Integrated Sensing, Communications, and Powering for Statistical-QoS Provisioning Over 6G Massive-MIMO Mobile Networks Using FBC

To satisfy the stringent quality-of-service (QoS) requirements of 6G mobile wireless networks on both channel state estimations and information transmissions, the integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has been an enabling technique to sense and communicate by sharing the same frequency band and hardware. Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) has also emerged to simultaneously deliver information and energy to a receiver. However, how to integrate ISAC with SWIPT to support the 6G traffic has imposed many new challenges not encountered before. To conquer these difficulties, in this paper we propose an integrated sensing, communications, and powering (ISACP) scheme for supporting statistical-QoS provisioning over 6G wireless networks using massive multiple-input and multiple-output (massive MIMO) communications. First, we establish system models for our ISACP scheme and define the Cramér-Rao bound and channel estimation distortion under our proposed ISACP scheme. Second, we develop the performance metrics of Cramér-Rao bound and channel estimation distortion to derive the capacity-distortion function to jointly measure the performance of integrated sensing, communication, and powering. Third, we integrate the capacity-distortion function with the finite blocklength coding (FBC) through deriving the ISACP-based ϵ-effective capacity to support the statistical delay and error-rate bounded QoS provisioning in 6G. Fourth, we maximize the energy-efficiency by controlling the optimal wireless power transfer for our ISACP scheme. Finally, we use numerical analyses to validate and evaluate our proposed ISACP scheme.