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Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) is an essential 6G capability for joint data transmission and environmental sensing. To support 6G scenarios with stringent ISAC performance requirements, existing massive-MIMO-based systems are…

For the next generation of mobile communications systems, the integration of sensing and communications promises benefits in terms of spectrum utilization, cost, latency, area and weight. In this paper, we categorize and summarize the key…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-13 Qi Wang , Anastasios Kakkavas , Xitao Gong , Richard A. Stirling-Gallacher

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) is a key enabler for next-generation wireless systems, aiming to support both high-throughput communication and high-accuracy environmental sensing using shared spectrum and hardware. Theoretical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Lin Chen , Chang Cai , Huiyuan Yang , Xiaojun Yuan , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has emerged as a pivotal technology for next-generation wireless networks, enabling simultaneous data transmission and environmental sensing. However, existing ISAC systems face fundamental…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-18 Amirhossein Taherpour , Abbas Taherpour , Tamer Khattab

Internet of Things (IoT) technologies are the foundation of a fully connected world. Currently, IoT devices (or nodes) primarily use dedicated sensors to sense and collect data at large scales, and then transmit the data to target nodes or…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Zhaoxin Chang , Fusang Zhang , Daqing Zhang

In this paper, we combine the network-assisted full-duplex (NAFD) technology and distributed radar sensing to implement integrated sensing and communication (ISAC). The ISAC system features both uplink and downlink remote radio units (RRUs)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Fan Zeng , Jingxuan Yu , Jiamin Li , Feiyang Liu , Dongming Wang , Xiaohu You

The convergence of communication, sensing, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Radio Access Network (RAN) offers compelling economic advantages through shared spectrum and infrastructure. How can inference and sensing be integrated in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Michele Polese , Rajeev Gangula , Tommaso Melodia

In this work, we provide a system level analysis of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems, where a setup with a mono-static dual-functional radar communication base station is assumed. We derive the ISAC signal-to-noise ratio…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-06 Roberto Bomfin , Konpal Shaukat Ali , Marwa Chafii

Sensing and communications (S&C) have been historically developed in parallel. In recent decade, they have been evolving from separation to integration, giving rise to the integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) paradigm, that has been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Yifeng Xiong , Fan Liu , Kai Wan , Weijie Yuan , Yuanhao Cui , Giuseppe Caire

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) is envisioned as one of the key enablers of next-generation wireless systems, offering improved hardware, spectral, and energy efficiencies. In this paper, we consider an ISAC transceiver with an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 José Miguel Mateos-Ramos , Baptiste Chatelier , Christian Häger , Musa Furkan Keskin , Luc Le Magoarou , Henk Wymeersch

Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) have emerged as a key enabler to fully realize the vision of integrated, intelligent, and ubiquitous connectivity in 6G systems. However, several operational challenges, including severe Doppler effects,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Muhammad Ali Jamshed , Rohit Singh , Malik Muhammad Saad , Aryan Kaushik , Wonjae Shin , Miguel Dajer , Alain Mourad

A bidirectional integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system is proposed, in which a pair of transceivers carry out two-way communication and mutual sensing. Both full-duplex and half-duplex operations in narrowband and wideband…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Zhaolin Wang , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu

In integrated sensing and communications (ISAC), a distinguishing feature of 6G wireless networks, the main challenge lies in integrating the two distinct functions of sensing and communication within the same waveform. In this paper, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Henglin Pu , Zhu Han , Athina P. Petropulu , Husheng Li

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has been envisioned as a promising technique to alleviate the spectrum congestion problem. Inspired by the applications of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) in dynamically manipulating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-23 Honghao Luo , Rang Liu , Ming Li , Qian Liu

One of the key features of sixth-generation (6G) mobile communications will be integrated sensing and communication (ISAC). While the main goal of ISAC in standardization efforts is to detect objects, the byproducts of radar operations can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Victoria Palhares , Artjom Grudnitsky , Silvio Mandelli

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is viewed as a key enabler for future wireless networks by sharing the hardware and wireless resources between the functionalities of sensing and communication (S&C). Due to the shared wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Shiying Chen , Guangji Chen , Long Shi , Qingqing Wu , Kang Wei

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a key enabler of 6G. Unlike communication radio links, the sensing signal requires to experience round trips from many scatters. Therefore, sensing is more power-sensitive and faces a severer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Yihua Ma , Zhifeng Yuan , Shuqiang Xia , Chen Bai , Zhongbin Wang , Yuxin Wang

ISAC is an emerging paradigm in 6G networks that enables environmental sensing using wireless communication infrastructure. Current O-RAN specifications lack the architectural primitives for sensing integration: no service models expose…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Eduardo Baena , Rajesh Krishnan , Mai Vu , Gil Zussman , Dimitrios Koutsonikolas

Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) has been identified as a pillar usage scenario for the impending 6G era. Bi-static sensing, a major type of sensing in ISAC, is promising to expedite ISAC in the near future, as it requires…

Current architecture proposals within standards development organizations such as ETSI and 3GPP enable sensing capabilities in mobile networks; however, they do not include a repository for storing sensing data. Such a repository can be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Muhammad Awais Jadoon , Sebastian Robitzsch