Joint Maneuver and Beamforming Design for UAV-Enabled Integrated Sensing and Communication

This paper studies the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), in which UAVs are dispatched as aerial dual-functional access points (APs) that can exploit the UAV maneuver control and strong line-of-sight (LoS) air-to-ground (A2G) links for efficient communication and sensing. In particular, we consider that one UAV-AP, equipped with a vertically placed uniform linear array (ULA), sends combined information and sensing signals to communicate with multiple users and at the same time sense potential targets at interested areas on the ground. Under this setup, we consider two scenarios with quasi-stationary and fully mobile UAVs, in which the UAV is deployed at an…

• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Awards: U2001208, 61871137, 62001310
• GS
  Guangdong Science and Technology Department

  Award: 2021A0505030002
• SF
  Shenzhen Fundamental Research Program

  Award: 20210318123512002
• NK
  National Key Research and Development Program of China

  Award: 2018YFB1800800
• BA
  Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong Province

  Award: 2022A1515010109