Multi-Antenna ISAC Receiver with n-Tuple Blind Deconvolution

Roman Jacome, Edwin Vargas, Kumar Vijay Mishra, Brian M. Sadler, Henry Arguello

Abstract: Recent developments in spectrum-sharing technologies include integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) systems to save resources, cost, and power. In this paper, we consider a co-existence topology with n-tuple radar and communications transmitters, wherein neither the transmitted signal nor the channels are known. Estimating these unknown quantities is modeled as a n-tuple blind deconvolution problem (NTBD). The receiver is considered to be a uniform linear antenna array. Thus, the channels are modeled as continuous-valued time delay, Doppler modulation, and direction of arrival (DoA). Also, harnessing the sparse nature of the channels and their continuousvalued parametrization, we propose a 3D n-tuple atomic norm minimization (NANM). Casting the NANM problem to its corresponding dual optimization problem, and employing the theory of positive trigonometric polynomial, we formulate a semidefinite program for the estimation of the unknown channel parameters. Performance guarantees of the proposed algorithm are provided in terms of the minimum number of samples required for exact recovery. Finally, numerical simulations validate our theoretical insights.