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Low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to play an important role for low-altitude economy with a wide range of applications like precise agriculture, aerial delivery and surveillance. Integrated sensing and communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Zhiwen Zhou , Yong Zeng , Chunguo Li , Fei Yang , Yan Chen , Jingon Joung

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has recently emerged as a candidate 6G technology, aiming to unify the two key operations of the future network in spectrum/energy/cost efficient way. ISAC involves communicating information to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-19 Zhongxiang Wei , Fan Liu , Christos Masouros , Nanchi Su , Athina P. Petropulu

The sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks promises the integration of radar-like sensing capabilities into communication infrastructure. In this paper, we investigate a multi-static sensing framework where half-duplex base stations (BSs)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Navid Amani , Priyanka Maity , Musa Furkan Keskin , Henk Wymeersch

Nowadays, waveforms of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) are almost based on conventional communication and sensing signal, which bounds both the communication and sensing performance. To deal with this issue, in this paper, a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-25 Xi Nan , Rugui Yao , Ye Fan , Ruikang Zhong , Xiaoya Zuo , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos

This paper addresses the topic of integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) in 5G and emerging 6G wireless networks. ISAC systems operate within shared, congested or even contested spectrum, aiming to deliver high performance in both…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-27 Visa Koivunen , Musa Furkan Keskin , Henk Wymeersch , Mikko Valkama , Nuria González-Prelcic

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) is considered a key enabler to support application scenarios such as the Internet-of-Things (IoT) in which both communications and sensing play significant roles. Multi-carrier waveforms, such as…

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has been envisioned as a solution to realize the sensing capability required for emerging applications in wireless networks, while efficiently utilizing the available spectral, hardware and energy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Ziang Liu , Sundar Aditya , Hongyu Li , Bruno Clerckx

The integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) can achieve the sharing of hardware and spectrum resources, enabling efficient data transmission and environmental sensing. This fusion is particularly important for unmanned aerial vehicle…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Yi Tao , Zhen Gao , Zhuoran Li , Ziwei Wan , Tuan Li , Chunli Zhu , Lei Chen , Guanghui Wen , Dezhi Zheng , Dusit Niyato

In this paper, we formulate the precoding problem of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) waveform as a non-convex quadratically constrainted quadratic program (QCQP), in which the weighted sum of communication multi-user…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-13 Yating Chen , Cai Wen , Yan Huang , Le Liang , Jie Li , Hui Zhang , Wei Hong

We propose deep learning based coded waveform design for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) with orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM). Our goal is to design a coded waveform capable of delivering accurate target…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Chenghong Bian , Yumeng Zhang , Meng Hua , Kaitao Meng , Deniz Gunduz

This paper investigates a unified pilot signal design in an orthogonal frequency division modulation (OFDM)-based integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) system. The novel designed two-dimensional (2D) pilot signal is generated on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-13 Pu Yuan

Conventional orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) waveform design in integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) systems usually selects the channels with high-frequency responses to transmit communication data, which does not…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-27 Qinghui Lu , Zhen Du , Zenghui Zhang

The recently proposed affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) is a new transmission waveform that has shown excellent performance in high-mobility environments, making it a sensible option for the next-generation wireless networks. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Mi Qian , Fei Ji , Yao Ge , Miaowen Wen , Yong Liang Guan

Dual-function radar-communication (DFRC) systems, which can efficiently utilize the congested spectrum and costly hardware resources by employing one common waveform for both sensing and communication (S&C), have attracted increasing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Zichao Xiao , Rang Liu , Ming Li , Yang Liu , Qian Liu

Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) is a multi-chirp waveform and a promising solution for ultra-reliable communication under doubly dispersive channels. In this paper, we propose two pilot aided channel estimation schemes for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-24 Haoran Yin , Yanqun Tang

The widespread use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in low-altitude airspace has raised significant safety and security concerns, motivating the development of reliable non-cooperative UAV surveillance technologies. Integrated sensing and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 Shiyu Bai , Sijia Li , Cunyi Yin , Wenqiu Qu , Li-Ta Hsu , Yuanwei Liu , Wen-Hua Chen

This paper proposes a novel non-orthogonal affine frequency division multiplexing (nAFDM) waveform for reliable high-mobility communications with enhanced spectral efficiency (SE). The key idea is to introduce a bandwidth compression factor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Qin Yi , Zilong Liu , Leila Musavian , Zeping Sui

Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) has emerged as a promising integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) waveform due to its intrinsic chirp signalling nature. Nevertheless, practical AFDM-based ISAC still faces two key…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Lingsheng Meng , Yong Liang Guan , Zilong Liu , Yirui Luo , Pingzhi Fan

This paper studies a communication-centric integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where a multi-antenna base station (BS) simultaneously performs downlink communication and target detection. A novel target detection and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Meng Hua , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Abbas Jamalipour , Celimuge Wu , Octavia A. Dobre

We study joint transmit-waveform and receive-filter design for a multi-user downlink integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system under practical constant-modulus and similarity constraints. We cast the design as a unified…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-18 Ngoc-Son Duong , Huyen-Trang Ta , Quang-Tang Ngo , Thi-Hue Duong , Van-Lap Nguyen , Cong-Minh Nguyen , Minh-Tran Nguyen , Thai-Mai Dinh