Commission C: Radio-Communication Systems and Signal Processing

Description

Commission C emphasizes the scientific aspects of radiofrequency (RF) theory and applications, provides enabling technologies to other areas of radio science, and designs effective RF and signal-processing systems. Designs of effective RF and signal-processing systems include scientific, engineering, and economic considerations. In particular, Commission C promotes research and development in:

• Radio communication systems (IoT, 5G, NextG, MIMO, MISO);
• Information theory, coding, modulation, and detection theory and applications;
• Spectrum and medium utilization (cognitive and cooperative techniques, electromagnetic spectral harmony);
• Wireless networking;
• Radar (software-defined, cognitive, distributed, imaging, synthetic-aperture, ground-penetrating, ultrawideband, target detection, localization, tracking, space-time processing);
• Distributed, multiple-modality, electromagnetic, autonomous systems;
• Radio-localization and navigation systems;
• Convergence of multiple RF modalities (communication, radar, sensing, calibration, surveillance, etc.);
• Waveform diversity;
• Simultaneous transmission and reception (STAR);
• Signal and image processing and information extraction;
• Green and energy-efficient operation of RF systems;
• Computational imaging and inverse methods;
• Applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning to RF systems and signal processing;
• Electromagnetic modeling of systems and environments;
• Sensor networks, sensor-array processing, and calibration;
• Ultrawideband communication, radar, surveillance, interference.