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This paper investigates the design of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems assisted by simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs), which act as multi-functional programmable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Ziming Liu , Tao Chen , Giacinto Gelli , Vincenzo Galdi , Francesco Verde

User scheduling and beamforming design are two crucial yet coupled topics for wireless communication systems. They are usually optimized separately with conventional optimization methods. In this paper, a novel cross-layer optimization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Shiwen He , Zhenyu An , Jianyue Zhu , Min Zhang , Yongming Huang , Yaoxue Zhang

This paper presents an initial investigation into the combination of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) and massive communication, both of which are largely regarded as key scenarios in sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Junyuan Gao , Weifeng Zhu , Shuowen Zhang , Yongpeng Wu , Jiannong Cao , Giuseppe Caire , Liang Liu

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a promising technique for expanding the functionalities of wireless networks with enhanced spectral efficiency. The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has defined six basic sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Yixin Ding , Haoyu Jiang , Xiaoli Xu , Yanan Liang , Yong Zeng

This paper studies the sensing base station (SBS) that has great potential to improve the safety of vehicles and pedestrians on roads. It can detect the targets on the road with communication signals using the integrated sensing and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Wangjun Jiang , Zhiqing Wei , Zhiyong Feng , Xu Chen

Cell-free (CF) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) combines CF architecture with ISAC. CF employs distributed access points, eliminates cell boundaries, and enhances coverage, spectral efficiency, and reliability. ISAC unifies radar…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Diluka Galappaththige , Mohammadali Mohammadi , Gayan Aruma Baduge , Chintha Tellambura

We investigate the joint user and target scheduling, user-target pairing, and low-resolution phase-only beamforming design for integrated sensing and communications (ISAC). Scheduling determines which users and targets are served, while…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Luis F. Abanto-Leon , Setareh Maghsudi

In this paper, we study a secure integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system where one multi-antenna base station (BS) simultaneously serves a downlink communication user and senses the location of a target that may potentially serve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Kaiyue Hou , Shuowen Zhang

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

This paper addresses the topic of integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) in 5G and emerging 6G wireless networks. ISAC systems operate within shared, congested or even contested spectrum, aiming to deliver high performance in both…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-27 Visa Koivunen , Musa Furkan Keskin , Henk Wymeersch , Mikko Valkama , Nuria González-Prelcic

This work considers the problem of integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) with a massive number of unsourced and uncoordinated users. In the proposed model, known as the unsourced ISAC system (UNISAC), all active communication and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Mohammad Javad Ahmadi , Rafael F. Schaefer , H. Vincent Poor

This paper focuses on developing a decentralized framework for coordinated minimum power beamforming wherein $L$ base stations (BSs), each equipped with $N$ antennas, serve $K$ single-antenna users with specific rate constraints. This is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-27 Hossein Asgharimoghaddam , Antti Tölli , Luca Sanguinetti , Merouane Debbah

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) networks strive to deliver both high-precision target localization and high-throughput data services across the entire coverage area. In this work, we examine the fundamental trade-off between…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-24 Kaitao Meng , Kawon Han , Christos Masouros , Lajos Hanzo

User-centric (UC) based cell-free (CF) structures can provide the benefits of coverage enhancement for millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems, which is regarded as the key technology of the reliable and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Yingrong Zhong , Yashuai Cao , Tiejun Lv

In this paper, a general ISAC system where the base station (BS) communicates with multiple users and performs target detection is considered. Then, a sum communication rate maximization problem is formulated, subjected to the constraints…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Qian Gao , Ruikang Zhong , Yuanwei Liu

This paper studies a multi-antenna network integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, in which a set of multi-antenna base stations (BSs) employ the coordinated transmit beamforming to serve their respectively associated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Gaoyuan Cheng , Jie Xu

This paper studies the UAV-enabled integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), in which UAVs are dispatched as aerial dual-functional access points (APs) for efficient ISAC. In particular, we consider a scenario with one UAV-AP equipped…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Zhonghao Lyu , Guangxu Zhu , Jie Xu

Inter-operator spectrum sharing in millimeter-wave bands has the potential of substantially increasing the spectrum utilization and providing a larger bandwidth to individual user equipment at the expense of increasing inter-operator…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Hossein S. Ghadikolaei , Hadi Ghauch , Gabor Fodor , Mikael Skoglund , Carlo Fischione

In this paper, a new user-scheduling-and-beamforming method is proposed for multi-user massive multiple-input multiple-output (massive MIMO) broadcast channels in the context of two-stage beamforming. The key ideas of the proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-28 Gilwon Lee , Youngchul Sung

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has been regarded as a key technology for 6G wireless communications, in which large-scale multiple input and multiple output (MIMO) array with higher and wider frequency bands will be adopted.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Hongliang Luo , Feifei Gao , Wanmai Yuan , Shun Zhang