Liu, Fan;
Zheng, Le;
Cui, Yuanhao;
Masouros, Christos;
Petropulu, Athina P;
Griffiths, Hugh;
Eldar, Yonina C;
(2023)
Seventy Years of Radar and Communications: The road from separation to integration.
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
, 40
(5)
pp. 106-121.
10.1109/msp.2023.3272881.
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Abstract
Radar and communications (R&C) as key utilities of electromagnetic (EM) waves have fundamentally shaped human society and triggered the modern information age. Although R&C had been historically progressing separately, in recent decades, they have been converging toward integration, forming integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems, giving rise to new highly desirable capabilities in next-generation wireless networks and future radars. To better understand the essence of ISAC, this article provides a systematic overview of the historical development of R&C from a signal processing (SP) perspective. We first interpret the duality between R&C as signals and systems, followed by an introduction of their fundamental principles. We then elaborate on the two main trends in their technological evolution, namely, the increase of frequencies and bandwidths and the expansion of antenna arrays. We then show how the intertwined narratives of R&C evolved into ISAC and discuss the resultant SP framework. Finally, we overview future research directions in this field.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Seventy Years of Radar and Communications: The road from separation to integration |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1109/msp.2023.3272881 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1109/msp.2023.3272881 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Systematics, Wireless networks, Radar, Bandwidth, Market research, Radar antennas, Electromagnetic scattering |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10174107 |
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