Towards 6G: Spectrally efficient joint radar and communication with radio frequency selection, interference and hardware impairments (invited paper)

Abstract The joint radar‐communication (JRC) system is envisioned as an emerging sixth generation (6G) technology to tackle spectral congestion and hardware limitations by jointly implementing the communication and radar sensing on the same hardware platform and using the common radio frequency (RF)...

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Main Authors: Aryan Kaushik, Evangelos Vlachos, John Thompson, Maziar Nekovee, Fraser Coutts
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2022-09-01
Series:IET Signal Processing
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1049/sil2.12131
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Evangelos Vlachos
John Thompson
Maziar Nekovee
Fraser Coutts
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description Abstract The joint radar‐communication (JRC) system is envisioned as an emerging sixth generation (6G) technology to tackle spectral congestion and hardware limitations by jointly implementing the communication and radar sensing on the same hardware platform and using the common radio frequency (RF) resources. Joint radar‐communication systems with a multi‐antenna setup leads to higher degrees of freedom, and hybrid beamforming can be exploited to achieve lower hardware complexity than conventional fully digital systems. This paper aims to design a spectral efficiency maximisation approach for a 6G inclined JRC system with hybrid beamforming and multi‐antenna setup while considering the interference between communication and radar operations and hardware impairments in the system. The rate expressions for communication and radar operations are defined, and the joint spectral efficiency is maximised via optimising the number of RF chains using an efficient selection algorithm taking into account the interference of one operation to the other and system hardware distortion. The simulation results are shown to support the effectiveness of the proposed approach, and they are compared with that of existing fully digital and hybrid beamforming based baseline methods with fixed number of RF chains. The proposed approach also exhibits a desirable communication‐radar trade‐off in terms of spectral efficiency gains.
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spelling doaj-art-d7ebda9ab86d4977b575b263a1ab6ff82025-02-03T01:29:37ZengWileyIET Signal Processing1751-96751751-96832022-09-0116785186310.1049/sil2.12131Towards 6G: Spectrally efficient joint radar and communication with radio frequency selection, interference and hardware impairments (invited paper)Aryan Kaushik0Evangelos Vlachos1John Thompson2Maziar Nekovee3Fraser Coutts46G Lab School of Engineering and Informatics University of Sussex Brighton UKIndustrial Systems Institute Athena Research and Innovation Centre Marousi GreeceInstitute for Digital Communications The University of Edinburgh Edinburgh UK6G Lab School of Engineering and Informatics University of Sussex Brighton UKInstitute for Digital Communications The University of Edinburgh Edinburgh UKAbstract The joint radar‐communication (JRC) system is envisioned as an emerging sixth generation (6G) technology to tackle spectral congestion and hardware limitations by jointly implementing the communication and radar sensing on the same hardware platform and using the common radio frequency (RF) resources. Joint radar‐communication systems with a multi‐antenna setup leads to higher degrees of freedom, and hybrid beamforming can be exploited to achieve lower hardware complexity than conventional fully digital systems. This paper aims to design a spectral efficiency maximisation approach for a 6G inclined JRC system with hybrid beamforming and multi‐antenna setup while considering the interference between communication and radar operations and hardware impairments in the system. The rate expressions for communication and radar operations are defined, and the joint spectral efficiency is maximised via optimising the number of RF chains using an efficient selection algorithm taking into account the interference of one operation to the other and system hardware distortion. The simulation results are shown to support the effectiveness of the proposed approach, and they are compared with that of existing fully digital and hybrid beamforming based baseline methods with fixed number of RF chains. The proposed approach also exhibits a desirable communication‐radar trade‐off in terms of spectral efficiency gains.https://doi.org/10.1049/sil2.121315G mobile communicationMIMO communicationMIMO radarprecoding
spellingShingle Aryan Kaushik
Evangelos Vlachos
John Thompson
Maziar Nekovee
Fraser Coutts
Towards 6G: Spectrally efficient joint radar and communication with radio frequency selection, interference and hardware impairments (invited paper)
IET Signal Processing
5G mobile communication
MIMO communication
MIMO radar
precoding
title Towards 6G: Spectrally efficient joint radar and communication with radio frequency selection, interference and hardware impairments (invited paper)
title_full Towards 6G: Spectrally efficient joint radar and communication with radio frequency selection, interference and hardware impairments (invited paper)
title_fullStr Towards 6G: Spectrally efficient joint radar and communication with radio frequency selection, interference and hardware impairments (invited paper)
title_full_unstemmed Towards 6G: Spectrally efficient joint radar and communication with radio frequency selection, interference and hardware impairments (invited paper)
title_short Towards 6G: Spectrally efficient joint radar and communication with radio frequency selection, interference and hardware impairments (invited paper)
title_sort towards 6g spectrally efficient joint radar and communication with radio frequency selection interference and hardware impairments invited paper
topic 5G mobile communication
MIMO communication
MIMO radar
precoding
url https://doi.org/10.1049/sil2.12131
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