Joint Sensing and Communications for Future Interactive, Immersive, and Intelligent Connectivity Beyond Communications

Project Information

INSTINCT

Grant agreement ID: 101139161

DOI

10.3030/101139161

EC signature date 8 December 2023

Start date 1 January 2024

End date 31 December 2026

Funded under

• Digital, Industry and Space

Total cost

€ 4 170 082,51

EU contribution

€ 3 999 552,76

Coordinated by

BARKHAUSEN INSTITUT GGMBH
Germany

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (8)

D3.1

Initial report on orchestration and control of massive JCAS deployments

D4.1

Specification of Demonstrators

D5.1

Dissemination, communication, standardisation and exploitation plans

D1.2

Channel, propagation and sensing models

D5.2

Interim dissemination, communication and standardisation report

D1.1

INSTINCT use cases definition, requirements and system architecture

D2.1

Initial report on joint communication and sensing enablers

D1.3

Stochastic Geometry analysis of JCAS

Publications

Conference proceedings (23)

Beamspace and Frequency Domain ISAC Resource Allocation Using Reinforcement Learning

Author(s): Petteri Pulkkinen, Majdoddin Esfandiari, Visa Koivunen
Published in: 2024 58th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/IEEECONF60004.2024.10942992

Passive Artificial Magnetic Conductor (AMC) Reflector for Far-Field Beam Steering

Author(s): Swad Al Nahiyan, Mehrab Ramzan, Shahanawaz Kamal, Padmanava Sen
Published in: 2024 54th European Microwave Conference (EuMC), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/EUMC61614.2024.10732568

Experimental Approach to Adaptive RIS-Based Beam Tracking and User Localization in 5G mmWave Networks

Author(s): Mohammed Ayoub Toubal, Timothee MacGarry, Rogerio Kaciava Bombardelli, Ahmad Shokair, Youssef Nasser, Julien De Rosny, Geoffroy Lerosey
Published in: 2025 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/EUCNC/6GSUMMIT63408.2025.11037001

Secrecy Energy Efficiency Maximization in RIS-Aided Wireless Networks

Author(s): Robert Kuku Fotock, Alessio Zappone, Marco Di Renzo
Published in: ICC 2024 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICC51166.2024.10623096

Cognitive Beamspace Algorithm for Integrated Sensing and Communications

Author(s): Petteri Pulkkinen, Majdoddin Esfandiari, Visa Koivunen
Published in: 2024 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf24), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/RadarConf2458775.2024.10548386

Sparse Array Sensor Selection in ISAC with Identifiability Guarantees

Author(s): Robin Rajamäki, Piya Pal
Published in: 2024 58th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/IEEECONF60004.2024.10942827

Energy Efficiency Comparison of RIS Architectures in MISO Broadcast Channels

Author(s): Mohammad Soleymani, Ignacio Santamaria, Eduard Jorswieck, Marco Di Renzo, Jesús Gutiérrez
Published in: 2024 IEEE 25th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SPAWC60668.2024.10694177

Multi-cell Outdoor Channel State InformationDataset (MOCSID)

Author(s): Makhlouf, Mohamed El Mehdi; Guillaud, Maxime; Vindas, Yamil
Published in: EuCNC 2025, 2025
Publisher: EuCNC
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15294868

Multi-Site Wireless Channel Charting Through Latent Space Alignment

Author(s): Yamil Vindas, Maxime Guillaud
Published in: 2024 IEEE 25th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SPAWC60668.2024.10694402

Beam-focusing in near-field communications: enhancing the physical layer security

Author(s): Sotiris Droulias, Giorgos Stratidakis, Angeliki Alexiou
Published in: 2024 IEEE 25th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SPAWC60668.2024.10694462

Partially Observable Model-Based Learning FOR ISAC Resource Allocation

Author(s): Petteri Pulkkinen, Visa Koivunen
Published in: ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10448312

Jointly Optimal Array Geometries and Waveforms in Active Sensing: New Insights Into Array Design via the Cramér-Rao Bound

Author(s): Ids van der Werf, Geert Leus, Robin Rajamäki
Published in: ICASSP 2025 - 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP49660.2025.10890202

AI-Powered Data Synthesis for Advanced Simulation in 5G/6G mmWave Integrated Access and Backhaul Networks

Author(s): Amir Ashtari Gargari; Farhad Rezazadeh; Marco Giordani; Sandra Lagén; Lingjia Liu; Andra Lutu
Published in: 2025
Publisher: IEEE

Beam-focusing Based Hierarchical Localization and Tracking in Angle and Range

Author(s): Giorgos Stratidakis, Sotiris Droulias, Angeliki Alexiou
Published in: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICCWORKSHOPS67674.2025.11162337

AdaBoost-Based Channel Estimation in One-Bit Millimeter-Wave MIMO

Author(s): Majdoddin Esfandiari, Petteri Pulkkinen, Sergiy A. Vorobyov, Visa Koivunen
Published in: ICASSP 2025 - 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP49660.2025.10888275

Secrecy Energy Efficiency Maximization in RIS-Aided Wireless Networks with Statistical CSI

Author(s): Robert Kuku Fotock, Agbotiname Lucky Imoize, Alessio Zappone, Marco Di Renzo, Roberto Garello
Published in: 2024 IEEE 25th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SPAWC60668.2024.10694589

Multi-Gigabit Interactive Extended Reality over Millimeter-Wave: An End-to-End System Approach

Author(s): Jakob Struye, Filip Lemic, Jeroen Famaey
Published in: 2024 IEEE 35th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/PIMRC59610.2024.10817169

Dynamic Channel Charting: Integrating Online Sample Selection with Continual Learning for Streaming CSI Data

Author(s): Vindas, Yamil; Guillaud, Maxime
Published in: IEEE ICC 2025, 2025
Publisher: ICC
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15295058

Leveraging 5G-NR for Finding Mobile Devices with UAVs: Latency vs Accuracy Trade-Off

Author(s): Andra Blaga, Federico Campolo, Filip Lemic, Oriol Sallent, Xavier Costa-Pérez.
Published in: 2025 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/WCNC61545.2025.10978770

Generative Deep Synthesis of MIMO Sensing Waveforms with Desired Transmit Beampattern

Author(s): Vesa Saarinen, Robin Rajamäki, Visa Koivunen
Published in: 2024 58th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/IEEECONF60004.2024.10942882

Site-Specific RIS Deployment in Cellular Networks via Calibrated Ray Tracing

Author(s): Sina Beyraghi, Javad Shabanpour, Giovanni Geraci, Paul Almasan, and Angel Lozano
Published in: IEEE Globecom 2025 3rd Workshop on Data Driven and AI-Enabled Digital Twin Networks and Applications (TwinNetApp), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17536229

Experimental Assessment of Neural 3D Reconstruction for Small UAV-based Applications

Author(s): Genís Castillo Gómez-Raya, Álmos Veres-Vitályos, Filip Lemic, Pablo Royo, Mario Montagud, Sergi Fernández, Sergi Abadal, Xavier Costa-Pérez
Published in: 2025 IEEE 36th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/PIMRC62392.2025.11275397

Evaluating the Performance of Reconfigurable Intelligent Base Stations through Ray Tracing

Author(s): Sina Beyraghi, Giovanni Interdonato, Giovanni Geraci, Stefano Buzzi, Angel Lozano
Published in: 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15835193

Peer reviewed articles (27)

5GNSS: Fusion of 5G-NR and GNSS Localization for Enhanced Positioning Accuracy and Reliability

Author(s): Federico Campolo, Andra Blaga, Maurizio Rea, Angel Lozano, Xavier Costa-Pérez
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Issue 73, 2024, ISSN 0018-9545
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2024.3396991

COLoRIS: Localization-agnostic Smart Surfaces Enabling Opportunistic ISAC in 6G Networks

Author(s): Guillermo Encinas-Lago, Francesco Devoti, Marco Rossanese, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Marco Di Renzo, Xavier Costa-Pérez
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2025, ISSN 1536-1233
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2025.3556326

Toward Standardized Performance Evaluation of Flow-Guided Nanoscale Localization

Author(s): Arnau Brosa López, Filip Lemic, Gerard Calvo Bartra, Aina Pérez, Jakob Struye, Jorge Torres Gómez, Esteban Municio, Carmen Delgado, Falko Dressler, Eduard Alarcón, Jeroen Famaey, Sergi Abadal, Xavier Costa Pérez
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications, Issue 11, 2025, ISSN 2372-2061
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TMBMC.2024.3523428

Toward Interactive Multi-User Extended Reality Using Millimeter-Wave Networking

Author(s): Jakob Struye, Sam Van Damme, Nabeel Nisar Bhat, Arno Troch, Barend Van Liempd, Hany Assasa, Filip Lemic, Jeroen Famaey, Maria Torres Vega
Published in: IEEE Communications Magazine, Issue 62, 2024, ISSN 0163-6804
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.001.2300804

Autonomous RISs and Oblivious Base Stations: The Observer Effect and its Mitigation

Author(s): Victor Croisfelt, Francesco Devoti, Fabio Saggese, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Xavier Costa-Pérez, Petar Popovski
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2025, ISSN 1536-1276
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2025.3546118

Efficient Beamforming and Radiation Pattern Control Using Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces

Author(s): Naveed Ul Hassan, Jiancheng An, Marco Di Renzo, Mérouane Debbah, Chau Yuen
Published in: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, Issue 5, 2024, ISSN 2644-125X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2023.3349155

Miniature UAV-Aided Cooperative THz Networks With Reconfigurable Energy Harvesting Holographic Surfaces

Author(s): Yifei Song, Jalal Jalali, Yanyu Qin, Mostafa Darabi, Filip Lemic, Jeroen Famaey, Natasha Devroye
Published in: IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Issue 13, 2026, ISSN 2327-4662
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2025.3619874

RIS-Assisted UAV Secure Communications With Artificial Noise-Aware Trajectory Design Against Multiple Colluding Curious Users

Author(s): Yun Wen, Gaojie Chen, Sisai Fang, Miaowen Wen, Stefano Tomasin, Marco Di Renzo
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Issue 19, 2024, ISSN 1556-6013
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2024.3356166

T3DRIS: Advancing Conformal RIS Design through In-depth Analysis of Mutual Coupling Effects

Author(s): Placido Mursia, Francesco Devoti, Marco Rossanese, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Gabriele Gradoni, Marco Di Renzo, Xavier Costa-Pérez
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2024, ISSN 0090-6778
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2024.3443738

Data-Driven Deployment of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces in Cellular Networks

Author(s): Sina Beyraghi, Javad Shabanpour, Giovanni Geraci, Paul Almasan, Angel Lozano
Published in: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2025, ISSN 1558-0008
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2025.3647011

Indexed Multiple Access with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: The Reflection Tuning Potential

Author(s): Rohit Singh, Aryan Kaushik, Wonjae Shin, George C. Alexandropoulos, Mesut Toka, Marco Di Renzo
Published in: IEEE Communications Magazine, Issue 62, 2024, ISSN 0163-6804
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.020.2300073

Beyond Diagonal Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces With Mutual Coupling: Modeling and Optimization

Author(s): Hongyu Li, Shanpu Shen, Matteo Nerini, Marco Di Renzo, Bruno Clerckx
Published in: IEEE Communications Letters, Issue 28, 2024, ISSN 1089-7798
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2024.3361648

How Much Can Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Augment Sky Visibility: A Stochastic Geometry Approach

Author(s): Junse Lee, François Baccelli
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Issue 24, 2025, ISSN 1536-1276
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2024.3501953

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces as Spatial Filters

Author(s): Sotiris Droulias, Giorgos Stratidakis, Emil Björnson, Angeliki Alexiou
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Issue 23, 2024, ISSN 1536-1276
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2024.3447910

Graph Neural Networks as an Enabler of Terahertz-Based Flow-Guided Nanoscale Localization Over Highly Erroneous Raw Data

Author(s): Gerard Calvo Bartra, Filip Lemic, Guillem Pascual, Aina Pérez Rodas, Jakob Struye, Carmen Delgado, Xavier Costa Pérez
Published in: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Issue 42, 2024, ISSN 0733-8716
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2024.3399257

ARES: Autonomous RIS Solution With Energy Harvesting and Self-Configuration Towards 6G

Author(s): Antonio Albanese, Francesco Devoti, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Marco Di Renzo, Albert Banchs, Xavier Costa-Pérez
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Issue 23, 2024, ISSN 1536-1233
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2024.3405076

Bending Beams for 6G Near-Field Communications

Author(s): Sotiris Droulias, Giorgos Stratidakis, Angeliki Alexiou
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Issue 24, 2025, ISSN 1536-1276
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2024.3509548

Orthogonal Beam-Focusing With Planar Arrays for Multiple Access in Near-Field Communications

Author(s): Sotiris Droulias, Angeliki Alexiou
Published in: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, Issue 6, 2025, ISSN 2644-125X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2025.3603904

Model-Based Online Learning for Active ISAC Waveform Optimization

Author(s): Petteri Pulkkinen, Visa Koivunen
Published in: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Issue 18, 2025, ISSN 1932-4553
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2024.3386057

3DSAR+: A Single-Drone 3D Cellular Search and Rescue Solution Leveraging 5G-NR

Author(s): Andra Blaga, Federico Campolo, Maurizio Rea, Xavier Costa-Pérez
Published in: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, Issue 5, 2024, ISSN 2644-125X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2024.3437681

A Stochastic Geometry Framework for Performance Analysis of RIS-Assisted OFDM Cellular Networks

Author(s): Guodong Sun, François Baccelli, Ke Feng, Luis Uzeda Garcia, Stefano Paris
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Issue 25, 2026, ISSN 1536-1276
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2025.3621323

Perceptive, Resilient, and Efficient Networks: Programming the Wireless Environment with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Author(s): Giorgos Stratidakis, Sotiris Droulias, Angeliki Alexiou
Published in: IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, Issue 19, 2024, ISSN 1556-6072
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/MVT.2024.3432252

Near-Field Hierarchical Localization for Integrated Sensing and Communication

Author(s): Giorgos Stratidakis, Sotiris Droulias, Angeliki Alexiou
Published in: IEEE Access, Issue 13, 2025, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3528857

Multicarrier ISAC: Advances in waveform design, signal processing, and learning under nonidealities

Author(s): Visa Koivunen, Musa Furkan Keskin, Henk Wymeersch, Mikko Valkama, Nuria González-Prelcic
Published in: IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Issue 41, 2025, ISSN 1053-5888
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2024.3420492

RiLoCo: An ISAC-oriented AI Solution to Build RIS-empowered Networks

Author(s): Guillermo Encinas-Lago, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Henk Wymeersch, Marco Di Renzo, Xavier Costa-Pérez
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2025, ISSN 1536-1276
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2025.3564832

Performance Analysis of RIS-Aided Index Modulation With Greedy Detection Over Rician Fading Channels

Author(s): Aritra Basu, Soumya P. Dash, Aryan Kaushik, Debasish Ghose, Marco Di Renzo, Yonina C. Eldar
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Issue 23, 2024, ISSN 1536-1276
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2024.3350921

Curved Apertures for Customized Wave Trajectories: Beyond Flat Aperture Limitations

Author(s): Joan Martínez Canals, Francesco Devoti, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Marco Di Renzo, Xavier Costa-Pérez
Published in: IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, Issue 14, 2025, ISSN 2162-2337
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/LWC.2025.3612258

Other (2)

Stochastic Geometry and Dynamical System Analysis of Walker Constellation Networks

Author(s): Chang-Sik Choi, Bon-Jun Ku, Francois Baccelli
Published in: 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2412.01610

European Vision for the 6G Network Ecosystem

Author(s): Contributors: Francesco Devoti, Padmanava Sen, Filip Lemic, Youssef Nasser
Published in: 6G SNS IA White Paper, 2024
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.13708424

Book chapters (1)

Location-based real-time utilization of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces for mmWave integrated communication and sensing in full-immersive multiuser Metaverse scenarios

Author(s): Filip Lemic, Jalal Jalali, Gerard Calvo Bartra, Alejandro Amat, Jakob Struye, Jeroen Famaey, Xavier Costa Perez
Published in: Advanced Metaverse Wireless Communication Systems, 2025
Publisher: The Institution of Engineering and Technology
DOI: 10.1049/PBTE112E_CH5