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This paper considers the uplink of a massive MIMO communication system using 5G New Radio-compliant multiple access, which is to co-exist with a radar system using the same frequency band. A system model taking into account the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Carmen D'Andrea , Stefano Buzzi , Marco Lops

Direct satellite uplink is severely constrained by limited link budgets, which hinder the exploitation of wideband resources, and ultimately limit the throughout. This paper presents a pilot-less coded modulation scheme based on sparse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Alberto G. Perotti , Branislav M. Popovic , Renaud-Alexandre Pitaval

Many real-world sensing tasks require co-located, multi-modal measurements at a single site, typically a bundle of two to five sensors, for example, in plant stress sensing and blood pressure estimation. RF-backscatter devices have emerged…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Yijie Li , Weichong Ling , Taiting Lu , Bao Dao , Yi-Chao Chen , Vaishnavi Ranganathan , Lili Qiu , Jingxian Wang

This letter analyzes the fundamental performance of integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) systems. For downlink and uplink ISAC, the diversity orders are analyzed to evaluate the communication rate (CR) and the high signal-to-noise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Chongjun Ouyang , Yuanwei Liu , Hongwen Yang

The delay-Doppler (DD) domain modulation has been regarded as one of the most competitive candidates to support wireless communications for emerging high-mobility applications in the sixth-generation mobile networks. Unfortunately, most of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-04 Xuehan Wang , Jintao Wang , Hai Lin , Jinhong Yuan , Xu Shi , Hengyu Zhang , Jian Song

High-resolution is a key trend in the development of synthetic aperture radar (SAR), which enables the capture of fine details and accurate representation of backscattering properties. However, traditional high-resolution SAR imaging…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-11 Guoru Zhou , Zhongqiu Xu , Yizhe Fan , Zhe Zhang , Xiaolan Qiu , Bingchen Zhang , Kun Fu , Yirong Wu

Change detection from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery is a critical yet challenging task. Existing methods mainly focus on feature extraction in spatial domain, and little attention has been paid to frequency domain. Furthermore, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Xiaofan Qu , Feng Gao , Junyu Dong , Qian Du , Heng-Chao Li

Passive reflectors mitigate millimeter-wave (mmwave) link blockages by extending coverage to non-line-ofsight (NLoS) regions. However, their deployment often leads to irregular reflected beam patterns and coverage gaps. This results in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Omar Ibrahim , Raj Sai Sohel Bandari , Mohammed E. Eltayeb

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

In this paper, we propose a stereo radargrammetry method using deep learning from airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. Deep learning-based methods are considered to suffer less from geometric image modulation, while there is no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Tatsuya Sasayama , Shintaro Ito , Koichi Ito , Takafumi Aoki

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

The ability to accurately determine the rotation rate and spin axis of active satellites during deployment, during phases of uncertain operations (e.g. loss of control, potential fuel leaks) and particularly for defunct satellites to assess…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-08 Peter Bartram , Jim Fletcher , Ewan Schafer , Liam Pieters , David Gooding , Hira Virdee

The establishment of quantum communication links over a global scale is enabled by satellite nodes. We examine the influence of Earth's atmosphere on the performance of quantum optical communication channels with emphasis on the downlink…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-06 D. Vasylyev , W. Vogel , F. Moll

This paper presents a quadrature compressive sampling (QuadCS) and associated fast imaging scheme for synthetic aperture radar (SAR). Different from other analog-to-information conversions (AIC), QuadCS AICs using independent spreading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Huizhang Yang , Shengyao Chen , Feng Xi , Zhong Liu

A large scale quantum network requires the distribution of high-fidelity end-to-end entanglement. To overcome the range limitations inherent to terrestrial fiber, a leading architecture has emerged: satellite-based sources transmitting…

Long Term Evolution (LTE) signal is ubiquitously present in electromagnetic (EM) background environment, which make it an attractive signal source for the ambient backscatter communications (AmBC). In this paper, we propose a system, in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-01 Jingyi Liao , Xiyu Wang , Kalle Ruttik , Riku Jantti , Phan-Huy Dinh-Thuy

Optical satellite uplinks rely on high-power optical amplifiers (HPOAs) to overcome free-space attenuation and enable long-distance transmission. However, at high power levels, fiber Kerr nonlinearity becomes significant and degrades system…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Stella Civelli , Luca Potì , Enrico Forestieri , Marco Secondini

Speckle is a multiplicative noise which affects all coherent imaging modalities including Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. The presence of speckle degrades the image quality and adversely affects the performance of SAR image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Malsha V. Perera , Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara , Vishal M. Patel

Quantum Communications on planetary scale require complementary channels including ground and satellite links. The former have progressed up to commercial stage using fiber-cables, while for satellite links, the absence of terminals in…

This paper introduces a single-channel SAR algorithm designed to detect and produce high-fidelity images of moving targets in spotlight mode. The proposed fast backprojection algorithm utilizes multi-level interpolations and aggregation of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-31 Raz Rajwan , Amir Boag