Huawei

About: Huawei is a company organization based out in Shenzhen, China. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Terminal (electronics) & Node (networking). The organization has 41417 authors who have published 44698 publications receiving 343496 citations. The organization is also known as: Huawei Technologies & Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd..

The University of Sussex-Huawei Locomotion and Transportation Dataset for Multimodal Analytics With Mobile Devices

Abstract: Scientific advances build on reproducible researches which need publicly available benchmark data sets. The computer vision and speech recognition communities have led the way in establishing benchmark data sets. There are much less data sets available in mobile computing, especially for rich locomotion and transportation analytics. This paper presents a highly versatile and precisely annotated large-scale data set of smartphone sensor data for multimodal locomotion and transportation analytics of mobile users. The data set comprises seven months of measurements, collected from all sensors of four smartphones carried at typical body locations, including the images of a body-worn camera, while three participants used eight different modes of transportation in the south-east of the U.K., including in London. In total, 28 context labels were annotated, including transportation mode, participant’s posture, inside/outside location, road conditions, traffic conditions, presence in tunnels, social interactions, and having meals. The total amount of collected data exceed 950 GB of sensor data, which corresponds to 2812 h of labeled data and 17 562 km of traveled distance. We present how we set up the data collection, including the equipment used and the experimental protocol. We discuss the data set, including the data curation process, the analysis of the annotations, and of the sensor data. We discuss the challenges encountered and present the lessons learned and some of the best practices we developed to ensure high quality data collection and annotation. We discuss the potential applications which can be developed using this large-scale data set. In particular, we present how a machine-learning system can use this data set to automatically recognize modes of transportations. Many other research questions related to transportation analytics, activity recognition, radio signal propagation and mobility modeling can be addressed through this data set. The full data set is being made available to the community, and a thorough preview is already published.

Integrated Sensing and Communications: Towards Dual-functional Wireless Networks for 6G and Beyond

Abstract: As the standardization of 5G is being solidified, researchers are speculating what 6G will be. Integrating sensing functionality is emerging as a key feature of the 6G Radio Access Network (RAN), allowing to exploit the dense cell infrastructure of 5G for constructing a perceptive network. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive overview on the background, range of key applications and state-of-the-art approaches of Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC). We commence by discussing the interplay between sensing and communications (S&C) from a historical point of view, and then consider multiple facets of ISAC and its performance gains. By introducing both ongoing and potential use cases, we shed light on industrial progress and standardization activities related to ISAC. We analyze a number of performance tradeoffs between S&C, spanning from information theoretical limits, tradeoffs in physical layer performance, to the tradeoff in cross-layer designs. Next, we discuss signal processing aspects of ISAC, namely ISAC waveform design and receive signal processing. As a step further, we provide our vision on the deeper integration between S&C within the framework of perceptive networks, where the two functionalities are expected to mutually assist each other, i.e., communication-assisted sensing and sensing-assisted communications. Finally, we summarize the paper by identifying the potential integration between ISAC and other emerging communication technologies, and their positive impact on the future of wireless networks.

Method, device and system for radio frequency device pairing

Abstract: A method for radio frequency device pairing includes: after a pairing instruction is received, sending a discovery request message to a second radio frequency device; receiving a discovery response message returned by the second radio frequency device; sending a first pairing request message to the second radio frequency device; receiving a first pairing response message returned by the second radio frequency device; after a button instruction entered by the user according to interface information displayed by the second radio frequency device is received, sending, to the second radio frequency device, a second pairing request message which contains button information corresponding to the button instruction; receiving a second pairing response message which is returned by the second radio frequency device and contains a confirmation result indicating that the button information and the interface information are successfully matched; exchanging keys with the target second radio frequency device, thereby completing pairing.

Joint Device Positioning and Clock Synchronization in 5G Ultra-Dense Networks

Abstract: In this paper, we address the prospects and key enabling technologies for highly efficient and accurate device positioning and tracking in fifth generation (5G) radio access networks. Building on the premises of ultra-dense networks as well as on the adoption of multicarrier waveforms and antenna arrays in the access nodes (ANs), we first formulate extended Kalman filter (EKF)-based solutions for computationally efficient joint estimation and tracking of the time of arrival (ToA) and direction of arrival (DoA) of the user nodes (UNs) using uplink reference signals. Then, a second EKF stage is proposed in order to fuse the individual DoA and ToA estimates from one or several ANs into a UN position estimate. Since all the processing takes place at the network side, the computing complexity and energy consumption at the UN side are kept to a minimum. The cascaded EKFs proposed in this article also take into account the unavoidable relative clock offsets between UNs and ANs, such that reliable clock synchronization of the access-link is obtained as a valuable by-product. The proposed cascaded EKF scheme is then revised and extended to more general and challenging scenarios where not only the UNs have clock offsets against the network time, but also the ANs themselves are not mutually synchronized in time. Finally, comprehensive performance evaluations of the proposed solutions on a realistic 5G network setup, building on the METIS project based outdoor Madrid map model together with complete ray tracing based propagation modeling, are provided. The obtained results clearly demonstrate that by using the developed methods, sub-meter scale positioning and tracking accuracy of moving devices is indeed technically feasible in future 5G radio access networks operating at sub-6 GHz frequencies, despite the realistic assumptions related to clock offsets and potentially even under unsynchronized network elements.

Semantic Matching in Search

Abstract: Relevance is the most important factor to assure users' satisfaction in search and the success of a search engine heavily depends on its performance on relevance. It has been observed that most of the dissatisfaction cases in relevance are due to term mismatch between queries and documents (e.g., query "NY times" does not match well with a document only containing "New York Times"), because term matching, i.e., the bag-of-words approach, still functions as the main mechanism of modern search engines. It is not exaggerated to say, therefore, that mismatch between query and document poses the most critical challenge in search. Ideally, one would like to see query and document match with each other, if they are topically relevant. Recently, researchers have expended significant effort to address the problem. The major approach is to conduct semantic matching, i.e., to perform more query and document understanding to represent the meanings of them, and perform better matching between the enriched query and document representations. With the availability of large amounts of log data and advanced machine learning techniques, this becomes more feasible and significant progress has been made recently. This survey gives a systematic and detailed introduction to newly developed machine learning technologies for query document matching (semantic matching) in search, particularly web search. It focuses on the fundamental problems, as well as the state-of-the-art solutions of query document matching on form aspect, phrase aspect, word sense aspect, topic aspect, and structure aspect. The ideas and solutions explained may motivate industrial practitioners to turn the research results into products. The methods introduced and the discussions made may also stimulate academic researchers to find new research directions and approaches. Matching between query and document is not limited to search and similar problems can be found in question answering, online advertising, cross-language information retrieval, machine translation, recommender systems, link prediction, image annotation, drug design, and other applications, as the general task of matching between objects from two different spaces. The technologies introduced can be generalized into more general machine learning techniques, which is referred to as learning to match in this survey.