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Main Authors: Chen, Shiying, Chen, Guangji, Shi, Long, Wu, Qingqing, Wei, Kang
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15295
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author Chen, Shiying
Chen, Guangji
Shi, Long
Wu, Qingqing
Wei, Kang
author_facet Chen, Shiying
Chen, Guangji
Shi, Long
Wu, Qingqing
Wei, Kang
contents Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is viewed as a key enabler for future wireless networks by sharing the hardware and wireless resources between the functionalities of sensing and communication (S&C). Due to the shared wireless resources for both S&C, it is challenging to achieve a critical trade-off between these two integrated functionalities. To address this issue, this paper proposes a novel dual-level channel reconfiguration framework for ISAC by deploying rotatable antennas at an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), where both the large-scale path loss and the correlation of S&C channels can be proactively controlled, thereby allowing a flexible trade-off between S&C performance. To characterize the S&C tradeoff, we aim to maximize the communication rate by jointly optimizing the RA rotation, the transmit beamforming, and the UAV trajectory, subject to the given requirement of sensing performance. For the typical scenario of static UAV deployment, we introduce the concept of subspace correlation coefficient to derive closed-form solutions for the optimal RA rotation, transmit beamforming, and UAV hovering location. For the scenario of a fully mobile UAV, we prove that the optimal trajectory of a UAV follows a hover-fly-hover (HFH) structure, thereby obtaining its global optimal solution. Simulation results show that the proposed design significantly improves the achievable S&C trade-off region compared to benchmark schemes.
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spellingShingle Rotatable Antenna Meets UAV: Towards Dual-Level Channel Reconfiguration Paradigm for ISAC
Chen, Shiying
Chen, Guangji
Shi, Long
Wu, Qingqing
Wei, Kang
Information Theory
Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is viewed as a key enabler for future wireless networks by sharing the hardware and wireless resources between the functionalities of sensing and communication (S&C). Due to the shared wireless resources for both S&C, it is challenging to achieve a critical trade-off between these two integrated functionalities. To address this issue, this paper proposes a novel dual-level channel reconfiguration framework for ISAC by deploying rotatable antennas at an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), where both the large-scale path loss and the correlation of S&C channels can be proactively controlled, thereby allowing a flexible trade-off between S&C performance. To characterize the S&C tradeoff, we aim to maximize the communication rate by jointly optimizing the RA rotation, the transmit beamforming, and the UAV trajectory, subject to the given requirement of sensing performance. For the typical scenario of static UAV deployment, we introduce the concept of subspace correlation coefficient to derive closed-form solutions for the optimal RA rotation, transmit beamforming, and UAV hovering location. For the scenario of a fully mobile UAV, we prove that the optimal trajectory of a UAV follows a hover-fly-hover (HFH) structure, thereby obtaining its global optimal solution. Simulation results show that the proposed design significantly improves the achievable S&C trade-off region compared to benchmark schemes.
title Rotatable Antenna Meets UAV: Towards Dual-Level Channel Reconfiguration Paradigm for ISAC
topic Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15295