Cooperative ISAC Networks: Opportunities and Challenges

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Autori principali: Meng, Kaitao, Masouros, Christos, Petropulu, Athina P., Hanzo, Lajos
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Meng, Kaitao
Masouros, Christos
Petropulu, Athina P.
Hanzo, Lajos
author_facet Meng, Kaitao
Masouros, Christos
Petropulu, Athina P.
Hanzo, Lajos
contents The integration of sensing and communication (ISAC) emerges as a cornerstone technology for the forth upcoming sixth generation era, seamlessly incorporating sensing functionality into wireless networks as a native capability. The main challenges in efficient ISAC are constituted by its limited sensing and communication coverage, as well as severe inter-cell interference. Network-level ISAC relying on multi-cell cooperation is capable of effectively expanding both the sensing and communication (S&C) coverage and of providing extra degrees of freedom (DoF) for realizing increased integration gains between S&C. In this work, we provide new considerations for ISAC networks, including new metrics, the optimization of the DoF, cooperation regimes, and highlight new S&C tradeoffs. Then, we discuss a suite of cooperative S&C architectures both at the task, as well as data, and signal levels. Furthermore, the interplay between S&C at the network level is investigated and promising research directions are outlined.
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Meng, Kaitao
Masouros, Christos
Petropulu, Athina P.
Hanzo, Lajos
Signal Processing
The integration of sensing and communication (ISAC) emerges as a cornerstone technology for the forth upcoming sixth generation era, seamlessly incorporating sensing functionality into wireless networks as a native capability. The main challenges in efficient ISAC are constituted by its limited sensing and communication coverage, as well as severe inter-cell interference. Network-level ISAC relying on multi-cell cooperation is capable of effectively expanding both the sensing and communication (S&C) coverage and of providing extra degrees of freedom (DoF) for realizing increased integration gains between S&C. In this work, we provide new considerations for ISAC networks, including new metrics, the optimization of the DoF, cooperation regimes, and highlight new S&C tradeoffs. Then, we discuss a suite of cooperative S&C architectures both at the task, as well as data, and signal levels. Furthermore, the interplay between S&C at the network level is investigated and promising research directions are outlined.
title Cooperative ISAC Networks: Opportunities and Challenges
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06305