eprintid: 10199757
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datestamp: 2024-11-08 11:24:32
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creators_name: Meng, K
creators_name: Masouros, C
creators_name: Petropulu, AP
creators_name: Hanzo, L
title: Cooperative ISAC Networks: Opportunities and Challenges
ispublished: inpress
divisions: UCL
divisions: B04
divisions: F46
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abstract: The integration of sensing and communication (ISAC) emerges as a cornerstone technology for the sixth generation era, seamlessly incorporating sensing functionality into wireless networks as a native capability. The main challenges in efficient ISAC are constituted by its limited sensing and communication (S&C) coverage as well as severe inter-cell interference. Network-level ISAC relying on multi-cell cooperation is capable of effectively expanding both the S&C coverage, and of providing extra degrees of freedom (DoF) for realizing increased integration gains between S&C. In this work, we provide new considerations for ISAC networks, including new metrics, the optimization of the DoF, and cooperation regimes, and we highlight new S&C trade-offs. Then, we discuss a suite of cooperative S&C architectures, both at the task, as well as, data and signal levels. Furthermore, the interplay between S&C at the network level is investigated, and promising research directions are outlined.
date: 2024-10-22
date_type: published
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1109/MWC.008.2400151
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 2333168
doi: 10.1109/MWC.008.2400151
lyricists_name: Meng, Kaitao
lyricists_name: Masouros, Christos
lyricists_id: KMENG45
lyricists_id: CMASO14
actors_name: Flynn, Bernadette
actors_id: BFFLY94
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: IEEE Wireless Communications
citation:        Meng, K;    Masouros, C;    Petropulu, AP;    Hanzo, L;      (2024)    Cooperative ISAC Networks: Opportunities and Challenges.                   IEEE Wireless Communications        10.1109/MWC.008.2400151 <https://doi.org/10.1109/MWC.008.2400151>.    (In press).    Green open access   
 
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