Design of APSK Constellations Approaching the Communication-Sensing Pareto Boundary for ISAC

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Main Authors: Shao, Yujie, Qiu, Min, Lee, Ming-Chun, Huang, Yu-Chih, Yuan, Jinhong
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author Shao, Yujie
Qiu, Min
Lee, Ming-Chun
Huang, Yu-Chih
Yuan, Jinhong
author_facet Shao, Yujie
Qiu, Min
Lee, Ming-Chun
Huang, Yu-Chih
Yuan, Jinhong
contents We propose a semi-analytical amplitude phase shift keying (APSK) signaling framework for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), focusing on i.i.d. uniform discrete input distributions for practicality and analytical tractability. First, we establish APSK design criteria in which communication performance is measured by the gap to capacity and linked to the minimum Euclidean distance, while sensing performance is characterized by the symbol-energy variance. Based on these criteria, we propose a family of APSK constellations whose key parameters follow explicit scaling laws. Then we prove that this design achieves a constant gap to capacity independent of the signal-to-noise ratio. Building upon this foundation, we further construct a parametric APSK family that bridges the communication-optimal and sensing-optimal designs, with the communication and sensing (C&S) tradeoff controlled by the number of rings and energy allocation among rings. Simulation results show that the proposed APSK achieves C&S performance very close to the Pareto boundary achieved with time-independent, circularly symmetric, and otherwise unconstrained continuous input distributions.
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spellingShingle Design of APSK Constellations Approaching the Communication-Sensing Pareto Boundary for ISAC
Shao, Yujie
Qiu, Min
Lee, Ming-Chun
Huang, Yu-Chih
Yuan, Jinhong
Information Theory
Signal Processing
We propose a semi-analytical amplitude phase shift keying (APSK) signaling framework for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), focusing on i.i.d. uniform discrete input distributions for practicality and analytical tractability. First, we establish APSK design criteria in which communication performance is measured by the gap to capacity and linked to the minimum Euclidean distance, while sensing performance is characterized by the symbol-energy variance. Based on these criteria, we propose a family of APSK constellations whose key parameters follow explicit scaling laws. Then we prove that this design achieves a constant gap to capacity independent of the signal-to-noise ratio. Building upon this foundation, we further construct a parametric APSK family that bridges the communication-optimal and sensing-optimal designs, with the communication and sensing (C&S) tradeoff controlled by the number of rings and energy allocation among rings. Simulation results show that the proposed APSK achieves C&S performance very close to the Pareto boundary achieved with time-independent, circularly symmetric, and otherwise unconstrained continuous input distributions.
title Design of APSK Constellations Approaching the Communication-Sensing Pareto Boundary for ISAC
topic Information Theory
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.25047