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Securing the Sensing Functionality in ISAC Networks: An Artificial Noise Design
Jiaqi Zou, Christos Masouros, Fan Liu +1
Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) systems employ dual-functional signals to simultaneously accomplish radar sensing and wireless communication tasks. However, ISAC syste…
Symbol-Level Precoding for MU-MIMO System with RIRC Receiver
Xiao Tong, Ang Li, Lei Lei +2
Consider a multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) downlink system in which the base station (BS) sends multiple data streams to multi-antenna users via symbol-level pre…
Specific Beamforming for Multi-UAV Networks: A Dual Identity-based ISAC Approach
Yanpeng Cui, Qixun Zhang, Zhiyong Feng +4
Beam alignment is essential to compensate for the high path loss in the millimeter-wave (mmWave) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) network. The integrated sensing and communication (IS…
Faster-Than-Nyquist Symbol-Level Precoding for Wideband Integrated Sensing and Communications
Zihan Liao, Fan Liu, Ang Li +1
In this paper, we present an innovative symbol-level precoding (SLP) approach for a wideband multi-user multi-input multi-output (MU-MIMO) downlink Integrated Sensing and Communica…
Towards ISAC-Empowered Vehicular Networks: Framework, Advances, and Opportunities
Zhen Du, Fan Liu, Yunxin Li +5
Connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) networks face several challenges, such as low throughput, high latency, and poor localization accuracy. These challenges severely impede the…
Symbol-Level Precoding for Integrated Sensing and Communications: A Faster-Than-Nyquist Approach
Zihan Liao, Fan Liu
In this paper, we propose a novel symbol-level precoding (SLP) method for a multi-user multi-input multi-output (MU-MIMO) downlink Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) syst…
Joint Beamforming Design for Dual-Functional MIMO Radar and Communication Systems Guaranteeing Physical Layer Security
Fuwang Dong, Wei Wang, Xin Li +3
The dual-functional radar and communication (DFRC) technique constitutes a promising next-generation wireless solution, due to its benefits in terms of power consumption, physical…
Seventy Years of Radar and Communications: The Road from Separation to Integration
Fan Liu, Le Zheng, Yuanhao Cui +4
Radar and communications (R&C) as key utilities of electromagnetic (EM) waves have fundamentally shaped human society and triggered the modern information age. Although R&C have be…
Intelligent Reflecting Surface Enabled Sensing: Cramér-Rao Bound Optimization
Xianxin Song, Jie Xu, Fan Liu +2
This paper investigates intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) enabled non-line-of-sight (NLoS) wireless sensing, in which an IRS is dedicatedly deployed to assist an access point (A…
Vehicular Connectivity on Complex Trajectories: Roadway-Geometry Aware ISAC Beam-tracking
Xiao Meng, Fan Liu, Christos Masouros +3
In this paper, we propose sensing-assisted beamforming designs for vehicles on arbitrarily shaped roads by relying on integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) signalling.Specifi…
Intelligent Reflecting Surface Enabled Sensing: Cramér-Rao Lower Bound Optimization
Xianxin Song, Jie Xu, Fan Liu +2
This paper investigates intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) enabled non-line-of-sight (NLoS) wireless sensing, in which an IRS is deployed to assist an access point (AP) to sense…
An Experimental Proof of Concept for Integrated Sensing and Communications Waveform Design
Tongyang Xu, Fan Liu, Christos Masouros +1
The integration of sensing and communication (ISAC) functionalities have recently gained significant research interest as a hardware-, power-, spectrum- and cost- efficient solutio…
Sensing as a Service in 6G Perceptive Networks: A Unified Framework for ISAC Resource Allocation
Fuwang Dong, Fan Liu, Yuanhao Cui +3
In the upcoming next-generation (5G-Advanced and 6G) wireless networks, sensing as a service will play a more important role than ever before. Recently, the concept of perceptive n…
Integrated Human Activity Sensing and Communications
Xinyu Li, Yuanhao Cui, J. Andrew Zhang +3
Advances in wireless communication and signal processing facilitate integrated sensing and communication a compelling technology that intrinsically combines sensing and communicati…
Integrated Sensing and Communications for V2I Networks: Dynamic Predictive Beamforming for Extended Vehicle Targets
Zhen Du, Fan Liu, Weijie Yuan +4
We investigate sensing-assisted predictive beamforming schemes for vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication by exploiting the integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) funct…
MIMO-OFDM Dual-Functional Radar-Communication Systems: Low-PAPR Waveform Design
Xiaoyan Hu, Christos Masouros, Fan Liu +1
In this paper, we explore a dual-functional radar-communication (DFRC) system for achieving integrated sensing and communications (ISAC). The technique of orthogonal frequency divi…
Integrated Sensing and Communications: Towards Dual-functional Wireless Networks for 6G and Beyond
Fan Liu, Yuanhao Cui, Christos Masouros +4
As the standardization of 5G is being solidified, researchers are speculating what 6G will be. Integrating sensing functionality is emerging as a key feature of the 6G Radio Access…
Towards Multi-Functional 6G Wireless Networks: Integrating Sensing, Communication and Security
Zhongxiang Wei, Fan Liu, Christos Masouros +2
Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has recently emerged as a candidate 6G technology, aiming to unify the two key operations of the future network in spectrum/energy/cost…
Secure Dual-Functional Radar-Communication Transmission: Exploiting Interference for Resilience Against Target Eavesdropping
Nanchi Su, Fan Liu, Zhongxiang Wei +2
We study security solutions for dual-functional radar communication (DFRC) systems, which detect the radar target and communicate with downlink cellular users in millimeter-wave (m…
Accelerating Edge Intelligence via Integrated Sensing and Communication
Tong Zhang, Shuai Wang, Guoliang Li +3
Realizing edge intelligence consists of sensing, communication, training, and inference stages. Conventionally, the sensing and communication stages are executed sequentially, whic…
Hardware Efficient Joint Radar-Communications with Hybrid Precoding and RF Chain Optimization
Aryan Kaushik, Christos Masouros, Fan Liu
In this paper, we aim to achieve energy efficient design with minimum hardware requirement for hybrid precoding, which enables a large number of antennas with minimal number of RF…
An Overview of Signal Processing Techniques for Joint Communication and Radar Sensing
J. Andrew Zhang, Fan Liu, Christos Masouros +4
Joint communication and radar sensing (JCR) represents an emerging research field aiming to integrate the above two functionalities into a single system, sharing a majority of hard…
Cramér-Rao Bound Optimization for Joint Radar-Communication Design
Fan Liu, Ya-Feng Liu, Ang Li +2
In this paper, we propose multi-input multi-output (MIMO) beamforming designs towards joint radar sensing and multi-user communications. We employ the Cramér-Rao bound (CRB) as a p…
Learning to Select for MIMO Radar based on Hybrid Analog-Digital Beamforming
Zhaoyi Xu, Fan Liu, Konstantinos Diamantaras +2
In this paper, we propose an energy-efficient radar beampattern design framework for a Millimeter Wave (mmWave) massive multi-input multi-output (mMIMO) system, equipped with a hyb…