3GPP-Compatible Long-Range Sensing for LEO-ISAC: A Window-Grid Processing Framework
Abstract
This paper addresses long-range sensing in bistatic low-Earth-orbit integrated sensing and communication (LEO-ISAC). Conventional OFDM sensing fails in LEO-ISAC because millisecond-scale propagation delays destroy the transmitter--receiver symbol alignment and, with multiple targets, make the receive window longer than the transmitted block. We propose a window-grid (WG) processing framework that exploits the known beam-intersection swath to resolve both problems purely at the receiver, leaving the 3GPP symbol structure unmodified: the swath delay span is folded into cyclic-prefix-sized slices, each handled by one WG. With 103.2 MHz bandwidth at bistatic ranges beyond 640 km, simulations demonstrate meter-level ranging of two targets, and 1000 Monte-Carlo trials over random target--satellite geometries show that, with an ephemeris-based satellite-selection rule, every target is detected with a 90th-percentile range error of 2.4 m.
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BibTeX
@misc{geng20263gppcompatible,
title = {{3GPP-Compatible Long-Range Sensing for LEO-ISAC: A Window-Grid Processing Framework}},
author = {Yi Geng and Xun Fan and Chenfeng Xu and Yu Zhao},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.30653},
eprint = {2609.30653},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.30653},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - 3GPP-Compatible Long-Range Sensing for LEO-ISAC: A Window-Grid Processing Framework
AU - Yi Geng
AU - Xun Fan
AU - Chenfeng Xu
AU - Yu Zhao
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/28
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.30653
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.30653
AB - This paper addresses long-range sensing in bistatic low-Earth-orbit integrated sensing and communication (LEO-ISAC). Conventional OFDM sensing fails in LEO-ISAC because millisecond-scale propagation delays destroy the transmitter--receiver symbol alignment and, with multiple targets, make the receive window longer than the transmitted block. We propose a window-grid (WG) processing framework that exploits the known beam-intersection swath to resolve both problems purely at the receiver, leaving the 3GPP symbol structure unmodified: the swath delay span is folded into cyclic-prefix-sized slices, each handled by one WG. With 103.2 MHz bandwidth at bistatic ranges beyond 640 km, simulations demonstrate meter-level ranging of two targets, and 1000 Monte-Carlo trials over random target--satellite geometries show that, with an ephemeris-based satellite-selection rule, every target is detected with a 90th-percentile range error of 2.4 m.
ER -