Project Details
Projekt
Integrated Sensing and Communication: Is This a Key Enabler for Resilience by Design in Future Communication Systems?
Subject Area
Communication Technology and Networks, High-Frequency Technology and Photonic Systems, Signal Processing and Machine Learning for Information Technology
Term
since 2025
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 565653523
This research project aims to develop resilient and secure Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) systems capable of withstanding adversarial jamming attacks. The project pursues three major goals and is structured into four interrelated work packages (WPs) that span theoretical modeling, practical implementation, and optimization for real-world applications. The first goal of this project is to develop information-theoretic foundations for resilience in ISAC systems under adversarial jamming attacks. This involves creating channel and source models for secure ISAC systems that integrate the sensing task, jamming attacks, as well as eavesdropping threats. This will provide key insights how the integration of sensing and communication can fortify system resilience and security, enabling the design of communication systems that are robust to hostile interference. The second goal is to implement selected strategies to achieve resilience derived from the first goal and evaluate their performance in realistic environments. This will involve developing a hardware demonstrator that showcases the proposed approaches, and it will assess their effectiveness and robustness against various jamming tactics under real-world conditions. Building on the outcomes from the first two goals, the third goal is to derive holistic design principles for resilient ISAC systems. This includes analyzing the critical role of sensing functionality in detecting and characterizing jamming attacks, as well as in triggering countermeasures against such attacks. The goal also includes evaluating the potential of AI-based approaches for enhancing these detection and mitigation tasks. Promising solutions identified during this process will be considered for patent applications. The ultimate outcome of this project is a robust and secure ISAC system design, ready for practical deployment, with a focus on resilience, security, and operational efficiency in hostile environments.
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