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Integrating sensing functionality into 6G communication networks requires some changes to existing components as well as new entities processing the radar sensing signals received by the communication antennas. This whitepaper provides a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Peter Gersing , Mark Doll , Joerg Huschke , Jan Plachy , Stefan Köpsell

The integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) technique has the potential to achieve coordination gain by exploiting the mutual assistance between sensing and communication (S&C) functions. While the sensing-assisted communications (SAC)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-24 Fuwang Dong , Fan Liu , Shihang Lu , Weijie Yuan , Yuanhao Cui , Yifeng Xiong , Feifei Gao

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) combines sensing and communication within a shared system framework by using the same transmitted signal for both objectives. ISAC can improve the efficiency of spectrum and hardware use but also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Truman Welling , Onur Günlü , Aylin Yener

Extreme crowding of electromagnetic spectrum in recent years has led to the challenges in designing sensing and communications systems. Both systems require a broad range of bandwidth, thus resulting in competing interests in exploiting the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Longfei Yin , Ziang Liu , Bhavani Shankar M. R. , Mohammad Alaee-Kerahroodi , Bruno Clerckx

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a promising technique to provide sensing services in future wireless networks. Numerous existing works have adopted a monostatic radar architecture to realize ISAC, i.e., employing the same…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Dongfang Xu , Chang Liu , Shenghui Song , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

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

This article presents a novel multi-functional system for a sixth-generation (6G) wireless network with integrated sensing, communication, and powering (ISCAP), which unifies integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) and wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Yilong Chen , Zixiang Ren , Jie Xu , Yong Zeng , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Shuguang Cui

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is viewed as a crucial component of future mobile networks and has gained much interest in both academia and industry. Similar to the emergence of radio-frequency (RF) ISAC, the integration of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Yunfeng Wen , Fang Yang , Jian Song , Zhu Han

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

Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) is poised to become one of the defining capabilities of the sixth generation (6G) wireless communications systems, enabling the network infrastructure to jointly support high-throughput…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-21 Kai Wu , Zhongqin Wang , Shu-Lin Chen , J. Andrew Zhang , Y. Jay Guo

Next-generation mobile communication network (i.e., 6G) has been envisioned to go beyond classical communication functionality and provide integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) capability to enable more emerging applications, such as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Daqing Zhang , Dan Wu , Kai Niu , Xuanzhi Wang , Fusang Zhang , Jian Yao , Dajie Jiang , Fei Qin

In the upcoming next-generation (5G-Advanced and 6G) wireless networks, sensing as a service will play a more important role than ever before. Recently, the concept of perceptive network is proposed as a paradigm shift that provides sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-03 Fuwang Dong , Fan Liu , Yuanhao Cui , Wei Wang , Kaifeng Han , Zhiqin Wang

Driven by the vision of intelligent connection of everything and digital twin towards 6G, a myriad of new applications, such as immersive extended reality, autonomous driving, holographic communications, intelligent industrial internet,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Zhiqin Wang , Kaifeng Han , Jiamo Jiang , Zhiqing Wei , Guangxu Zhu , Zhiyong Feng , Jianmin Lu , Chunwei Meng

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is considered as a promising solution for improving spectrum efficiency and relieving wireless spectrum congestion. This paper systematically introduces the evolutionary path of ISAC technologies,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Jinming Du , Yanqun Tang , Xizhang Wei , Jiaojiao Xiong , Jiajun Zhu , Haoran Yin , Chi Zhang , Haibo Chen

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has been envisioned as a critical enabling technology for the next-generation wireless communication, which can realize location/motion detection of surroundings with communication devices. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-03 Yinxiao Zhuo , Tianqi Mao , Haojin Li , Chen Sun , Zhaocheng Wang , Zhu Han , Sheng Chen

Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) is defined as one of six usage scenarios in the ITU-R International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT) 2030 framework for 6G. ISAC is envisioned to introduce the sensing capability into the cellular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-16 Mohammad Heggo , Arman Shojaeifard , Alain Mourad , Chuangxin Jiang , Ruiqi Liu , Junchen Liu

Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) is emerging as a foundational paradigm for next-generation wireless networks, enabling communication infrastructures to simultaneously support data transmission and environment sensing. By…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-07 S. Zhang , M. Feizarefi , A. F. Mirzaei

Future generations of mobile networks call for concurrent sensing and communication functionalities in the same hardware and/or spectrum. Compared to communication, sensing services often suffer from limited coverage, due to the high path…

Both smart propagation engineering as well as integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) constitute promising candidates for next-generation (NG) mobile networks. We provide a synergistic view of these technologies, and explore their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Kaitao Meng , Christos Masouros , Kai-Kit Wong , Athina P. Petropulu , Lajos Hanzo

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has been envisioned as a foundational technology for future low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs), enabling real-time environmental perception and data exchange across aerial-ground systems. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Jun Wu , Weijie Yuan , Xiaoqi Zhang , Yaohuan Yu , Yuanhao Cui , Fan Liu , Geng Sun , Jiacheng Wang , Dusit Niyato , Dong In Kim