Detecting Multiple Targets with Distributed Sensing and Communication in Cell-Free Massive MIMO

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Autores principales: Behdad, Zinat, Demir, Ozlem Tugfe, Sung, Ki Won, Cavdar, Cicek
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Publicado: 2025
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author Behdad, Zinat
Demir, Ozlem Tugfe
Sung, Ki Won
Cavdar, Cicek
author_facet Behdad, Zinat
Demir, Ozlem Tugfe
Sung, Ki Won
Cavdar, Cicek
contents This paper investigates multi-target detection in an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system within a cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) framework. We adopt a user-centric approach for communication user equipments (UEs) and a distributed sensing approach for multi-target detection. A heuristic access point (AP) mode selection algorithm and a channel-aware distributed sensing scheme are proposed, where local measurements at receive APs (RX-APs) are weighted based on the received signals signal-to-interference ratio (SIR). A maximum a posteriori ratio test (MAPRT) detector is applied under two awareness levels at RX-APs. To balance the communication-sensing trade-off, we develop a power allocation algorithm to jointly maximize the minimum detection probability and communication signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) while satisfying power constraints. The proposed scheme outperforms non-weighted methods. Adding test statistics from more RX-APs can degrade sensing performance due to weaker channels, but this effect can be mitigated by optimizing the weighting exponent. Additionally, assigning more sensing RX-APs to a sensing area results in approximately 10 dB loss in minimum communication SINR due to limited communication resources.
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spellingShingle Detecting Multiple Targets with Distributed Sensing and Communication in Cell-Free Massive MIMO
Behdad, Zinat
Demir, Ozlem Tugfe
Sung, Ki Won
Cavdar, Cicek
Signal Processing
This paper investigates multi-target detection in an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system within a cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) framework. We adopt a user-centric approach for communication user equipments (UEs) and a distributed sensing approach for multi-target detection. A heuristic access point (AP) mode selection algorithm and a channel-aware distributed sensing scheme are proposed, where local measurements at receive APs (RX-APs) are weighted based on the received signals signal-to-interference ratio (SIR). A maximum a posteriori ratio test (MAPRT) detector is applied under two awareness levels at RX-APs. To balance the communication-sensing trade-off, we develop a power allocation algorithm to jointly maximize the minimum detection probability and communication signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) while satisfying power constraints. The proposed scheme outperforms non-weighted methods. Adding test statistics from more RX-APs can degrade sensing performance due to weaker channels, but this effect can be mitigated by optimizing the weighting exponent. Additionally, assigning more sensing RX-APs to a sensing area results in approximately 10 dB loss in minimum communication SINR due to limited communication resources.
title Detecting Multiple Targets with Distributed Sensing and Communication in Cell-Free Massive MIMO
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17441