WILMINGTON, DE — InterDigital, Inc., a leading mobile and video technology research and development company, announced that Dr. Alain Mourad, Head of InterDigital’s Wireless Lab Europe, has been elected Chair of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute’s (ETSI) new Industry Specification Group (ISG) on Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC).
The election took place at the inaugural ETSI ISAC ISG meeting on November 17, which saw over 80 representatives from industry and academia participate. The group agreed to establish the technical foundation for developing ISAC technology and its future standardization in 6G.
ISAC technology uses radio signals to detect and estimate characteristics of target objects in the environment, enabling the network to act as a “radar” sensor and utilize its own radio signals to comprehend the physical world it operates within. The data collected can be used to enhance network operations and enable new services like gesture recognition, object detection, and environment reconstruction.
“I’m delighted to lead the ISAC ISG for its inaugural two-year release. ISAC is a pillar technology for 6G and it’s timely for ETSI’s ISAC ISG to streamline the ongoing research on ISAC towards its future specifications in the first release of 6G,” said Alain Mourad, InterDigital’s Head of Wireless Labs Europe and ISAC ISG Chair.
The ETSI ISAC ISG aims to define a prioritized set of 6G use cases and sensing types and develop an evaluation roadmap focused on advanced 6G use cases. The group will also work on developing advanced channel models for ISAC use cases to address gaps in existing communication-based channel models.
“Alain’s strong leadership as the chair of the ETSI ISG on ISAC will provide a bedrock for enhanced capabilities and new use cases to explore in 6G,” said Rajesh Pankaj, Chief Technology Officer, InterDigital.
The ETSI ISAC ISG will undertake two studies, one on privacy and security aspects associated with sensing data within the ISAC 6G framework and the other on the impact of widespread deployment of ISAC on UN sustainability goals.
Learn more about the ETSI ISAC ISG here.
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