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The integration of sensing and communication enables wireless communication systems to serve environment-aware applications. In this paper, we propose to leverage sensing to enhance physical layer security (PLS) in multiuser communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Dongfang Xu , Yiming Xu , Zhiqiang Wei , Shenghui Song , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Hybrid beamforming is a promising technology to improve the energy efficiency of massive MIMO systems. In particular, subarray hybrid beamforming can further decrease power consumption by reducing the number of phase-shifters. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Hamed Hojatian , Jérémy Nadal , Jean-François Frigon , François Leduc-Primeau

High-mobility uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) communications in low-altitude wireless networks (LAWN) demand reliable beamforming, while conventional feedback-based schemes suffer from excessive overhead and severe misalignment under rapid…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-22 Aimin Tang , Shuhan Wang , Yin Xu

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) can perform both communication and sensing tasks using the same frequency band and hardware, making it a key technology for 6G. As a low-cost implementation for large-scale antenna arrays,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-04 Shupei Zhang , Shuhao Zeng , Boya Di , Lingyang Song

Beamforming techniques are considered as essential parts to compensate severe path losses in millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications. In particular, these techniques adopt large antenna arrays and formulate narrow beams to obtain…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Muhammad Baqer Mollah , Honggang Wang , Mohammad Ataul Karim , Hua Fang

Flexible antenna arrays (FAAs) can physically reshape their geometry to add new spatial degrees of freedom, whereas transmit beamforming adjusts the complex element weights to electronically steer and shape the array's radiation pattern,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-02 Zhen Xu , Gaojie Chen , Jing Zhu , Weiwei Zhao , Yonghui Li , Rahim Tafazolli , Wei Huang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are being used for wireless communications in smart environments. However, the need for mobility, scalability of data transmission over wide areas, and the required coverage area make UAV beamforming…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-17 Abdu Saif , Nor Shahida Mohd Shah , Soreen Ameen Fattah , Saeed Hamood Alsamhi , Santosh Kumar , Ali Saad Al khuraib

A novel modular extremely large-scale multiple-input-multiple-output (XL-MIMO) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) framework is proposed in this paper. We consider a downlink ISAC scenario and exploit the modular array architecture…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-16 Chunwei Meng , Dingyou Ma , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiqing Wei , Zhiyong Feng

Despite its promising performance gain, the realization of mmWave massive MIMO still faces several practical challenges. In particular, implementing massive MIMO in the digital domain requires hundreds of RF chains matching the number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Guangxu Zhu , Kaibin Huang , Vincent K. N. Lau , Bin Xia , Xiaofan Li , Sha Zhang

This paper explores an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) network empowered by multiple active simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs). A base station (BS) furnishes downlink…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-25 Hyeonho Noh , Hyeonsu Lyu , Hyun Jong Yang

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) has emerged as a means to efficiently utilize spectrum and thereby save cost and power. At the higher end of the spectrum, ISAC systems operate at wideband using large antenna arrays to meet the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-06 Ahmet M. Elbir , Abdulkadir Celik , Ahmed M. Eltawil

Classical beamforming techniques rely on highly linear transmitters and receivers to allow phase-coherent combining at the transmitter and receiver. The transmitter uses beamforming to steer signal power towards the receiver, and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Kang Gao , J. Nicholas Laneman , Bertrand Hochwald

This work proposes a novel joint design for multiuser multiple-input multiple-output wiretap channels. The base station exploits a switching network to connect a subset of its antennas to the available radio frequency chains. The switching…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Zhenqiao Cheng , Nanxi Li , Ruizhe Long , Jianchi Zhu , Chongjun Ouyang , Peng Chen

In this paper, we consider a prospective receiving hybrid beamforming structure consisting of several radio frequency (RF) chains and abundant antenna elements in multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems. Due to conventional costly full…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Li-Hsiang Shen , Yen-Chun Lo , Kai-Ten Feng , Sau-Hsuan Wu , Lie-Liang Yang

This research presents a novel framework integrating Flexible-Duplex (FlexD) and Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) technologies to address the challenges of spectrum efficiency and resource optimization in next-generation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Tharaka Perera , Saman Atapattu , Chathuranga Weeraddana , Jamie Evans

Communication systems operating at high frequency bands must use narrow beams to compensate the high path loss. However, it is incredibly time-consuming to achieve beam alignment between the transmitter and receiver due to the large volume…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-26 Yi Geng

This paper addresses the topic of integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) in 5G and emerging 6G wireless networks. ISAC systems operate within shared, congested or even contested spectrum, aiming to deliver high performance in both…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-27 Visa Koivunen , Musa Furkan Keskin , Henk Wymeersch , Mikko Valkama , Nuria González-Prelcic

In this letter, we consider hybrid beamforming for millimeter wave (mmWave) MIMO integrated sensing and communications (ISAC). We design the transmit beam of a dual-functional radar-communication (DFRC) base station (BS), aiming at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-15 Chenhao Qi , Wei Ci , Jinming Zhang , Xiaohu You

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) is envisioned as a key technology for future wireless communications. In this paper, we consider a downlink monostatic ISAC system wherein the base station serves multiple communications users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Tianyu Fang , Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Markku Juntti

Joint radar-communications (JRC) is considered to be a vital technology in deploying the next generation systems, since its useful in decongestion of the radio frequency (RF) spectrum and utilising the same hardware resources for dual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Evangelos Vlachos , Aryan Kaushik