Semi-Integrated-Sensing-and-Communication (Semi-ISaC) Networks Assisted by NOMA

TL;DR

This paper proposes a semi-integrated sensing and communication network using NOMA, which improves spectrum efficiency by allocating part of the bandwidth exclusively for wireless communications, and analyzes its performance.

Contribution

It introduces a semi-ISaC framework with NOMA, deriving analytical expressions for outage probability and radar estimation rate, and demonstrates improved spectrum efficiency and radar performance.

Findings

NOMA semi-ISaC outperforms conventional ISaC in spectrum efficiency.

Increasing pulse density enhances radar estimation information rate.

Analytical expressions for outage probability and REIR are derived.

Abstract

This paper investigates non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) assisted integrated sensing and communication (ISaC) networks. Compared to the conventional ISaC networks, where the total bandwidth is used for both the radar detection and wireless communications, the proposed Semi-ISaC networks allow that a portion of bandwidth is used for ISaC and the rest of the bandwidth is only utilized for wireless communications. We first derive the analytical expressions of the outage probability for the communication signals, including the signals for the radar target and the communication transmitter. Additionally, we derive the analytical expressions of the ergodic radar estimation information rate (REIR) for the radar echoes. The simulation results show that 1) NOMA ISaC has better spectrum efficiency than the conventional ISaC; and 2) The REIR is enhanced when we enlarge the density of pulses.