Multi-TRP Assisted UAV Detection in 3GPP 5G-Advanced ISAC Network

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Autores principales: Varshney, Neeraj, Blandino, Steve, Wang, Jian, Bodi, Anuraag, Gentile, Camillo, Golmie, Nada
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Publicado: 2026
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author Varshney, Neeraj
Blandino, Steve
Wang, Jian
Bodi, Anuraag
Gentile, Camillo
Golmie, Nada
author_facet Varshney, Neeraj
Blandino, Steve
Wang, Jian
Bodi, Anuraag
Gentile, Camillo
Golmie, Nada
contents ISAC is currently being standardized within the 3GPP New Radio (NR) to enable cellular infrastructure to perform sensing using existing communication waveforms. While standardization is progressing, practical deployment may be limited by scenario-dependent observability constraints. For example, in UMa-AV scenarios, sensing with a single TRP can be affected by restricted angular coverage, partial blockage, and limited field of view, which may degrade detection reliability in three-dimensional UAV environments. For this reason, multi-TRP solutions have been suggested to improve spatial diversity and sensing robustness. In this paper, we present a system-level investigation of multi-TRP assisted monostatic sensing for UAV detection under standardized 3GPP UMa-AV channel assumptions and Release 19 evaluation parameters. We propose a spatial diversity fusion framework and evaluate the achievable performance of a 3GPP network by combining the measurements obtained independently at different TRP. Extensive evaluations demonstrate that multi-TRP assistance improves target observability, reduces spurious detections, and tightens localization error distributions at the cost of additional sensing overhead due to the need for multiple TRPs to periodically allocate radio resources for sensing measurements. In the evaluated scenario, results show that a voting threshold of two assisting TRPs achieves an optimal trade-off between miss detection probability and false alarm suppression, meeting 3GPP performance objectives. Furthermore, we quantify the sensing overhead and show that proper system design, tuned to the application requirements, can substantially reduce its impact: for example, extending the sensing refresh interval beyond the 128 ms coherent processing interval to 1 s reduces the effective overhead from 29 % to approximately 3.7 %, enabling more scalable network deployment.
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spellingShingle Multi-TRP Assisted UAV Detection in 3GPP 5G-Advanced ISAC Network
Varshney, Neeraj
Blandino, Steve
Wang, Jian
Bodi, Anuraag
Gentile, Camillo
Golmie, Nada
Information Theory
ISAC is currently being standardized within the 3GPP New Radio (NR) to enable cellular infrastructure to perform sensing using existing communication waveforms. While standardization is progressing, practical deployment may be limited by scenario-dependent observability constraints. For example, in UMa-AV scenarios, sensing with a single TRP can be affected by restricted angular coverage, partial blockage, and limited field of view, which may degrade detection reliability in three-dimensional UAV environments. For this reason, multi-TRP solutions have been suggested to improve spatial diversity and sensing robustness. In this paper, we present a system-level investigation of multi-TRP assisted monostatic sensing for UAV detection under standardized 3GPP UMa-AV channel assumptions and Release 19 evaluation parameters. We propose a spatial diversity fusion framework and evaluate the achievable performance of a 3GPP network by combining the measurements obtained independently at different TRP. Extensive evaluations demonstrate that multi-TRP assistance improves target observability, reduces spurious detections, and tightens localization error distributions at the cost of additional sensing overhead due to the need for multiple TRPs to periodically allocate radio resources for sensing measurements. In the evaluated scenario, results show that a voting threshold of two assisting TRPs achieves an optimal trade-off between miss detection probability and false alarm suppression, meeting 3GPP performance objectives. Furthermore, we quantify the sensing overhead and show that proper system design, tuned to the application requirements, can substantially reduce its impact: for example, extending the sensing refresh interval beyond the 128 ms coherent processing interval to 1 s reduces the effective overhead from 29 % to approximately 3.7 %, enabling more scalable network deployment.
title Multi-TRP Assisted UAV Detection in 3GPP 5G-Advanced ISAC Network
topic Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26113