Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC)
In practical downlink networks, instantaneous channel state information at the transmitter is often unavailable and it is costly to acquire, frequently delayed, and unreliable in multi-user or multi-target scenarios. This forces ISAC systems to rely instead on statistical channel knowledge, raising a fundamental question: what are the theoretical limits of integrated sensing and communication when the transmitter operates without full Channel State Information? We characterize these limits through an information and estimation-theoric lens, while also addressing a key gap in sensing benchmarks β the classical CramΓ©rβRao bound is only reliable at high SNR and unreliable in low-SNR regimes. To handle this, we explore the ZivβZakai bound for ISAC, which incorporates prior information and remains accurate across all SNR conditions.
FR3 Multi-band Mixed Domain System Design
The FR3 band (7β24 GHz) is a promising candidate for 6G, offering wide bandwidth; but this very breadth introduces a problem: fragmented band, ropagation loss, antenna aperture, and hardware behavior vary significantly across the band, making conventional single-band MIMO architectures ineffective. Sensing and communication signals must also coexist with incumbent services already occupying parts of this spectrum, further constraining system design. This project develops a framework that exploits the fragmented, frequency-partitioned structure of FR3 rather than fighting it, using reconfigurable antenna architectures to adaptively reshape beam patterns and enable efficient multi-band operation within a single hardware platform.
Radar-Communication Co-existence through Underlay Communication
In a system where radar and communication share the same frequency spectrum, the radar's own transmitted signal creates interference that can drown out the communication signal which creates a fundamental coexistence problem. Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) offers an elegant solution: it identifies the maximally correlated subspaces between two signal sets, enabling the system to mathematically separate the radar and communication components even when they overlap spectrally. This project extends CCA to RadCom settings to achieve clean signal separation without requiring high SNR, and examines both the theoretical limits and practical feasibility of this approach under adversarial jamming conditions.
