Call for Papers - Integrated Sensing and Communications

Sensing and imaging has revolutionized our world and has become crucial in applications spanning medicine to security. Wireless communication has also revolutionized our world and is now available anywhere, anytime and to everybody. By integrating these two technologies on common hardware platforms we are poised to enter a new era in sensing and imaging that is available anywhere, anytime and to everybody.

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) promises to provide new frameworks and technologies in diverse fields from autonomous vehicles, disaster management, smart cities and factories, safety, agriculture, wireless communication performance optimization, digital twins, to the low-altitude economy. The importance of ISAC is highlighted by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) acknowledging ISAC as a critical component of the 6G vision, identifying it as one of the six core use cases anticipated for the next generation of networks. From a systems perspective, the convergence of the Sub-6 GHz/cmWave/mmWave/THz frequency bands and the use of innovative antenna systems such as multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), reconfigurable and beam steering antennas has also blurred the boundaries between communication and sensing systems. This is particularly evident in terms of hardware platforms, antennas, RF front-ends, propagation modelling, channel characterization and signal processing for sensing and imaging.

This special issue seeks to bring together contributions from researchers and practitioners in the area of electromagnetics, antennas, propagation, and their nexus with wireless communications, microwave systems, and signal processing. It welcomes papers offering fundamental new approaches to sensing and imaging within ISAC as well as covering aspects from theory, experiments, design to applied engineering innovations, surveys, tutorials and reviews of ISAC. We solicit high-quality original research papers on topics including, but not limited to:

Topics of Interest

• Antenna design and deployment for ISAC
• Propagation and channel models for ISAC
• Cost effective RF front-ends and circuit design for ISAC
• ISAC-THz based design and prototyping
• ISAC system engineering innovation
• Duplexing techniques for ISAC
• High/ultra-high accuracy positioning and localization, tracking systems for biomedical/security/smart city applications
• Cellular V2X-based ISAC and smart traffic control
• Millimeter-level resolution imaging
• Inverse scattering and microwave imaging
• Radio Tomographic Imaging (RTI)
• Near Field Imaging
• Model Informed AI based imaging
• 3D object imaging
• Joint design of sensing, imaging and communication waveforms/sequences
• Coding/modulation/beamforming design for sensing and imaging
• Low complexity ISAC system architecture for B5G/6G
• Fully integrated system design for ISAC
• Augmented human sensing
• Gesture and posture recognition for ISAC
• Channel modelling utilizing ISAC
• Communication-assisted collaboration sensing
• Device-based and device-free ISAC systems
• Near-field and far-field operations in ISAC

About JSTEAP

The IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Electromagnetics, Antennas and Propagation (JSTEAP) is co-sponsored by the Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S), Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S), and the Communications Society (ComSoc). The focus of JSTEAP is on contributions that bridge the gaps between electromagnetics, communications, and microwave technology and manuscripts incorporating at least two of these aspects are particularly encouraged. All types of contributions are welcome including theory, experimental results, designs, applied engineering innovations, surveys, tutorials and reviews. Each issue of JSTEAP is devoted to a specific technical topic and thus provides to JSTEAP readers a collection of up-to-date papers on that topic. These issues are valuable to the research community and become valuable references.

JSTEAP was launched in January 2025 with the first issues expected in Q4 of 2025. Two issues will be published in 2025, three in 2026 and will further build from there. The first special issue is devoted to “Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC)” and was selected by the Editorial board.

JSTEAP is an Open Access journal and is committed to supporting open and transparent research exchange and enabling authors to embrace best practices in data and code sharing. Papers with AI components must provide access to their training sets and code in the public domain.

Submission Guidelines

Prospective authors should submit their manuscripts following the IEEE JSTEAP guidelines. All submissions must be made through the online JSTEAP Author Portal on ScholarOne.

Official templates are available via the IEEE Template Selector for both LaTeX and MS Word. Please click on “IEEE Template Selector” and follow the instructions to access the template you need.

Authors should submit their manuscripts according to the following schedule:

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