Distributed ISAC Systems – Multisensor Radio Access and Coordination
Reiner S. Thomä, Thomas Dallmann
Abstract
Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) qualifies mobile radio systems for detecting and localizing of passive objects by means of radar sensing. Advanced ISAC networks rely on distributed infrastructure, multisensor uplink and downlink, or meshed sidelink access. In this way, ISAC develops into a MS-MIMO (multisensor multiple input multiple output) network which constitutes a distributed MIMO radar network. Multisensor link coordination and synchronization are becoming crucial. Many multisensor access and signaling techniques find their communication counterpart in multiuser MIMO and cooperative multilink communications (CoMP) and can be adopted from there.
Topics & Concepts
Telecommunications linkComputer scienceMIMOSynchronization (alternating current)Computer networkReal-time computingDistributed computingChannel (broadcasting)Radar Systems and Signal ProcessingAdvanced SAR Imaging TechniquesRadio Wave Propagation Studies