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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

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has shown its great potential in facilitating device-based integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), where sensing and communication tasks are mostly conducted on different time-frequency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Xiaowei Qian , Xiaoling Hu , Chenxi Liu , Mugen Peng , Caijun Zhong

A joint design of both sensing and communication can lead to substantial enhancement for both subsystems in terms of size, cost as well as spectrum and hardware efficiency. In the last decade, integrated sensing and communications (ISAC)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-13 Ahmet M. Elbir , Abdulkadir Celik , Ahmed M. Eltawil , Moeness G. Amin

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) is envisioned as a key feature in future wireless communications networks. Its integration with massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) techniques promises to leverage substantial spatial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Van-Dinh Nguyen , Hieu V. Nguyen , Hien Quoc Ngo , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Markku Juntti

This letter considers a beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surface (BD-RIS) aided integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where the BD-RIS can help a multi-antenna base station (BS) serve multiple user equipments (UEs)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-18 Xiaoqi Zhang , Liang Liu , Shuowen Zhang , Weifeng Zhu , Haijun Zhang

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has emerged as a promising paradigm for next-generation (6G) wireless networks, unifying radar sensing and communication on a shared hardware platform. This paper proposes a dynamic array…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Rang Liu , Ming Li , A. Lee Swindlehurst

A novel integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system is proposed, where a dual-functional base station is utilized to transmit the superimposed non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) communication signal for serving communication users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Jiakuo Zuo , Yuanwei Liu , Chenming Zhu , Yixuan Zou , Dengyin Zhang , Naofal Al-Dhahir

In this paper, we study a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) beamforming design in an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, in which an ISAC base station (BS) is used to communicate with multiple downlink users and simultaneously…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Chao Hu , Yuan Fang , Ling Qiu

This paper studies the sensing base station (SBS) that has great potential to improve the safety of vehicles and pedestrians on roads. It can detect the targets on the road with communication signals using the integrated sensing and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Wangjun Jiang , Zhiqing Wei , Zhiyong Feng , Xu Chen

This paper aims to analyze the stochastic performance of a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system in a downlink scenario, where a base station (BS) transmits a dual-functional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Marziyeh Soltani , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Rahim Tafazolli

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

Future 6G networks are expected to empower communication systems by integrating sensing capabilities, resulting in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. However, this integration may exacerbate the data traffic congestion in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Lu Wang , Luis F. Abanto-Leon

As a promising 6G technology, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) gains growing interest. ISAC provides integration gain via sharing spectrum, hardware, and software. However, concerns exist regarding its sensing performance when…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Yihua Ma , Shuqiang Xia , Chen bai , Yuxin Wang , Zhongbin Wang , Songqian Li

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) in the near-field regime offers the potential to jointly support high-rate downlink transmission and high-resolution multi-target detection by exploiting the spherical-wave nature of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Hang Ruan , Homa Nikbakht , Ruizhi Zhang , Honglei Chen , Yonina C. Eldar

A simultaneously transmitting and reflecting surface (STARS) aided terahertz (THz) communication system is proposed. A novel power consumption model is proposed that depends on the type and resolution of the STARS elements. The spectral…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Zhaolin Wang , Xidong Mu , Jiaqi Xu , Yuanwei Liu

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a promising technology to fully utilize the precious spectrum and hardware in wireless systems, which has attracted significant attentions recently. This paper studies ISAC for the important…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-17 Zhiqiang Xiao , Yong Zeng

In this paper, we shed light on the performance gain of integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) from the perspective of channel correlations between radar sensing and communication (S&C), namely ISAC subspace correlation. To begin…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-03 Shihang Lu , Xiao Meng , Zhen Du , Yifeng Xiong , Fan Liu

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has attracted growing research interests to facilitate the large-scale development of the low-altitude economy (LAE). However, the high dynamics of low-altitude targets may overwhelm fixed ISAC…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Rui Wang , Kaitao Meng , Deshi Li , Liang Xu

In this paper, we investigate the potential of employing reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. In particular, we consider an RIS-assisted ISAC system in which a multi-antenna base…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-27 Rang Liu , Ming Li , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Distributed integrated sensing and communication (D-ISAC) enables multiple spatially distributed nodes to cooperatively perform sensing and communication. However, achieving coherent cooperation across distributed nodes is challenging due…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 Seonghoon Yoo , Seulhyun Kwon , Kawon Han , Elaheh Ataeebojd , Mehdi Rasti , Joonhyuk Kang