Cooperative ISAC for Joint Localization and Velocity Estimation in Cell-Free MIMO Systems
Wang Z, Wong VW, Schober R (2025)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2025
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DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2025.3613283
Abstract
In this paper, we explore a cooperative integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) framework that utilizes orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) waveforms. Under the control of a central processing unit (CPU), multiple access points (APs) collaboratively perform multistatic sensing while providing communication service in a cell-free multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. Achieving high sensing accuracy requires the collection of global sensing information at the CPU, which can lead to significant fronthaul signaling overhead due to the feedback of the sensing signals from each AP. To tackle this issue, we propose a collaborative processing scheme in which the APs locally compress and quantize the received sensing signals before forwarding them to the CPU. The CPU then aggregates the information from all APs to estimate the location and velocity of the targets. We develop a distributed vector-quantized variational autoencoder (D-VQVAE) to enable an end-to-end implementation of this scheme. D-VQVAE consists of distributed encoders at the APs to locally encode the received sensing signals, codebooks for quantizing the encoded results, and a decoder at the CPU for location and velocity estimation. It effectively reduces the amount of data transmitted from each AP to the CPU while maintaining a high sensing accuracy.We employ a collaborative learning-assisted scheme to train D-VQVAE in an end-to-end manner. Simulation results show that the proposed D-VQVAE network outperforms the baseline schemes in sensing accuracy and reduces fronthaul signaling overhead by 99% when compared with the centralized sensing approach.
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APA:
Wang, Z., Wong, V.W., & Schober, R. (2025). Cooperative ISAC for Joint Localization and Velocity Estimation in Cell-Free MIMO Systems. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSAC.2025.3613283
MLA:
Wang, Zihuan, Vincent W.S. Wong, and Robert Schober. "Cooperative ISAC for Joint Localization and Velocity Estimation in Cell-Free MIMO Systems." IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (2025).
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