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Resource Allocation and AoI-Aware Detection for ISAC with Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces

Elaheh Ataeebojd, Joonhyuk Kang, Markku Juntti, Matti Latva-aho, Mehdi Rasti, Nhan Thanh Nguyen, Seonghoon Yoo

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keywords integrated sensing and communicationstacked intelligent metasurfacesenergy efficiencyresource allocationpuncturingeMBBURLLCphase shift optimization
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The pith

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces enable up to 230 percent higher energy efficiency in integrated sensing and communication systems while using fewer transmit antennas.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper develops a resource allocation method for a downlink multi-user ISAC setup that uses stacked intelligent metasurfaces to handle both communication and sensing. It supports mixed eMBB and URLLC traffic through puncturing, which creates separate time scales for optimization. The approach decomposes the joint energy efficiency maximization into subproblems solved iteratively, with convex updates for resource block allocation and power control plus efficient phase shift adjustments. A reader would care if this holds because it points to base stations that can deliver high-speed data, low-latency services, and target sensing at much lower energy cost and with simpler hardware than conventional designs. Simulations confirm the efficiency gains and the ability to meet all quality requirements.

Core claim

The authors claim that exploiting the two-timescale structure created by puncturing allows decomposition of the original non-convex EE maximization into an eMBB subproblem per time slot and a URLLC-plus-sensing subproblem per mini-slot. Each subproblem is solved iteratively by converting it into a sequence of convex resource and power updates together with low-complexity SIM phase shift updates. The resulting design satisfies communication and sensing QoS constraints, delivers up to 230 percent EE improvement over a no-SIM baseline, and operates with far fewer transmit antennas than standard base station architectures.

What carries the argument

The two-timescale decomposition induced by puncturing, which separates eMBB resource optimization from URLLC and sensing optimization, combined with iterative convex approximations for RB allocation, power control, and SIM phase shifts.

If this is right

  • The design achieves up to 230 percent improvement in energy efficiency over a no-SIM baseline.
  • It requires significantly fewer transmit antennas than conventional base station architectures while preserving the achieved energy efficiency and satisfying all communication and sensing QoS requirements.
  • Fundamental trade-offs exist between energy efficiency and the heterogeneous QoS requirements across communication and sensing functionalities.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Such SIM-based systems could lower overall power consumption in future networks that combine sensing with both broadband and low-latency traffic.
  • The puncturing decomposition technique may extend to other wireless problems that mix services with different latency and reliability demands.
  • Reduced antenna counts could translate to lower hardware cost and simpler deployment for integrated sensing and communication.

Load-bearing premise

The two-timescale decomposition induced by puncturing allows independent optimization of the subproblems without significant loss of global optimality or violation of the original joint constraints.

What would settle it

Run the proposed iterative algorithm and a full joint non-convex solver on the same small-scale network instance and measure whether the decomposed solution achieves at least 200 percent of the no-SIM baseline EE without violating any QoS constraint.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.03558 by Elaheh Ataeebojd, Joonhyuk Kang, Markku Juntti, Matti Latva-aho, Mehdi Rasti, Nhan Thanh Nguyen, Seonghoon Yoo.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Illustration of the proposed SIM-enabled ISAC with view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Convergence of the proposed algorithm. 1 2 3 4 5 6 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 2 3 4 5 6 0 4 8 12 94 % 240 % view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: EE versus the number of users per service. view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: EE versus the sensing beampattern threshold. view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: EE versus the arrival rate of URLLC users. view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: EE versus maximum transmit power. 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 0 3 6 9 12 view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: EE versus the number of RBs. in EE. Additionally, increasing the number of meta-atoms M in the SIM improves beamforming capability, allowing more users to be served efficiently and shifting the optimal EE point to a higher number of users. C. Impact of Service Requirements Next, we investigate the impact of different system parame￾ters on the performance of the proposed algorithm. In addition, to evaluate … view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Comparison of the SIM architecture and the conven view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Trade-off between EE and average backlogs of view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Average AoI of targets versus V . In view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) provide wave-domain degrees of freedom that can empower integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) through flexible beampattern synthesis and interference management, while reducing hardware cost. In this paper, we investigate energy-efficient resource allocation for a downlink SIM-aided multi-user ISAC system that supports the coexistence of enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) and ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC) via puncturing, while simultaneously illuminating sensing targets. We formulate an energy efficiency (EE) maximization problem that jointly optimizes resource block (RB) allocation, transmit power control, and SIM phase shifts. The formulated problem is highly challenging due to the large number of variables optimized on different time scales. To overcome this, we leverage the intrinsic two-timescale structure induced by the puncturing approach to decompose the original problem into two tractable subproblems: EE maximization for eMBB users in each time slot and EE maximization for URLLC users and sensing targets in each mini-slot. To address each subproblem, we develop an iterative algorithm that transforms the original non-convex formulation into a sequence of tractable subproblems, yielding convex updates for RB allocation and power control, along with low-complexity updates for SIM phase shifts. Simulation results show that the proposed design achieves up to 230% improvement in EE over a No-SIM baseline. In addition, it requires significantly fewer transmit antennas than conventional BS architectures, while preserving the EE achieved and satisfying the communication and sensing quality of service (QoS) requirements. Moreover, the results reveal fundamental trade-offs between EE and heterogeneous QoS requirements across communication and sensing functionalities.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript investigates energy-efficient resource allocation in a stacked intelligent metasurface (SIM)-aided integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system supporting eMBB and URLLC via puncturing while illuminating sensing targets. It formulates a joint EE maximization problem over RB allocation, transmit power, and SIM phase shifts, decomposes it into two tractable subproblems exploiting the two-timescale structure induced by puncturing, and develops an iterative algorithm providing convex updates for RB/power and low-complexity updates for phases. Simulations claim up to 230% EE gain over a No-SIM baseline, fewer required transmit antennas, and satisfaction of heterogeneous QoS while revealing EE-QoS trade-offs.

Significance. If the decomposition is shown to preserve feasibility and incur bounded optimality loss, and if the simulation results are reproducible with full parameter disclosure, the work would usefully illustrate how SIMs enable hardware-efficient ISAC under mixed traffic, with concrete EE gains and antenna reduction. The two-timescale split is a natural and potentially impactful modeling choice for punctured systems.

major comments (3)
  1. [Algorithm section (iterative updates for subproblems)] The iterative algorithm is described as transforming the non-convex problem into a sequence of tractable (convex) subproblems, yet no convergence proof, monotonicity argument, or duality-gap bound is supplied for either subproblem. This is load-bearing because the reported 230% EE improvement rests on the quality of the obtained solutions.
  2. [Simulation results section] Simulation results report up to 230% EE improvement and antenna reduction, but provide neither error bars nor the number of Monte-Carlo realizations, nor any description of the channel models, noise variances, path-loss exponents, or exact configuration of the No-SIM baseline. Without these, the quantitative claims cannot be assessed or reproduced.
  3. [Problem formulation and decomposition (puncturing-induced split)] The two-timescale decomposition assumes that independent per-slot eMBB and per-mini-slot URLLC+sensing optimizations incur negligible loss of global optimality and do not violate the original joint constraints (total power, sensing illumination, cross-slot URLLC latency). No approximation ratio, small-instance comparison against a joint solver, or feasibility-recovery mechanism is given.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Title and abstract] The title refers to 'AoI-Aware Detection' but neither the abstract nor the described contributions mention Age of Information; this mismatch should be resolved or the title adjusted.
  2. [System model and problem formulation] Ensure every variable and parameter appearing in the optimization problems is defined at first use, including the precise definition of the puncturing pattern and the mini-slot duration.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

3 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed comments. We address each major comment below, indicating the revisions we will incorporate to strengthen the manuscript.

read point-by-point responses

  1. Referee: [Algorithm section (iterative updates for subproblems)] The iterative algorithm is described as transforming the non-convex problem into a sequence of tractable (convex) subproblems, yet no convergence proof, monotonicity argument, or duality-gap bound is supplied for either subproblem. This is load-bearing because the reported 230% EE improvement rests on the quality of the obtained solutions.

    Authors: We agree that a formal convergence analysis is necessary to support the reported performance gains. In the revised manuscript, we will add a new subsection in the algorithm section that proves convergence by establishing that each subproblem is solved to global optimality (via convex solvers for RB/power and closed-form phase updates), that the overall objective is monotonically non-decreasing after each iteration, and that it is upper-bounded, hence converges to a stationary point. We will also include duality-gap bounds for the convex relaxations and numerical convergence curves from the simulations. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Simulation results section] Simulation results report up to 230% EE improvement and antenna reduction, but provide neither error bars nor the number of Monte-Carlo realizations, nor any description of the channel models, noise variances, path-loss exponents, or exact configuration of the No-SIM baseline. Without these, the quantitative claims cannot be assessed or reproduced.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the simulation section requires additional details for full reproducibility and assessment. In the revision, we will expand this section to specify: (i) the number of Monte-Carlo realizations (1000 independent runs), (ii) error bars representing one standard deviation in all figures, (iii) complete channel model parameters including path-loss exponents, noise variances, Rician factors, and spatial correlation models, and (iv) the precise No-SIM baseline configuration, including antenna count, power allocation method, and phase-shift handling. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Problem formulation and decomposition (puncturing-induced split)] The two-timescale decomposition assumes that independent per-slot eMBB and per-mini-slot URLLC+sensing optimizations incur negligible loss of global optimality and do not violate the original joint constraints (total power, sensing illumination, cross-slot URLLC latency). No approximation ratio, small-instance comparison against a joint solver, or feasibility-recovery mechanism is given.

    Authors: The decomposition follows directly from the puncturing structure, where eMBB and URLLC+sensing operate on distinct time scales, allowing separate optimization while the total power budget is enforced per slot and sensing illumination is confined to the mini-slot subproblem; cross-slot URLLC latency is handled via the puncturing pattern itself. We recognize that a theoretical approximation ratio is difficult to derive analytically. In the revision, we will add a discussion of feasibility preservation and include numerical comparisons against a joint solver on small-scale instances to quantify any optimality gap, along with a simple feasibility-recovery step if needed. revision: partial

Circularity Check

0 steps flagged

No significant circularity; derivation is self-contained from standard models

full rationale

The paper formulates a standard EE maximization problem over RB allocation, power, and SIM phases for an ISAC system with puncturing-induced timescales. The decomposition into per-slot eMBB and per-mini-slot URLLC+sensing subproblems follows directly from the modeling choice of puncturing rather than from any fitted parameter or self-referential definition. The iterative convexification algorithm applies standard successive approximation techniques without load-bearing self-citations or uniqueness theorems imported from prior author work. Simulation-reported gains (e.g., 230% EE) are empirical outcomes, not quantities forced by construction to equal the inputs. No step reduces the claimed result to a tautology or renamed known pattern.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

Review performed on abstract only; full manuscript details on system model, channel assumptions, and exact optimization constraints are unavailable. Consequently the ledger is populated at the coarsest level consistent with the abstract.

axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Standard far-field channel models and perfect CSI for SIM phase-shift design hold.
    Implicit in any metasurface beamforming formulation; location not specified because abstract only.
  • ad hoc to paper Puncturing creates a clean two-timescale separation without cross-subproblem coupling that would invalidate independent optimization.
    Central to the decomposition step described in the abstract.

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