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A point-to-point integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system is considered where a transmitter conveys a message to a receiver over a discrete memoryless channel (DMC) and simultaneously estimates the state of the channel through the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Homa Nikbakht , Michèle Wigger , Shlomo Shamai , H. Vincent Poor

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a promising solution for the future sixth-generation (6G) system. However, classical fixed-position antenna (FPA) ISAC systems fail to fully utilize spatial degrees of freedom (DoFs), resulting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Yuan Guo , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Yang Liu , Qiong Wu

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 investigates an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) enabled multiuser integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, which consists of one multi-antenna base station (BS), one IRS, multiple single-antenna communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Xianxin Song , Tony Xiao Han , Jie Xu

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) has emerged as a promising paradigm to unify wireless communications and radar sensing, enabling efficient spectrum and hardware utilization. A core challenge with realizing the gains of ISAC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Tianyu Fang , Mengyuan Ma , Markku Juntti , Nir Shlezinger , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Nhan Thanh Nguyen

This paper explores the fundamental limits of Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) in a more realistic setting compared to previous literature when the Base Staion (BS) has only statistical CSI of the communication user rather than…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Ataher Sams , Simone Di Bari , Besma Smida , Natasha Devroye , Daniela Tuninetti , Giorgio Taricco

This work investigates a practical reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where a subset of RIS elements fail to function properly and reflect incident signals randomly towards…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Lu Wang , Gui Zhou , Changheng Li , Luis F. Abanto-Leon , Nairy Moghadas Gholian , Matthias Hollick , Arash Asadi

This paper presents a new integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) framework, leveraging the recent advancements of reconfigurable distributed antenna and reflecting surface (RDARS). RDARS is a programmable surface structure comprising…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Pingping Zhang , Jintao Wang , Yulin Shao , Shaodan Ma

A Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) for semi-blind channel estimators in redundant block transmission systems is derived. The derived CRB is valid for any system adopting a full-rank linear redundant precoder, including the popular cyclic-prefixed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-20 Yen-Huan Li , Borching Su , Ping-Cheng Yeh

The rate-distortion performance of neural image compression models has exceeded the state-of-the-art for non-learned codecs, but neural codecs are still far from widespread deployment and adoption. The largest obstacle is having efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 David Minnen , Nick Johnston

This manuscript investigates the information-theoretic limits of integrated sensing and communications (ISAC), aiming for simultaneous reliable communication and precise channel state estimation. We model such a system with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Xinyang Li , Vlad C. Andrei , Aladin Djuhera , Ullrich J. Mönich , Holger Boche

A multiple waveguide PASS assisted integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system is proposed, where the base station (BS) is equipped with transmitting pinching antennas (PAs) and receiving uniform linear array (ULA) antennas. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-29 Haochen Li , Ruikang Zhong , Jiayi Lei , Pan Zhiwen , Yuanwei Liu

In this paper, we present a signaling design for secure integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems comprising a dual-functional multi-input multi-output (MIMO) base station (BS) that simultaneously communicates with multiple users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Nanchi Su , Fan Liu , Christos Masouros , George C. Alexandropoulos , Yifeng Xiong , Qinyu Zhang

In this paper, we propose a novel integrated sensing and communication (ISAC)-enabled dual-scale channel estimation framework, where large-scale channel estimation benefits from sensing, and the temporal variation of small-scale channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Bai Zhiyue , Dai Minghui , Hou Fen , Shan hangguan , Cai X Lin , Shen , Xuemin

While Cram\'er-Rao lower bound is an important metric in sensing functions in integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) designs, its optimization usually involves a computationally expensive solution such as semidefinite relaxation. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Tianyu Fang , Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Markku Juntti

This paper studies an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system where a multi-antenna base station (BS) aims to communicate with a single-antenna user in the downlink and sense the unknown and random angle parameter of a target via…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Chan Xu , Shuowen Zhang

This paper investigates a Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces (SIM)-assisted Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) system. An extended target model is considered, where the BS aims to estimate the complete target response matrix…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Ziqing Wang , Hongzheng Liu , Jianan Zhang , Rujing Xiong , Kai Wan , Xuewen Qian , Marco Di Renzo , Robert Caiming Qiu

ISAC is recognized as a promising technology for the next-generation wireless networks, which provides significant performance gains over individual S&C systems via the shared use of wireless resources. The characterization of the S&C…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Yifeng Xiong , Fan Liu , Yuanhao Cui , Weijie Yuan , Tony Xiao Han , Giuseppe Caire

Meta-backscatter system that utilizes meta-material sensors is a promising enabler for future environmental sensing, offering distinct advantages such as low cost, zero-power consumption, and robustness. Specifically, the electromagnetic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Mengyuan Cao , Xu Liu , Hongliang Zhang

This paper investigates an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) enabled multiuser integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) system, which consists of one multi-antenna base station (BS), one IRS, multiple single-antenna communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-03 Xianxin Song , Xiaoqi Qin , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang