ISAC Network Planning: Sensing Coverage Analysis and 3-D BS Deployment Optimization

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Autori principali: Meng, Kaitao, Han, Kawon, Masouros, Christos, Hanzo, Lajos
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author Meng, Kaitao
Han, Kawon
Masouros, Christos
Hanzo, Lajos
author_facet Meng, Kaitao
Han, Kawon
Masouros, Christos
Hanzo, Lajos
contents Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) networks strive to deliver both high-precision target localization and high-throughput data services across the entire coverage area. In this work, we examine the fundamental trade-off between sensing and communication from the perspective of base station (BS) deployment. Furthermore, we conceive a design that simultaneously maximizes the target localization coverage, while guaranteeing the desired communication performance. In contrast to existing schemes optimized for a single target, an effective network-level approach has to ensure consistent localization accuracy throughout the entire service area. While employing time-of-flight (ToF) based localization, we first analyze the deployment problem from a localization-performance coverage perspective, aiming for minimizing the area Cramer-Rao Lower Bound (A-CRLB) to ensure uniformly high positioning accuracy across the service area. We prove that for a fixed number of BSs, uniformly scaling the service area by a factor κincreases the optimal A-CRLB in proportion to κ^{2β}, where βis the BS-to-target pathloss exponent. Based on this, we derive an approximate scaling law that links the achievable A-CRLB across the area of interest to the dimensionality of the sensing area. We also show that cooperative BSs extend the coverage but yield marginal A-CRLB improvement as the dimensionality of the sensing area grows.
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spellingShingle ISAC Network Planning: Sensing Coverage Analysis and 3-D BS Deployment Optimization
Meng, Kaitao
Han, Kawon
Masouros, Christos
Hanzo, Lajos
Signal Processing
Information Theory
Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) networks strive to deliver both high-precision target localization and high-throughput data services across the entire coverage area. In this work, we examine the fundamental trade-off between sensing and communication from the perspective of base station (BS) deployment. Furthermore, we conceive a design that simultaneously maximizes the target localization coverage, while guaranteeing the desired communication performance. In contrast to existing schemes optimized for a single target, an effective network-level approach has to ensure consistent localization accuracy throughout the entire service area. While employing time-of-flight (ToF) based localization, we first analyze the deployment problem from a localization-performance coverage perspective, aiming for minimizing the area Cramer-Rao Lower Bound (A-CRLB) to ensure uniformly high positioning accuracy across the service area. We prove that for a fixed number of BSs, uniformly scaling the service area by a factor κincreases the optimal A-CRLB in proportion to κ^{2β}, where βis the BS-to-target pathloss exponent. Based on this, we derive an approximate scaling law that links the achievable A-CRLB across the area of interest to the dimensionality of the sensing area. We also show that cooperative BSs extend the coverage but yield marginal A-CRLB improvement as the dimensionality of the sensing area grows.
title ISAC Network Planning: Sensing Coverage Analysis and 3-D BS Deployment Optimization
topic Signal Processing
Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18009