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ISAC-Assisted Proactive Handover in mmWave Networks: Value of Foresight and Localization Requirements
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Millimeter-wave (mmWave) links can lose tens of decibels within milliseconds when a person or vehicle crosses the line of sight, and reactive handover recovers only after the outage has begun. Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) promises to let the network see blockers coming and move users to another cell in advance. This paper asks how much such foresight is worth relative to the best reactive handover, and what sensing accuracy is needed to harvest it. We formulate cost-aware cell selection with knowledge of the future signal-to- noise ratio as a sequential decision problem, define the value of foresight through a policy-independent bound, and develop an ISAC-assisted handover framework in which a radio unit senses blockers with its own communication waveform and a simulated Open RAN xApp plans handovers. Ray-traced experiments in a 28 GHz street canyon, reported on held-out scenarios, show that, with a short look-ahead, perfect foresight closes most of the gap between service-aware (Layer-3) reactive handover and an instantaneous oracle. Harvesting this value, however, requires the user and nearby blockers to be localized to about a decimeter, well beyond what our radar tracker and meter- level user positioning provide; with realistic errors, even an uncertainty-aware planner largely defers to reactive handover.
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ISAC-Assisted Proactive Handover in mmWave Networks: Value of Foresight and Localization Requirements
Millimeter-wave (mmWave) links can lose tens of decibels within milliseconds when a person or vehicle crosses the line of sight, and reactive handover recovers only after the outage has begun. Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) promises to let the network see blockers coming and move users to another cell in advance. This paper asks how much such foresight is worth relative to the best reactive handover, and what sensing accuracy is needed to harvest it. We formulate cost-aware cell selection with knowledge of the future signal-to- noise ratio as a sequential decision problem, define the value of foresight through a policy-independent bound, and develop an ISAC-assisted handover framework in which a radio unit senses blockers with its own communication waveform and a simulated Open RAN xApp plans handovers. Ray-traced experiments in a 28 GHz street canyon, reported on held-out scenarios, show that, with a short look-ahead, perfect foresight closes most of the gap between service-aware (Layer-3) reactive handover and an instantaneous oracle. Harvesting this value, however, requires the user and nearby blockers to be localized to about a decimeter, well beyond what our radar tracker and meter- level user positioning provide; with realistic errors, even an uncertainty-aware planner largely defers to reactive handover.
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ISAC-Assisted Proactive Handover in mmWave Networks: Value of Foresight and Localization Requirements
Millimeter-wave (mmWave) links can lose tens of decibels within milliseconds when a person or vehicle crosses the line of sight, and reactive handover recovers only after the outage has begun. Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) promises to let the network see blockers coming and move users to another cell in advance. This paper asks how much such foresight is worth relative to the best reactive handover, and what sensing accuracy is needed to harvest it. We formulate cost-aware cell selection with knowledge of the future signal-to- noise ratio as a sequential decision problem, define the value of foresight through a policy-independent bound, and develop an ISAC-assisted handover framework in which a radio unit senses blockers with its own communication waveform and a simulated Open RAN xApp plans handovers. Ray-traced experiments in a 28 GHz street canyon, reported on held-out scenarios, show that, with a short look-ahead, perfect foresight closes most of the gap between service-aware (Layer-3) reactive handover and an instantaneous oracle. Harvesting this value, however, requires the user and nearby blockers to be localized to about a decimeter, well beyond what our radar tracker and meter- level user positioning provide; with realistic errors, even an uncertainty-aware planner largely defers to reactive handover.
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