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First International Workshop on Pervasive Radars (PerRad)

PerRad is Held in Conjucture with IEEE PerCom'26 Workshops

March 16 to 20, Pisa, Italy

Call For Papers

As radars like mmWave and UWB are increasingly adopted in pervasive applications, ranging from smart homes to autonomous systems, this workshop will highlight cutting-edge challenges and foster interdisciplinary dialogue. By focusing on resource-constrained deployment, privacy/security, cross-modal integration, and real-world scalability, PerRad promises to bridge gaps between hardware, signal processing, and pervasive computing systems, offering the PerCom community fresh insights and a vibrant forum to explore the future of radar-enabled pervasive environments. The PerRad workshop aims to attract a multidisciplinary community of researchers and practitioners across pervasive computing, radar sensing, wireless networking, and edge AI. It seeks participation from both academia and industry, including radar hardware designers, signal processing experts, embedded and edge computing researchers, and those working on privacy/security in pervasive sensing. Additionally, the workshop encourages collaboration with practitioners deploying radar-based solutions in smart homes, automotive systems, and ambient intelligence applications.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest for PerRad include, but are not limited to, the following:
  • Adaptive radar sensing in dynamic and cluttered environments
  • Joint sensing and communication
  • Synthetic radar signal generation to augment data scarcity
  • Signal processing and clutter mitigation for pervasive radars
  • Cross-modal sensor fusion (radar + vision/acoustic/inertial)
  • Low-power and resource-aware radar sensing techniques
  • Human activity recognition and behavior modeling using radar
  • Radar-based vital sign and emotion sensing for pervasive health
  • Privacy-preserving radar data collection and analysis
  • Security vulnerabilities and adversarial attacks on radar sensing
  • Standardization of radar APIs and data formats for interoperability
  • Edge-based processing and distributed radar data analytics
  • Radar-based sensing for smart city and intelligent transportation applications
  • Applications of acoustic radars and handheld radar systems
  • Emerging use cases of mmWave and UWB radars in pervasive scenarios
  • Deployment experiences and lessons learned in real-world radar systems

Submission Instructions

Paper submission must be done for PerRad workshop via EDAS. If you do not have an EDAS account, please, register first (it’s free) via the following link: register. The direct submission link for PerRad 2026 is https://edas.info/N34029

PerRad 2026 will follow a double-blind review process. Authors are expected to make a good-faith effort to anonymize their submissions. In particular, as in previous PerCom editions, publishing pre-prints of your submitted papers in online archives (e.g., arXiv) prior to submission does NOT disqualify the paper from consideration at PerCom. Moreover, we instruct reviewers NOT to go searching for pre-prints of submitted papers.

Submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication. Also, they must show a significant relevance to pervasive computing and communications. Submitted papers will undergo a rigorous review process handled by the Technical Program Committee. Only electronic submissions in PDF format will be considered.

The IEEE LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates, as well as formatting instructions, can be found here. Papers must be at most 6 pages of technical content (10pt font, 2-column format), including text, figures, and tables, and references.

Accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore. Papers without a valid full registration or that are not presented in-person will be excluded from the proceedings. Please note that the camera-ready submission deadline is final and non-negotiable. No extensions will be granted.