Flowing the Information from Shannon to Fisher: Towards the Fundamental Tradeoff in ISAC

04/14/2022
by   Yifeng Xiong, et al.
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Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) is recognized as a promising technology for the next-generation wireless networks. In this paper, we provide a general framework to reveal the fundamental tradeoff between sensing and communications (S C), where a unified ISAC waveform is exploited to perform dual-functional tasks. In particular, we define the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB)-rate region to characterize the S C tradeoff, and propose a pentagon inner bound of the region. We show that the two corner points of the CRB-rate region can be achieved by the conventional Gaussian waveform and a novel strategy referred to as successive hypersphere coding, respectively. Moreover, we also offer our insights into transmission approaches achieving the boundary of the CRB-rate region, namely the Shannon-Fisher information flow.

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