MmWave Technologies as Opportunistic ISAC for Environmental Monitoring

The concept of Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) is gaining attention in a number of fields, as the merger of communication increasing needs with sensing opportunities has a great potential to benefit both.

In this Research Topic we focus on the concept of Opportunistic ISAC (OISAC), where the sensing capabilities are added into already existing wireless communication networks without the need for any additional hardware. Such opportunistic sensing is important for (but not limited to) environmental monitoring using commercial microwave and mmWave links, satellite channels, and IoT communication tools which are entering the arena as part of smart city management and modern 5G and 6G communication.

This Research Topic welcomes contributions on topics of interest including but not limited to:

• OISAC and ISAC methods based on terrestrial and satellite mmWave channels
• Signal Processing and Data-driven approaches of OISAC for environmental monitoring
• Novel OISAC applications
• Fusion of OISAC-based sensors with dedicated instrumentation
• Real-data experiments demonstrating OISAC use cases
• Theoretical OISAC performance analysis
• detection, estimation, and retrieval of environmental phenomena using OISAC
• OISAC in new technologies such as MIMO, dual-link channels and beam-forming devices

Keywords: ISAC, Opportunistic Sensing, OISAC, Precipitation, Microwave Links, mmWave, IoT

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