Goal-oriented Resource Allocation for Collaborative Integrated Sensing and Communication

Maxime Ferreira Da Costa (L2S); Nguyen Linh Trung (VNU-UET); Salah Eddine Elayoubi (L2S); Trong Duy Tran (L2S; VNU-UET)

arxiv: 2604.16556 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-17 · 📡 eess.SY · cs.SY· eess.SP

Goal-oriented Resource Allocation for Collaborative Integrated Sensing and Communication

Trong Duy Tran (L2S , VNU-UET) , Maxime Ferreira Da Costa (L2S) , Salah Eddine Elayoubi (L2S) , Nguyen Linh Trung (VNU-UET) This is my paper

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The paper develops independent and joint scheduling policies for collaborative ISAC that maximize discriminant gain for classification while respecting energy and eMBB constraints, outperforming baselines especially when devices are correlated.

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In this collaborative ISAC setup, distributed devices perform sensing and transmit extracted features to a central fusion center that classifies the surrounding environment. The work focuses on scheduling which devices do sensing and communication to balance sensing quality against traditional mobile broadband traffic. It introduces a discriminant gain metric as a practical stand-in for how well the collected features support accurate classification. Two scheduling approaches are formulated: an independent policy that handles sensing and communication separately, and a joint policy that optimizes them together. Both are solved using successive convex approximation techniques. To make the more complex joint policy feasible, a simplified gain model is introduced. Experiments use both synthetic data and realistic radar simulations to compare against baseline methods. Results indicate the proposed policies achieve higher discriminant gain under energy limits and communication quality requirements. The joint approach shows particular advantage when sensing features from different devices are correlated and when communication constraints are tight.

Core claim

The joint scheduling policy can exploit device correlations and thus performs better than the independent scheduling policy under strong correlations and strict communication constraints.

Load-bearing premise

That the discriminant gain serves as a reliable and tractable proxy for actual classification performance, and that the proposed simplified gain model accurately captures the joint policy behavior without significant loss of optimality.

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**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Classification performance with MATLAB FMCW [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_6.png] view at source ↗

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In this paper, we consider resource allocation for a collaborative integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) scenario, in which distributed smart devices can be scheduled to perform sensing and transmit their sensing features to a fusion center. The fusion center aims to perform classification tasks on the environment based on received features. A scalable networksensing framework is proposed to balance the performance of the sensing service with that of the classical enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) service. We adopt a tractable theoretical metric, the discriminant gain, as a proxy for the classification goal. We formulate cross-layer optimization problems to maximize discriminant gain under constraints on energy consumption and eMBB communication quality for the independent and joint scheduling policies. The joint scheduling policy has considerably higher complexity than the independent scheduling policy, in exchange for better collaborative sensing performance. A simplified gain model is proposed to reduce the complexity and practicality of the joint scheduling policy. Both policies are obtained via successive convex approximation and parametric convex optimization. Extensive experiments are conducted to verify the goal-oriented framework and the two policies. It is demonstrated that the two policies outperform the baseline policies with both synthetic and realistic radar simulation datasets. The joint scheduling policy can exploit device correlations and thus performs better than the independent scheduling policy under strong correlations and strict communication constraints.

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The paper gives concrete independent and joint scheduling policies for collaborative ISAC via discriminant gain maximization, but measures everything in the proxy without checking real classification accuracy.

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The one thing to know is that this paper sets up independent and joint scheduling policies for collaborative ISAC to maximize a discriminant gain proxy under communication constraints, with the joint version handling correlations better via a simplified model. It does a clean job applying successive convex approximation to these cross-layer problems and runs experiments on both synthetic data and radar simulations to show gains over baselines. The simplified gain model for the joint policy is a practical addition that reduces complexity without, they claim, much loss. The formulation appears standard but the extension to goal-oriented collaborative sensing with device correlations is the incremental step forward. Experiments are mentioned as extensive, which is good to see in this area. Where it is thinner is on validating the proxy. The central results are all in terms of discriminant gain, with no reported checks against actual classification accuracy or error rates on the same setups. If the gain does not reliably predict real performance when features are correlated, then the advantage claimed for the joint policy over independent one under strong correlations may not carry through. That is the main soft spot, and it is not minor for the paper's claims. This is aimed at people working on ISAC resource allocation and 6G sensing-comms integration. It has enough concrete optimization and data to be worth referee time, though the validation gap should be addressed. I would bring it to a reading group on wireless optimization topics.

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