UAV-assisted full-duplex ISAC: Joint communication scheduling, beamforming, and trajectory optimization^✩,✩✩

Abstract

This paper proposes the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-assisted Full-Duplex (FD) Integrated Sensing And Communication (ISAC) system. In this system, the UAV integrates sensing and communication functions, capable of receiving transmission signals from Uplink (UL) users and echo signal from target, while communicating with Downlink (DL) users and simultaneously detecting target. With the objective of maximizing the Average Sum Rate (ASR) for both UL and DL users, a composite non-convex optimization problem is established, which is decomposed into sub-problems of communication scheduling optimization, transceiver beamforming design, and UAV trajectory optimization. An alternating iterative algorithm is proposed, employing relaxation optimization, extremum traversal search, augmented weighted minimum mean square error, and successive convex approximation methods to solve the aforementioned sub-problems. Simulation results demonstrate that, compared to the traditional UAV-assisted Half-Duplex (HD) ISAC scheme, the proposed FD ISAC scheme effectively improves the ASR.

Keywords

Integrated sensing and communication / Unmanned aerial vehicle / Full-duplex communication / Beamforming / Trajectory optimization

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