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Extremely large-scale antenna arrays enhance spectral efficiency and spatial resolution in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) networks while expanding the Rayleigh distance, triggering a shift from conventional far-field plane…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Jiasi Zhou , Cong Zhou , Yanjing Sun , Chintha Tellambura

Low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs) represent a promising architecture that integrates unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as aerial nodes to provide enhanced coverage, reliability, and throughput for diverse applications. However, these…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jiahui Li , Xinyue Liang , Geng Sun , Hui Kang , Jiacheng Wang , Dusit Niyato , Shiwen Mao , Abbas Jamalipour

In this paper, we propose a novel hierarchical sensing framework for wideband integrated sensing and communications with uniform planar arrays (UPAs). Leveraging the beam-squint effect inherent in wideband orthogonal frequency-division…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Jaehong Jo , Jihun Park , Yo-Seb Jeon , H. Vincent Poor

In this letter, we propose to deploy rotatable antennas (RAs) at the base station (BS) to enhance both communication and sensing (C&S) performances, by exploiting a new spatial degree-of-freedom (DoF) offered by array rotation.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-14 Chao Zhou , Changsheng You , Beixiong Zheng , Xiaodan Shao , Rui Zhang

This paper considers near-field multiuser communications based on sparse arrays (SAs). First, for the uniform SAs (USAs), we analyze the beam gains of channel steering vectors, which shows that increasing the antenna spacings can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Kangjian Chen , Chenhao Qi , Geoffrey Ye Li , Octavia A. Dobre

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) has emerged as an intrinsic service of upcoming 6G wireless systems, enabling the reuse of communication signals for environmental sensing and supporting context-aware network functionalities.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-13 Osmel Martínez Rosabal , Onel L. Alcaraz López

To meet the ambitious goals of next-generation 6G networks, including ultra-high data rates and ubiquitous coverage, we propose a novel high-altitude platform station (HAPS)-based integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) architecture.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Parisa Kanani , Mohammad Javad Omidi , Mahmoud Modarres-Hashemi , Halim Yanikomeroglu

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

Designing a new class of rectangular two-dimensional sparse array to enhance the signal resolving capabilities with a limited number of sensors has always been a challenge. We explore the non-uniformity of the sparse arrays to enhance the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-09 Kretika Goel , Monika Aggarwal , Subrat kar

To address the complex beam control in traditional multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, researchers have proposed adaptive beam alignment using retro-directive antenna (RDA) arrays. This approach creates echo resonance between the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-06 Yixuan Guo , Shuaifan Xia , Mingliang Xiong , Qingwen Liu , Wen Fang , Qingwei Jiang , Gang Yan , Jiangchuan Mu

To overcome the limited payload of lightweight vehicles such as unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and the aerodynamic constraints on the onboard radar, a compact nonuniform conformal array is proposed in order to achieve a wide beamscanning…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-18 Yuanyan Su , Icaro V. Soares , Siegfred Daquioag Balon , Jun Cao , Denys Nikolayev , Anja K. Skrivervik

Satellites provide seamless coverage and are critical for emergency communications during natural disasters. However, their performance is constrained by limited spectrum and high deployment cost. To address these issues, we propose a fluid…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Tianyu Han , Yongxu Zhu , Gan Zheng , Pantelis-Daniel Arapoglou

Interference alignment (IA) is a cooperative transmission strategy that improves spectral efficiency in high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) environments, yet performs poorly in low-SNR scenarios. This limits IA's utility in cellular systems as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-14 Jonathan Starr , Omar El Ayach , Robert W. Heath

In this paper, we investigate a novel integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system aided by movable antennas (MAs). A bistatic radar system, in which the base station (BS) is configured with MAs, is integrated into a multi-user…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Wanting Lyu , Songjie Yang , Yue Xiu , Zhongpei Zhang , Chadi Assi , Chau Yuen

In this paper, we investigate a six dimensional movable antenna (6DMA) enable integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) network in low-altitude economy. The studied 6DMA can move in a three-dimensional space and rotate around its surface…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-06 Yingchao Jiao , Xuhui Zhang , Chunjie Wang , Shuqiang Wang , Yanyan Shen , Kejiang Ye , Chengzhong Xu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) integrated into cellular networks face significant challenges from air-to-ground interference. To address this, we propose a downlink UAV communication system that leverages a fluid antenna system (FAS)-…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Ali Reda , Tamer Mekkawy , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Chan-Byoung Chae , Kai-Kit Wong

This paper studies flexible non-uniform array design for monostatic integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. An antenna pool is considered at the base station, where each candidate antenna can be dynamically assigned to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Zhe Wang , Mahmoud Zaher , Vitaly Petrov , Emil Björnson

Array structures based on the sum and difference co-arrays provide more degrees of freedom (DOF). However, since the growth of DOF is limited by a single case of sum and difference co-arrays, the paper aims to design a sparse linear array…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-24 Si Wang , Guoqiang Xiao

Flexible coupler antenna systems have recently received significant research interest due to their capability to intelligently reconfigure wireless channels by controlling coupler positions and/or rotations and dynamically exploiting mutual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Xiaodan Shao , Chuangye Shan , Weihua Zhuang , Xuemin Shen

Movable antenna (MA) array is a novel technology recently developed where positions of transmit/receive antennas can be flexibly adjusted in the specified region to reconfigure the wireless channel and achieve a higher capacity. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Guojie Hu , Qingqing Wu , Kui Xu , Jiangbo Si , Naofal Al-Dhahir