Abstract
Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) networks constitute a crucial paradigm for facilitating numerous advanced services in future wireless networks. This paper investigates the joint bandwidth and power allocations for device-to-device (D2D) communications aided ISAC in which D2D pairs complete their data transmissions by using the bandwidth allocated by the base station (BS) while providing sensing services for the BS. To this end, we formulate a joint optimization of bandwidth allocation and power allocations for both the target sensing and data transmission of each D2D pair, with the objective of maximizing a system-wise gain that accounts for both performances of target sensing and D2D data transmission. Despite the formulated optimization problem is strictly non-convex, we develop an efficient algorithm based on Lagrangian duality and sequential convex programming for solving it. Simulation results demonstrate that our proposed D2D communications aided ISAC is both accurate and efficient over several benchmark schemes.