Communicate or Sense? AP Mode Selection in mmWave Cell-Free Massive MIMO-ISACShow others and affiliations
2024 (English)In: Conference Record of the 58th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, ACSSC 2024, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2024, p. 889-893Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a promising technology for future mobile networks, enabling sensing applications to be performed by existing communication networks, consequently improving the system efficiency. Millimeter wave (mmWave) signals provide high sensing resolution and high data rate but suffer from sensitivity to blockage. Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), with a large number of distributed access points (APs), can overcome this challenge by providing macro diversity against changing blockages and can save energy consumption by deactivating unfavorable APs. Thus, in this work, we propose a joint dynamic AP mode selection and power allocation scheme for mmWave cell-free massive MIMO-ISAC, where APs are assigned either as ISAC transmitters, sensing receivers, or shut down. Due to the large size of the original problem, we propose three different sub-optimal algorithms that minimize the number of active APs while guaranteeing the sensing and communication constraints. Numerical results demonstrate that assigning ISAC transmitters only satisfying communication constraints, followed up by sensing receiver assignment only for sensing constraint achieves the best performance-complexity balance.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2024. p. 889-893
Keywords [en]
cell-free massive MIMO, Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), multi-static sensing, power allocation
National Category
Telecommunications Signal Processing Communication Systems
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-362687DOI: 10.1109/IEEECONF60004.2024.10942948Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105002684970OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-362687DiVA, id: diva2:1954129
Conference
58th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, ACSSC 2024, Hybrid, Pacific Grove, United States of America, Oct 27 2024 - Oct 30 2024
Note
Part of ISBN 9798350354058
QC 20250424
2025-04-232025-04-232025-04-24Bibliographically approved