Title: Water Level and Rainfall Sensing Exploiting Mobile Communication Signals
时间：2025年4月14日 星期一 10:00a.m.-11:00a.m.
地点：无线谷 1319 会议室
Abstract:
Mobile network is evolving from a communication-only network towards one with integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) capabilities, which we call a perceptive mobile network (PMN). It is expected to become part of the 6G mobile communications standard. In PMNs, sensing can be seamlessly realized by using the received communication signals, leveraging communications infrastructure.
This talk explores the potential of leveraging mobile signals for environmental sensing, with a focus on water level and rainfall detection. I will start by introducing the PMN framework and outlining the necessary system modifications to enable sensing capabilities in existing communication infrastructure. In this context, I will provide a brief overview of key enabling technologies for bi-static sensing, where a receiver (such as a base station) utilizes signals from geographically separated transmitters (such as UEs) for sensing purposes. Building on this foundation, I will present our recent work on water level monitoring and rainfall detection, demonstrating how bi-static sensing plays a pivotal role in these advancements.
My biography:
Dr J. Andrew Zhang is a Professor in the School of Electrical and Data Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. His research interests are in the area of signal processing for wireless communications and sensing. Prof. Zhang has published more than 330 papers in leading Journals and conference proceedings, and has won 7 best paper awards. He is a recipient of CSIRO Chairman's Medal and the Australian Engineering Innovation Award in 2012 for exceptional research achievements in multi-gigabit wireless communications.
Prof. Zhang is one of the pioneer researchers in integrated sensing and communications (ISAC). He initiated the concept of perceptive mobile network, by defining its system framework and demonstrating its feasibility in a set of papers back in 2017. Prof. Zhang co-organized a number of ISAC workshops at leading conferences and special issues in leading IEEE journals. He has delivered ISAC tutorials in WCNC 2021, ICC 2021, and ICC 2022, and numerous keynotes and invited talks. Prof. Zhang has received more than eight million dollars of research funds in this area.
