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Integrated positioning and communication (IPAC) system and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) are both considered to be key technologies for future wireless networks. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a RIS-enabled IPAC scheme with…

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Providing guaranteed quality of service for cell-edge users remains a longstanding challenge in wireless networks. While coordinated interference management was proposed decades ago, its potential has been limited by computational…

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In this paper, we establish an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system based on a distributed semi-passive intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), which allows location sensing and data transmission to be carried out…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Xiaoling Hu , Chenxi Liu , Mugen Peng , Caijun Zhong

Magnetic induction (MI) enables communication in RF-denied environments (underground, underwater, in-body), where the medium conductivity imprints a deterministic signature on the channel. This letter derives a closed-form Cram\'{e}r--Rao…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Haofan Dong , Ozgur B. Akan

This paper addresses the fundamental performance limits of Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) systems by introducing a novel converse bound based on rate-distortion theory. This rate-distortion bound (RDB) overcomes the restrictive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Mohammadreza Bakhshizadeh Mohajer , Alex Dytso , Daniela Tuninetti , Luca Barletta

This paper investigates an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system where the sensing target is a three-dimensional (3D) extended target, for which multiple scatterers from the target surface can be resolved. We first introduce a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Yiqiu Wang , Meixia Tao , Shu Sun , Wei Cao

A simultaneously transmitting and reflecting surface (STARS) enabled integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) framework is proposed, where a novel bi-directional sensing-STARS architecture is devised to facilitate the full-space…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Zheng Zhang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhaolin Wang , Jian Chen

In this paper, we derive the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) for joint target position and velocity estimation using an active or passive distributed radar network under more general, and practically occurring, conditions than assumed in previous…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Qian He , Jianbin Hu , Rick S. Blum , Yonggang Wu

In this paper, we propose an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system enabled by movable antennas (MAs), which can dynamically adjust antenna positions to enhance both sensing and communication performance for future wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Lebin Chen , Ming-Min Zhao , Min-Jian Zhao , Rui Zhang

This paper investigates an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided millimeter-wave integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. Specifically, based on the passive beam scanning in the downlink, the IRS finds the optimal beam for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Renwang Li , Xiaodan Shao , Shu Sun , Meixia Tao , Rui Zhang

A core challenge in physical-layer security is the difficulty of obtaining the channel state information (CSI) of potential eavesdroppers. The inherent sensing functionality of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems offers a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yaxuan Chen , Guangchi Zhang , Miao Cui , Hao Fu , Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

While Cram\'er-Rao lower bound is an important metric in sensing functions in integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) designs, its optimization usually involves a computationally expensive solution such as semidefinite relaxation. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Tianyu Fang , Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Markku Juntti

In this paper, the problem of training signal design for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication under a sparse channel model is considered. The problem is approached based on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Song Noh , Heejung Yu , Youngchul Sung

This paper studies a multi-target multi-user integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system where a multi-antenna base station (BS) communicates with multiple single-antenna users in the downlink and senses the unknown and random angle…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jiayi Yao , Shuowen Zhang

Quantifying the performance bound of an integrated localization and communication (ILAC) system and the trade-off between communication and localization performance is critical. In this letter, we consider an ILAC system that can perform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Yuan Gao , Haonan Hu , Jiliang Zhang , Yanliang Jin , Shugong Xu , Xiaoli Chu

In this paper, we propose multi-input multi-output (MIMO) beamforming designs towards joint radar sensing and multi-user communications. We employ the Cram\'er-Rao bound (CRB) as a performance metric of target estimation, under both point…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-26 Fan Liu , Ya-Feng Liu , Ang Li , Christos Masouros , Yonina C. Eldar

To enhance the positioning and tracking performance of dynamic user equipment (UE) in wideband millimeter-wave (mmWave) systems, we propose a novel positioning error lower bound (PELB)-driven ping-pong positioning framework, where the base…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Lin Guo , Tiejun Lv , Yashuai Cao , Mugen Peng

A fundamental challenge in millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication is the susceptibility to blocking objects. One way to alleviate this problem is the use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS). Nevertheless, due to the large number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Yaoshen Cui , Haifan Yin , Li Tan , Marco Di Renzo

This paper studies the transmit waveform optimization for a quantized multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where one-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are employed to enable a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Qi Lin , Hong Shen , Wei Xu , Chunming Zhao

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) plays an important role in enhancing source localization accuracy. Based on the information inequality of Fisher information analyses, the Cram\'{e}r-Rao Bound (CRB) of the localization error can be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-18 Yuhua Jiang , Yuanwan Mai , Feifei Gao