Title: On Communication and Sensing Measurements and Modeling for Next “G”

Time and Date: Thursday, June 15, 2023, 9:00am US Eastern Time (New York Time)

Presenter:  Dr. Nada T. Golmie, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

Venue: https://zoom.us/j/9172542706 (Password: 4Zn7xZ)

Abstract: As the needs for sensing the physical world to support detection, tracking, AR/VR and slew of other applications increase, the use of communications waveforms for sensing is attracting a lot of attention and is likely to emerge as one of the main features in NextG development.
In this talk we discuss key challenges in measurement science and modeling approaches for advanced communications and sensing going forward. We will review the main building blocks for joint communications and sensing in terms of efficient spectrum use, higher frequency bands and the use machine learning. The millimeter-wave and terahertz bands hold the promise of significant bandwidth and speed due to large swaths of untapped spectrum. In addition, as massive data volumes are being collected, analyzed, and delivered, communications systems have become too complex to develop, manage, and operate. The insights that are “mined” from the data using Machine Learning (ML) techniques have become standard practice. In this talk, we discuss state -of -the art and key challenges in measurement and modeling techniques to expedite the development and pave the way for the next “G”.

Bio: Nada Golmie (nada@nist.gov) received her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park. Since 1993, she has been a research engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. From 2014 to 2022, she served as the chief for the Wireless Networks Division in the Communications Technology Laboratory. She is an IEEE and a NIST Fellow. Her research in media access control and protocols for wireless networks led to over 200 technical papers presented at professional conferences, journals, and contributed to international standard organizations and industry led consortia. She is the author of “Coexistence in Wireless Networks: Challenges and System-level Solutions in the Unlicensed Bands,” published by Cambridge University Press (2006). She leads several projects related to the modeling and evaluation of future generation wireless systems and protocols and serves as the NextG Channel Model Alliance chair.