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In this work, we study sensing-aided uplink transmission in an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) vehicular network with the use of orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation. To exploit sensing parameters for improving…

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The ultimate goal of enabling sensing through the cellular network is to obtain coordinated sensing of an unprecedented scale, through distributed integrated sensing and communication (D-ISAC). This, however, introduces challenges related…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-31 Kawon Han , Kaitao Meng , Christos Masouros

Integrating sensing and communication (ISAC) has emerged as a cornerstone technology for predictive beamforming in 6G-enabled vehicle-to-everything (V2X) networks. However, existing ISAC paradigms rely solely on radio frequency (RF) signal,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Chen Shang , Dinh Thai Hoang , Jiadong Yu

Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC), combined with data-driven approaches, has emerged as a highly significant field, garnering considerable attention from academia and industry. Its potential to enable wide-scale applications in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Hammam Salem , MD Muzakkir Quamar , Adeb Mansoor , Mohammed Elrashidy , Nasir Saeed , Mudassir Masood

Extreme crowding of electromagnetic spectrum in recent years has led to the challenges in designing sensing and communications systems. Both systems require a broad range of bandwidth, thus resulting in competing interests in exploiting the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Longfei Yin , Ziang Liu , Bhavani Shankar M. R. , Mohammad Alaee-Kerahroodi , Bruno Clerckx

This paper investigates how to achieve integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) based on a cell-free radio access network (CF-RAN) architecture with a minimum footprint of communication resources. We propose a new passive sensing scheme.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Jingxuan Yu , Fan Zeng , Jiamin Li , Feiyang Liu , Pengcheng Zhu , Dongming Wang , Xiaohu You

In 6G networks, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is envisioned as a key technology that enables wireless systems to perform joint sensing and communication using shared hardware, antennas and spectrum. ISAC designs facilitate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Homa Nikbakht , Yonina C. Eldar , H. Vincent Poor

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has attracted growing research interests in the context of sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks, in which UAVs will be exploited as aerial wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Kaitao Meng , Qingqing Wu , Jie Xu , Wen Chen , Zhiyong Feng , Robert Schober , A. Lee Swindlehurst

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

This article presents a novel multi-functional system for a sixth-generation (6G) wireless network with integrated sensing, communication, and powering (ISCAP), which unifies integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) and wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Yilong Chen , Zixiang Ren , Jie Xu , Yong Zeng , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Shuguang Cui

O-RAN is radically shifting how cellular networks are designed, deployed and optimized through network programmability, disaggregation, and virtualization. Specifically, RAN Intelligent Controllers (RICs) can orchestrate and optimize the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Andrea Lacava , Matteo Bordin , Michele Polese , Rajarajan Sivaraj , Tommaso Zugno , Francesca Cuomo , Tommaso Melodia

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) is considered a key enabler to support application scenarios such as the Internet-of-Things (IoT) in which both communications and sensing play significant roles. Multi-carrier waveforms, such as…

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has emerged as a pivotal technology for next-generation wireless communication and radar systems, enabling high-resolution sensing and high-throughput communication with shared spectrum and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Henglin Pu , Xuefeng Wang , Ajay Kumar , Lu Su , Husheng Li

Improving the fundamental performance trade-off in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems has been deemed as one of the most significant challenges. To address it, we propose in this letter a novel ISAC system that leverages an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Peilan Wang , Yu Xue , Weidong Mei , Jun Fang , Rui Zhang

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) in millimeter wave is a key enabler for next-generation networks, which leverages large bandwidth and extensive antenna arrays, benefiting both communication and sensing functionalities. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-18 Tianhao Mao , Jie Yang , Le Liang , Shi Jin

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

A key challenge in future 6G Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) networks is to define the angular operations of transmitter and receiver, i.e., the sampling task of the angular domains, to acquire information about the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Alexander Felix , Silvio Mandelli , Marcus Henninger , Stephan ten Brink

The rapid development of sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks requires seamless integration of communication and sensing to support ubiquitous intelligence and real-time, high-reliability applications. Integrated sensing and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-17 Qingqing Wu , Qiaoyan Peng , Ziheng Zhang , Xiaodan Shao , Yang Liu , Yifan Jiang , Yapeng Zhao , Yanze Zhu , Yilong Chen , Zixiang Ren , Jie Xu , Wen Chen , Rui Zhang

A near-field integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) framework is proposed, which introduces an additional distance dimension for both sensing and communications compared to the conventional far-field system. In particular, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Zhaolin Wang , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu

The sixth generation (6G) of wireless networks introduces integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), a technology in which communication and sensing functionalities are inextricably linked, sharing resources across time, frequency, space,…

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