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Main Authors: Asaad, Saba, Tabassum, Hina, Wang, Ping
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15783
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author Asaad, Saba
Tabassum, Hina
Wang, Ping
author_facet Asaad, Saba
Tabassum, Hina
Wang, Ping
contents This paper introduces a novel multi-objective integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) framework to enable collaborative wireless sensing in conjunction with over-the-air federated-edge learning (OTA-FEEL). The framework enables multi-task OTA aggregation to handle sensing and learning simultaneously, while benefiting from dual-purpose uplink signals for both communications and target sensing. Starting from characterizing the local sufficient statistics at each edge device and establishing its stationary, we develop a tractable analytical expression for the local sufficient statistics. To suppress the interference from uplink transmissions of other devices through matched filtering, we then propose a novel orthogonal pulse shaping method. Then, we derive the optimal unbiased estimate of the target's coordinates by casting the centralized problem of joint likelihood function maximization of all devices as the distributed likelihood maximization of each device (which requires only local sufficient statistics). A lower bound on the sensing error variance is then characterized using the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB). We then formulate a multi-objective optimization (MOOP) problem to minimize the mean square error (MSE) and sensing error bound simultaneously. The considered problem is then solved using the epsilon-constrained method. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed dual-purpose OTA-FEEL-enabled collaborative ISAC framework enhances sensing accuracy without adversely affecting the performance of the primary OTA-FEEL task. While conventional single-shot collaborative sensing schemes are limited by the average error of local estimators, the proposed algorithm achieves the CRB of the considered problem.
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spellingShingle Multi-objective Optimization for Over-the-Air Federated Edge Learning-enabled Collaborative Integrated Sensing and Communications
Asaad, Saba
Tabassum, Hina
Wang, Ping
Information Theory
This paper introduces a novel multi-objective integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) framework to enable collaborative wireless sensing in conjunction with over-the-air federated-edge learning (OTA-FEEL). The framework enables multi-task OTA aggregation to handle sensing and learning simultaneously, while benefiting from dual-purpose uplink signals for both communications and target sensing. Starting from characterizing the local sufficient statistics at each edge device and establishing its stationary, we develop a tractable analytical expression for the local sufficient statistics. To suppress the interference from uplink transmissions of other devices through matched filtering, we then propose a novel orthogonal pulse shaping method. Then, we derive the optimal unbiased estimate of the target's coordinates by casting the centralized problem of joint likelihood function maximization of all devices as the distributed likelihood maximization of each device (which requires only local sufficient statistics). A lower bound on the sensing error variance is then characterized using the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB). We then formulate a multi-objective optimization (MOOP) problem to minimize the mean square error (MSE) and sensing error bound simultaneously. The considered problem is then solved using the epsilon-constrained method. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed dual-purpose OTA-FEEL-enabled collaborative ISAC framework enhances sensing accuracy without adversely affecting the performance of the primary OTA-FEEL task. While conventional single-shot collaborative sensing schemes are limited by the average error of local estimators, the proposed algorithm achieves the CRB of the considered problem.
title Multi-objective Optimization for Over-the-Air Federated Edge Learning-enabled Collaborative Integrated Sensing and Communications
topic Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15783