Multi-User Maritime Integrated Sensing and Communication Shipboard Base Station Deployment Optimization

This research delves into an Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) system, which leverages a ship-based station to simultaneously offer maritime communication services and perform target detection. Through the establishment of a channel model that captures the complexities of the maritime environment and the analysis of the dynamic behavior of the ship-based station, the paper introduces a unified signal processing framework for this ISAC system. This framework is tailored for various ship movement patterns through the integration of alternating optimization coupled with trust-region-based sequential convex approximation (SCA) techniques, with the goal of maximize the communication data rate without compromising the sensing performance. Simulation results corroborate the validity of the proposed model, laying a theoretical foundation for the advancement of maritime communication and perception systems, thereby anticipating enhanced support for future generations of integrated maritime applications.