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The fundamentals of MIMO communications and MIMO sensing are firstly analyzed with regard to channel and sensing capacities. It is shown that the different objectives of communications and sensing lead to different signaling waveforms…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-22 Lie-Liang Yang

In the evolution towards the forthcoming era of sixth-generation (6G) mobile communication systems characterized by ubiquitous intelligence, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is in a phase of burgeoning development. However, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-17 Haotian Liu , Zhiqing Wei , Jinghui Piao , Huici Wu , Xingwang Li , Zhiyong Feng

In a cell-free (CF) massive MIMO architecture a very large number of distributed access points (APs) simultaneously and jointly serves a much smaller number of mobile stations (MSs); a variant of the cell-free technique is the user-centric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Mario Alonzo , Stefano Buzzi

This paper tackles two key challenges in cell-freemassive multiple input multiple output (CF-mMIMO) systems:efficient pilot allocation and practical receiver design. To thisend, we introduce a novel pilot allocation framework…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Getuar Rexhepi , Kuranage Roche Rayan Ranasinghe , Kengo Ando , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu , David Gonzalez G

As the uplink sensing has the advantage of easy implementation, it attracts great attention in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. This paper presents an uplink ISAC system based on multi-input multi-output orthogonal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Jinghui Piao , Zhiqing Wei , Xin Yuan , Xiaoyu Yang , Huici Wu , Zhiyong Feng

Beamforming design is critical for the efficient operation of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) MIMO systems. ISAC beamforming design in cell-free massive MIMO systems, compared to colocated MIMO systems, is more challenging due…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Umut Demirhan , Ahmed Alkhateeb

This paper considers a cell-free massive multipleinput multiple-output (MIMO) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where distributed MIMO access points (APs) are used to jointly serve the communication users and detect the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Mohamed Elfiatoure , Mohammadali Mohammadi , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

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

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, which exploit many geographically distributed access points to coherently serve user equipments via spatial multiplexing on the same time-frequency resource, has become a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Jiakang Zheng , Jiayi Zhang , Hongyang Du , Dusit Niyato , Bo Ai , Mérouane Debbah , Khaled B. Letaief

This paper studies integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) in the downlink of a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with multi-static sensing and ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) users. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Zinat Behdad , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Ki Won Sung , Cicek Cavdar

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-25 Zihuan Wang , Vincent W. S. Wong , Robert Schober

This paper explores the energy efficiency (EE) of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems employing massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) techniques to leverage spatial beamforming gains for both communication and…

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

In this paper, we investigate integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) in a cell-free (CF) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) network, where each access point functions either as an ISAC transmitter or as a sensing receiver. We devote…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-05 Guoqing Xia , Pei Xiao , Qu Luo , Bing Ji , Yue Zhang , Cicek Cavdar , Huiyu Zhou

We propose a coordinated FMCW-OFDM (Co-FMCW-OFDM) system that enables integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) by allowing sensing and communication to share the same RF front end, antennas, and spectral resources. In the proposed ISAC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yuhong Wang , Yonghong Zeng , Sumei Sun , Xiaojuan Zhang

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

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yifei Fan , Shaochuan Wu , Mingjun Sun , Lin Huo , Jianchao Su , Haojie Wang

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) is a critical enabler for emerging 6G applications, and at its core lies in the dual-functional waveform design. While orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) has been a popular basic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-21 Zonghui Yang , Shijian Gao , Xiang Cheng , Liuqing Yang

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) has emerged as an alternative deployment for conventional cellular massive MIMO networks. Prior works relied on the strong assumption (quite idealized) that the APs are uniformly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Pandelis Kourtessis , Marco Di Renzo , Symeon Chatzinotas , John M. Senior

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a promising approach for next-generation wireless networks, enabling scalable deployments of multiple small access points (APs) to enhance coverage and service for multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-11 Georgios Mylonopoulos , Giovanni Interdonato , Stefano Buzzi , Pei Liu

The integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) can achieve the sharing of hardware and spectrum resources, enabling efficient data transmission and environmental sensing. This fusion is particularly important for unmanned aerial vehicle…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Yi Tao , Zhen Gao , Zhuoran Li , Ziwei Wan , Tuan Li , Chunli Zhu , Lei Chen , Guanghui Wen , Dezhi Zheng , Dusit Niyato