IEEE PIMRC 2026 Workshop

About the Workshop

Next generation wireless networks are envisioned to seamlessly integrate communications, localization, ranging, imaging, and environment awareness within a unified platform. Reconfigurable electromagnetic technologies provide fine-grained control over aperture shape, size, position, orientation, and radiation to meet these multi-functional demands. Recent advances such as fluid antenna systems, pinching antennas, movable and flexible arrays, RF pixel apertures, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, metasurfaces, and holographic MIMO offer spatial agility and software-controlled adaptability. These innovations can significantly improve link reliability, sensing fidelity, spectrum use, and energy efficiency.

This workshop focuses on how these apertures and their control stack enable integrated sensing and communications in practical systems across aerial, vehicular, and terrestrial settings. We aim to connect electromagnetic design with waveform, protocol, and edge intelligence, share testbeds and deployment lessons, and define open problems in modelling, calibration, coupling, and cross layer integration.

Topics of Interest

• Fluid Antenna Systems for sensing and communication, including liquid, dielectric, conductive, and RF pixel implementations
• Pinching antenna concepts, materials, tuning methods, and system integration for sensing and communication
• Movable and flexible antennas and arrays for spatial diversity, blockage mitigation, and task aware operation
• Next generation reconfigurable antennas and metasurfaces, RIS and holographic MIMO modelling, discretization, and calibration
• Joint aperture and waveform design for communication, localization, and imaging
• Waveform design, adaptive beamforming, codebook free control, dwell and time budgeting for sensing tasks
• Joint scene and channel estimation, clutter and interference suppression, multi point coherent sensing
• Resource allocation and interference management for multi-functional reconfigurable networks
• Architectures and transmission protocols for low altitude and terrestrial networks using reconfigurable antennas
• Edge intelligence and learning for joint power, rate, beam, and aperture control, prediction guided sensing
• Security and privacy using reconfigurable antennas
• Systems, testbeds, datasets, digital twins, and over the air validation

Important Dates

• Paper Submission Deadline: 5 June 2026
• Acceptance Notification: 8 July 2026
• Camera-ready Deadline: 1 August 2026

Organizers

Steering Committee

Prof. Chau Yuen, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Prof. Hing Cheung So, City University of Hong Kong, China

Prof. A. Lee Swindlehurst, University of California Irvine, US

Workshop Co-Chairs

Kaitao Meng, University of Manchester, UK

Meng Hua, Imperial College London, UK

Michails Matthaiou, Queen's University Belfast, UK

Nir Shlezinger, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Christos Masouros, University College London, UK

Guangji Chen, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China

Kawon Han, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea

Keynote Speaker

Kai Kit Wong, University College London, UK

Submission

Submission details will be announced soon via the IEEE PIMRC 2026 submission system.

Contact

Prof. Kaitao Meng
University of Manchester, UK
Email: kaitao.meng@manchester.ac.uk