Guest Editorial: Integrated Sensing and Communications for 6G
Other text in scientific journal, 2023
6G networks have been envisioned as key enablers for numerous emerging applications, including smart cities and homes, intelligently connected vechiles, smart manufactoring, and industrial Internet-of-Things (IoT). These applications require both extreme wireless connectivity as well as highly accurate and reliable sensing capability. Indeed, among many 6G visions, a common theme is that sensing will play a more significant role than ever before. By equipping wireless systems with the sensing functionality, 6G networks will go beyond classical communication and provide ubiquitous sensing services to measure, or to image, surrounding environments. This sensing functionality and the corresponding ability of the network to collect sensory data from the environment are seen as the foundation for building intelligence in the future smart world. Toward that end, there is a strong need to jointly design sensing and communication operations in 6G networks, which motivates the recent research of Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC).
Smart cities
6G mobile communication
Special issues and sections
Wireless sensor networks
Sensors
Author
Christos Masouros
University of Manchester
Queen's University Belfast
Philips Res Labs
University College London (UCL)
J. Andrew Zhang
University of Technology Sydney
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
Fan Liu
Southern University of Science and Technology
Le Zheng
Columbia University
BIT Chongqing Institute of Microelectronics and Microsystems
Henk Wymeersch
Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks
Marco Di Renzo
University Paris-Saclay
CentraleSupélec
City University of New York (CUNY)
IEEE Wireless Communications
1536-1284 (ISSN) 15580687 (eISSN)
Vol. 30 1 14-15Subject Categories
Computer Engineering
Telecommunications
Communication Systems
Areas of Advance
Information and Communication Technology
DOI
10.1109/MWC.2023.10077115