Performance Analysis of Sub-band Full-duplex Cell-free Massive MIMO JCAS Systems

TL;DR

This paper proposes a sub-band full-duplex scheme for cell-free massive MIMO systems to enable simultaneous uplink communication and radar sensing, effectively reducing mutual interference and improving parameter estimation accuracy.

Contribution

It introduces a novel sub-band full-duplex architecture for cell-free massive MIMO JCAS systems, enabling concurrent communication and sensing on separate frequency sub-bands.

Findings

High accuracy in sensing parameter estimation at each AP

Effective suppression of inter-sub-band interference

Simultaneous uplink communication and radar sensing achieved

Abstract

In-band Full-duplex joint communication and sensing systems require self interference cancellation as well as decoupling of the mutual interference between UL communication signals and radar echoes. We present sub-band full-duplex as an alternative duplexing scheme to achieve simultaneous uplink communication and target parameter estimation in a cell-free massive MIMO system. Sub-band full-duplex allows uplink and downlink transmissions simultaneously on non-overlapping frequency resources via explicitly defined uplink and downlink sub-bands in each timeslot. Thus, we propose a sub-band full-duplex cell-free massive MIMO system with active downlink sensing on downlink sub-bands and uplink communication on uplink sub-band. In the proposed system, the target illumination signal is transmitted on the downlink (radar) sub-band whereas uplink users transmit on the uplink (communication) sub-band. By assuming efficient suppression of inter-sub-band interference between radar and communication sub-bands, uplink communication and radar signals can be efficiently processed without mutual interference. We show that each AP can estimate sensing parameters with high accuracy in SBFD cell-free massive MIMO JCAS systems.