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This paper presents a new optimization framework dedicated for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) waveform design. In particular, the problem aims at maximizing the total achievable sum-rate, through multi-user interference…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Ahmad Bazzi , Marwa Chafii

In recent years, security has emerged as a critical aspect of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. While significant research has focused on secure communications, particularly in ensuring physical layer security, the issue…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Lingyun Xu , Bowen Wang , Huiyong Li , Ziyang Cheng

This paper studies a communication-centric integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where a multi-antenna base station (BS) simultaneously performs downlink communication and target detection. A novel target detection and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Meng Hua , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Abbas Jamalipour , Celimuge Wu , Octavia A. Dobre

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a key technology for future 6G networks. Most existing studies focus on monostatic and/or bistatic setups with limited coverage and capabilities. Networked ISAC systems with distributed base…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Yuan Guo , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Yang Liu , Qiong Wu , Kunlun Wang , Jun Li , Lexi Xu

Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) represents a transformative approach within 5G and beyond, aiming to merge wireless communication and sensing functionalities into a unified network infrastructure. This integration offers…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-14 Utku Demir , Kemal Davaslioglu , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Gustave Anderson , Sastry Kompella

The integration of sensing and communication (ISAC) functionalities have recently gained significant research interest as a hardware-, power-, spectrum- and cost- efficient solution. This experimental work focuses on a dual-functional radar…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-10 Tongyang Xu , Fan Liu , Christos Masouros , Izzat Darwazeh

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) is considered an innovative technology in sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks, where utilizing orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) communication signals for sensing provides a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-15 Zhen Du , Jingjing Xu , Yifeng Xiong , Jie Wang , Musa Furkan Keskin , Henk Wymeersch , Fan Liu , Shi Jin

This paper analyzes the functional requirements and architectural considerations for Integrated Sensing and Communication ( ISAC) in a 5G Open Radio Access Network (OpenRAN) environment, with emphasis on secure and modular deployment.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Daniel Lindenschmitt , Tobias Jung , Prudhvi Kumar Kakani , Torsten Reissland , Norman Franchi , Hans D. Schotten

In this paper, we propose a novel integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) framework for the sixth generation (6G) mobile networks, in which we decompose the real physical world into static environment, dynamic targets, and various…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-31 Hongliang Luo , Tengyu Zhang , Chuanbin Zhao , Yucong Wang , Bo Lin , Yuhua Jiang , Dongqi Luo , Feifei Gao

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has been envisioned as a promising technology to tackle the spectrum congestion problem for future networks. In this correspondence, we investigate to deploy a reconfigurable intelligent surface…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-04 Honghao Luo , Rang Liu , Ming Li , Yang Liu , Qian Liu

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) is a disruptive technology enabling future sixth-generation (6G) networks. This paper investigates target detection in a bistatic ISAC system, in which the base station (BS) transmits…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-17 Xianxin Song , Xianghao Yu , Jie Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a key feature of next-generation wireless networks, enabling a wide range of emerging applications such as vehicle-to-everything (V2X) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which operate in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Haoran Yin , Yanqun Tang , Jun Xiong , Fan Liu , Yuanhan Ni , Qu Luo , Roberto Bomfin , Marwa Chafii , Marios Kountouris , Christos Masouros

Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) is a crucial component of future wireless networks, enabling seamless integration of Communication and Sensing (C\&S) functionalities. However, ensuring security in ISAC systems remains a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Yongxiao Li , Feroz Khan , Manzoor Ahmed , Aized Amin Soofi , Wali Ullah Khan , Chandan Kumar Sheemar , Muhammad Asif , Zhu Han

This work focuses on the synergy of physical layer covert transmission and millimeter wave (mmWave) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) to improve the performance, and enable secure internet of things (IoT) systems. Specifically, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Lingyun Xu , Bowen Wang , Ziyang Cheng

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) allows networks to perform sensing alongside data transmission. While most ISAC studies focus on single-target, multi-user scenarios, multi-target sensing is scarcely researched. This letter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Ozan Alp Topal , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Cicek Cavdar

The fundamentals of MIMO communications and MIMO sensing are firstly analyzed with regard to channel and sensing capacities. It is shown that the different objectives of communications and sensing lead to different signaling waveforms…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-22 Lie-Liang Yang

In this paper, we establish an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system based on a distributed semi-passive intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), which allows location sensing and data transmission to be carried out…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Xiaoling Hu , Chenxi Liu , Mugen Peng , Caijun Zhong

In this paper, we study a secure integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system where one multi-antenna base station (BS) simultaneously serves a downlink communication user and senses the location of a target that may potentially serve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Kaiyue Hou , Shuowen Zhang

Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) is one of the key pillars envisioned for 6G wireless systems. ISAC systems combine communication and sensing functionalities over a single waveform, with full resource sharing. In particular,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-20 Silvia Mura , Dario Tagliaferri , Marouan Mizmizi , Umberto Spagnolini , Athina Petropulu

Owing to the promising ability of saving hardware cost and spectrum resources, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is regarded as a revolutionary technology for future sixth-generation (6G) networks. The mono-static ISAC systems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Sifan Liu , Rang Liu , Ming Li , Qian Liu