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Large AI Model Empowered Multimodal Semantic Communications IEEE Commun. Mag. (IF 8.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Feibo Jiang, Li Dong, Yubo Peng, Kezhi Wang, Kun Yang, Cunhua Pan, Xiaohu You
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Operationalizing AI/ML in Future Networks: A Bird's Eye View from the System Perspective IEEE Commun. Mag. (IF 8.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Qiong Liu, Tianzhu Zhang, Masoud Hemmatpour, Han Qiu, Dong Zhang, Chung Shue Chen, Marco Mellia, Armen Aghasaryan
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Multi-Beam Integrated Sensing and Communication: State-of-the-Art, Challenges and Opportunities IEEE Commun. Mag. (IF 8.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Yinxiao Zhuo, Tianqi Mao, Haojin Li, Chen Sun, Zhaocheng Wang, Zhu Han, Sheng Chen
Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has been envisioned to be a critical enabling technology for the next-generation wireless communication, which can realize location/motion detection of surroundings with communication devices. This additional sensing capability leads to a substantial network quality gain and expansion of the service scenarios. As the system evolves to millimeter wave (mmWave)
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Integrating Sensing, Communication, and Power Transfer: From Theory to Practice IEEE Commun. Mag. (IF 8.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Xiaoyang Li, Zidong Han, Guangxu Zhu, Yuanming Shi, Jie Xu, Yi Gong, Qinyu Zhang, Kaibin Huang, Khaled B. Letaief
To support the development of Internet of Things (IoT) applications, an enormous population of low-power devices are expected to be incorporated in wireless networks performing sensing and communication tasks. As a key technology for improving the data collection efficiency, integrated sensing, and communication (ISAC) enables simultaneous data transmission and radar sensing by reusing the same radio
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Leveraging a Variety of Anchors in Cellular Network for Ubiquitous Sensing IEEE Commun. Mag. (IF 8.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Liang Liu, Shuowen Zhang, Shuguang Cui
Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has recently attracted tremendous attention from both academia and industry, being envisioned as a key part of the standards for the sixth-generation (6G) cellular network. A key challenge of 6G-oriented ISAC lies in how to perform ubiquitous sensing based on the communication signals and devices. Previous works have made great progress on studying the signal
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Reshaping WiFi ISAC with High-Coherence Hardware Capabilities IEEE Commun. Mag. (IF 8.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Rui Li, Yu Duan, Rui Du, Fangxin Xu, Hangbin Zhao, Yang Sun, Yiyan Zhang, Daiyang Zhang, Yiming Liu, Zhiping Jiang, Tony Xiao Han
WiFi shows great promise for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), but its wider application is hampered by two pivotal challenges: the low-quality channel state information (CSI) and inadequate hardware capabilities. This article introduces a paradigm shift with high-coherence hardware capabilities to fundamentally overcome these two challenges. Our approach is realized through four key break-throughs
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The Curse of Beam-Squint in ISAC: Causes, Implications, and Mitigation Strategies IEEE Commun. Mag. (IF 8.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Ahmet M. Elbir, Kumar Vijay Mishra, Abdulkadir Celik, Ahmed M. Eltawil
Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) has emerged as a means to efficiently utilize spectrum and thereby save cost and power. At the higher end of the spectrum, ISAC systems operate at wideband using large antenna arrays to meet the stringent demands for high-resolution sensing and enhanced communications capacity. However, the wideband implementation entails beam-squint, that is, deviations
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ISAC-Aided UAV Swarms: From Networked Perception to Capability Evolution IEEE Commun. Mag. (IF 8.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Yibo Zhang, Jingjing Wang, Guoyu Du, Jianrui Chen, Jiaxing Wang, Qi Li
With the advancement of technology, intelligent unmanned aerial vehicle swarms (UAV-S) are playing an increasingly significant role across various industries, and sensing is one of their key capabilities that enable UAV-S to operate more effectively in complex and dynamic surroundings. However, due to payload constraints, UAVs often face limitations in the number and weight of sensors they can carry
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Toward Green RF Chain Design for Integrated Sensing and Communications: Technologies and Future Directions IEEE Commun. Mag. (IF 8.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Yi Gong, Xinru Li, Fanke Meng, Lei Liu, Mohsen Guizani, Zhan Xu
Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) technology, known for its efficient utilization of frequency bands and hardware, has emerged as a key solution to optimize spectrum resources and reduce hardware costs. Nowadays, designing an energy-efficient ISAC system to advance the green technology is crucial, particularly in the radio frequency (RF) chain which can offer significant energy-saving opportunities
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AI-Enhanced Integrated Sensing and Communications: Advancements, Challenges, and Prospects IEEE Commun. Mag. (IF 8.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Nan Wu, Rongkun Jiang, Xinyi Wang, Lyuxiao Yang, Kecheng Zhang, Wenqiang Yi, Arumugam Nallanathan
Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a pivotal technology for future sixth generation (6G) communications. It aggregates wireless sensing and communication functionalities into one system while sharing spatial, temporal, and frequency resources. In this article, a review on artificial intelligence (AI) enhanced ISAC is provided by introducing AI algorithms to ISAC for performance gain. We
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Joint Sensing and Semantic Communications with Multi-Task Deep Learning IEEE Commun. Mag. (IF 8.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Yalin E. Sagduyu, Tugba Erpek, Aylin Yener, Sennur Ulukus
This article explores the integration of deep learning techniques for joint sensing and communications, with an extension to semantic communications. The integrated system comprises a transmitter and receiver operating over a wireless channel, subject to noise and fading. The transmitter employs a deep neural network (DNN), namely an encoder, for joint operations of source coding, channel coding, and
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Rethinking Integrated Sensing and Communication: When Near Field Meets Wideband IEEE Commun. Mag. (IF 8.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Zhaolin Wang, Xidong Mu, Yuanwei Liu
This article revisits integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems that operate in the near-field region of large antenna arrays while utilizing large bandwidths. The article first describes the basic characteristics of a wideband sensing and communication (S&C) channel, highlighting the key changes that occur during the transition from the far-field to the near-field region, namely strong angular-delay
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IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (IEEE MEDITCOM 2024) IEEE Commun. Mag. (IF 8.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Besma Smida, Daniel Benevides da Costa
The conference was held at Hotel Emperador, conveniently located in the Gran Vía, at the center of the beautiful, historic, and vibrant city of Madrid. The attendees enjoyed a four-day program (Fig. 1) which discussed many of the outstanding challenges that exist in the areas of communications and networking. As shown in Fig. 1, the Technical Program of IEEE MEDITCOM 2024 consisted of 15 technical
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Interference Management for Full-Duplex ISAC in B5G/6G Networks: Architectures, Challenges, and Solutions IEEE Commun. Mag. (IF 8.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Aimin Tang, Xudong Wang, J. Andrew Zhang
Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) has been visioned as a key technique for B5G/6G networks. To support monostatic sensing, a full-duplex radio is indispensable to extract echo signals from targets. Such a radio can also greatly improve network capacity via full-duplex communications. However, full-duplex radios in existing ISAC designs are mainly focused on wireless sensing, while the ability
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Meta-Backscatter: A New ISAC Paradigm for Battery-Free Internet of Things IEEE Commun. Mag. (IF 8.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Xu Liu, Hongliang Zhang, Kaigui Bian, Xi Weng, Lingyang Song
The meta-material sensor has been regarded as a next-generation sensing technology for the battery-free Internet of Things (IoT) due to its battery-free characteristic and improved sensing performance. The meta-material sensors function as backscatter tags that change their reflection coefficients with the conditions of sensing targets, such as temperature and gas concentration, allowing transceivers
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Toward a Framework for Cost-Effective and Publicly Verifiable Confidential Computations in Blockchain IEEE Commun. Mag. (IF 8.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Daniel Morales, Isaac Agudo, Javier Lopez
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Guest Editorial: Integrating Sensing and Communications IEEE Commun. Mag. (IF 8.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Weijie Yuan, Giuseppe Caire, Carlos Cordeiro, Tao Gu
The evolution of wireless networks is set to undergo a significant transformation, moving beyond the enhancements introduced with 5G towards a revolutionary new paradigm. This shift is not just an upgrade of existing communication technologies but a fundamental reimagining of how wireless networks operate, driven by the integration of sensing capabilities as a core service. Modern advancements in signal
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Interference Mitigation for Network-Level ISAC: An Optimization Perspective IEEE Commun. Mag. (IF 8.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Dongfang Xu, Yiming Xu, Xin Zhang, Xianghao Yu, Shenghui Song, Robert Schober
Future wireless networks are envisioned to simultaneously provide high data-rate communication and ubiquitous environment-aware services for numerous users. One promising approach to meet this demand is to employ network-level integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) by jointly designing the signal processing and resource allocation over the entire network. However, to unleash the full potential
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Global Communications Newsletter IEEE Commun. Mag. (IF 8.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Stefano Bregni, Yessica Sáez, James Won-Ki Hong, Myung-Sup Kim, Baek-Young Choi, Roberto Riggio, Ana García Armada
This article continues the series of ten interviews with the Officers of the IEEE ComSoc Member and Global Activities (MGA) Council for the term 2024-2025, which will be published every month in the Global Communications Newsletter.
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Tensor Decompositions for Integrated Sensing and Communications IEEE Commun. Mag. (IF 8.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Jianhe Du, Meng Han, Yuanzhi Chen, Libiao Jin, Huihui Wu, Feifei Gao
Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) is one of the potential key technologies of the sixth-generation (6G) that could enhance the information interaction ability among network nodes. Since tensor technology can excellently store, process, and analyze a large amount of multi-dimensional data generated by modern wireless systems, it has aroused great research interest in both academia and industry
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IEEE ComSoc Awards IEEE Commun. Mag. (IF 8.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Robert Schober, Lin Cai
The IEEE Communications Society honors members and individuals for accomplishments in education and research, significant contributions to the industry that benefit the public, conferences, publications, and globalization, and those whose leadership resulted in major advances in the information and communications technology field. In this issue of the President's Page, I am pleased to introduce Lin
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Unlocking Potentials of Near-Field Propagation: ELAA-Empowered Integrated Sensing and Communication IEEE Commun. Mag. (IF 8.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Zhenyao He, Wei Xu, Zhaohui Yang, Hong Shen, Ningning Fu, Yongming Huang, Zhaoyang Zhang, Xiaohu You
The exploration of extremely large antenna arrays (ELAAs) using high-frequency spectrum has led to a paradigm shift in the electromagnetic radiation field, transitioning from the common use case of far-field propagation to near-field propagation. This shift necessitates the modification of the conventional planar-wavefront approximation to more accurate spherical waves, exerting a profound impact on
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Machine Learning for Predicting Infrastructure Faults and Job Failures in Clouds: A Survey IEEE Commun. Mag. (IF 8.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-02 Behshid Shayesteh, Amin Ebrahimzadeh, Roch Glitho
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800G Low-Latency Photonic Data-Center Interconnections over 5 km Hollow-Core Fiber IEEE Commun. Mag. (IF 8.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-02 Hailin Yang, Meng Xiang, Wenzhuo Cheng, Gai Zhou, Jianping Li, Yingying Wang, Shoufei Gao, Wei Ding, Songnian Fu, Yuwen Qin
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Toward 6G Zero-Energy Internet of Things: Standards, Trends, and Recent Results IEEE Commun. Mag. (IF 8.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-02 Talha Khan, Sandeep Narayanan Kadan Veedu, Andras Racz, Mehrnaz Afshang, Andreas Hoglund, Johan Bergman
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Integrating nApps in 5G for Verticals: Architecture Innovation and Technology Enablers IEEE Commun. Mag. (IF 8.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-02 X. Li, A. Mesodiakaki, M. Gatzianas, G. Kalfas, A. Charismiadis, D. Tsolkas, L. Zanzi, A. Salkintzis, D. Warren, A. Gavrielides, M. Sophocleous, M. Gramaglia, A. Gavras, T. Cogalan, H. Lee, O Bulakci
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Future Optical Access Networks Enabled by Digital Signal Processing and Physical Layer Softwarization IEEE Commun. Mag. (IF 8.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-02 Sang-Yuep Kim, Takahiro Suzuki, Jun-ichi Kani, Tomoaki Yoshida
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5G-CT: Automated Deployment and Over-the-Air Testing of End-to-End Open Radio Access Networks IEEE Commun. Mag. (IF 8.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-02 Leonardo Bonati, Michele Polese, Salvatore D'Oro, Pietro Brach del Prever, Tommaso Melodia
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Affection-Centric Metaverse in 6G: Initiative Learning Based In-Network Human-Like Sentimental Analysis IEEE Commun. Mag. (IF 8.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Qianqian Pan, Jun Wu, Shahid Mumtaz, Meng Xi, Valerio Frascolla
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Collaborative Deep Reinforcement Learning in 6G Integrated Satellite-Terrestrial Networks: Paradigm, Solutions, and Trends IEEE Commun. Mag. (IF 8.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Yang Yang, Xinyu He, Jemin Lee, Dazhong He, Yonghui Li
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The Seven Worlds and Experiences of the Wireless Metaverse: Challenges and Opportunities IEEE Commun. Mag. (IF 8.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Omar Hashash, Christina Chaccour, Walid Saad, Tao Yu, Kei Sakaguchi, Merouane Debbah
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Next Generation Exabit/s Data Center Network Supporting All Optical Circuit and Packet Switching IEEE Commun. Mag. (IF 8.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Fulong Yan, Shengjie Guo, Yanxian Bi, Bitao Pan, Xiaotao Guo, Jie Zhang, Nicola Calabretta
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Digital Twin-Empowered Integrated Satellite-Terrestrial Networks toward 6G Internet of Things IEEE Commun. Mag. (IF 8.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Tinh T. Bui, Long D. Nguyen, Berk Canberk, Vishal Sharma, Octavia A. Dobre, Hyundong Shin, Trung Q. Duong