Device-Centric ISAC for Exposure Control via Opportunistic Virtual Aperture Sensing

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Hauptverfasser: Mizmizi, Marouan, Yu, Zhibin, Du, Guanglong, Spagnolini, Umberto
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Veröffentlicht: 2026
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author Mizmizi, Marouan
Yu, Zhibin
Du, Guanglong
Spagnolini, Umberto
author_facet Mizmizi, Marouan
Yu, Zhibin
Du, Guanglong
Spagnolini, Umberto
contents Regulatory limits on Maximum Permissible Exposure (MPE) require handheld devices to reduce transmit power when operated near the user's body. Current proximity sensors provide only binary detection, triggering conservative power back-off that degrades link quality. If the device could measure its distance from the body, transmit power could be adjusted proportionally, improving throughput while maintaining compliance. This paper develops a device-centric integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) method for the device to measure this distance. The uplink communication waveform is exploited for sensing, and the natural motion of the user's hand creates a virtual aperture that provides the angular resolution necessary for localization. Virtual aperture processing requires precise knowledge of the device trajectory, which in this scenario is opportunistic and unknown. One can exploit onboard inertial sensors to estimate the device trajectory; however, the inertial sensors accuracy is not sufficient. To address this, we develop an autofocus algorithm based on extended Kalman filtering that jointly tracks the trajectory and compensates residual errors using phase observations from strong scatterers. The Bayesian Cramér-Rao bound for localization is derived under correlated inertial errors. Numerical results at 28GHz demonstrate centimeter-level accuracy with realistic sensor parameters.
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spellingShingle Device-Centric ISAC for Exposure Control via Opportunistic Virtual Aperture Sensing
Mizmizi, Marouan
Yu, Zhibin
Du, Guanglong
Spagnolini, Umberto
Signal Processing
Emerging Technologies
Regulatory limits on Maximum Permissible Exposure (MPE) require handheld devices to reduce transmit power when operated near the user's body. Current proximity sensors provide only binary detection, triggering conservative power back-off that degrades link quality. If the device could measure its distance from the body, transmit power could be adjusted proportionally, improving throughput while maintaining compliance. This paper develops a device-centric integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) method for the device to measure this distance. The uplink communication waveform is exploited for sensing, and the natural motion of the user's hand creates a virtual aperture that provides the angular resolution necessary for localization. Virtual aperture processing requires precise knowledge of the device trajectory, which in this scenario is opportunistic and unknown. One can exploit onboard inertial sensors to estimate the device trajectory; however, the inertial sensors accuracy is not sufficient. To address this, we develop an autofocus algorithm based on extended Kalman filtering that jointly tracks the trajectory and compensates residual errors using phase observations from strong scatterers. The Bayesian Cramér-Rao bound for localization is derived under correlated inertial errors. Numerical results at 28GHz demonstrate centimeter-level accuracy with realistic sensor parameters.
title Device-Centric ISAC for Exposure Control via Opportunistic Virtual Aperture Sensing
topic Signal Processing
Emerging Technologies
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17609