Wireless innovations Next-generation
Online Workshop(WiNOW)
3-6 November, 2025 // Virtual

Wenchao Xia

Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunication

Wenchao Xia received his B.S. degree in Communication Engineering in 2014 and his Ph.D. degree in Communication and Information Systems in 2019, both from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China. He is currently a faculty member at the Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Wireless Communications and IoT, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. His research interests include Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) and fluid antenna systems (FAS). He was a recipient of the IEEE GlobeCom Best Paper Award in 2016 and the IEEE JC&S Best Paper Award in 2022. He also serves as Vice Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks’ Special Interest Group (SIG) on FAS, and as an Associate Editor for both IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.

Talk Title:  Cooperative Strategy for Distributed Multi-point ISAC Systems

This work studies on ISAC systems for Mobile IoT, emphasizing distributed multi-point architectures that combine active and passive sensing. We first develop a power optimization framework for dual-function radar-communication systems, demonstrating that unlimited backhaul capacity with centralized signal fusion achieves higher target detection probability compared to limited backhaul relying on binary result fusion. Then we introduce a beamforming optimization strategy, distinguishing between the cases with and without sensing interference cancellation. It proves that dedicated sensing signals and optimal beam alignment significantly enhance sensing performance when interference is mitigated. We further propose a deep learning-based auto-compression framework using model-agnostic meta-learning (MAML) to address backhaul constraints. This approach efficiently compresses sensing signals, reducing overhead while maintaining detection accuracy, thus bridging ideal and limited backhaul scenarios. In summary, this work studies power and beamforming optimization issues in distributed multi-point ISAC architectures considering practical backhaul constraints, advancing spectral efficiency and sensing robustness for next-generation mobile IoT.