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This paper proposes a novel non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-assisted orthogonal time-frequency space (OTFS)-integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) network, which uses unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as air base stations to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Luping Xiang , Ke Xu , Jie Hu , Christos Masouros , Kun Yang

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems may face a heavy computation burden since the sensory data needs to be further processed. This paper studies a novel system that integrates sensing, communication, and computation, aiming…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Yapeng Zhao , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Yong Zeng , Ruiqi Liu , Weidong Mei , Fen Hou , Shaodan Ma

The proliferation of wireless services and applications over the past decade has led to the rapidly increasing demand in wireless spectrum. Hence, we have been facing a critical spectrum shortage problem even though several measurements…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Le Thanh Tan

A non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-inspired integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) framework is proposed, where a dual-functional base station (BS) transmits the composite communication and sensing signals. In contrast to treating…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Zhaolin Wang , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiguo Ding

This letter proposes an active reconfigurable intelligent surface (ARIS) assisted rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system to overcome the fairness bottleneck in multi-target sensing under…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-13 Xin Jin , Tiejun Lv , Yashuai Cao , Jie Zeng , Mugen Peng

A canonical use case of Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems involves a multi-antenna transmitter communicating with $K$ users and sensing targets in its vicinity. For this setup,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-12 Xinze Lyu , Sundar Aditya , Bruno Clerckx

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) systems have shown notable improvements in efficiency, such as reduced latency, higher data rates, and better energy efficiency. However, the resource competition…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Yinyu Wu , Xuhui Zhang , Yingchao Jiao , Jinke Ren , Yanyan Shen , Bo Yang , Shuqiang Wang , Dusit Niyato

This letter presents a flexible rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) framework for near-field (NF) integrated sensing and communications (ISAC). The spatial beams configured to meet the communication rate requirements of NF users are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Jiasi Zhou , Cong Zhou , Cheng Zeng , Chintha Tellambura

In this paper, we propose a novel transmissive reconfigurable intelligent surface transceiver-enhanced robust and secure integrated sensing and communication network. A time-division sensing communication mechanism is designed for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Ziwei Liu , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Zhendong Li , Xusheng Zhu , Qiong Wu , Nan Cheng

This paper investigates sensing, communication, security, and energy efficiency of the heterogeneous integrated sensing and communication networks under challenging operational conditions. We focus on scenarios in which communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Xudong Li , Rugui Yao , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos

The advancement of wireless communication systems toward 5G and beyond is spurred by the demand for high data rates, exceedingly dependable low-latency communication, and extensive connectivity that aligns with sensing requisites such as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Mamady Delamou , El Mehdi Amhoud

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a key feature of next-generation wireless networks, enabling a wide range of emerging applications such as vehicle-to-everything (V2X) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which operate in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Haoran Yin , Yanqun Tang , Jun Xiong , Fan Liu , Yuanhan Ni , Qu Luo , Roberto Bomfin , Marwa Chafii , Marios Kountouris , Christos Masouros

We present an unsourced multiple access (UMAC) scheme tailored to high-mobility wireless channels. The proposed construction is based on orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation and sparse interleaver division multiple access…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Davide Bergamasco , Federico Clazzer , Paolo Casari

In this paper, the problem of using uncoordinated multiple access (UMA) to serve a massive amount of heterogeneous users is investigated. Leveraging the heterogeneity, we propose a novel UMA protocol, called iterative collision resolution…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Yu-Chih Huang , Shin-Lin Shieh , Yu-Pin Hsu , Hao-Ping Cheng

As modern AI workloads increasingly rely on heterogeneous accelerators, ensuring high-bandwidth and layout-flexible data movements between accelerator memories has become a pressing challenge. Direct Memory Access (DMA) engines promise high…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Fanchen Kong , Yunhao Deng , Xiaoling Yi , Ryan Antonio , Marian Verhelst

This article focuses on the development of integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) from a multiple access (MA) perspective, where the idea of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is exploited for harmoniously accommodating the sensing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Xidong Mu , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu

One of the major challenges in the medium access control (MAC) protocol design over cognitive Ad Hoc networks (CAHNs) is how to efficiently utilize multiple opportunistic channels, which vary dynamically and are subject to limited power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-03 Yichen Wang , Pinyi Ren , Qinghe Du , Chao Zhang

As a pivotal usage scenario for 6G networks, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has emerged as a focal point of both academic and industrial research. To accommodate the heterogeneous connectivity requirements of future networks…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-29 Qinyuan Zheng , Pengcheng Zhu

This paper analyzes the performance of a multiuser integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) system, where nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is exploited to mitigate inter-user interference. Closed-form expressions are derived to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Chongjun Ouyang , Yuanwei Liu , Hongwen Yang

This paper investigates a multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system equipped with movable antenna (MA) arrays. To align with practical scenarios, we simulate the dynamic roaming of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Bin Li , Pengcheng Rao , Xuedong Zhang , Xinyi Wang