no code implementations • 27 Dec 2023 • Yunxin Li, Fan Liu, Zhen Du, Weijie Yuan, Qingjiang Shi, Christos Masouros
In this study, we propose novel frame structures that incorporate ISAC signals for three crucial stages in the NR-V2X system: initial access, connected mode, and beam failure and recovery.
no code implementations • 3 Dec 2023 • Yousef Kloob, Mohammad Al-jarrah, Emad Alsusa, Christos Masouros
In this paper, we introduce a novel resource allocation approach for integrated sensing-communication (ISAC) using the Kullback-Leibler divergence (KLD) metric.
no code implementations • 2 Dec 2023 • Jiaqi Zou, Christos Masouros, Fan Liu, Songlin Sun
Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) systems employ dual-functional signals to simultaneously accomplish radar sensing and wireless communication tasks.
no code implementations • 1 Nov 2023 • Kaitao Meng, Qingqing Wu, Christos Masouros, Wen Chen, Deshi Li
Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has attracted growing interests for sixth-generation (6G) and beyond wireless networks.
no code implementations • 21 Oct 2023 • Luping Xiang, Ke Xu, Jie Hu, Christos Masouros, Kun Yang
This paper proposes a novel non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-assisted orthogonal time-frequency space (OTFS)-integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) network, which uses unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as air base stations to support multiple users.
no code implementations • 15 Oct 2023 • Zhongxiang Wei, Ping Wang, Qingjiang Shi, Xu Zhu, Christos Masouros
This requires multistage optimization for full resource domain dynamic programming.
no code implementations • 2 Sep 2023 • Mahmoud AlaaEldin, Emad Alsusa, Karim G. Seddik, Christos Masouros, Iman Valiulahi
A low complexity and efficient joint optimization of transmit beamforming at the BS and reflective beamforming at the IRS is proposed.
no code implementations • 8 Jul 2023 • Jiaqi Zou, Songlin Sun, Christos Masouros, Yuanhao Cui, Yafeng Liu, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng
In this paper, we investigate the design of energy-efficient beamforming for an ISAC system, where the transmitted waveform is optimized for joint multi-user communication and target estimation simultaneously.
no code implementations • 26 Jun 2023 • Zihan Liao, Fan Liu, Ang Li, Christos Masouros
In this paper, we present an innovative symbol-level precoding (SLP) approach for a wideband multi-user multi-input multi-output (MU-MIMO) downlink Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) system employing faster-than-Nyquist (FTN) signaling.
no code implementations • 1 May 2023 • Zhen Du, Fan Liu, Yunxin Li, Weijie Yuan, Yuanhao Cui, Zenghui Zhang, Christos Masouros, Bo Ai
Connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) networks face several challenges, such as low throughput, high latency, and poor localization accuracy.
no code implementations • 30 Jan 2023 • Yunxin Li, Fan Liu, Zhen Du, Weijie Yuan, Christos Masouros
The emergence of the fifth-generation (5G) New Radio (NR) brings additional possibilities to vehicle-to-everything (V2X) network with improved quality of services.
no code implementations • 20 Jan 2023 • Lu Liu, Christos Masouros, A. Lee Swindlehurst
This paper focuses on designing robust symbol-level precoding (SLP) in an overlay cognitive radio (CR) network, where the primary and secondary networks transmit signals concurrently.
no code implementations • 23 Oct 2022 • Xiao Meng, Fan Liu, Shihang Lu, Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri, Christos Masouros
We first show that the sensing and communication (S&C) performance can be jointly improved due to the capability of the RISs to control the ISAC channel.
no code implementations • 15 Oct 2022 • Nanchi Su, Fan Liu, Christos Masouros
Using the resulting information about potential Eves, we formulate secrecy rate expressions, that are a function of the Eves' estimation accuracy.
no code implementations • 2 Oct 2022 • Fan Liu, Le Zheng, Yuanhao Cui, Christos Masouros, Athina P. Petropulu, Hugh Griffiths, Yonina C. Eldar
Radar and communications (R&C) as key utilities of electromagnetic (EM) waves have fundamentally shaped human society and triggered the modern information age.
no code implementations • 1 Sep 2022 • Nithin Babu, Marco Virgili, Mohammad Al-jarrah, Xiaoye Jing, Emad Alsusa, Petar Popovski, Andrew Forsyth, Christos Masouros, Constantinos B. Papadias
In this work, we propose a framework for energy-efficient trajectory design of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based portable access point (PAP) deployed to serve a set of ground nodes (GNs).
no code implementations • 6 Jul 2022 • Xiaoye Jing, Fan Liu, Christos Masouros, Yong Zeng
In this paper, we consider an airborne integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) system where a UAV, which acts both as a communication BS and a mono-static radar, flies over a given area to transmit downlink signal to a ground communication user.
no code implementations • 24 May 2022 • Xiao Meng, Fan Liu, Christos Masouros, Weijie Yuan, Qixun Zhang, Zhiyong Feng
In this paper, we propose sensing-assisted beamforming designs for vehicles on arbitrarily shaped roads by relying on integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) signalling. Specifically, we aim to address the limitations of conventional ISAC beam-tracking schemes that do not apply to complex road geometries.
no code implementations • 9 Feb 2022 • Tongyang Xu, Fan Liu, Christos Masouros, Izzat Darwazeh
This experimental work focuses on a dual-functional radar sensing and communication framework where a single radiation waveform, either omnidirectional or directional, can realize both radar sensing and communication functions.
no code implementations • 20 Nov 2021 • Shengyang Chen, Aryan Kaushik, Christos Masouros
This paper develops an efficient index modulation (IM) approach for the joint radar-communication (JRC) system based on a multi-carrier multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar.
no code implementations • 19 Nov 2021 • Zhen Du, Fan Liu, Weijie Yuan, Christos Masouros, Zenghui Zhang, Shuqiang Xia, Giuseppe Caire
The first stage is exploited for ISAC transmission, where a wide beam is adopted for both communication and sensing.
no code implementations • 15 Nov 2021 • Abdullahi Mohammad, Christos Masouros, Yiannis Andreopoulos
Symbol level precoding (SLP) has been proven to be an effective means of managing the interference in a multiuser downlink transmission and also enhancing the received signal power.
no code implementations • 15 Nov 2021 • Abdullahi Mohammad, Christos Masouros, Yiannis Andreopoulos
Symbol Level Precoding (SLP) has attracted significant research interest due to its ability to exploit interference for energy-efficient transmission.
no code implementations • 13 Oct 2021 • Abdullahi Mohammad, Christos Masouros, Yiannis Andreopoulos
Our results show that while SLP-DNet provides near-optimal performance, its quantized versions through SQ yield 3. 46x and 2. 64x model compression for binary-based and ternary-based SLP-SQDNets, respectively.
no code implementations • 27 Sep 2021 • Xiaoyan Hu, Christos Masouros, Fan Liu, Ronald Nissel
In this paper, we explore a dual-functional radar-communication (DFRC) system for achieving integrated sensing and communications (ISAC).
no code implementations • 18 Sep 2021 • Zhongxiang Wei, Christos Masouros, H. Vincent Poor, Athina P. Petropulu, Lajos Hanzo
In contrast to traditional security and privacy designs that aim to prevent confidential information from being eavesdropped upon by adversaries, or learned by unauthorized parties, in this paper we consider designs that mask the users' identities during communication, hence resulting in anonymous communications.
1 code implementation • 16 Aug 2021 • Fan Liu, Yuanhao Cui, Christos Masouros, Jie Xu, Tony Xiao Han, Yonina C. Eldar, Stefano Buzzi
As the standardization of 5G is being solidified, researchers are speculating what 6G will be.
no code implementations • 16 Jul 2021 • Zhongxiang Wei, Fan Liu, Christos Masouros, Nanchi Su, Athina P. Petropulu
At the same time, the sensing capability incorporated in the ISAC transmission offers unique opportunities to design secure ISAC techniques.
no code implementations • 10 Jul 2021 • Nanchi Su, Fan Liu, Zhongxiang Wei, Ya-Feng Liu, Christos Masouros
We study security solutions for dual-functional radar communication (DFRC) systems, which detect the radar target and communicate with downlink cellular users in millimeter-wave (mmWave) wireless networks simultaneously.
no code implementations • 8 Jun 2021 • Nanchi Su, Zhongxiang Wei, Christos Masouros
This paper addresses the problem that designing the transmit waveform and receive beamformer aims to maximize the receive radar SINR for secure dual-functional radar-communication (DFRC) systems, where the undesired multi-user interference (MUI) is transformed to useful power.
no code implementations • 19 Apr 2021 • Abdullahi Mohammad, Christos Masouros, Yiannis Andreopoulos
This paper proposes an unsupervised learning-based precoding framework that trains deep neural networks (DNNs) with no target labels by unfolding an interior point method (IPM) proximal `log' barrier function.
no code implementations • 16 Apr 2021 • Aryan Kaushik, Christos Masouros, Fan Liu
In this paper, we aim to achieve energy efficient design with minimum hardware requirement for hybrid precoding, which enables a large number of antennas with minimal number of RF chains, and sub-arrayed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar based joint radar-communication (JRC) systems.
no code implementations • 16 Apr 2021 • Onur Dizdar, Aryan Kaushik, Bruno Clerckx, Christos Masouros
In this paper, we introduce the design of a multi-antenna Joint Radar-Communication (JRC) system with Rate Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) and low resolution Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) units.
1 code implementation • 25 Feb 2021 • J. Andrew Zhang, Fan Liu, Christos Masouros, Robert W. Heath Jr., Zhiyong Feng, Le Zheng, Athina Petropulu
Joint communication and radar sensing (JCR) represents an emerging research field aiming to integrate the above two functionalities into a single system, sharing a majority of hardware and signal processing modules and, in a typical case, sharing a single transmitted signal.
no code implementations • 15 Feb 2021 • Xiaoyan Hu, Christos Masouros, Kai-Kit Wong
In this paper, we explore optimization-based and data-driven solutions in a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multi-user mobile edge computing (MEC) system, where the user equipment (UEs) can partially offload their computation tasks to the access point (AP).
no code implementations • 29 Jan 2021 • Fan Liu, Ya-Feng Liu, Ang Li, Christos Masouros, Yonina C. Eldar
We employ the Cram\'er-Rao bound (CRB) as a performance metric of target estimation, under both point and extended target scenarios.
no code implementations • 18 Jan 2021 • Zhaoyi Xu, Fan Liu, Konstantinos Diamantaras, Christos Masouros, Athina Petropulu
In this paper, we propose an energy-efficient radar beampattern design framework for a Millimeter Wave (mmWave) massive multi-input multi-output (mMIMO) system, equipped with a hybrid analog-digital (HAD) beamforming structure.
no code implementations • 15 May 2020 • Weijie Yuan, Fan Liu, Christos Masouros, Jinhong Yuan, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Nuria Gonzalez-Prelcic
To accurately estimate the motion parameters of vehicles in real-time, we propose a novel message passing algorithm based on factor graph, which yields near optimal solution to the maximum a posteriori estimation.
1 code implementation • 12 Sep 2019 • Abdullahi Mohammad, Christos Masouros, Yiannis Andreopoulos
This paper introduces a framework for systematic complexity scaling of deep neural network(DNN) based MIMO detectors.