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Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has been recognized as a key enabler and feature of future wireless networks. In the existing works analyzing the performances of ISAC, discrete-time systems were commonly assumed, which, however,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Zhouyuan Yu , Xiaoling Hu , Chenxi Liu , Mugen Peng

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) are envisioned to be an integral part of future wireless networks, especially when operating at the millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) frequency bands. However, establishing wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-03 Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri , Nir Shlezinger , Fan Liu , George C. Alexandropoulos , Stefano Buzzi , Yonina C. Eldar

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 envisioned as one of the key enablers of next-generation wireless systems, offering improved hardware, spectral, and energy efficiencies. In this paper, we consider an ISAC transceiver with an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 José Miguel Mateos-Ramos , Baptiste Chatelier , Christian Häger , Musa Furkan Keskin , Luc Le Magoarou , Henk Wymeersch

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) has attracted tremendous attention for the future 6G wireless communication systems. To improve the transmission rates and sensing accuracy, massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) technique is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-20 Liangyuan Xu , Feifei Gao

In this paper, we investigate the resource allocation design for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) in distributed antenna networks (DANs). In particular, coordinated by a central processor (CP), a set of remote radio heads (RRHs)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Dongfang Xu , Ata Khalili , Xianghao Yu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

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

Pinching antenna systems (PAS) have recently emerged as a promising architecture for flexible and reconfigurable wireless communications. However, their performance is fundamentally constrained by in-waveguide attenuation, which is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Ximing Xie , Hao Qin , Fang Fang , Xianbin Wang

As the standardization of 5G is being solidified, researchers are speculating what 6G will be. Integrating sensing functionality is emerging as a key feature of the 6G Radio Access Network (RAN), allowing to exploit the dense cell…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-17 Fan Liu , Yuanhao Cui , Christos Masouros , Jie Xu , Tony Xiao Han , Yonina C. Eldar , Stefano Buzzi

In this paper, a novel pinching antenna-aided spatial multiplexing (PASM) architecture is conceived, which intrinsically amalgamates the benefits of flexible radiating element placement with radio-frequency (RF) chain transmission.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Ruijie Li , Yue Xiao , Shuaixin Yang , Gang Wu , Xianfu Lei , Ming Xiao

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

A pinching antennas (PAs)-aided integrated sensing and multicast communication framework is proposed. In this framework, the communication performance is measured by the multicast rate considering max-min fairness. Moreover, the sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Shan Shan , Chongjun Ouyang , Xiaohang Yang , Yong Li , Zhiqin Wang , Yuanwei Liu

A transmit pinching-antenna system (T-PASS) framework is proposed, in which a single pinched waveguide is employed to jointly serve one wired user equipment (UE) and multiple wireless UEs. The signal radiated by the pinching antennas (PAs)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-05 Deqiao Gan , Chongjun Ouyang , Yuanwei Liu , Xiaohu Ge

A novel concept of waveguide division multiple access (WDMA) is proposed for multi-user pinching-antenna systems (PASS). The key principle of WDMA is to allocate each user with a dedicated waveguide, which is regarded as a new type of radio…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Jingjing Zhao , Xidong Mu , Kaiquan Cai , Yanbo Zhu , Yuanwei Liu

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a promising technology to fully utilize the precious spectrum and hardware in wireless systems, which has attracted significant attentions recently. This paper studies ISAC for the important…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-17 Zhiqiang Xiao , Yong Zeng

This article addresses the design of multigroup multicast communications in the pinching-antenna system (PASS). A PASS-enabled multigroup transmission framework is proposed to maximize multicast rates under a couple of transmission…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Shan Shan , Chongjun Ouyang , Yong Li , Yuanwei Liu

This letter proposes a novel user localization and channel estimation framework for pinching-antenna systems (PASS), where pinching antennas are grouped into subarrays on each waveguide to cooperatively estimate user/scatterer locations,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Xiaoxia Xu , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Hong Xing , Arumugam Nallanathan

As an emerging flexible antenna technology for wireless communications, pinching-antenna systems, offer distinct advantages in terms of cost efficiency and deployment flexibility. This paper investigates joint transmission strategies of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Enzhi Zhou , Jingjing Cui , Ziyue Liu , Zhiguo Ding , Pingzhi Fan

The integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) technique has the potential to achieve coordination gain by exploiting the mutual assistance between sensing and communication (S&C) functions. While the sensing-assisted communications (SAC)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-24 Fuwang Dong , Fan Liu , Shihang Lu , Weijie Yuan , Yuanhao Cui , Yifeng Xiong , Feifei Gao

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