Near-Field Integrated Sensing and Communication for Multi-Target Indication

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Autores principales: Ruan, Hang, Nikbakht, Homa, Zhang, Ruizhi, Chen, Honglei, Eldar, Yonina C.
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Publicado: 2025
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author Ruan, Hang
Nikbakht, Homa
Zhang, Ruizhi
Chen, Honglei
Eldar, Yonina C.
author_facet Ruan, Hang
Nikbakht, Homa
Zhang, Ruizhi
Chen, Honglei
Eldar, Yonina C.
contents Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) in the near-field regime offers the potential to jointly support high-rate downlink transmission and high-resolution multi-target detection by exploiting the spherical-wave nature of electromagnetic propagation. In this paper, we propose a unified beamforming framework for a multi-user multi-target near-field ISAC system. In this system, a multi-antenna base station simultaneously serves multiple single-antenna users and senses multiple point-targets without prior knowledge of their radar cross sections. By optimizing the transmit covariance matrix, our design maximizes the minimum weighted transmit beampattern gain across all targets to ensure accurate sensing while strictly limiting inter-target cross-correlations and guaranteeing per-user communication rate and total power constraints. We extend classical far-field beampattern and cross-correlation measures to the near-field by incorporating both angle and range dependencies, enabling discrimination of targets along the same direction but at different distances. The resulting non-convex program is efficiently relaxed to a semidefinite program via rank-one lifting. We then develop a closed-form reconstruction to recover optimal rank-one beamformers. Numerical simulations demonstrate that our near-field ISAC design can simultaneously resolve and serve users/targets along the same direction but at different distances, achieving significant gains over far-field and single-target benchmarks.
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spellingShingle Near-Field Integrated Sensing and Communication for Multi-Target Indication
Ruan, Hang
Nikbakht, Homa
Zhang, Ruizhi
Chen, Honglei
Eldar, Yonina C.
Signal Processing
Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) in the near-field regime offers the potential to jointly support high-rate downlink transmission and high-resolution multi-target detection by exploiting the spherical-wave nature of electromagnetic propagation. In this paper, we propose a unified beamforming framework for a multi-user multi-target near-field ISAC system. In this system, a multi-antenna base station simultaneously serves multiple single-antenna users and senses multiple point-targets without prior knowledge of their radar cross sections. By optimizing the transmit covariance matrix, our design maximizes the minimum weighted transmit beampattern gain across all targets to ensure accurate sensing while strictly limiting inter-target cross-correlations and guaranteeing per-user communication rate and total power constraints. We extend classical far-field beampattern and cross-correlation measures to the near-field by incorporating both angle and range dependencies, enabling discrimination of targets along the same direction but at different distances. The resulting non-convex program is efficiently relaxed to a semidefinite program via rank-one lifting. We then develop a closed-form reconstruction to recover optimal rank-one beamformers. Numerical simulations demonstrate that our near-field ISAC design can simultaneously resolve and serve users/targets along the same direction but at different distances, achieving significant gains over far-field and single-target benchmarks.
title Near-Field Integrated Sensing and Communication for Multi-Target Indication
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07052