Movable-Antenna Array Empowered ISAC Systems for Low-Altitude Economy

This paper investigates a movable-antenna (MA) array empowered integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) over low-altitude platform (LAP) system to support low-altitude economy (LAE) applications. In the considered system, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is dispatched to hover in the air, working as the UAV-enabled LAP (ULAP) to provide information transmission and sensing simultaneously for LAE applications. To improve the throughput capacity and meet the requirement of the sensing beampattern threshold, we formulate a data rate maximization problem by jointly optimizing the transmit information and sensing beamforming, and the antenna positions of the MA array. Since the data rate maximization problem is non-convex with highly coupled variables, we propose an efficient alternation optimization based algorithm, which iteratively optimizes parts of the variables while fixing the others. Numerical results show the superiority of the proposed MA array-based scheme in terms of the achievable data rate and beamforming gain compared with two benchmark schemes.
Comment: Will be presented in IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China Workshops 2024 in Hangzhou