Integrated Sensing and Communications for Statistical-QoS Provisioning over 6G M-MIMO Mobile Networks Using FBC

Since the 6G mobile wireless networks require the high-performances on both channel state estimations and information transmissions, the technique of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has attracted considerable research attention due to its ability to sense and communicate by sharing the same frequency band and hardware. However, how to jointly optimize the sensing and communication functions of the ISAC to support the 6G traffic transmissions over a time-varying wireless fading channel has imposed many new challenges not encountered before. To conquer these difficulties, in this paper we propose the ISAC scheme to jointly sense the channel state and transmit the wireless-streaming data using massive multiple-input and multiple-output (massive MIMO) communications over the Rician fading channel. First, we establish the system models for the ISAC scheme under the Rician fading wireless channel and the channel state estimation scheme using the radar sensing feedback. Second, we define the channel state estimation distortion and the capacity-distortion function of a massive MIMO channel to jointly measure the performances of sensing and communication in our ISAC scheme. Third, we integrate the capacity-distortion function with the finite blocklength coding (FBC) scheme by developing the concept of the ISAC-based E-effective capacity to implement the statistical delay and error-rate bounded provisioning for supporting the 6G traffic under our ISAC scheme. Finally, we use numerical analyses to validate and evaluate our proposed ISAC scheme with massive MIMO in the non-asymptotic regime.