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Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a promising paradigm to provide both sensing and communication (S&C) services in vehicular networks. However, the power of echo signals reflected from vehicles may be too weak to be used for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Kaitao Meng , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Enrico Paolini , Elisabetta Matricardi

This paper presents an initial investigation into the combination of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) and massive communication, both of which are largely regarded as key scenarios in sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Junyuan Gao , Weifeng Zhu , Shuowen Zhang , Yongpeng Wu , Jiannong Cao , Giuseppe Caire , Liang Liu

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems may face a heavy computation burden since the sensory data needs to be further processed. This paper studies a novel system that integrates sensing, communication, and computation, aiming…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Yapeng Zhao , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Yong Zeng , Ruiqi Liu , Weidong Mei , Fen Hou , Shaodan Ma

Different from conventional radar, the cellular network in the integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system enables collaborative sensing by multiple sensing nodes, e.g., base stations (BSs). However, existing works normally assume…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-10 Yiming Xu , Dongfang Xu , Lei Xie , Shenghui Song

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 emerged as a key paradigm for next-generation wireless systems, which allows wireless resources to be used for data transmission and target sensing simultaneously. In this paper, multi-user…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Ling He , Vaibhav Kumar , Roberto Bomfin , Yingyang Chen , Miaowen Wen , Marwa Chafii

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) unifies wireless communication and sensing by sharing spectrum and hardware, which often incurs trade-offs between two functions due to limited resources. However, this paper shifts focus to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Mingjie Yang , Guangming Liang , Dongzhu Liu , Lei Zhang , Kaibin Huang

This paper investigates the design of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems assisted by simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs), which act as multi-functional programmable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Ziming Liu , Tao Chen , Giacinto Gelli , Vincenzo Galdi , Francesco Verde

The roll-out of various emerging wireless services has triggered the need for the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks to provide functions of target sensing, intelligent computing and information communication over the same radio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Qiao Qi , Xiaoming Chen , Ata Khalili , Caijun Zhong , Zhaoyang Zhang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

To empower the low-altitude economy with high-accuracy sensing and high-rate communication, this paper proposes a cooperative integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) framework for aerial-ground networks. In the proposed system, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-26 Fangzhi Li , Zhichu Ren , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Jing Jin , Qixing Wang , Jiangzhou Wang

This paper studies an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system where a multi-antenna base station (BS) communicates with multiple single-antenna users in the downlink and senses the unknown and random angle information of a target…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Chan Xu , Shuowen Zhang

In this work, we aim to effectively characterize the performance of cooperative integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) networks and to reveal how performance metrics relate to network parameters. To this end, we introduce a generalized…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-15 Dongsheng Sui , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Jiahua Wan , Liuchang Zhuo , Jing Jin , Qixing Wang , Jiangzhou Wang

In this paper, we investigate the resource allocation design for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) in distributed antenna networks (DANs). In particular, coordinated by a central processor (CP), a set of remote radio heads (RRHs)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Dongfang Xu , Ata Khalili , Xianghao Yu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

The joint communications and sensing (JCAS) paradigm is envisioned as a core capability of sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks, enabling the integration of data communication and environmental sensing within a unified system. By reusing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Wali Ullah Khan , Chandan Kumar Sheemar , Syed Tariq Shah , Manzoor Ahmed , Symeon Chatzinotas

The sixth generation (6G) mobile communication networks are expected to offer a new paradigm of cellular integrated sensing and communication (ISAC). However, due to the intrinsic difference between sensing and communication in terms of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Ruoguang Li , Zhiqiang Xiao , Yong Zeng

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is expected to play a crucial role in the sixth-generation (6G) mobile communication systems, offering potential applications in the scenarios of intelligent transportation, smart factories, etc.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Zhiqing Wei , Jinzhu Jia , Yangyang Niu , Lin Wang , Huici Wu , Heng Yang , Zhiyong Feng

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

This paper studies an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system within a centralized cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) network for target detection. ISAC transmit access points serve the user equipments in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Zinat Behdad , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Ki Won Sung , Emil Björnson , Cicek Cavdar