Special Session 10  会议特别专题 10

Emerging Technologies for Extremely Large-Scale Antenna Array Systems

Description: This special session aims to bring together recent advances in emerging technologies for extremely large-scale antenna array (ELAA) systems, with a focus on new theories, signal processing methods, and practical applications. ELAA is regarded as a key enabling technology for future wireless communications and sensing systems due to its unprecedented spatial degrees of freedom, ultra-high resolution, and strong capability for beam focusing and environment-aware transmission. At the same time, ELAA also introduces many new challenges, including near-field propagation modeling, scalable channel estimation, hybrid far-field and near-field signal processing, hardware impairments, low-complexity and distributed processing, and integrated communication and sensing.
This special session will provide a forum for researchers from academia and industry to present state-of-the-art results on novel signal processing frameworks, optimization methods, learning-based approaches, and hardware-aware designs for ELAA systems. Contributions addressing both theoretical foundations and application-oriented solutions are highly encouraged.

Session organizers
Assoc. Prof. Feng Xi, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China
Asst. Prof. Dehui Yang, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
Assoc. Prof. Xiaohuan Wu, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Prof. Tianyao Huang, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
▪ Near-field and hybrid far-/near-field channel modeling for ELAA systems
▪ Channel estimation and beam training for ELAA communications
▪ Extremely large-scale MIMO signal processing and transceiver design
▪ Localization and sensing methods for ELAA systems
▪ Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) with ELAA
▪ Array calibration, mutual coupling mitigation, and hardware impairment compensation
▪ Sparse, gridless, and super-resolution methods for ELAA parameter estimation
▪ Learning-aided channel acquisition and signal processing for ELAA
▪ RIS-assisted and cell-free architectures with ELAA
▪ Wideband, high-frequency, and terahertz ELAA systems
▪ Low-complexity and scalable optimization methods for ELAA
▪ Distributed and cooperative signal processing for ELAA systems

Submission method
Submit your Full Paper (no less than 5 pages with two colums) or your paper abstract-without publication (200-400 words) via Online Submission System, then choose Special Session 10 (Emerging Technologies for Extremely Large-Scale Antenna Array Systems)
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Introduction of Session organizers

Assoc. Prof. Feng Xi, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China

Feng Xi received the Ph.D. degree in information and communication engineering from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology. From 2018 to 2019, he was a visiting scholar in the Preston M. Green Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE) at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL). His research interests include radar signal processing, statistical signal and array signal processing, compressive sensing, and convex optimization.



Asst. Prof. Dehui Yang, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China

Dehui Yang earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Colorado School of Mines in 2018. Before joining Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University as an Assistant Professor in 2023, he worked as an applied scientist at Uber Technologies Inc from 2021 to 2023. Prior to that, he was one of the founding data scientists at Root Inc. His interests lie in the general areas of data science, including sparse signal processing and compressive sensing, and predictive modeling using statistical machine learning techniques. He serves as a reviewer for international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, and Signal Processing.



Assoc. Prof. Xiaohuan Wu, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Xiaohuan Wu received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the College of Telecommunication and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China, in 2010 and 2017, respectively, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His current research interests include array signal processing, compressive sensing, millimeter communications and deep learning.




Prof. Tianyao Huang, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China

Tianyao Huang received the B.S. degree in telecommunication engineering from the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 2009, and the Ph.D degree in electronics engineering from the Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2014. From 2014 to 2017, he was a radar Researcher with Aviation Industry Corporation of China, Beijing, China. From 2017 to 2023, he was with the Intelligence Sensing Lab, Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, as an Assistant Professor. He is currently a Professor with the School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China. His research interests include signal processing, compressed sensing, and joint radar communications system design.