipath Environments

Sundar Aditya and Andreas Molisch (University of Southern California, USA); Hatim Behairy (King Abdulaziz City For Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping using Multipath Channel Information

Erik Leitinger, Paul Meissner, Manuel Lafer and Klaus Witrisal (Graz University of Technology, Austria)

A Combined GP-State Space Method for Efficient Crowd Mapping

Davide Dardari, Alberto Arpino, Francesco Guidi and Roberto Naldi (University of Bologna, Italy)

Reduced-Complexity Techniques for Indoor Map-Aware Localization

Francesco Montorsi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy); Fabrizio Pancaldi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia & Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT), Italy); Giorgio M. Vitetta (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)

An Empirical Ranging Error Model and Efficient Cooperative Positioning for Indoor Applications

Shenghong Li and Mark Hedley (CSIRO, Australia); Iain B. Collings (Macquarie University, Australia)

16:00 - 16:30 WS-15-I2: Cooperative Localization and Testbeds

Room: Capital Suite 3 Interactive Session
Chair: Davide Dardari (University of Bologna, Italy)

This session features the same interactive presentations as the interactive session WS-15-I1 at 10:30 - 11:00

16:30 - 18:00 WS-15-06: Fundamental Limits 2

Room: Capital Suite 4
Chair: Andreas Molisch (University of Southern California, USA)

Position and Orientation Error Bound for Wideband Massive Antenna Arrays

Anna Guerra (CNIT - University of Bologna, Italy); Francesco Guidi and Davide Dardari (University of Bologna, Italy)

Joint Power and Spectrum Optimization in Wireless Localization Networks

Chuan Qin, Liyuan Song and Tingting Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen Graduate School, P.R. China); Yuan Shen (Tsinghua University & Massachusetts Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Andreas Molisch (University of Southern California, USA); Qinyu Zhang (Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China)

Monostatic Indoor Localization: Bounds and Limits

Gregor Dumphart (ETH Zurich, Switzerland); Erik Leitinger, Paul Meissner and Klaus Witrisal (Graz University of Technology, Austria)

Localization Performance in Cellular Networks

Javier Schloemann, Harpreet S Dhillon and Michael Buehrer (Virginia Tech, USA)

Optimal Jamming of Wireless Localization Systems

Sinan Gezici (Bilkent University, Turkey); Mohammad Reza Gholami (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Suat Bayram (Turgut Ozal University, Turkey); Magnus Jansson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)