Extracting information and performing learning, inference, and choosing optimal actions through sensing the physical world and its phenomena with large numbers of networked multimodal sensors are of high and rapidly increasing importance in various applications. An important special case of networked sensing is the use of communications networks, devices, and spectrum to also perform the sensing tasks so that the resources are shared within the two functionalities. The concept is known as integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) or joint communications and sensing (JCAS). FunISAC project will explore the underlying theories, optimality, and performance boundaries of ISAC to create fundamental research understanding of the field. The focus is on ISAC functionalities and their fundamental performance bounds, optimization of operational parameters and trade-offs between sensing and communications performances and resource consumption.

2024

2026