Integrated Sensing and Communication

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Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) studies how wireless systems can transmit data and simultaneously detect or track people, vehicles, and other targets. Common approaches reuse OFDM and other communication signals, jointly optimize waveforms, beamforming, and resource allocation, or apply learning methods to channel-state information and multimodal sensor data. Recent work also explores task-oriented and semantic communication, where systems transmit only information needed for goals such as obstacle avoidance or coordinated vehicle motion. The field spans simulations, public datasets, and hardware testbeds, but balancing sensing accuracy, communication quality, latency, energy use, and safety under real-world conditions remains a central challenge.

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  1. Multistatic ISAC with Deep Learning-Based Clutter Suppression for 5G and Beyond

    Oct 29, 2026Yalin E. Sagduyu, Tugba Erpek, Sastry KompellaIntegrated Sensing and Communication

    Nexcepta, Gaithersburg, MD, USA

  2. Leveraging Distributed Sensing and Hyperdimensional Computing for Non-Line-of-Sight Passive Object Sensing

    Oct 27, 2026Placido Mursia, Marco Rossanese, Francesco Devoti +4Robotic PerceptionVirtual Sensing

    NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany. · Univeristy of Bedfordshire, Luton, United Kingdom. · NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany, i2CAT Foundation, Barcelona, Spain, and ICREA Foundation, Barcelona, Spain.

  3. Keeping Inference in the Radio: Design and Measurement of a Spiking Accelerator for mmWave ISAC Activity Recognition

    Oct 27, 2026Anthony Sánchez, Rafael Ruiz, José A. Belloch +2Spiking Neural NetworksFPGA-Based Neural Network Acceleration

    IMDEA Networks Institute, Madrid, Spain · Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés, Spain

  4. Learning Nonlinear Waveform Fusion Across Scales for Integrated Sensing and Communication

    Oct 23, 2026Jiayu Liu, Kai Wan, Shuo Shao +1Integrated Sensing and CommunicationWireless Communications

  5. GPU-Accelerated Robust MA--RIS Pre-Optimization for Communication and Target Illumination

    Oct 15, 2026Tran Le Dung, Ho Viet Duc LuongMulti-Objective OptimizationIntegrated Sensing and Communication

    School of Information and Communications Technology (SoICT), Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST), Hanoi 100000, Vietnam

  6. Comparative Evaluation of Deep-Learning based DoA Estimators for Real-Time ISAC Beamforming

    Oct 14, 2026Anjali K. S., Manoj Kumar Panda, Chandramani SinghDirection-of-Arrival EstimationIntegrated Sensing and Communication

    Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India · Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

  7. SR-TTA: Spatial-Redundancy Test-Time Adaptation for Interference-Robust Respiration Sensing

    Oct 8, 2026Jingyuan Liu, Zheng Chang, Haoqiu Xiong +2Test-Time AdaptationIntegrated Sensing and Communication

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China · WaveCoRe, Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), KU Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium

  8. An Embodied Multiagent Framework Based on Token Communications for Cooperative ISAC

    Oct 8, 2026Jiahe Guo, Jun Du, Chunxiao Jiang +1Integrated Sensing and CommunicationMulti-Agent Communication

    Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China · State Key Laboratory of Space Network and Communications, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China · Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

  9. AIMS: An Agentic AI Framework for Sim-to-Real Multi-Modal ISAC

    Sep 30, 2026Yijie Bian, Kai Zhang, Wei Guo +4Integrated Sensing and CommunicationSim-to-Real Transfer

    Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong

  10. Short-Length Code Designs for Integrated Sensing and Communications: A Deep Learning Approach

    Sep 27, 2026Muah Kim, Shuangyang Li, Tayyebeh Jahani-Nezhad +2Integrated Sensing and CommunicationWireless Communications

    Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden 01069, Germany · Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin 10587, Germany

  11. StarBOA: Real-Time Mamba State-Space Unrolling for Sparse Radar Micro-Doppler in ISAC Networks

    Sep 27, 2026Mustafa Bora Çelik, Ceren Çelik, Orhan GaziSparse RecoveryIntegrated Sensing and Communication

  12. Adaptive Pilot Selection for Unified Semantic Communication and Semantic Sensing in ISAC

    Sep 25, 2026Muhammad Abubakar Rashid, Muhammad Hannan Akram, Haejoon Jung +1Integrated Sensing and CommunicationTask-Oriented Semantic Communication

    School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan · Department of Electronic Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Yongin 17104, Republic of Korea

  13. Toward Mission-Critical ISAC: Reliable Energy-Aware Coordination in UAV Swarms

    Sep 14, 2026Masoud Shokrnezhad, Tarik Taleb, Amir JavadpourIntegrated Sensing and CommunicationUAV Trajectory Optimization

    ICTFICIAL Oy Finland · Ruhr University Bochum Germany

  14. Robust Beam Prediction for V2X Networks with Multi-Modal Sensing

    Sep 9, 2026Chen Shang, Dinh Thai Hoang, Diep N. Nguyen +1Integrated Sensing and CommunicationV2X Communication

    School of Electrical and Data Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Australia · Internet of Things Thrust, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China

  15. IIns-VAE+: A Robust Transfer Learning Framework for Environmental Identification in Wireless Sensing

    Sep 5, 2026Yuxiao Li, Keke Hu, Bobai Zhao +2Transfer LearningClassification

    Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM), 48009 Bilbao, Spain · College of Semiconductor (College of Integrated Circuits), Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China · College of Computer Science, Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing 100192, China +2

  16. Feasible but Not Safe: Constraint Violations and Report-Channel Attacks in Learned Cell-Free ISAC Association

    Sep 2, 2026Mehdi Zafari, Iman Mohammadi, A. Lee SwindlehurstGraph Neural NetworksIntegrated Sensing and Communication

    University of California Irvine · Irvine, CA, USA

  17. Sense Once, Serve Many: Common-Trace Factorized Constrained PPO for Online Sensing-Session Consolidation in Multi-Tenant ISAC Networks

    Aug 29, 2026Dang-Dung VuIntegrated Sensing and CommunicationProximal Policy Optimization

    Faculty of Information Technology, VNU University of Engineering and Technology (VNU-UET), Hanoi 100000, Vietnam

  18. AERIS: Offline Policy Improvement for Multi-UAV Integrated Sensing and Communication

    Aug 26, 2026Ziyuan Wang, Yifan Sui, Wei Wei +5Integrated Sensing and CommunicationOffline MARL

    Steven · Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China +3

  19. When Agentic AI Meets Integrated Sensing and Communication

    Aug 6, 2026Kai Li, Conggai Li, Sarah Ali Siddiqui +4Integrated Sensing and CommunicationAI Agent Evaluation

    Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg · Technology, CSIRO, Sydney, NSW, Australia · College of Computer, Qassim University, Buraydah, Saudi Arabia +1

  20. A 6G Integrated Sensing and Communication Framework for Railway Intrusion Detection and Collision Prediction

    Aug 5, 2026Ajeet Kumar Yadav, Sankaran Balasubramaniam, Aritra Chatterjee +3Integrated Sensing and CommunicationIntelligent Transportation Systems

    Department of Cyber Physical Systems, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India · Nokia Solutions and Networks, Bengaluru, India · Department of Computational and Data Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India

  21. Task-Oriented Candidate-Latent Feedback for Coarse-to-Fine Sensing in Distributed OFDM-ISAC Networks

    Aug 4, 2026Shiv Shankar, Radha Krishna Ganti, J Klutto MillethIntegrated Sensing and Communication

    Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, Chennai India · Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology (CEWiT), Chennai India

  22. CRB-Driven Beamforming and Trajectory Optimization for UAV-assisted ISAC System

    Jul 21, 2026Yi Yang, Qianqian Zhang, Huaxia WangTrajectory OptimizationIntegrated Sensing and Communication

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rowan University, NJ, USA

  23. Goal-Oriented Semantic Communication for Distributed ISAC-Enabled Vehicle Coordination

    Jul 16, 2026Wenjie Liu, Yansha DengMulti-Agent CoordinationIntegrated Sensing and Communication

    Department of Engineering, King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K.

  24. Robust Design of Integrated Sensing and Communication in LEO Satellite Systems

    Jul 14, 2026Hezhen Yang, Xiaoming Chen, Qi WangIntegrated Sensing and CommunicationRobust Optimization

    College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

  25. CSI-Assisted Edge SLAM Testbed Platform for 5G Connected Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles

    Jul 11, 2026Boris Radovanovic, Sasa Talosi, Srdjan Sobot +1Simultaneous Localization and MappingIntegrated Sensing and Communication

    Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

  26. 6G Sensing Security: Distributed Game-Theoretic RL for Urban Beamforming and Attacker Detection

    Jul 7, 2026Parmida Geranmayeh, Onur GünlüIntegrated Sensing and Communication6G Networks

    Lehrstuhl für Nachrichtentechnik, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany · †Information Theory and Security Laboratory (ITSL), Linköping University, Sweden

  27. QuaMoE-DRF: Proactive Beam and Rate Adaptation via Multimodal Dynamic Radio Map Forecasting in ISAC Networks

    Jul 1, 2026Zhihan Zeng, Kaihe Wang, Zhongpei Zhang +1Integrated Sensing and CommunicationWireless Communications

    National Key Laboratory of Wireless Communications, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China · College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China +2

  28. Integrated Sensing and Communications for Real-time Avatar Control in XR over 5G

    Jun 22, 2026Nabeel Nisar Bhat, Javad Sameri, Rreze Halili +3Integrated Sensing and CommunicationSurface Electromyography

    IDLab, University of Antwerp - imec, Antwerp, Belgium · IDLab, Ghent University - imec, Ghent, Belgium · Light and Lighting Technology Lab, KU Leuven, Ghent, Belgium

  29. AI-Empowered UAV-Assisted Backscatter Localization and ISAC for Zero-Energy IoT: A Comprehensive Survey

    Jun 22, 2026Ruhul Amin KhalilIntegrated Sensing and CommunicationInternet of Things

    Engineering Requirements Unit (ERU), College of Engineering, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain 15551, UAE

  30. Resolving Multi-Target Association in OFDM-based ISAC via Vision-aided Multi-Modal Learning

    Jun 20, 2026Meng Hua, Chenghong Bian, Deniz GunduzIntegrated Sensing and CommunicationWireless Communications

    Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, U.K. · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong.