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In this paper, we explore a cooperative integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) framework that utilizes orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) waveforms. Under the control of a central processing unit (CPU), multiple access…

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This paper unifies integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) and simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT), by investigating a new multi-functional multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system integrating wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Yilong Chen , Haocheng Hua , Jie Xu

This paper leverages fluid antenna (FA) and rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) to enhance the physical layer security (PLS) of an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. We consider a practical multi-user multi-input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Cixiao Zhang , Yin Xu , Size Peng , Xinghao Guo , Xiaowu Ou , Hanjiang Hong , Dazhi He , Wenjun Zhang

Ultra-reliable target-aware actuation-where timely and accurate sensing information is used to trigger critical actions in emerging 6G sensing-based applications-demands tight integration of sensing and communication under stringent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Zinat Behdad , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Ki Won Sung , Cicek Cavdar

A large-scale distributed antenna system that serves the users by coherent joint transmission is called Cell-free Massive MIMO (multiple input multiple output). For a given user set, only a subset of the access points (APs) is likely needed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Trinh Van Chien , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

In this paper, we investigate a cell-free massive multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO)-enabled integration communication, computation, and sensing (ICCS) system, aiming to minimize the maximum computation latency to guarantee the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Qihao Peng , Qu Luo , Zheng Chu , Zihuai Lin , Maged Elkashlan , Pei Xiao , George K. Karagiannidis , Christos Masouros

In this paper, we consider and study a cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) system aided with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), where a large number of access points (APs) cooperate to serve a smaller number of users with the help of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Bayan Al-Nahhas , Mohanad Obeed , Anas Chaaban , Md. Jahangir Hossain

This paper investigates the energy efficiency of a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) system, in which one multi-antenna base station (BS) transmits unified ISAC signals to a multi-antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Guanlin Wu , Yuan Fang , Jie Xu , Zhiyong Feng , Shuguang Cui

This letter focuses on enhancing target detection performance for a multi-user integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system using orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS)-aided cell-free multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Shivani Singh , Amudheesan Nakkeeran , Prem Singh , Ekant Sharma , Jyotsna Bapat

Cell-free integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems are facing the resource allocation challenges due to the deployment of access points (APs) and conflicting beamforming requirements between the communication and sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Jijin Guo , Lixin Li , Yufeng Zheng , Dongwei Zhao , Wensheng Lin , Zhu Han

This paper proposes a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) architecture with joint list-based detection with soft interference cancelation (soft-IC) and access points (APs) selection. In particular, we derive a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-11 T. Ssettumba , L. T. N. Landau , R. C. de Lamare

This paper studies a joint communication and sensing (JCAS) system with downlink communication and multi-static sensing for single-target detection in a cloud radio access network architecture. A centralized operation of cell-free massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Zinat Behdad , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Ki Won Sung , Emil Björnson , Cicek Cavdar

In this paper, we study a secure integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system where one multi-antenna base station (BS) simultaneously communicates with one single-antenna user and senses the location parameter of a target which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Kaiyue Hou , Shuowen Zhang

Cell-Free Massive MIMO (CF mMIMO) has emerged as a potential enabler for future networks. It has been shown that these networks are much more energy-efficient than classical cellular systems when they are serving users at peak capacity.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Robbert Beerten , Vida Ranjbar , Andrea P. Guevara , Hazem Sallouha , Sofie Pollin

Due to great efficiency improvement in resource and hardware space, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has gained much attention. In the paper, the physical layer security (PLS) of ISAC system under communication eavesdropper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Tian Zhang , Zhirong Su , Yueyi Dong

Incorporating rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) into integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) presents a significant security challenge, particularly in scenarios where the location of a potential eavesdropper (Eve) is unidentified.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-23 A. Abdelaziz Salem , Saeed Abdallah , Mohamed Saad , Khawla Alnajjar , Mahmoud A. Albreem

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has emerged as a pivotal technology for next-generation wireless networks, enabling simultaneous data transmission and environmental sensing. However, existing ISAC systems face fundamental…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-18 Amirhossein Taherpour , Abbas Taherpour , Tamer Khattab

This paper investigates multi-target position estimation in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF mMIMO) architectures, where orthogonal time frequency and space (OTFS) is used as an integrated sensing and communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yifei Fan , Shaochuan Wu , Haojie Wang , Mingjun Sun , Jianhe Wang

A canonical use case of Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems involves a multi-antenna transmitter communicating with $K$ users and sensing targets in its vicinity. For this setup,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-12 Xinze Lyu , Sundar Aditya , Bruno Clerckx

We consider a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system with joint unicast and multi-group multicast transmissions. We derive exact closed-form expressions for the downlink achievable spectral efficiency (SE) of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Mustafa S. Abbas , Zahra Mobini , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou