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Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems provide significant enhancements in performance and resource efficiency compared to individual sensing and communication systems, primarily attributed to the collaborative use of wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Jiayu Liu , Kai Wan , Xinping Yi , Robert Caiming Qiu , Giuseppe Caire

The meta-material sensor has been regarded as a next-generation sensing technology for the battery-free Internet of Things (IoT) due to its battery-free characteristic and improved sensing performance. The meta-material sensors function as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-12 Xu Liu , Hongliang Zhang , Kaigui Bian , Xi Weng , Lingyang Song

Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) has attracted substantial attraction in recent years for spectral efficiency improvement, enabling hardware and spectrum sharing for simultaneous sensing and signaling operations. In-band Full…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Md Atiqul Islam , George C. Alexandropoulos , Besma Smida

Driven by the intelligent applications of sixth-generation (6G) mobile communication systems such as smart city and autonomous driving, which connect the physical and cyber space, the integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) brings a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Zhiqing Wei , Wangjun Jiang , Zhiyong Feng , Huici Wu , Ning Zhang , Kaifeng Han , Ruizhong Xu , Ping Zhang

The detection of non-cooperative unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) presents significant challenges for Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) systems due to the inherent limitations of single-modal perception and the competition for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Wenfeng Wu , Luping Xiang , Kun Yang

Tri-hybrid beamforming architectures have been proposed to enable energy-efficient communications systems in extra-largescale antenna arrays using low-cost programmable metasurface antennas. We study the tri-hybrid beamforming design for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Tianyu Fang , Mengyuan Ma , Markku Juntti , Nhan Thanh Nguyen

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is envisioned to be one of the key usage scenarios for the sixth generation (6G) mobile communication networks. While significant progresses have been achieved for the theoretical studies, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-08 Zhiwen Zhou , Chaoyue Zhang , Xiaoli Xu , Yong Zeng

An integrated sensing and backscatter communication (ISABC) system is introduced herein. This system features a full-duplex (FD) base station (BS) that seamlessly merges sensing with backscatter communication and supports multiple users.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-30 Diluka Galappaththige , Shayan Zargari , Chintha Tellambura , Geoffrey Ye Li

The fusion of cognitive radio (CR) and integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), enabled by stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs), offers a promising path for multi-functional programmable front ends in 6G and beyond. In this paper we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-19 Alireza Fadakar , Andreas F. Molisch

Aiming at providing wireless communication systems with environment-perceptive capacity, emerging integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) technologies face multiple difficulties, especially in balancing the performance trade-off between…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Xin Zhao , Heng Liu , Shiqi Gong , Xin Ju , Chengwen Xing , Nan Zhao

In this paper, we consider the physical layer security (PLS) problem for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems in the presence of hybrid-colluding eavesdroppers, where an active eavesdropper (AE) and a passive eavesdropper…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-10 Meiding Liu , Zhengchun Zhou , Qiao Shi , Guyue Li , Zilong Liu , Pingzhi Fan , Inkyu Lee

This paper delves into an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system bolstered by a simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS). Within this system, a base station (BS) is equipped with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Yuan Liu , Ruichen Zhang , Ruihong Jiang , Yongdong Zhu , Huimin Hu , Qiang Ni , Zesong Fei , Dusit Niyato

Active reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) can improve the performance of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), and therefore enable simultaneous data transmission and target sensing. However, when the line-of-sight (LoS) link…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-17 Ahmed Magbool , Vaibhav Kumar , Mark F. Flanagan

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a key enabling technology for next-generation wireless networks. However, most existing ISAC systems rely on fixed-position antennas, which restrict performance when balancing sensing and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Yifei Wu , Dongfang Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Wolfgang Gerstacker , Robert Schober

Integrating radio-sensing functionalities into future cell-free (CF) wireless networks promises efficient resource utilization and facilitates the seamless roll-out of applications such as public safety and smart infrastructure. While the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-20 Leonardo Leyva , Daniel Castanheira , Adão Silva , Atílio Gameiro

Owing to the promising ability of saving hardware cost and spectrum resources, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is regarded as a revolutionary technology for future sixth-generation (6G) networks. The mono-static ISAC systems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Sifan Liu , Rang Liu , Ming Li , Qian Liu

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

Backscatter communication (BSC) is a promising solution for Internet-of-Things (IoT) connections due to its low-complexity, low-cost, and energy-efficient solution for sensors. There are several network infrastructure setups that can be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-04 Ahmet Kaplan , Joao Vieira , Erik G. Larsson

This paper studies the performance trade-off in a multi-user backscatter communication (BackCom) system for integrated sensing and communications (ISAC), where the multi-antenna ISAC transmitter sends excitation signals to power multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yuanming Tian , Dan Wang , Chuan Huang , Wei Zhang