Backscatter Device-aided Integrated Sensing and Communication: A Pareto Optimization Framework

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09354v1
• Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2025 17:11:06 GMT
• Title: Backscatter Device-aided Integrated Sensing and Communication: A Pareto Optimization Framework
• Authors: Yifan Zhang, Yu Bai, Riku Jantti, Zheng Yan, Christos Masouros, Zhu Han,
• Abstract summary: Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems potentially encounter significant performance degradation in densely obstructed urban non-line-of-sight scenarios.<n>This paper proposes a backscatter approximation (BD)-assisted ISAC system, which leverages passive BDs naturally distributed in environments of enhancement.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems potentially encounter significant performance degradation in densely obstructed urban and non-line-of-sight scenarios, thus limiting their effectiveness in practical deployments. To deal with these challenges, this paper proposes a backscatter device (BD)-assisted ISAC system, which leverages passive BDs naturally distributed in underlying environments for performance enhancement. These ambient devices can enhance sensing accuracy and communication reliability by providing additional reflective signal paths. In this system, we define the Pareto boundary characterizing the trade-off between sensing mutual information (SMI) and communication rates to provide fundamental insights for its design. To derive the boundary, we formulate a performance optimization problem within an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) framework, by jointly optimizing time-frequency resource element (RE) allocation, transmit power management, and BD modulation decisions. To tackle the non-convexity of the problem, we decompose it into three subproblems, solved iteratively through a block coordinate descent (BCD) algorithm. Specifically, the RE subproblem is addressed using the successive convex approximation (SCA) method, the power subproblem is solved using an augmented Lagrangian combined water-filling method, and the BD modulation subproblem is tackled using semidefinite relaxation (SDR) methods. Additionally, we demonstrate the generality of the proposed system by showing its adaptability to bistatic ISAC scenarios and MIMO settings. Finally, extensive simulation results validate the effectiveness of the proposed system and its superior performance compared to existing state-of-the-art ISAC schemes.

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