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Integrated Sensing and Communications: Towards Dual-functional Wireless Networks for 6G and Beyond
As the standardization of 5G solidifies, researchers are speculating what 6G will be. The integration of sensing functionality is emerging as a key feature of the 6G Radio Access Network (RAN), allowing for the exploitation of dense cell infrastructures to construct a perceptive network. In this IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Commmunications (JSAC) Special Issue overview, we provide a comprehensive review on the background, range of key applications and state-of-the-art approaches of Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC). We commence by discussing the interplay between sensing and communications (S&C) from a historical point of view, and then consider the multiple facets of ISAC and the resulting performance gains. By introducing both ongoing and potential use cases, we shed light on the industrial progress and standardization activities related to ISAC. We analyze a number of performance tradeoffs between S&C, spanning from information theoretical limits to physical layer performance tradeoffs, and the cross-layer design tradeoffs. Next, we discuss the signal processing aspects of ISAC, namely ISAC waveform design and receive signal processing. As a step further, we provide our vision on the deeper integration between S&C within the framework of perceptive networks, where the two functionalities are expected to mutually assist each other, i.e., via communication-assisted sensing and sensing-assisted communications. Finally, we identify the potential integration of ISAC with other emerging communication technologies, and their positive impacts on the future of wireless networks
Performance of Radar and Communication Networks Coexisting in Shared Spectrum Bands
Recent technological advancements are making the use of compact, low-cost,
low-power mm-wave radars viable for providing environmental awareness in a
number of applications, ranging from automotive to indoor mapping and radio
resource optimisation. These emerging use-cases pave the road towards networks
in which a large number of radar and broadband communications devices coexist,
sharing a common spectrum band in a possibly uncoordinated fashion. Although a
clear understanding of how mutual interference influences radar and
communications performance is key to proper system design, the core tradeoffs
that arise in such scenarios are still largely unexplored. In this paper, we
provide results that help bridge this gap, obtained by means of an analytical
model and extensive simulations. To capture the fundamental interactions
between the two systems, we study mm-wave networks where pulsed radars coexist
with communications devices that access the channel following an ALOHA policy.
We investigate the effect of key parameters on the performance of the
coexisting systems, including the network density, fraction of radar and
communication nodes in the network, antenna directivity, and packet length. We
quantify the effect of mutual interference in the coexistence scenario on radar
detection and communication network throughput, highlighting some non-trivial
interplays and deriving useful design tradeoffs
Power Optimization for Network Localization
Reliable and accurate localization of mobile objects is essential for many
applications in wireless networks. In range-based localization, the position of
the object can be inferred using the distance measurements from wireless
signals exchanged with active objects or reflected by passive ones. Power
allocation for ranging signals is important since it affects not only network
lifetime and throughput but also localization accuracy. In this paper, we
establish a unifying optimization framework for power allocation in both active
and passive localization networks. In particular, we first determine the
functional properties of the localization accuracy metric, which enable us to
transform the power allocation problems into second-order cone programs
(SOCPs). We then propose the robust counterparts of the problems in the
presence of parameter uncertainty and develop asymptotically optimal and
efficient near-optimal SOCP-based algorithms. Our simulation results validate
the efficiency and robustness of the proposed algorithms.Comment: 15 pages, 7 figure
Simultaneous Sparse Approximation Using an Iterative Method with Adaptive Thresholding
This paper studies the problem of Simultaneous Sparse Approximation (SSA).
This problem arises in many applications which work with multiple signals
maintaining some degree of dependency such as radar and sensor networks. In
this paper, we introduce a new method towards joint recovery of several
independent sparse signals with the same support. We provide an analytical
discussion on the convergence of our method called Simultaneous Iterative
Method with Adaptive Thresholding (SIMAT). Additionally, we compare our method
with other group-sparse reconstruction techniques, i.e., Simultaneous
Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (SOMP), and Block Iterative Method with Adaptive
Thresholding (BIMAT) through numerical experiments. The simulation results
demonstrate that SIMAT outperforms these algorithms in terms of the metrics
Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) and Success Rate (SR). Moreover, SIMAT is
considerably less complicated than BIMAT, which makes it feasible for practical
applications such as implementation in MIMO radar systems
Integrated Sensing and Communications: Recent Advances and Ten Open Challenges
It is anticipated that integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) would be
one of the key enablers of next-generation wireless networks (such as beyond 5G
(B5G) and 6G) for supporting a variety of emerging applications. In this paper,
we provide a comprehensive review of the recent advances in ISAC systems, with
a particular focus on their foundations, system design, networking aspects and
ISAC applications. Furthermore, we discuss the corresponding open questions of
the above that emerged in each issue. Hence, we commence with the information
theory of sensing and communications (SC), followed by the
information-theoretic limits of ISAC systems by shedding light on the
fundamental performance metrics. Next, we discuss their clock synchronization
and phase offset problems, the associated Pareto-optimal signaling strategies,
as well as the associated super-resolution ISAC system design. Moreover, we
envision that ISAC ushers in a paradigm shift for the future cellular networks
relying on network sensing, transforming the classic cellular architecture,
cross-layer resource management methods, and transmission protocols. In ISAC
applications, we further highlight the security and privacy issues of wireless
sensing. Finally, we close by studying the recent advances in a representative
ISAC use case, namely the multi-object multi-task (MOMT) recognition problem
using wireless signals.Comment: 26 pages, 22 figures, resubmitted to IEEE Journal. Appreciation for
the outstanding contributions of coauthors in the paper
Coverage and Rate of Joint Communication and Parameter Estimation in Wireless Networks
From an information theoretic perspective, joint communication and sensing
(JCAS) represents a natural generalization of communication network
functionality. However, it requires the re-evaluation of network performance
from a multi-objective perspective. We develop a novel mathematical framework
for characterizing the sensing and communication coverage probability and
ergodic rate in JCAS networks. We employ a formulation of sensing parameter
estimation based on mutual information to extend the notions of coverage
probability and ergodic rate to the radar setting. We define sensing coverage
probability as the probability that the rate of information extracted about the
parameters of interest associated with a typical radar target exceeds some
threshold, and sensing ergodic rate as the spatial average of the
aforementioned rate of information. Using this framework, we analyze the
downlink sensing and communication coverage and rate of a mmWave JCAS network
employing a shared waveform, directional beamforming, and monostatic sensing.
Leveraging tools from stochastic geometry, we derive upper and lower bounds for
these quantities. We also develop several general technical results including:
i) a generic method for obtaining closed form upper and lower bounds on the
Laplace Transform of a shot noise process, ii) a new analog of H{\"o}lder's
Inequality to the setting of harmonic means, and iii) a relation between the
Laplace and Mellin Transforms of a non-negative random variable. We use the
derived bounds to numerically investigate the performance of JCAS networks
under varying base station and blockage density. Among several insights, our
numerical analysis indicates that network densification improves sensing SINR
performance -- in contrast to communications.Comment: 87 pages, 5 figures. Published in IEEE Transactions on Information
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