Ana Garcia Armada

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Vice President of Member and Global Activities, IEEE Communications Society & Professor, University Carlos III of Madrid (Spain)

Title of talk: On the way towards Immersive Communications - From the KPIs to a new Physical Layer

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.
Short Bio:
Ana Garcia Armada is a Professor at University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain, where she is leading the Communications Research Group. She has been visiting scholar at Stanford University, Bell Labs and University of Southampton. She has published more than 250 papers in international journals and conference proceedings and she holds five granted patents. She is serving on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Communications and IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. She has served on the TPC of more than 40 conferences and she has been a member of the organizing committee of IEEE Globecom 2022, IEEE Globecom 2021 (General Chair), IEEE Globecom 2019, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) Fall 2018, Spring 2018 and 2019, among others. She has been an officer since 2017 and is now the Vice-Chair of IEEE ComSoc Signal Processing and Computing for Communications Committee. She has been a Member at Large of the Board of Governors, Director of Online Content and member of several management committees in the IEEE Communications Society, where she is now the VP of Member and Global Activities. She has received the Young Researchers Excellence Award, the Award to Outstanding achievement in research, teaching and management and the Award to Best Practices in Teaching, all from University Carlos III of Madrid. She was awarded the third place Bell Labs Prize 2014 for shaping the future of information and communications technology. She received the Outstanding service award from the IEEE ComSoc Signal Processing and Communications Electronics technical committee in 2019 and the Outstanding service award from the IEEE ComSoc Women in Communications Engineering Standing Committee in 2020. She received the IEEE ComSoc/KICS Exemplary Global Service Award in 2022.