Advanced MIMO Technology-Enabled Integrated Sensing and Communication
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Internet of Things".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 88
Special Issue Editors
Interests: massive MIMO; extremely large-scale-MIMO; near-field communication; ISAC; AI-enabled communication; reconfigurable intelligent surface
Interests: Intelligent reflecting surface; MIMO transceiver desgin; integrated sensing and communication; edge computing/intelligence
Interests: wireless communications; localization
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Future wireless networks are expected to become essential enablers for various new applications/services requiring high network throughput and precise perception capabilities. To this end, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a new research area that aims to realize communication and sensing functions in a unified system, as well as generate their mutual benefits. Recently, ITU has identified ISAC as a crucial component of 6G. To achieve the ambitious goals of ISAC, future MIMO technology is envisaged to achieve higher spatial resolution to substantially enhance the capacity of wireless communications and enable high-quality sensing services for densely located targets. To accomplish this, advanced MIMO technology for ISAC must go beyond merely combining existing communication-oriented schemes. Furthermore, MIMO for ISAC should also take several issues, e.g., energy consumption, system hardware, and signal processing costs, into consideration. In addition, recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) provide promising mathematical approaches for dealing with new challenges in MIMO-enabled ISAC and to make next-generation multiple access (NGMA) more intelligent. However, realizing the full potential of MIMO-enabled ISAC in practical systems is challenging, and there are still many problems requiring research. This Special Issue (SI) seeks to explore MIMO-enabled ISAC and calls for high-quality original research papers from researchers and practitioners on topics including, but not limited to, the following:
- The fundamental limits of MIMO-enabled ISAC;
- Waveform/modulation/beamforming design for MIMO-enabled ISAC;
- Reflecting intelligent surface-/fluid antenna-empowered ISAC;
- Millimeter waves and THz in MIMO-enabled ISAC;
- Near-field MIMO-enabled ISAC transmission;
- Cell-free MIMO-empowered ISAC networks;
- AI for MIMO-enabled ISAC;
- Hardware prototyping and field tests for MIMO-enabled ISAC.
Dr. Kangda Zhi
Dr. Guangji Chen
Dr. Tuo Wu
Dr. Shihang Lu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- MIMO
- ISAC
- waveform/beamforming design
- near-field communication
- localization
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