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Instead of using macrosites at both the transmitter and receiver sides, microsites are considered as receivers in cooperative sensing. This system is important since microsites can be deployed more flexibly to reduce their distances to the sensing objects, providing better coverage for sensing service. In this work, we first analyze the deployment problem of microsites, which can be deployed along the radius and azimuth angle to cover macrosite cells. The coverage area of each microsite is derived in terms of its position in the cell. Then, we describe an efficient estimating approach for obtaining the position and velocity of sensing objects in the macrosite cell. By choosing multiple microsites around the targeted sensing area, joint data processing with an efficient optimization method is also provided. Simulation results show that the multistatic ISAC system employing macro\u2013micro cooperation can improve the position and velocity estimation accuracy of objects compared to systems employing macrosite cooperation alone, demonstrating the effectiveness and potential for implementing the proposed system in the 6G mobile network.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s24082498","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,4,15]],"date-time":"2024-04-15T08:08:12Z","timestamp":1713168492000},"page":"2498","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Multistatic Integrated Sensing and Communication System Based on Macro\u2013Micro Cooperation"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"24","author":[{"given":"Xiaoyun","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Future Research Laboratory, China Mobile Research Institute, Beijing 100053, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7895-0418","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zixiang","family":"Han","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Future Research Laboratory, China Mobile Research Institute, Beijing 100053, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jing","family":"Jin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Future Research Laboratory, China Mobile Research Institute, Beijing 100053, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Rongyan","family":"Xi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Future Research Laboratory, China Mobile Research Institute, Beijing 100053, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yajuan","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Future Research Laboratory, China Mobile Research Institute, Beijing 100053, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Lincong","family":"Han","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Future Research Laboratory, China Mobile Research Institute, Beijing 100053, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Liang","family":"Ma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Future Research Laboratory, China Mobile Research Institute, Beijing 100053, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mengting","family":"Lou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Future Research Laboratory, China Mobile Research Institute, Beijing 100053, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xin","family":"Gui","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Future Research Laboratory, China Mobile Research Institute, Beijing 100053, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Qixing","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Future Research Laboratory, China Mobile Research Institute, Beijing 100053, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8656-1946","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Guangyi","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Future Research Laboratory, China Mobile Research Institute, Beijing 100053, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,4,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"28","DOI":"10.1109\/MVT.2019.2921208","article-title":"6G wireless networks: Vision, requirements, architecture, and key technologies","volume":"14","author":"Zhang","year":"2019","journal-title":"IEEE Veh. 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