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In this paper, we construct an air-sea collaborative system framework based on the Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) techniques, where the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) jointly inspect targets of…

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This paper analyses the security performance of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication system with integrated sensing and communications (ISAC). We consider a multiple-antenna UAV…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Yue Xiu , Wanting Lyu , Phee Lep Yeoh , Yonghui Li , Yi Ai , Ning Wei

UAV swarms can form virtual antenna arrays to exploit additional spatial degrees of freedom and enhance integrated sensing and communication (ISAC). The optimization of UAV positions is challenging due to the distributed nature of swarms…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 Zhiyuan Zhai , Wei Ni , Xin Wang , Dusit Niyato , Ekram Hossain

This paper proposes a cooperative integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) scheme for the low-altitude sensing scenario, aiming at estimating the parameters of the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and enhancing the sensing performance via…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Jun Tang , Yiming Yu , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Dongming Wang , Jiangzhou Wang , Xiaohu You

This paper investigates a novel unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) secure communication system with integrated sensing and communications. We consider wireless security enhancement for a multiple-antenna UAV transmitting ISAC waveforms to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Yue Xiu , Wanting Lyu , Phee Lep Yeoh , Yi Ai , Yonghui Li , Ning Wei

In this paper, we investigate beamforming design and trajectory optimization for a multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. The proposed system employs multiple UAVs equipped with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yan Kyaw Tun , Nway Nway Ei , Sheikh Salman Hassan , Cedomir Stefanovic , Nguyen Van Huynh , Madyan Alsenwi , Choong Seon Hong

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has attracted growing research interests in the context of sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks, in which UAVs will be exploited as aerial wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Kaitao Meng , Qingqing Wu , Jie Xu , Wen Chen , Zhiyong Feng , Robert Schober , A. Lee Swindlehurst

The rapid growth of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in civilian and critical-infrastructure airspace has created a need for reliable detection and tracking systems that operate under diverse environmental and sensing conditions. This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Cole Dickerson , Sean Kearney , Sultan Manjur , Ismail Guvenc , Sevgi Gurbuz , Ali Gurbuz , Ozgur Ozdemir , Mihail Sichitiu

The employment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) aligned with multistatic sensing in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems can provide remarkable performance gains in sensing, by taking advantage of the cell-free massive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-13 Xavier A. Flores Cabezas , Isabella W. G. da Silva , Markku Juntti

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

In this paper, we investigate the joint resource allocation and trajectory design for a multi-user, multi-target unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where the link capacity between a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Ata Khalili , Atefeh Rezaei , Dongfang Xu , Falko Dressler , Robert Schober

Reliable surveillance and communication for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are crucial for enabling and sustaining the accelerated growth of the low-altitude economy. Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) offers a cost-effective and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-22 Xianxin Song , Xianghao Yu , Jie Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

This paper presents the development of a real time tracking algorithm that runs on a 1.2 GHz PC/104 computer on-board a small UAV. The algorithm uses zero mean normalized cross correlation to detect and locate an object in the image. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-03-13 Ashraf Qadir , Jeremiah Neubert , William Semke

In mobile systems with low-altitude vehicles, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is considered an effective approach to increase the transmission rate due to limited spectrum resources. To further improve the ISAC performance, this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Yue Xiu , Songjie Yang , Wanting Lyu , Phee Lep Yeoh , Yonghui Li , Yi Ai

Improving the fundamental performance trade-off in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems has been deemed as one of the most significant challenges. To address it, we propose in this letter a novel ISAC system that leverages an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Peilan Wang , Yu Xue , Weidong Mei , Jun Fang , Rui Zhang

Uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms are pivotal in the applications such as disaster relief, aerial base station (BS) and logistics transportation. These scenarios require the capabilities in accurate sensing, efficient communication and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Zhiqing Wei , Yucong Du , Zhiyong Feng , Haotian Liu , Yanpeng Cui , Tao Zhang , Ying Zhou , Huici Wu

In this work, we study an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled secure integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where a UAV serves as an aerial base station (BS) to simultaneously perform communication with a user and detect a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Jianping Yao , Zeyu Yang , Zai Yang , Jie Xu , Tony Q. S. Quek

To enhance the performance of aerial-ground networks, this paper proposes an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) framework for multi-UAV systems. In our model, ground base stations (BSs) cooperatively serve multiple unmanned aerial…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-01 Fangzhi Li , Zhichu Ren , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Jing Jin , Qixing Wang , Jiangzhou Wang

In this correspondence, we propose an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where a full-duplex UAV equipped with uniform planar array (UPA) is adopted as a base station for the multiuser…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-11 Chaedam Son , Seongah Jeong

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is regarded as a key enabler for next-generation wireless systems. However, conventional fixed-position antennas limit the ability of UAVs to fully exploit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Wenchao Liu , Xuhui Zhang , Jinke Ren , Weijie Yuan , Changsheng You , Shuangyang Li