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Gangyong Zhu

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Grey-Box Bayesian Optimization for ISAC in Fluid-Antenna Assisted Air-Ground Network

Fluid antenna systems (FAS) provide additional spatial diversity for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) through joint port selection and precoding. \rev{However, existing designs commonly assume readily available channel state information, neglect residual self-interference, and combine communication and sensing into a single weighted objective. The resulting channel acquisition overhead, unmodeled residual self-interference, and limited characterization of the Pareto trade-off are critical obstacles to implementing ISAC in fluid-antenna-assisted air-ground networks.} \rev{To address these issues, we first formulate the joint design as a grey-box multi-objective optimization problem. This formulation retains the available analytical system mapping while treating the configuration-dependent channel and interference constituents as unknown, and directly represents the communication-sensing Pareto trade-off without predefined scalarization.} We then propose a tailored grey-box multi-objective Bayesian optimization (G-MOBO) method to solve the resulting high-dimensional problem. Specifically, G-MOBO learns the unknown constituents from performance feedback, propagates their predictive distributions through the known mapping, employs expected hypervolume improvement (EHI) to explore the Pareto frontier, and uses an adaptive trust region (TR) to localize the search. A temporal adaptation strategy is further incorporated to track the drifting Pareto frontier in time-varying environments. \rev{The theoretical analysis characterizes the sample efficiency of grey-box modeling and localized TR design via cumulative hypervolume regret.} Simulations demonstrate faster convergence, improved Pareto-frontier quality, and robust dynamic tracking compared with the considered baselines.

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Toward Service-Balanced ISAC: From Coupled RAN to De-Coupled RAN

Sixth-generation (6G) applications require radio access networks (RANs) to support reliable communication and seamless sensing across their operating regions. In coupled RAN deployments, shared downlink transmitting and uplink receiving sites constrain the network's ability to accommodate asymmetric links and different sensing geometries. De-Coupled RAN (DC-RAN) separates these functions, allowing independently deployed and coordinated base stations to extend uplink and downlink communication and sensing coverage. How this flexibility translates into balanced communication and sensing services, however, remains insufficiently explored. This article revisits the evolution from coupled to DC-RAN from the perspective of service-balanced integrated sensing and communication (ISAC). It examines how architectural choices affect the availability of both services, with communication-sensing coverage symmetry capturing their spatial alignment under application-specific quality requirements. Practical challenges include preserving communication consistency, maintaining sensing continuity, and coordinating distributed resources. Two case studies illustrate how DC-RAN can support coverage symmetry alongside consistent communication, and how complementary observations can sustain continuous and accurate sensing. These examples inform a discussion of future research toward service-balanced ISAC.

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Stay or Switch: Online Conformal Bayesian Optimization Guided Fluid Antenna Configuration

Fluid antenna systems (FAS) introduce additional spatial degrees of freedom to enable integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) in air-ground networks. However, conventional studies often overlook or simplify the physical overheads and switching costs of FAS. In practice, port switching incurs non-negligible time, during which communication and sensing may continue but with potentially degraded slot-level performance. This leads to two key challenges: (1) the characterization of a slot-level, cost-aware ISAC metric is difficult, and (2) the large port space and accompanying abrupt environmental variations demand more reliable online decision-making. To address these challenges, a cost-aware multi-objective FAS switching problem is formulated, jointly considering slot-level ISAC performance and switching energy. The online conformal Bayesian optimization (OCBO) algorithm is then proposed to learn the unknown gray-box ISAC objectives and calibrate surrogate uncertainty for robust stay-or-switch decisions. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed cost-aware optimization framework achieves substantially improved long-term ISAC performance compared to existing baselines.

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