On Estimation of Angles of Arrival in Monostatic ISAC Without Instantaneous Transmit CSI

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Main Authors: Sams, Ataher, Di Bari, Simone, Smida, Besma, Devroye, Natasha, Tuninetti, Daniela, Taricco, Giorgio
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author Sams, Ataher
Di Bari, Simone
Smida, Besma
Devroye, Natasha
Tuninetti, Daniela
Taricco, Giorgio
author_facet Sams, Ataher
Di Bari, Simone
Smida, Besma
Devroye, Natasha
Tuninetti, Daniela
Taricco, Giorgio
contents This paper explores the fundamental limits of Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) in a more realistic setting compared to previous literature when the Base Staion (BS) has only statistical CSI of the communication user rather than full CSI. We analyze a monostatic setting where the BS performs multi-target Angle of Arrival (AoA) estimation while simultaneously communicating with one of the targets. We assume that the BS has statistical CSI about all AoAs, with less uncertainty in the AoA of the communication receiver. The communication receiver is assumed to have perfect CSI. Utilizing a Bayesian Cramér-Rao Bound (BCRB) framework to characterize the fundamental limits of sensing under minimum mean square error (MMSE) criteria, we derive achievable BCRB-rate trade-off regions. Our approach introduces a number of transmission strategies that share power across sensing and communication beams over a coherence time. Our analysis reveals that beam allocation strategies leveraging the principal eigenvectors of the target-specific sensing matrices minimize individual AoA estimation errors, while strategies balancing sensing and communication directions optimize joint estimation performance at the cost of individual accuracy. We demonstrate that leveraging updated BCRB-based sensing information for the communication receiver, due to its lower channel uncertainty, enables significantly improved communication rates.
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spellingShingle On Estimation of Angles of Arrival in Monostatic ISAC Without Instantaneous Transmit CSI
Sams, Ataher
Di Bari, Simone
Smida, Besma
Devroye, Natasha
Tuninetti, Daniela
Taricco, Giorgio
Information Theory
Signal Processing
This paper explores the fundamental limits of Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) in a more realistic setting compared to previous literature when the Base Staion (BS) has only statistical CSI of the communication user rather than full CSI. We analyze a monostatic setting where the BS performs multi-target Angle of Arrival (AoA) estimation while simultaneously communicating with one of the targets. We assume that the BS has statistical CSI about all AoAs, with less uncertainty in the AoA of the communication receiver. The communication receiver is assumed to have perfect CSI. Utilizing a Bayesian Cramér-Rao Bound (BCRB) framework to characterize the fundamental limits of sensing under minimum mean square error (MMSE) criteria, we derive achievable BCRB-rate trade-off regions. Our approach introduces a number of transmission strategies that share power across sensing and communication beams over a coherence time. Our analysis reveals that beam allocation strategies leveraging the principal eigenvectors of the target-specific sensing matrices minimize individual AoA estimation errors, while strategies balancing sensing and communication directions optimize joint estimation performance at the cost of individual accuracy. We demonstrate that leveraging updated BCRB-based sensing information for the communication receiver, due to its lower channel uncertainty, enables significantly improved communication rates.
title On Estimation of Angles of Arrival in Monostatic ISAC Without Instantaneous Transmit CSI
topic Information Theory
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08793