Microwave Ghost Imaging via LTE-DL Signals

In this paper, we propose a long-term-evolution (LTE) downlink (DL) signal-based microwave ghost imaging (GI) scheme. Motivated by its waveform structures and base stations (BSs) distributions, LTE-DL signals conventionally employed for communication applications are transformed and adopted into the scenario of microwave GI. Numerical simulation validates that the proposed LTE-DL based microwave GI scheme can effectively obtain the reconstruction of objects. Since the proposed system takes the advantage of existing LTE BSs as its transceivers, microwave GI system complexity and operational cost have been significantly reduced.