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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

In this paper, we study a secure integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system employing a full-duplex base station with sensing capabilities against a mobile proactive adversarial target$\unicode{x2014}$a malicious unmanned aerial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Milad Tatar Mamaghani , Xiangyun Zhou , Nan Yang , A. Lee Swindlehurst

In this paper, we investigate a novel integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system aided by movable antennas (MAs). A bistatic radar system, in which the base station (BS) is configured with MAs, is integrated into a multi-user…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Wanting Lyu , Songjie Yang , Yue Xiu , Zhongpei Zhang , Chadi Assi , Chau Yuen

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has emerged as a pivotal technology for next-generation wireless networks, enabling simultaneous data transmission and environmental sensing. However, existing ISAC systems face fundamental…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-18 Amirhossein Taherpour , Abbas Taherpour , Tamer Khattab

In this paper, we study the trajectory optimization of a cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) which aims to sense the location of a target while maintaining satisfactory communication quality with the ground base stations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Xiangming Du , Shuowen Zhang , Liang Liu

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a promising technique to provide sensing services in future wireless networks. Numerous existing works have adopted a monostatic radar architecture to realize ISAC, i.e., employing the same…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Dongfang Xu , Chang Liu , Shenghui Song , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be deployed as flying base stations (BSs) to leverage the strength of line-of-sight connections and effectively support the coverage and throughput of wireless communication. This paper considers a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Ali A. Nasir , Hoang D. Tuan , Trung Q. Duong , H. Vincent Poor

The usage of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) in conjunction with Unmanned Ariel Vehicles (UAVs) is being investigated as a way to provide energy-efficient communication to ground users in dense urban areas. In this paper, we…

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

This paper considers unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-carried intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) for secure data collection in wireless sensor networks. An eavesdropper (Eve) lurks within the vicinity of the main receiver (Bob) while several…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Christantus O. Nnamani , Muhammad R. A. Khandaker , Mathini Sellathurai

In practice, residual transceiver hardware impairments inevitably lead to distortion noise which causes the performance loss. In this paper, we study the robust transmission design for a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided secure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Gui Zhou , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang , Zhangjie Peng

In unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks, directional modulation (DM) is adopted to improve the secrecy rate (SR) performance. Alice, a ground base station, behaves as a control center, and Bob is a UAV of flying along a linear flight…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Feng Shu , Zaoyu Lu , Jinyong Lin , Linlin Sun , Xiaobo Zhou , Tingting Liu , Shuo Zhang , Wenlong Cai , Jinhui Lu , Jin Wang

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has recently been considered as a promising approach to save spectrum resources and reduce hardware cost. Meanwhile, as information security becomes increasingly more critical issue, government…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-15 Mianyi Zhang , Yinghui He , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu , Naofal Al-Dhahir

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is widely recognized as a fundamental enabler for future wireless communications. In this paper, we present a joint communication and radar beamforming framework for maximizing a sum spectral…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Jinseok Choi , Jeonghun Park , Namyoon Lee , Ahmed Alkhateeb

In this paper, we investigate resource allocation design for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled communication systems, where a UAV is dispatched to provide communications to multiple user nodes. Our objective is to maximize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Ruide Li , Zhiqiang Wei , Lei Yang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Nan Yang , Jinhong Yuan , Jianping An

Beam alignment is essential to compensate for the high path loss in the millimeter-wave (mmWave) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) network. The integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) technology has been envisioned as a promising solution…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-29 Yanpeng Cui , Qixun Zhang , Zhiyong Feng , Fan Liu , Ce Shi , Jinpo Fan , Ping Zhang

We consider unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted wireless communication employing UAVs as relay nodes to increase the throughput between a pair of transmitter and receiver. We focus on developing effective methods to position the UAV(s)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-12 Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Ali Rahmati , Huaiyu Dai

This paper investigates a practical partially-connected hybrid beamforming transmitter for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) with distortion from nonlinear power amplification. For this ISAC system, we formulate a communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-21 Zeyuan Zhang , Yue Xiu , Phee Lep Yeoh , Guangyi Liu , Zixing Wu , Ning Wei

A dual-robust design of beamforming is investigated in an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system.Existing research on robust ISAC waveform design, while proposing solutions to imperfect channel state information (CSI), generally…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-20 Wanting Lyu , Songjie Yang , Yue Xiu , Xinyi Chen , Zhongpei Zhang , Chadi Assi , Chau Yuan

Thanks to their quick placement and high flexibility, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be very useful in the current and future wireless communication systems. With a growing number of smart devices and infrastructure-free communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-24 Shuyan Hu , Qingqing Wu , Xin Wang