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How will wireless networks evolve in the future? Since the commercialization of 5G cellular networks, researchers from both academia and industry have been actively engaged in exploring this question. The prevailing consensus is that the future network is not only an improvement or extension of existing communication technology but also a great paradigm revolution, which is envisioned as the new engine of the future intelligent world. Creating an intelligent environment requires sensing functionality to become a fundamental service. Driving by the miniaturization of microwave components and advances of modern signal processing, wireless sensors are deployed, which are sensitive and responsive to the objective alterations within the surrounded environments. Though contactless sensors embedded in the environment can fulfil such raising demands, a more efficient solution is integrating wireless sensing functionality into commercial communication devices, in terms of same hardware, same spectrum, and even unified waveform. Thus, understanding wireless sensing capability provides a natural opportunity to pursue the integration and coordination gains, making sensing and communication co-design a strong desire in the future mobile computing devices. Following this trend, the sensing and communication layers in traditional IoT devices are changing from separation to integration. This type of research is normally referred to as Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC). This offers exciting opportunities of providing wireless sensing as a basic service to the surrounding civilians, achieving mutual benefits, shedding light on the dark space that cannot be sensed by optical cameras, and eventually building all-weather day-and-night ambient intelligence. Jointly envisioned by next-generation communication standards (6G and Wi-Fi 7), various research problems related to ISAC need to be addressed that cover a wide range of disciplines, including resource optimization, green network architecture, waveform design, transceiver protocol, etc.

This main objective of this Feature Topic (FT) is to is to exploit the new opportunities and address the unique challenges related to ISAC. We aim to bring together researchers, industry practitioners, and individuals working on the related areas to share their new ideas, latest findings, and state-of- the-art results. Prospective authors are invited to submit articles on topics including, but not limited to:

• Fundamental performance limits of ISAC
• Wireless sensing
• Waveform design for ISAC
• OTFS-ISAC
• Transceiver structure for ISAC     
• ISAC-based multi-functional network
• Tradeoffs between communications and sensing
• ISAC-enabled IoT networks
• Human activity recognition and eHealth
• Delay Doppler signal processing for ISAC
• Integrated sensing, communication, and computing
• AI for ISAC                
• Experimental demonstrations and prototypes

Submission Guidelines

Manuscripts should conform to the standard format as indicated in the Information for Authors section of the Manuscript Submission Guidelines. Please, check these guidelines carefully before submitting since submissions not complying with them will be administratively rejected without review.

All manuscripts to be considered for publication must be submitted by the deadline through Manuscript Central. Select the “FT-2302/Integrated Sensing and Communications” topic from the drop-down menu of Topic/Series titles. Please observe the dates specified here below noting that there will be no extension of submission deadline.

Important Dates

Manuscript Submission Deadline: 31 October 2023
Decision Notification: 31 January 2024
Final Manuscript Due: 15 February 2024
Publication Date: September 2024

Guest Editors

Weijie Yuan (Lead Editor)
Southern University of Science and Technology, China

Giuseppe Caire
Technical University of Berlin, Germany

Carlos Cordeiro
Intel, USA

Tao Gu
Macquarie University, Australia