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Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has emerged as a transformative technology for 6G networks, enabling the seamless integration of communication and sensing functionalities. Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), with their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Shoushuo Zhang , Rang Liu , Ming Li , Wei Wang , Qian Liu

The Terahertz (0.1-10 THz) band holds enormous potential for supporting unprecedented data rates and millimeter-level accurate sensing thanks to its ultra-broad bandwidth. Terahertz integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is viewed as a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-20 Chong Han , Yongzhi Wu , Zhi Chen , Yi Chen , Guangjian Wang

Integrating sensing and communication (ISAC) can help overcome the challenges of limited spectrum and expensive hardware, leading to improved energy and cost efficiency. While full cooperation between sensing and communication can result in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Mojtaba Vaezi , Gayan Aruma Baduge , Esa Ollila , Sergiy A. Vorobyov

As one of the key usage scenarios for the sixth generation (6G) wireless networks, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) provides an efficient framework to achieve simultaneous wireless sensing and communication. However, traditional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Di Wu , Zhuoyin Dai , Yong Zeng

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

Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) is one of the core technologies of 6G, which combines sensing and communication functions into a single system. However, limited computing and storage resources make it impractical to combine…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Jiacheng Wang , Hongyang Du , Geng Sun , Jiawen Kang , Haibo Zhou , Dusit Niyato , Jiming Chen

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has recently attracted tremendous attention from both academia and industry, being envisioned as a key part of the standards for the sixth-generation (6G) cellular network. A key challenge of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-27 Liang Liu , Shuowen Zhang , Shuguang Cui

Integrated Sensing And Communication (ISAC) has been identified as a key 6G application by ITU and 3GPP, with standardization efforts already underway. Sensing tasks, such as target localization, demand more precise characterization of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Yameng Liu , Jianhua Zhang , Yuxiang Zhang , Hongbo Xing , Yifeng Xiong , Zhiqiang Yuan , Guangyi Liu

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is viewed as a crucial component of future mobile networks and has gained much interest in both academia and industry. Similar to the emergence of radio-frequency (RF) ISAC, the integration of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Yunfeng Wen , Fang Yang , Jian Song , Zhu Han

Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) has emerged as a key paradigm in next-generation wireless networks. While the ubiquity and low cost of commodity Wi-Fi make it an ideal platform for wide-scale sensing, it is the continuous…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Hongbo Wang , Xin Li , Yinghui He , Jingzhi Hu , Mingming Xu , Zhe Chen , Fu Xiao , Jun Luo

The sixth-generation (6G) cellular technology will be deployed with a key feature of Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC), allowing the cellular network to map the environment through radar sensing on top of providing communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Karthik Muthineni , Alexander Artemenko , Artjom Grudnitsky , Josep Vidal , Montse Najar

Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) design is crucial for 6G and harmonizes environmental data sensing with communication, emphasizing the need to understand and model these elements. This paper delves into dual-channel models for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-17 Alejandro Castilla , Saúl Fenollosa , Monika Drozdowska , Alejandro Lopez-Escudero , Sergio Micò-Rosa , Narcis Cardona

With the upcoming multitude of commercial and public applications envisioned in the mobile 6G radio landscape using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) plays a key role to enable the detection and…

Low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to play an important role in future wireless networks, either as aerial base stations (BSs) or aerial users connected to the cellular network. In addition, integrated sensing and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Yuxuan Song , Yong Zeng , Yuhang Yang , Zixiang Ren , Gaoyuan Cheng , Xiaoli Xu , Jie Xu , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

To facilitate the development of Internet of Things (IoT) services, tremendous IoT devices are deployed in the wireless network to collect and pass data to the server for further processing. Aiming at improving the data sensing and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Xiaoyang Li , Yi Gong , Kaibin Huang , Zhisheng Niu

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) is an essential technology for the 6G communication system, which enables the conventional wireless communication network capable of sensing targets around. The shared use of pilots is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Jiamo Jiang , Mingfeng Xu , Zhongyuan Zhao , Kaifeng Han , Yang Li , Ying Du , Zhiqin Wang

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

As integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) becomes an integral part of 6G networks, distributed ISAC (DISAC) is expected to enhance both sensing and communication performance through its decentralized architecture. This paper presents a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Yingjie Xu , Xuesong Cai , Michiel Sandra , Sara Willhammar , Fredrik Tufvesson

In integrated sensing and communications (ISAC), a distinguishing feature of 6G wireless networks, the main challenge lies in integrating the two distinct functions of sensing and communication within the same waveform. In this paper, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Henglin Pu , Zhu Han , Athina P. Petropulu , Husheng Li

Realizing edge intelligence consists of sensing, communication, training, and inference stages. Conventionally, the sensing and communication stages are executed sequentially, which results in excessive amount of dataset generation and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-25 Tong Zhang , Shuai Wang , Guoliang Li , Fan Liu , Guangxu Zhu , Rui Wang