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most citedIntegrated Sensing, Communication, and Powering (ISCAP): Towards Multi-functional 6G Wireless Networks

4 citations · 8 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

eess.SP2026

A New Paradigm of 6G Networks: Proactive Channel Cognition and Reconfiguration

Wenyan Ma, Zixiang Ren, Weitong Zhai +4

The sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks are expected to enable the deep integration of communication, sensing, computing, control, and intelligence in highly dynamic environmen…

cs.CV2026

NTR: Neural Token Reconstruction for Scene Token Bottleneck in End-to-End Driving

Jiahui Li, Jiawei Sun, Zixiang Ren +7

Recent perception-free end-to-end (E2E) autonomous driving methods bypass explicit perception outputs by compressing dense image patch tokens into compact scene tokens for downstre…

cs.IT2026

Environment-Aware Near-Field Channel Estimation Leveraging CKM and ISAC

Yuan Guo, Yilong Chen, Zixiang Ren +1

This paper proposes an environment-aware near-field channel estimation framework for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems equipped with extremely large-scale antenna…

cs.NI2026

Near-Field Multi-Cell ISCAP with Extremely Large-Scale Antenna Array

Yuan Guo, Yilong Chen, Zixiang Ren +2

This paper investigates a coordinated multi-cell integrated sensing, communication, and powering (ISCAP) system operating in the electromagnetic near field, where each base station…

eess.SP2025

Channel Knowledge Map Construction: Recent Advances and Open Challenges

Zixiang Ren, Juncong Zhou, Jie Xu +5

Channel knowledge map (CKM) has emerged as a pivotal technology for environment-aware wireless communications and sensing, which provides a priori location-specific channel knowled…

eess.SP2025

Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces for Integrated Sensing and Communications: From System Coexistence to Networked Mutualism

Qingqing Wu, Qiaoyan Peng, Ziheng Zhang +10

The rapid development of sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks requires seamless integration of communication and sensing to support ubiquitous intelligence and real-time, high-r…

eess.SP2025

6D Channel Knowledge Map Construction via Bidirectional Wireless Gaussian Splatting

Juncong Zhou, Chao Hu, Guanlin Wu +5

This paper investigates the construction of channel knowledge map (CKM) from sparse channel measurements. Dif ferent from conventional two-/three-dimensional (2D/3D) CKM approaches…

eess.SP2025

Environment-Aware IRS Deployment via Channel Knowledge Map: Joint Sensing-Communications Coverage Optimization

Yilong Chen, Zixiang Ren, Jie Xu +1

This paper studies the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) deployment optimization problem for IRS-enabled integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) systems, in which multiple…

eess.SP2025

Robust Secure Communications in Near-Field ISCAP Systems with Extremely Large-Scale Antenna Array

Zixiang Ren, Siyao Zhang, Ling Qiu +2

This paper investigates robust secure communications in a near-field integrated sensing, communication, and powering (ISCAP) system, in which the base station (BS) is equipped with…

eess.SP2025

Sensing-Assisted Channel Prediction in Complex Wireless Environments: An LLM-Based Approach

Junjie He, Zixiang Ren, Jianping Yao +3

This letter studies the sensing-assisted channel prediction for a multi-antenna orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system operating in realistic and complex wireless…

cs.IT2024

An Overview of Cellular ISAC for Low-Altitude UAV: New Opportunities and Challenges

Yuxuan Song, Yong Zeng, Yuhang Yang +6

Low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to play an important role in future wireless networks, either as aerial base stations (BSs) or aerial users connected to t…

eess.SP2024

An Overview on IRS-Enabled Sensing and Communications for 6G: Architectures, Fundamental Limits, and Joint Beamforming Designs

Xianxin Song, Yuan Fang, Feng Wang +8

This paper presents an overview on intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-enabled sensing and communication for the forthcoming sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks, in which IRSs…

eess.SP2024

Exploiting Moving Arrays for Near-Field Sensing

Yilong Chen, Zixiang Ren, Xianghao Yu +2

This letter exploits moving arrays to enable nearfield multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) sensing via a limited number of antenna elements. We consider a scenario where a base s…

cs.IT2024★ 1 cited

Sensing-assisted Near-field Energy Beam Focusing with ELAA Over Non-stationary Channels

Li Zhang, Zixiang Ren, Yuan Fang +2

This paper studies a novel training-free energy beam focusing approach for a near-field wireless power transfer (WPT) system with extremely large-scale antenna array (ELAA). In par…

eess.SP2024

Integrated Sensing, Communication, and Powering over Multi-antenna OFDM Systems

Yilong Chen, Chao Hu, Zixiang Ren +5

This paper considers a multi-functional orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system with integrated sensing, communication, and powering (ISCAP), in which a multi-ante…

eess.SP2024

Secure Communications in Near-Filed ISCAP Systems with Extremely Large-Scale Antenna Arrays

Zixiang Ren, Siyao Zhang, Xinmin Li +3

This paper investigates secure communications in a near-field multi-functional integrated sensing, communication, and powering (ISCAP) system with an extremely large-scale antenna…

eess.SP2024★ 4 cited

Integrated Sensing, Communication, and Powering (ISCAP): Towards Multi-functional 6G Wireless Networks

Yilong Chen, Zixiang Ren, Jie Xu +3

This article presents a novel multi-functional system for a sixth-generation (6G) wireless network with integrated sensing, communication, and powering (ISCAP), which unifies integ…

cs.IT2023★ 1 cited

Secure Cell-Free Integrated Sensing and Communication in the Presence of Information and Sensing Eavesdroppers

Zixiang Ren, Jie Xu, Ling Qiu +1

This paper studies a secure cell-free integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, in which multiple ISAC transmitters collaboratively send confidential information to multi…

cs.IT2023★ 1 cited

Sensing-Assisted Sparse Channel Recovery for Massive Antenna Systems

Zixiang Ren, Ling Qiu, Jie Xu +1

This correspondence presents a novel sensing-assisted sparse channel recovery approach for massive antenna wireless communication systems. We focus on a fundamental configuration w…

cs.IT2023

Training-Free Energy Beamforming Assisted by Wireless Sensing

Li Zhang, Yuan Fang, Zixiang Ren +2

This paper studies the transmit energy beamforming in a multi-antenna wireless power transfer (WPT) system, in which an access point (AP) equipped with a uniform linear array (ULA)…

cs.IT2023★ 1 cited

Fundamental CRB-Rate Tradeoff in Multi-Antenna ISAC Systems with Information Multicasting and Multi-Target Sensing

Zixiang Ren, Yunfei Peng, Xianxin Song +5

This paper investigates the performance tradeoff for a multi-antenna integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system with simultaneous information multicasting and multi-target…

cs.IT2022

Robust Transmit Beamforming for Secure Integrated Sensing and Communication

Zixiang Ren, Ling Qiu, Jie Xu +1

This paper studies a downlink secure integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, in which a multi-antenna base station (BS) transmits confidential messages to a single-ante…

cs.IT2022

Fundamental CRB-Rate Tradeoff in Multi-antenna Multicast Channel with ISAC

Zixiang Ren, Xianxin Song, Yuan Fang +2

This paper studies the multi-antenna multicast channel with integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), in which a multi-antenna base station (BS) sends common messages to a set o…

cs.IT2021

Optimal Transmit Beamforming for Secrecy Integrated Sensing and Communication

Zixiang Ren, Ling Qiu, Jie Xu

This paper studies a secrecy integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, in which a multi-antenna base station (BS) aims to send confidential messages to a single-antenna c…