TY - JOUR
T1 - Survey of RF Communications and Sensing Convergence Research
AU - Paul, Bryan
AU - Chiriyath, Alex R.
AU - Bliss, Daniel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 IEEE.
Copyright:
Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Wireless mediums, such as RF, optical, or acoustical, provide finite resources for the purposes of remote sensing (such as radar) and data communications. Often, these two functions are at odds with one another and compete for these resources. Applications for wireless technology are growing rapidly, and RF convergence is already presenting itself as a requirement for both users as consumer and military system requirements evolve. The broad solution space to this complex problem encompasses cooperation or codesigning of systems with both sensing and communications functions. By jointly considering the systems during the design phase, rather than perpetuating a notion of mutual interference, both system's performance can be improved. We provide a point of departure for future researchers that will be required to solve this problem by presenting the applications, topologies, levels of system integration, the current state of the art, and outlines of future information-centric systems.
AB - Wireless mediums, such as RF, optical, or acoustical, provide finite resources for the purposes of remote sensing (such as radar) and data communications. Often, these two functions are at odds with one another and compete for these resources. Applications for wireless technology are growing rapidly, and RF convergence is already presenting itself as a requirement for both users as consumer and military system requirements evolve. The broad solution space to this complex problem encompasses cooperation or codesigning of systems with both sensing and communications functions. By jointly considering the systems during the design phase, rather than perpetuating a notion of mutual interference, both system's performance can be improved. We provide a point of departure for future researchers that will be required to solve this problem by presenting the applications, topologies, levels of system integration, the current state of the art, and outlines of future information-centric systems.
KW - RF convergence
KW - joint sensing-communications
KW - radar communications co-existence
KW - wireless resources
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U2 - 10.1109/ACCESS.2016.2639038
DO - 10.1109/ACCESS.2016.2639038
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85018506100
VL - 5
SP - 252
EP - 270
JO - IEEE Access
JF - IEEE Access
SN - 2169-3536
M1 - 7782415
ER -