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Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a pivotal component of sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks, leveraging high-frequency bands and massive multiple-input multiple-output (M-MIMO) to deliver both high-capacity communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Wenhao Hu , Zhenyao He , Wei Xu , Yongming Huang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Naofal Al-Dhahir

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

This paper considers a cell-free integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) MIMO system, where distributed MIMO access points (APs) jointly serve the communication users and sense the target. For this setup, we derive a sensing SNR for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Umut Demirhan , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Backscatter-based integrated sensing and communication (B-ISAC) elevates passive tags into information-bearing scatterers, offering an ultra-low-power path toward dual-function wireless systems. However, this promise is fundamentally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Haohao Zhang , Bowen Gu , Xianhua Yu , Hao Xie , Liejun Wang , Yongjun Xu , Xiaoming Tao , Haijun Zhang

In this paper, we propose a novel joint active and passive beamforming approach for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) transmission with assistance of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) to simultaneously detect a target and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-26 Xiao Meng , Fan Liu , Shihang Lu , Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri , Christos Masouros

The capacity-maximization design philosophy has driven the growth of wireless networks for decades. However, with the slowdown in recent data traffic demand, the mobile industry can no longer rely solely on communication services to sustain…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Yuanhao Cui , Jiali Nie , Fan Liu , Weijie Yuan , Zhiyong Feng , Xiaojun Jing , Yulin Liu , Jie Xu , Christos Masouros , Shuguang Cui

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) represents a paradigm shift, where previously competing wireless transmissions are jointly designed to operate in harmony via the shared use of the hardware platform for improving the spectral and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Guoliang Li , Shuai Wang , Kejiang Ye , Miaowen Wen , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Marco Di Renzo

In this letter, we investigate the joint receiver design for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems, where the communication signal and the target echo signal are simultaneously received and processed to achieve a balanced…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Yuxiang Dong , Fan Liu , Yifeng Xiong

This paper presents a new integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) framework, leveraging the recent advancements of reconfigurable distributed antenna and reflecting surface (RDARS). RDARS is a programmable surface structure comprising…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Pingping Zhang , Jintao Wang , Yulin Shao , Shaodan Ma

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

The sixth generation (6G) mobile communication networks are expected to offer a new paradigm of cellular integrated sensing and communication (ISAC). However, due to the intrinsic difference between sensing and communication in terms of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Ruoguang Li , Zhiqiang Xiao , Yong Zeng

To support the unprecedented growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) applications, tremendous data need to be collected by the IoT devices and delivered to the server for further computation. By utilizing the same signals for both radar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Xiaoyang Li , Fan Liu , Ziqin Zhou , Guangxu Zhu , Shuai Wang , Kaibin Huang , Yi Gong

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is recognized as a promising technology with great potential in saving hardware and spectrum resources, since it simultaneously realizes radar detection and user communication functions in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-22 Qi Zhu , Ming Li , Rang Liu , Qian Liu

Backscatter communication (BSC) is being realized as the core technology for pervasive sustainable Internet-of-Things applications. However, owing to the resource-limitations of passive tags, the efficient usage of multiple antennas at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Deepak Mishra , Erik G. Larsson

This paper investigates the energy-efficient hybrid beamforming design for a multi-functional integrated sensing, communications, and powering (ISCAP) system. In this system, a base station (BS) with a hybrid analog-digital (HAD)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Zeyu Hao , Yuan Fang , Xianghao Yu , Jie Xu , Ling Qiu , Lexi Xu , Shuguang Cui

With the evolution of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) technology, a growing number of devices go beyond conventional communication functions with sensing abilities. Therefore, future networks are divinable to encounter new…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Teng Ma , Yue Xiao , Xia Lei , Ming Xiao

This paper delves into an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system bolstered by a simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS). Within this system, a base station (BS) is equipped with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Yuan Liu , Ruichen Zhang , Ruihong Jiang , Yongdong Zhu , Huimin Hu , Qiang Ni , Zesong Fei , Dusit Niyato

This correspondence paper studies a network integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system that unifies the interference channel for communication and distributed radar sensing. In this system, a set of distributed ISAC transmitters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Yi Huang , Yuan Fang , Xinmin Li , Jie Xu

Whereas Wi-Fi communications have been exploited for sensing purpose for over a decade, the bistatic or multistatic nature of Wi-Fi still poses multiple challenges, hampering real-life deployment of integrated sensing and communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Zhe Chen , Chao Hu , Tianyue Zheng , Hangcheng Cao , Yanbing Yang , Yen Chu , Hongbo Jiang , Jun Luo

The ongoing convergence of spectrum and hardware requirements for wireless sensing and communication applications has fueled the integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) paradigm in next-generation networks. Neural-network-based ISAC…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-26 Ziyi Wang , Frederik Zumegen , Christoph Studer