Workshop I


6G Positioning, Localization, and Sensing:
Technologies, Intelligence, and Applications

Workshop Organising Committee

Chair

Jiguang He

Great Bay University, China

jiguang.he@gbu.edu.cn

Co-chair

Zhijian Lin

Fuzhou University, China

zlin@fzu.edu.cn

Co-chair

Yuwen Cao

Donghua University, China

ywcao@dhu.edu.cn

Co-chair

Aymen Fakhreddine

University of Klagenfurt, Austria

aymen.fakhreddine@aau.at

Co-chair

Guofa Cai

Guangdong University of Technology, China

caiguofa2006@gdut.edu.cn

Abstract

The evolution toward sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks is transforming positioning, localization, and sensing from auxiliary network functionalities into fundamental capabilities of future intelligent wireless systems. Driven by advances in ultra-wideband communications, massive and distributed antenna arrays, millimeter-wave and terahertz technologies, nearfield propagation, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, integrated sensing and communication, non-terrestrial networks, and artificial intelligence, 6G networks are expected to provide unprecedented spatial awareness and situational intelligence. These capabilities will enable a wide range of emerging applications, including autonomous transportation, unmanned aerial vehicles, robotics, extended reality, smart factories, digital twins, healthcare, and low-altitude intelligent systems.

Despite significant progress, realizing accurate, reliable, scalable, and intelligent positioning, localization, and sensing in complex and dynamic environments remains challenging. Fundamental research questions arise from harsh propagation conditions, network synchronization, hardware impairments, mobility, interference, limited radio resources, heterogeneous sensing modalities, distributed network architectures, privacy and security requirements, and the integration of communication, computation, localization, and sensing functionalities. Moreover, emerging technologies such as AI-native wireless networks, foundation models, semantic communications, and spatial intelligence are creating new opportunities for environment-aware and context-aware localization and sensing systems.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and industry experts from wireless communications, signal processing, sensing, machine learning, robotics, and related fields to discuss recent advances, fundamental challenges, enabling technologies, and emerging applications of positioning, localization, and sensing for 6G networks. The workshop will provide a forum for presenting novel theoretical frameworks, algorithms, architectures, experimental platforms, datasets, and real-world demonstrations, while fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and identifying promising research directions toward intelligent and spatially aware 6G systems.

Potential Topics

  • —  Fundamental limits, performance bounds, and information-theoretic foundations of wireless positioning, localization, and sensing
  • —  6G-native positioning, localization, and sensing architectures
  • —  Integrated sensing, communication, computation, and localization
  • —  Networked, cooperative, and distributed localization and sensing
  • —  Near-field localization, sensing, and spatial characterization
  • —  Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, holographic MIMO, and programmable wireless environments for localization and sensing
  • —  Localization and sensing in non-terrestrial, satellite, aerial, and integrated space-air-ground networks
  • —  Device-free localization, passive sensing, and radio environment perception
  • —  AI-native positioning, localization, and sensing
  • —  Semantic, context-aware, and environment-aware localization and sensing
  • —  Mobility-aware localization, tracking, prediction, and beam management
  • —  Joint waveform, beamforming, resource allocation, and network optimization for positioning and sensing
  • —  Security, privacy, trustworthiness, and adversarial robustness of localization and sensing systems
  • —  Experimental platforms, prototypes, testbeds, field trials, and real-world demonstrations
  • —  Emerging applications and use cases, including autonomous systems, smart transportation, smart factories, healthcare, extended reality, digital twins, and low-altitude intelligent networks

Submission

Submission details refer to the ICAIT 2026 website: https://www.icait.org/submission.html