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Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Zhen Du , Fan Liu , Yunxin Li , Weijie Yuan , Yuanhao Cui , Zenghui Zhang , Christos Masouros , Bo Ai

This paper presents an overview on intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-enabled sensing and communication for the forthcoming sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks, in which IRSs are strategically deployed to proactively reconfigure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Xianxin Song , Yuan Fang , Feng Wang , Zixiang Ren , Xianghao Yu , Ye Zhang , Fan Liu , Jie Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Rui Zhang , Shuguang Cui

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) is emerging as a cornerstone technology for sixth generation (6G) wireless systems, unifying connectivity and environmental mapping through shared hardware, spectrum, and waveforms. The following…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Ahmad Bazzi , Mingjun Ying , Ojas Kanhere , Theodore S. Rappaport , Marwa Chafii

The current development of 5G networks represents a breakthrough in the design of communication networks, for its ability to provide a single platform enabling a variety of different services, from enhanced mobile broadband communications,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Emilio Calvanese Strinati , Sergio Barbarossa , José Luis Gonzalez-Jimenez , Dimitri Kténas , Nicolas Cassiau , Cédric Dehos

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

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system has been envisioned as a promising technology to be applied in future applications requiring both communication and high-accuracy sensing. Different from most research focusing on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-17 Jintao Wang , Chengwang Ji , Jiajia Guo , Shaodan Ma

The sixth generation of wireless networks defined several key performance indicators (KPIs) for assessing its networks, mainly in terms of reliability, coverage, and sensing. In this regard, remarkable attention has been paid recently to…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Waqas Aman , El-Mehdi Illi , Marwa Qaraqe , Saif Al-Kuwari

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is envisioned to be one of the pillars of 6G. However, 6G is also expected to be severely affected by hardware impairments. Under such impairments, standard model-based approaches might fail if…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-21 José Miguel Mateos-Ramos , Christian Häger , Musa Furkan Keskin , Luc Le Magoarou , Henk Wymeersch

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) have emerged as a key enabler for programmable wireless environments in future Beyond-5G (B5G) and 6G networks. In the meantime, Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) and Physical-Layer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Wenqing Dai , Jan Herbst , Jan Petershans , Christoph Lipps , Hans D. Schotten

The integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), in which the sensing and communication share the same frequency band and hardware, has emerged as a key technology in future wireless systems. Early works on ISAC have been focused on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-23 An Liu , Zhe Huang , Min Li , Yubo Wan , Wenrui Li , Tony Xiao Han , Chenchen Liu , Rui Du , Danny Tan Kai Pin , Jianmin Lu , Yuan Shen , Fabiola Colone , Kevin Chetty

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

With the extremely large-scale array XL-array deployed in future wireless systems, wireless communication and sensing are expected to operate in the radiative near-field region, which needs to be characterized by the spherical rather than…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Jiayi Cong , Changsheng You , Jiapeng Li , Li Chen , Beixiong Zheng , Yuanwei Liu , Wen Wu , Yi Gong , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is widely regarded as a key enabling technology for 6G wireless networks. While extensive research has explored the coexistence of sensing and communication functionalities, the use of orthogonal…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Huacheng Zeng , Kunzhe Song , Geo Jie Zhou , Ruxin Lin

Exploring the mutual benefit and reciprocity of sensing and communication (S\&C) functions is fundamental to realizing deeper integration for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. This paper investigates a novel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-29 Fuwang Dong , Fan Liu , Shihang Lu , Yifeng Xiong , Qixun Zhang , Zhiyong Feng , Feifei Gao

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a potential technology of the sixth-generation (6G) mobile communication system, which enables communication base station (BS) with sensing capability. However, the performance of single-BS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Zhiqing Wei , Haotian Liu , Hujun Li , Wangjun Jiang , Zhiyong Feng , Huici Wu , Ping Zhang

The shift toward sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks places integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) at the core of future applications such as autonomous driving, extended reality, and smart manufacturing. However, the combination…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Yonghwi Kim , Sang-Hyun Park , Siyun Yang , Kai-Kit Wong , Linglong Dai , Chan-Byoung Chae

For the next generation of mobile communications systems, the integration of sensing and communications promises benefits in terms of spectrum utilization, cost, latency, area and weight. In this paper, we categorize and summarize the key…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-13 Qi Wang , Anastasios Kakkavas , Xitao Gong , Richard A. Stirling-Gallacher

With the impending arrival of the sixth generation (6G) of wireless communication technology, the telecommunications landscape is poised for another revolutionary transformation. At the forefront of this evolution are intelligent…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Mayur Katwe , Aryan Kaushik , Lina Mohjazi , Mohammad Abualhayja'a , Davide Dardari , Keshav Singh , Muhammad Ali Imran , M. Majid Butt , Octavia A. Dobre

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has emerged as a key technological paradigm for sixth generation (6G) mobile networks, aiming to unify sensing and communication in a spectrally efficient and hardware lightweight manner. Radio…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Tiantian Chu , Chen Chen , Jia Ye , Xin Xiong , Sihua Shao , Zhihong Zeng , Dengke Wang , Fengli Yang , Guanjun Xu , Harald Haas

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) is a key enabler of new applications, such as precision agriculture, extended reality (XR), and digital twins, for 6G wireless systems. However, the implementation of ISAC technology is very…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-22 Byunghyun Lee , Hwanjin Kim , David J. Love , James V. Krogmeier