WSA 2024 Commentary

Welcome NoteO N behalf of the organization committee, it is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 27th edition of the Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA) at Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden) in Dresden, Germany.Expanding upon the tradition and success of previous WSAs, this workshop offers an exciting program spanning two and a half days.This includes keynote and invited talks, regular sessions with oral and poster presentations, a dedicated track on 6G research, and demo sessions showcasing cutting-edge wireless technology testbeds.Special recognition is owed to the chairs of the Technical Program Committee (TPC) Peter Rost and Norman Franchi and their team of TPC members for ensuring a thorough and timely review process that resulted in an engaging technical program and high-quality proceedings.The technical program covers topics including wireless channel modeling and prediction, security and privacy, one-bit quantization, signal processing techniques, beamforming and antenna arrays, networks, machine learning, and resource allocation and scheduling.Additionally, there is a dedicated track on 6G research in Germany highlighting key research activities from the German 6G Platform and 6G Research Hubs.Enormous thanks go to the local organization team from the Chair of Information Theory and Machine Learning at TU Dresden including its core team Martin Mittelbach, Daniel Seifert and Thomas Uhle, as well as Rico Radeke from the 5G Lab Germany.Special thanks go further to the Honorary Chairs Wolfgang Utschick and Josef Nossek for their help, advice, and guidance, to our industry sponsors Rohde & Schwarz, Ericsson, and NI (now part of Emerson) for their generous contributions, and also of course to the administration of TU Dresden for their help