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MIMO OFDM-Enabled ISAC for Low-Altitude Non-Cooperative UAV Surveillance: A Survey

Shiyu Bai , Sijia Li , Cunyi Yin , Wenqiu Qu , Li-Ta Hsu , Yuanwei Liu , Wen-Hua Chen
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keywords MIMO-OFDMISACUAV surveillancenon-cooperative sensinglow-altitude airspacewaveform designmicro-Dopplerdetection and tracking
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MIMO-OFDM ISAC lets cellular networks surveil non-cooperative low-altitude UAVs without dedicated hardware or UAV assistance.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

This survey establishes a structured overview of MIMO OFDM-enabled integrated sensing and communication for monitoring UAVs in low-altitude airspace where the UAVs provide no signaling or coordinate data to the system. It starts by examining the distinctive propagation issues in such environments, including heavy clutter, fast channel changes, and mixed near- and far-field effects, then maps existing techniques across system modeling, detection and tracking with single or multiple base stations, identification via micro-Doppler or learning methods, and field experiments. A reader would care because the approach reuses existing cellular infrastructure for large-scale sensing at low added cost, addressing safety concerns from growing UAV traffic. The paper also collects open problems such as clutter handling and data scarcity, and sketches paths toward 5G-Advanced and 6G systems.

Core claim

The paper claims to deliver the first comprehensive survey of MIMO OFDM-enabled ISAC for low-altitude non-cooperative UAV surveillance, reviewing propagation characteristics and waveform principles, then covering ISAC system modeling and network optimization, UAV detection and tracking under single and networked base-station architectures, UAV identification via micro-Doppler and learning approaches, and experimental validations, while summarizing challenges in clutter, multipath, data scarcity, multi-BS fusion, and deployment constraints and indicating future directions for 5G-A and 6G surveillance.

What carries the argument

MIMO OFDM waveforms in ISAC systems that perform simultaneous sensing and communication for non-cooperative low-altitude UAVs by exploiting cellular infrastructure without requiring dedicated UAV signaling.

If this is right

  • Techniques fall into four organized dimensions: system modeling and optimization, single- and multi-BS detection and tracking, micro-Doppler and learning-based identification, and experimental trials.
  • Sensing performance is limited by severe clutter, multipath, rapid channel variations, and mixed near/far-field effects that waveform design must address.
  • Identification accuracy depends on sufficient micro-Doppler data or learning models, both currently constrained by data scarcity.
  • Cooperative fusion across multiple base stations and real-world deployment constraints remain open barriers to scalable systems.
  • Integration paths exist toward 5G-Advanced and 6G networks that could support enhanced low-altitude surveillance.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the surveyed methods scale, operators could add UAV monitoring to existing cell sites with minimal new hardware.
  • The same clutter and multipath challenges could appear in other low-altitude sensing tasks such as monitoring small aircraft or birds.
  • Synthetic data generation or transfer learning might directly mitigate the data-scarcity issue noted for identification.
  • Network-level optimization reviewed here could be extended to joint resource allocation across communication users and sensing tasks.

Load-bearing premise

The published literature on MIMO OFDM ISAC and UAV surveillance is mature, accessible, and representative enough to support one comprehensive survey without large gaps in coverage or recency.

What would settle it

A later review that documents substantial MIMO OFDM ISAC techniques or UAV surveillance results omitted from this survey would show the coverage is incomplete.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.02680 by Cunyi Yin, Li-Ta Hsu, Shiyu Bai, Sijia Li, Wen-Hua Chen, Wenqiu Qu, Yuanwei Liu.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of this paper. the BS placement and the street geometry. In contrast, UAV surveillance exhibits a less constrained spatial footprint due to its flexible mobility. Consequently, the BS receiver may operate in a mixed near-far-field regime as UAVs can easily move across a wide range of distances without limitations, as shown in Fig. 2c. This necessitates a unified signal processing capability for th… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Illustration of the key characteristics of UAV-ISAC. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: MIMO OFDM-enabled UAV surveillance techniques. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: A general MIMO OFDM-based ISAC framework for low-altitude UAV surveillance. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Open issues and future research directions. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_5.png] view at source ↗
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The widespread use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in low-altitude airspace has raised significant safety and security concerns, motivating the development of reliable non-cooperative UAV surveillance technologies. Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), enabled by multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) architectures and orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) waveforms, has emerged as a promising paradigm for leveraging cellular infrastructure to support large-scale sensing without additional hardware deployment. This paper presents the first comprehensive survey dedicated to MIMO OFDM-enabled ISAC for low-altitude non-cooperative UAV surveillance, where the targeted UAVs do not intentionally assist the monitoring system through dedicated signaling or prior coordinate sharing. We first analyze the unique propagation characteristics of low-altitude UAV sensing, including severe clutter, rapid channel variations, and mixed near/far-field effects, and discuss corresponding waveform design principles. We then systematically review existing MIMO OFDM-enabled UAV surveillance techniques along four key dimensions: ISAC system modeling and network optimization, UAV detection and tracking algorithms under single and networked base station (BS) architectures, UAV identification techniques based on micro-Doppler and learning-based approaches, and experimental validations and practical field trials. Subsequently, we summarize open challenges such as sensing under severe clutter and multipath, data scarcity for identification, cooperative multi-BS fusion, and real-world deployment constraints. Finally, we outline promising future research directions toward 5G-Advanced (5G-A) and 6G-enabled low-altitude surveillance systems.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper claims to present the first comprehensive survey on MIMO OFDM-enabled ISAC for low-altitude non-cooperative UAV surveillance. It analyzes unique propagation characteristics (clutter, rapid variations, near/far-field effects) and waveform design, then reviews techniques across four dimensions: ISAC system modeling and network optimization, UAV detection/tracking under single and networked BS architectures, micro-Doppler and learning-based identification, and experimental validations/field trials. It summarizes open challenges (severe clutter/multipath, data scarcity, multi-BS fusion, deployment constraints) and outlines future directions for 5G-A/6G systems.

Significance. If the literature synthesis is exhaustive and accurate, the survey would fill a timely gap by consolidating MIMO-OFDM ISAC methods specifically for non-cooperative low-altitude UAV monitoring, providing a structured reference that links propagation analysis to practical detection, identification, and trial results while highlighting actionable challenges for cellular-based surveillance in 5G/6G contexts.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The central claim of presenting the 'first comprehensive survey' dedicated to this exact topic is not supported by any explicit comparison table, gap analysis, or discussion of prior surveys on ISAC, cellular sensing, or UAV radar; without this, the exhaustiveness of coverage across the four review dimensions cannot be verified and the novelty assertion remains unsubstantiated.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract (review dimensions paragraph): No description is provided of the literature search methodology, inclusion/exclusion criteria, or database sources used to select papers for the systematic review of ISAC modeling, detection/tracking, identification, and field trials; this omission makes it impossible to assess potential selection bias or recency gaps in the synthesis.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The phrase 'non-cooperative UAV surveillance' is introduced without an immediate parenthetical definition or reference to how it differs from cooperative cases, which could be clarified for readers new to the subfield.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback and the recommendation of minor revision. We address the two major comments on the abstract point by point below. Both points identify valid omissions that we will correct in the revised manuscript to strengthen the survey's rigor and substantiate its claims.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The central claim of presenting the 'first comprehensive survey' dedicated to this exact topic is not supported by any explicit comparison table, gap analysis, or discussion of prior surveys on ISAC, cellular sensing, or UAV radar; without this, the exhaustiveness of coverage across the four review dimensions cannot be verified and the novelty assertion remains unsubstantiated.

    Authors: We agree that the novelty claim requires explicit substantiation. In the revised manuscript, we will insert a new subsection (Section I-B) titled 'Comparison with Prior Surveys' that includes a table contrasting our work against existing surveys on ISAC, cellular sensing, and UAV radar. The table will highlight coverage gaps in propagation analysis, MIMO-OFDM specifics for non-cooperative low-altitude UAVs, and the four review dimensions. This addition will directly support the 'first comprehensive survey' assertion without altering the core contributions. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract (review dimensions paragraph): No description is provided of the literature search methodology, inclusion/exclusion criteria, or database sources used to select papers for the systematic review of ISAC modeling, detection/tracking, identification, and field trials; this omission makes it impossible to assess potential selection bias or recency gaps in the synthesis.

    Authors: We concur that a transparent literature search methodology is essential for a systematic survey. In the revised version, we will add a dedicated paragraph immediately following the abstract's review dimensions description. It will specify the databases (IEEE Xplore, Web of Science, arXiv), search keywords (e.g., 'MIMO OFDM ISAC UAV surveillance'), time frame (2015–2024), inclusion criteria (peer-reviewed works on MIMO-OFDM ISAC for non-cooperative UAVs), and exclusion criteria (e.g., cooperative UAVs or non-OFDM waveforms). This will enable readers to evaluate completeness and bias. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: survey reviews external literature without self-referential derivations

full rationale

This is a survey paper whose central contribution is a structured review of published work on MIMO OFDM ISAC for non-cooperative UAV surveillance. The abstract and provided text contain no equations, fitted parameters, predictions, or derivation chains. The claim of presenting the 'first comprehensive survey' is a novelty statement, not a result obtained by reducing to the paper's own inputs or self-citations. No load-bearing step matches any of the enumerated circularity patterns; the paper is self-contained by construction as an external literature synthesis.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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As a survey the central claim rests on the completeness of the literature review rather than new mathematical derivations or empirical results. No free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are introduced by the paper itself.

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    This paper presents the first comprehensive survey dedicated to MIMO OFDM-enabled ISAC for low-altitude non-cooperative UAV surveillance... We then systematically review existing MIMO OFDM-enabled UAV surveillance techniques along four key dimensions: ISAC system modeling and network optimization, UAV detection and tracking algorithms...

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    the waveform design should maintain a low correlation sidelobe floor... OFDM achieves remarkable performance in both communication and sensing, with favorable delay and Doppler resolution enabled by its thumbtack-shaped ambiguity function

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