Practical Hardware Benchmarking for DMA-Based Integrated Sensing and Communication

Establish practical hardware implementations and systematic benchmarks for dynamic metasurface antenna-based integrated sensing and communication systems against conventional phased arrays.

Background

The article distinguishes between increasingly mature signal-processing frameworks for DMA- and reconfigurable-holographic-surface-enabled base stations and the comparatively immature hardware needed to realize and evaluate those systems. It specifically identifies the absence of systematic benchmarking against conventional phased arrays, particularly for integrated sensing and communication, as an unresolved issue.

Resolving this problem would require experimental DMA implementations and evaluation procedures that compare communication and sensing performance under consistent hardware and system conditions.