Model-Driven Sensing-Node Selection and Power Allocation for Tracking Maneuvering Targets in Perceptive Mobile Networks

Maneuvering target tracking is an important service of future wireless networks to assist innovative applications such as intelligent transportation. However, tracking maneuvering targets by cellular networks faces many challenges. In particular, the dense network and high-speed targets make the selection of the sensing nodes (SNs) and the associated power allocation very challenging. Existing methods demonstrated engaging performance, but with high computational complexity. In this paper, we propose a model-driven deep learning (DL)-based approach for SN selection. To this end, we first propose an iterative SN selection method by jointly exploiting the majorization-minimization (MM) framework and the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM). Then, we unfold the iterative algorithm as a deep neural network and prove its convergence. The proposed method achieves lower computational complexity, as the number of layers is less than the number of iterations required by the original algorithm, and each layer only involves simple matrix-vector additions/multiplications. Finally, we propose an efficient power allocation method based on fixed point (FP) water filling and solve the joint SN selection and power allocation problem under the alternative optimization framework. Simulation results show that the proposed method achieves better performance than conventional optimization-based algorithms with much lower computational complexity.