ISAC-TWG Webinar: Integrated Sensing and Communications: Network-Level Design, Analysis, and Optimization
Date: 22 July 2025
Time: 9:00 AM ET
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes
Presenter: Dr. Kaitao Meng
About this topic:
Network-level Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) unifies radar-style sensing and data transmission across multiple base stations, treating them as intertwined services over the same hardware, spectrum, and backhaul. By coordinating beamforming, waveform design, and resource allocation at the network scale, it expands coverage and spatial resolution, introduces extra degrees of freedom for balancing sensing accuracy against throughput, and leverages shared spectrum and hardware to boost spectral and energy efficiency. This webinar will provide an overview of network-level ISAC and explore multi-layer collaboration schemes, covering interference suppression, cooperative signal processing, and network-wide resource allocation, highlighting both the performance gains achieved and the costs incurred. Centralized or distributed coordination further mitigates interference and enhances robustness, while cooperative architectures ensure scalability and resilience under dynamic topologies. As a fully coordinated service, network-level ISAC unlocks multifunctional 6G capabilities, high-precision localization, real-time environment mapping, and ultra-reliable communications, across smart cities, industrial sites, and beyond.
About the presenter:
Kaitao Meng received the B.E. and the Ph.D. degrees from the School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, in 2016 and 2021, respectively.
He is currently working as a Marie Curie Fellow with the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, U.K. Starting in August 2025, he will join the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Manchester as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor). From 2021 to 2023, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City, University of Macau, Macau, China. His current research interests mainly include integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), cooperative sensing, network-level ISAC, and intelligent surfaces.
Dr. Meng was the recipient of the 2022 EU Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship. He is a Guest Editor for the Special Issue on Smart Environment Engineering for Integrated Sensing and Communication of the IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking. He has also chaired several IEEE conference tracks and workshops, including Track Co-Chair of IEEE VTC-Spring 2025 and Co-Chair roles at IEEE ICC Workshop 2025, IEEE GlobeCom 2025, and the IEEE GlobeCom 2024 Workshop on Integrated Sensing and Communications.
Key References:
[1] K. Meng, C. Masouros, A. Petropulu, L. Hanzo,” Cooperative ISAC Networks: Opportunities and Challenges”. IEEE Wireless Communication, 2024.
[2] K. Meng, C. Masouros, G. Chen, & F. Liu, “Network-Level Integrated Sensing and Communication: Interference Management and BS Coordination Using Stochastic Geometry,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2024.
[3] K. Meng, C. Masouros, A. Petropulu, L. Hanzo., “Cooperative ISAC Networks: Performance Analysis, Scaling Laws and Optimization,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2025.
