StarBOA: Real-Time Mamba State-Space Unrolling for Sparse Radar Micro-Doppler in ISAC Networks
Abstract
In Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC), radar sensing must operate under chirp subsampling with up to 90\% missing data. An attention-based baseline, limited to a 52~ms buffer, collapses toward maximum uniform entropy (H=2.584 bits) as sparsity increases, failing to capture long-range gait-cycle context. We propose StarBOA, which replaces attention with a causal Mamba state-space model that updates incrementally on a per-window basis without re-scanning past reconstructions. By maintaining a persistent state, StarBOA integrates over 100× more temporal history at no additional per-step computational cost. StarBOA outperforms the baseline's published results across all sparsity levels, with SSIM gains increasing from +0.0379 at 50\% missing data to +0.2472 at 90\%. Each window is processed in 1.53~ms with zero lookahead, demonstrating efficient causal reconstruction under extreme chirp subsampling.
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BibTeX
@misc{celik2026starboa,
title = {{StarBOA: Real-Time Mamba State-Space Unrolling for Sparse Radar Micro-Doppler in ISAC Networks}},
author = {Mustafa Bora Çelik and Ceren Çelik and Orhan Gazi},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.33408},
eprint = {2609.33408},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.33408},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - StarBOA: Real-Time Mamba State-Space Unrolling for Sparse Radar Micro-Doppler in ISAC Networks
AU - Mustafa Bora Çelik
AU - Ceren Çelik
AU - Orhan Gazi
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/27
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.33408
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.33408
AB - In Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC), radar sensing must operate under chirp subsampling with up to 90\% missing data. An attention-based baseline, limited to a 52~ms buffer, collapses toward maximum uniform entropy (H=2.584 bits) as sparsity increases, failing to capture long-range gait-cycle context. We propose StarBOA, which replaces attention with a causal Mamba state-space model that updates incrementally on a per-window basis without re-scanning past reconstructions. By maintaining a persistent state, StarBOA integrates over 100× more temporal history at no additional per-step computational cost. StarBOA outperforms the baseline's published results across all sparsity levels, with SSIM gains increasing from +0.0379 at 50\% missing data to +0.2472 at 90\%. Each window is processed in 1.53~ms with zero lookahead, demonstrating efficient causal reconstruction under extreme chirp subsampling.
ER -