Beamforming Design for Integrated Sensing, Over-the-Air Computation, and Communication in Internet of Robotic Things
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2024
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IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Volume 11, issue 20, pp. 32478-32489
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The integration of communication and radar systems could enhance the robustness of future communication systems to support advanced application demands, e.g., target sensing, data exchange, and parallel computation. In this article, we investigate the beamforming design for integrated sensing, computing, and communication (ISCC) in the Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT) scenario. Specifically, we assume that each robot uploads its preprocessed sensing information to the access point (AP). Meanwhile, leveraging the additive features of the spatial wireless channels between robots and AP, over-the-air computation (AirComp) through multirobot cooperation could bolster system performance, particularly in tasks like target localization through sensing. To get a full picture of the effects of antenna array structures and beampatterns on the ISCC system, we evaluate the performance by considering the shared and separated antenna structures, as well as the omnidirectional and directional beampatterns. Based on these setups, the nonconvex optimization problems for the performance tradeoff between sensing and AirComp are formulated to minimize the mean-squared error (MSE) of AirComp and sensing. To efficiently solve these optimization problems, we designed the gradient descent augmented Lagrangian (GDAL) algorithm, which involves dynamically adjusting the step sizes while updating the variables. Simulation results show that the separated antenna structure achieves a lower AirComp MSE than the shared antenna setup because it has greater beam steering Degrees of Freedom. Moreover, the beampattern types have almost no effect on the AirComp MSE for the given antenna structure setup. This comprehensive investigation provides useful guidelines for ISCC framework implementation in IoRT applications.Description
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Beamforming, Communication, Computation, Integrated Sensing, Internet of Robotic Things, Over-the-air Computation, computing, integrated sensing, over-the-air computation (AirComp), and communication (ISCC), Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT)
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Dong, K, Vorobyov, S A, Yu, H & Taleb, T 2024, ' Beamforming Design for Integrated Sensing, Over-the-Air Computation, and Communication in Internet of Robotic Things ', IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 11, no. 20, pp. 32478-32489 . https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2024.3433390