Towards Distributed and Intelligent Integrated Sensing and Communications for 6G Networks
<|reference_start|>Towards Distributed and Intelligent Integrated Sensing and Communications for 6G Networks: This paper introduces the distributed and intelligent integrated sensing and communications (DISAC) concept, a transformative approach for 6G wireless networks that extends the emerging concept of integrated sensing and communications (ISAC). DISAC addresses the limitations of the existing ISAC models and, to overcome them, it introduces two novel foundational functionalities for both sensing and communications: a distributed architecture and a semantic and goal-oriented framework. The distributed architecture enables large-scale and energy-efficient tracking of connected users and objects, leveraging the fusion of heterogeneous sensors. The semantic and goal-oriented intelligent and parsimonious framework, enables the transition from classical data fusion to the composition of semantically selected information, offering new paradigms for the optimization of resource utilization and exceptional multi-modal sensing performance across various use cases. This paper details DISAC's principles, architecture, and potential applications.<|reference_end|>
@article{strinati2024towards,
    title={Towards Distributed and Intelligent Integrated Sensing and
  Communications for 6G Networks},
    author={Emilio Calvanese Strinati, George C. Alexandropoulos, Navid Amani,
  Maurizio Crozzoli, Giyyarpuram Madhusudan, Sami Mekki, Francois Rivet,
  Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Philippe Sehier, Maximilian Stark, Henk Wymeersch},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.11630},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2402.11630},
    primaryClass={eess.SP cs.IT math.IT}
}