Positioning and sensing have long been an important area of research. Recently, this field has attracted more attention due to the rapid deployment of emerging applications and next-generation communication networks. On the one hand, emerging applications like extended reality (XR) and autonomous vehicle systems need to precisely “see” the physical world, thus greatly increasing the demands on positioning and sensing technologies. Moreover, these applications also require data rate communication links, and thus technologies like cellular networks and WiFi are excellent for supporting these applications. On the other hand, with the evolution of wireless networks, positioning, and sensing have also been considered important functions of future wireless networks that can further enhance communication performance. Although existing wireless communication has achieved significant success in the past several decades, achieving satisfying positioning and sensing performance for these emerging applications remains a challenge due to the complexity of the wireless environment and the stringent performance requirements.

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客座社论通过无线网络进行定位和感知 - 第一部分


定位和传感长期以来一直是一个重要的研究领域。近年来，由于新兴应用和下一代通信网络的快速部署，该领域引起了越来越多的关注。一方面，扩展现实（XR）和自动驾驶汽车系统等新兴应用需要精确地“看到”物理世界，从而大大增加了对定位和传感技术的需求。此外，这些应用还需要数据速率通信链路，因此蜂窝网络和 WiFi 等技术非常适合支持这些应用。另一方面，随着无线网络的演进，定位和传感也被认为是未来无线网络的重要功能，可以进一步提升通信性能。尽管现有的无线通信在过去几十年中取得了巨大的成功，但由于无线环境的复杂性和严格的性能要求，为这些新兴应用实现令人满意的定位和传感性能仍然是一个挑战。