OFDM Based Bistatic Integrated Sensing and Communication: Sensing Beyond CP Limit

Abstract: This work investigates a bistatic OFDM-based integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system under a single-target scenario, considering both line-of-sight (LOS) presence and LOS blockage cases. A sliding window-based sensing receiver architecture is proposed to extend the intersymbol interference (ISI)-free sensing range beyond the cyclic prefix (CP) duration by exploiting pilot symbols embedded in the time-frequency grid. The performance of the proposed receiver is evaluated in terms of range and velocity estimation accuracy and is compared against the Cramer-Rao bounds (CRBs) for the bi-static ISAC setting. Numerical results confirm that the proposed method achieves estimation performance that closely approaches the CRBs in the high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime.