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Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) exhibits notable potential for sensing the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), facilitating real-time monitoring of UAVs for security insurance. Due to the low sensing accuracy of single base…

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Spatial aliasing affects spaced microphone arrays, causing directional ambiguity above certain frequencies, degrading spatial and spectral accuracy of beamformers. Given the limitations of conventional signal processing and the scarcity of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Mateusz Guzik , Giulio Cengarle , Daniel Arteaga

This paper considers a cell-free integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) MIMO system, where distributed MIMO access points (APs) jointly serve the communication users and sense the target. For this setup, we derive a sensing SNR for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Umut Demirhan , Ahmed Alkhateeb

This paper presents a novel approach for localising a GPS (Global Positioning System)-denied Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with the aid of a GPS-equipped UAV in three-dimensional space. The GPS-equipped UAV makes discrete-time broadcasts of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-24 James Russell , Mengbin Ye , Brian D. O. Anderson , Hatem Hmam , Peter Sarunic

Transmit beamforming for underwater acoustic communication is challenging because it requires perfect knowledge of the channel to the receiver in advance. In practice, channel estimates must be learned through feedback and are often noisy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-15 Diego A. Cuji , Andrew C. Singer , Milica Stojanovic

In wireless sensors networks, integrating localization and communications techniques is crucial for efficient spectrum and hardware utilization. In this paper, we present a novel framework of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided localization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Tianhao. Liang , Tingting. Zhang , Sheng. Zhou , Wentao. Liu , Dong. Li , Qinyu. Zhang

This paper investigates a multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system equipped with movable antenna (MA) arrays. To align with practical scenarios, we simulate the dynamic roaming of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Bin Li , Pengcheng Rao , Xuedong Zhang , Xinyi Wang

We consider the problem of active and sequential beam tracking at mmWave frequencies and above. We focus on the dynamic scenario of a UAV to UAV communications where we formulate the problem to be equivalent to tracking an optimal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Nancy Ronquillo , Tara Javidi

Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained popularity due to their many potential application fields. Alongside sophisticated sensors, UAVs can be equipped with communication adaptors aimed for inter-UAV communication.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-18 Matthias R. Brust , Bogdan M. Strimbu

Efficient aerial data collection is important in many remote sensing applications. In large-scale monitoring scenarios, deploying a team of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offers improved spatial coverage and robustness against individual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Jonas Westheider , Julius Rückin , Marija Popović

Inter-beam interference poses a significant challenge in low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications due to dense satellite constellations. To address this issue, we introduce spacetime beamforming, a novel paradigm that leverages the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Jungbin Yim , Jinseok Choi , Jeonghun Park , Ian P. Roberts , Namyoon Lee

With the expanding application scope of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the demand for stable UAV control has significantly increased. However, in complex environments, GPS signals are prone to interference, resulting in ineffective UAV…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Mingkun Li , Ziming Wang , Guang Huo , Wei Chen , Xiaoning Zhao

Integrating Sensing and Communications (ISAC) has emerged as a promising paradigm for Sixth Generation (6G) and Wi-Fi 7 networks, with the communication-centric approach being particularly attractive due to its compatibility with current…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-01 Mathieu Reniers , Martin Willame , Jérôme Louveaux , Luc Vandendorpe

This paper introduces a sensing management method for integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Conventional communication systems employ channel estimation procedures…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-09 Eren Berk Kama , Murat Babek Salman , Isaac Skog , Emil Björnson

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) unifies sensing and communication, and improves the efficiency of the spectrum, energy, and hardware. In this work, we investigate the ISAC beamforming design to maximize the mutual information…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-12 Jin Li , Gui Zhou , Tantao Gong , Nan Liu

Beamforming techniques are considered as essential parts to compensate the severe path loss in millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications by adopting large antenna arrays and formulating narrow beams to obtain satisfactory received powers.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Muhammad Baqer Mollah , Honggang Wang , Hua Fang

With line-of-sight mode deployment and fast response, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), equipped with the cutting-edge integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) technique, is poised to deliver high-quality communication and sensing services…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Bohan Li , Jiahao Liu , Junsheng Mu , Pei Xiao , Sheng Chen

Autonomous tracking of flying aerial objects has important civilian and defense applications, ranging from search and rescue to counter-unmanned aerial systems (counter-UAS). Ground based tracking requires setting up infrastructure, could…

In this paper, we study the trajectory optimization of a cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) which aims to sense the location of a target while maintaining satisfactory communication quality with the ground base stations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Xiangming Du , Shuowen Zhang , Liang Liu

Future wireless networks are envisioned to support both sensing and artificial intelligence (AI) services. However, conventional integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) networks may not be suitable due to the ignorance of diverse…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Wenhao Zhuang , Xinyu He , Yuyi Mao , Juan Liu