5th IEEE ICC Workshop on Advances in Network Localization and Navigation (ANLN)

Localization, tracking, and navigation – for indoor and outdoor environments – have been gaining relevance thanks to the steadily expanding range of enabling devices and technologies, as well as the necessity for seamless solutions for location-based services. Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, and 5G communication networks will all benefit from localization, tracking, and navigation capabilities, leading to a vast range of new and heterogeneous application scenarios. A current trend in the design of solutions for localization, tracking, and navigation is to use standard, low-cost, and already deployed technologies. These technologies are highly heterogeneous as well, encompassing, to name a few examples, inertial measurement units, sonar, laser, IR, visible light communications, or RF signals. The RF signals typically include WiFi, UWB, RFID, Bluetooth, NFC, 3GPP/LTE, 802.11x, digital TV, or, in general, so-called available signals of opportunity. The availability of such technologies clearly entails that the latest challenge in localization, tracking, and navigation is not only to develop specialized sensors for these tasks but also to design and implement methods that exploit the cooperation of the already available systems. Data fusion, cross-layer optimization, and new application environments are therefore the key aspects for further advances of the field and present exciting challenges for wireless communications and signal processing practitioners and researchers.

The goal of the workshop is to solicit the development of new positioning algorithms based on short-range wireless communications as well as new location-aware procedures to enhance the efficiency of communication networks. It will bring together academic and industrial researchers to identify and discuss technical challenges and recent results related to localization, tracking, and navigation, as well as its connection to communication networks.

The workshop is organized in part by the EU COST Action IRACON, the Austrian Research Network DependableThings, and the EU-Marie Curie Project "PATH".