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This work is devoted to solve the problem of estimating the carrier frequency offset, phase offset, amplitude, and SNR between two mmWave transceivers. The Cram\'{e}r-Rao Lower Bound (CRLB) for the different parameters is provided first, as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Javier Rodríguez-Fernández , Nuria González-Prelcic , Robert W. Heath

Radio-based localization systems conventionally require stationary reference points (e.g. anchors) with precisely surveyed positions, making deployment time-consuming and costly. This paper presents an empirical evaluation of collaborative…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Paul Schwarzbach , Andrea Jung

Seeking the available precision limit of unknown parameters is a significant task in quantum parameter estimation. One often resorts to the widely utilized quantum Cramer-Rao bound (QCRB) based on unbiased estimators to finish this task.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Shoukang Chang , Wei Ye , Xuan Rao , Huan Zhang , Liqing Huang , Mengmeng Luo , Yuetao Chen , Qiang Ma , Shaoyan Gao

A multiple input multiple output ultra-wideband cognitive radar based on compressive sensing is presented in this letter. For traditional UWB radar, high sampling rate analog to digital converter at the receiver is required to meet Shannon…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Xia Li , Zhen Hu , Robert C. Qiu

In this paper, time delay estimation techniques robust to narrowband interference (NBI) are proposed. Owing to the deluge of wireless signal interference these days, narrowband interference is a common problem for communication and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-29 TaeJin Park , Kyeong Ok Kang

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) holds great promise in expanding the applications of wireless communication networks. However, in current communication-centric systems, the time-frequency resources available for sensing may be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Wenjie Zhang , Qianglong Dai , Xiaoli Xu , Ruoguang Li , Yong Zeng

We derive a quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound (QCRB) on the error of estimating a time-changing signal. The QCRB provides a fundamental limit to the performance of general quantum sensors, such as gravitational-wave detectors, force sensors, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-31 Mankei Tsang , Howard M. Wiseman , Carlton M. Caves

Accurately estimating the position of a wireless emitter in a multipath environment based on samples received at various base stations (in known locations) has been extensively explored in the literature. Existing approaches often assume…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Asaf Afriat , Dan Raphaeli , Oded Bialer

In conventional dual-function radar-communication (DFRC) systems, the radar and communication channels are routinely estimated at fixed time intervals based on their worst-case operation scenarios. Such situation-agnostic repeated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Jie Chen , Xiabin Wang , Ying-Chang Liang

In this paper, the Cramer Rao bound (CRB) for range estimation between two underwater nodes is calculated under a Gaussian noise assumption on the measurements. The nodes can measure their depths, their mutual time of flight, and they have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-30 Hamid Ramezani , Raj Thilak Rajan , Geert Leus

Neural networks are increasingly used to estimate parameters in quantitative MRI, in particular in magnetic resonance fingerprinting. Their advantages over the gold standard non-linear least square fitting are their superior speed and their…

This paper presents a unified Cram\'er-Rao lower bound (CRLB) framework for signal-level parameters in integrated sensing and communications (ISAC)-enabled radar systems. Starting from the generic signal model, we analyze the coupling…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-28 Yanpeng Su , Norman Franchi , Maximilian Lübke

We analyze the performance of coherent impulsive-radio (IR) ultra-wideband (UWB) channel in presence of the interference generated by concurrent transmissions of the systems with the same impulsive radio. We derive a novel algorithm, using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Bozidar Radunovic , Jean-Yves Le Boudec , Raymond Knopp

This paper presents a Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) for the estimation of parameters confined to an arbitrary set. Unlike existing results that rely on equality or inequality constraints, manifold structures, or the nonsingularity of the Fisher…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Heedong Do , Angel Lozano

Several current ultra-wide band applications, such as millimeter wave radar and communication systems, require high sampling rates and therefore expensive and energy-hungry analogto-digital converters (ADCs). In applications where cost and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-28 Petre Stoica , Xiaolei Shang , Yuanbo Cheng

This paper considers the Cram\`er-Rao lower Bound (CRB) for the source localization problem in the near field. More specifically, we use the exact expression of the delay parameter for the CRB derivation and show how this exact CRB can be…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2013-03-11 Youcef Begriche , Messaoud Thameri , Karim Abed-Meraim

The idea of ultra-wideband (UWB) communications for short ranges (up to a few tens of meters) has been around for nearly three decades. However, despite significant efforts by the industry, UWB deployment has not yet reached its predicted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Brian Nelson , Hussein Moradi , Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny

Multiple carrier-frequency offsets (CFO) arise in a distributed antenna system, where data are transmitted simultaneously from multiple antennas. In such systems the received signal contains multiple CFOs due to mismatch between the local…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Yuanning Yu , Athina P. Petropulu , H. Vincent Poor , Visa Koivunen

In this paper, we present a new performance bound for uplink channel estimation (CE) accuracy in the Massive Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system. The proposed approach is based on noise power prediction after the CE unit. Our…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-29 Alexander Osinsky , Andrey Ivanov , Dmitry Yarotsky

Due to its high delay resolution, the ultra-wideband (UWB) technique has been widely adopted for fine-grained indoor localization. Instead of active positioning, UWB radar-based passive human tracking is explored using commercial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-20 Chenglong Li , Emmeric Tanghe , Jaron Fontaine , Luc Martens , Jac Romme , Gaurav Singh , Eli De Poorter , Wout Joseph