Besma Smida

University of Illinois at Chicago

Full-duplex Integrated sensing and communication: A Communication Theory Perspective

Abstract

Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) has attracted substantial attraction in recent years for spectral efficiency improvement, enabling hardware and spectrum sharing for simultaneous sensing and signaling operations. In-band Full Duplex (FD) is being considered as a key enabling technology for ISAC applications due to its simultaneous transmission and reception capability. In this talk, we present an FD-based ISAC system operating at millimeter Wave (mmWave) frequencies, where a massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) Base Station (BS) node employing hybrid Analog and Digital (A/D) beamforming is communicating with a DownLink (DL) multi-antenna user and the same waveform is utilized at the BS receiver for sensing the radar targets in its coverage environment. This talk will review the unique characteristics and challenges of mono-static FD-ISAC, show simulation results (considering 6G Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) waveforms), and outline several directions of future research.

Biography

Besma Smida is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She previously held academic appointments at Purdue University Northwest and Harvard University. Her research focuses on wireless communications, and she served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Communications Society from 2021 to 2023. She has been recognized by the IEEE Communications Society in its Women in Engineering in Communications series and was named among the “100 Brilliant and Inspiring Women in 6G.” She was also honored with the INSIGHT Into Diversity Magazine’s “100 Inspiring Women in STEM” Award in 2015. Her additional honors include the Academic Gold Medal of the Governor General of Canada (2007), the NSF CAREER Award (2015), and the IEEE GLOBECOM Best Paper Award (2021).