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Integrated Sensing and Communication Meets Smart Propagation Engineering: Opportunities and Challenges

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Both smart propagation engineering as well as integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) constitute promising candidates for next-generation (NG) mobile networks. We provide a synergistic view of these technologies, and explore their mutual benefits. First, moving beyond just intelligent surfaces, we provide a holistic view of the engineering aspects of smart propagation environments. By delving into the fundamental characteristics of intelligent surfaces, fluid antennas, and unmanned aerial vehicles, we reveal that more efficient control of the pathloss and fading can be achieved, thus facilitating intrinsic integration and mutual assistance between sensing and communication functionalities. In turn, with the exploitation of the sensing capabilities of ISAC to orchestrate the efficient configuration of radio environments, both the computational effort and signaling overheads can be reduced. We present indicative simulation results, which verify that cooperative smart propagation environment design significantly enhances the ISAC performance. Finally, some promising directions are outlined for combining ISAC with smart propagation engineering.

Integrated sensing and communicationTransmitting antennasChannel estimationFluidsMobile antennasInterferenceAntennasWireless communicationRadio transmittersTrajectoryAntennas

Kaitao Meng、Christos Masouros、Kai-Kit Wong、Athina P. Petropulu、Lajos Hanzo

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Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, London, U.K.

Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, London, U.K.|Yonsei Frontier Laboratory, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA

School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K.

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2025

10.1109/MNET.2025.3527130

IEEE network: The magazine of computer communications

IEEE network: The magazine of computer communications

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年,卷(期)：2025.39(2)
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