Call for Papers

The future network is not only an improvement or extension of existing communication technology but also a great paradigm revolution, is envisioned as the new engine of the future intelligent world. It is expected that the functionality of sensing becomes a basic service, which helps to construct an intelligent environment. Driven 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 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), recent studies have suggested various new key enablers that span all aspects of wireless and mobile computing technologies, ranging from advanced beamforming methods, new networking and protocols, novel system architectures, more powerful computing, and recognition algorithms.

This Feature Topic (FT) aims 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:

• Future multi-functional network architecture
• Human activity recognition based on wireless signals
• Unified/Integrated waveform for communications and sensing
• Transceiver architecture for ISAC
• Security and privacy issues for ISAC
• Spectrum analysis of communications and sensing
• Interference management techniques of ISAC
• ISAC-enabled space-air-ground integrated networks
• ISAC based biomedical information extraction and eHealth
• Integrated sensing, communication, and computing
• 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-2206/Integrating Sensing into Communications in Multi-functional Networks” 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: 1 August 2022
Decision Notification: 15 December 2022
Final Manuscript Due: 1 January 2023
Publication Date: May 2023

Guest Editors

Weijie Yuan
Southern University of Science and Technology, China

Giuseppe Caire
Technical University of Berlin, Germany

Claudio da Silva
Meta, USA

Tao Gu
Macquarie University, Australia