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This paper presents a distributed estimator for a deterministic parametric physical field sensed by a homogeneous sensor network and develops a new transformed expression for the Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB) on the variance of distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Salvatore Talarico , Natalia A. Schmid , Marwan Alkhweldi , Matthew C. Valenti

The rapid growth of the low-altitude economy has resulted in a significant increase in the number of Low, slow, and small (LLS) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), raising critical challenges for secure airspace management and reliable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Tianhao Liang , Mu Jia , Tingting Zhang , Junting Chen , Longyu Zhou , Tony Q. S. Quek , Pooi-Yuen Kam

Assessing the quality of parameter estimates for models describing the motion of single molecules in cellular environments is an important problem in fluorescence microscopy. We consider the fundamental data model, where molecules emit…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-15 A. Marie d'Avigneau , S. S. Singh , R. J. Ober

An unknown-position sensor can be localized if there are three or more anchors making time-of-arrival (TOA) measurements of a signal from it. However, the location errors can be very large due to the fact that some of the measurements are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Hongyang Chen , Kenneth W. K. Lui , Zizhuo Wang , H. C. So , H. Vincent Poor

This paper derives a general expression for the Cram\'er-Rao bound (CRB) of wireless localization algorithms using range measurements subject to bias corruption. Specifically, the a priori knowledge about which range measurements are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-10 Tao Wang

Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) is regarded as a key element of the beyond-fifth-generation (5G) and sixth-generation (6G) systems, raising the question of whether current 5G New Radio (NR) signal structures can meet the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-28 Santiago Fernández , Javier Giménez , Mari Carmen Aguayo-Torres , José A. Cortés

In a visible light positioning (VLP) system, a receiver can estimate its location based on signals transmitted by light emitting diodes (LEDs). In this manuscript, we investigate a quasi-synchronous VLP system, in which the LED transmitters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Ertan Kazikli , Sinan Gezici

Localizing targets outside the anchors' convex hull is an understudied but prevalent scenario in vehicle-centric, UAV-based, and self-localization applications. Considering such scenarios, this paper studies the optimal anchor placement…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Raghunandan M. Rao , Don-Roberts Emenonye

We present novel lower bounds on the mean square error (MSE) of the location estimation of an emitting source via a network where the sensors are deployed randomly. The sensor locations are modeled as a homogenous Poisson point process. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Itsik Bergel , Yair Noam

Next generation cellular networks will experience the combination of femtocells, millimeter-wave (mm-wave) communications and massive antenna arrays. Thanks to the beamforming capability as well as the high angular resolution provided by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Anna Guerra , Francesco Guidi , Davide Dardari

In this paper, we consider signals with a low-rank covariance matrix which reside in a low-dimensional subspace and can be written in terms of a finite (small) number of parameters. Although such signals do not necessarily have a sparse…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Mahdi Shaghaghi , Sergiy A. Vorobyov

This paper presents a unified framework for robust three-dimensional (3-D) source localization using a network of sensors equipped with one-dimensional (1-D) linear arrays. While such arrays offer practical advantages in terms of cost and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-12 Ehsan Alamdari , Rouhollah Amiri

This paper attempts to answer a question: for a given traversal area, how to quantify the geometric impact of anchor placement on localization performance. We present a theoretical framework for quantifying the anchor placement impact. An…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-01-13 Yibei Ling , Scott Alexander , Richard Lau

Estimation of a location parameter based on noisy and binary quantized measurements is considered in this letter. We study the behavior of the Cramer-Rao bound as a function of the quantizer threshold for different symmetric unimodal noise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-28 Rodrigo Cabral Farias , Eric Moisan , Jean-Marc Brossier

This paper aims to analyze the stochastic performance of a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system in a downlink scenario, where a base station (BS) transmits a dual-functional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Marziyeh Soltani , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Rahim Tafazolli

Accurate estimation of the position of network nodes is essential, e.g., in localization, geographic routing, and vehicular networks. Unfortunately, typical positioning techniques based on ranging or on velocity and angular measurements are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Alessio De Angelis , Carlo Fischione

This paper develops an asymptotically efficient recursive identification algorithm for autoregressive systems with exogenous inputs under one-bit communications. In particular, the proposed method asymptotically achieves the Cramer-Rao…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Xingrui Liu , Jieming Ke , Mingjie Shao , Yanlong Zhao

The detection of landmarks or patterns is of interest for extracting features in biological images. Hence, algorithms for finding these keypoints have been extensively investigated in the literature, and their localization and detection…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Zsuzsanna Püspöki , Arash Amini , Julien Fageot , John Paul Ward , Michael Unser

This paper presents a fundamental performance analysis of joint location and velocity estimation in a cell-free (CF) MIMO integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. Unlike prior studies that primarily rely on continuous-time signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Guoqing Xia , Pei Xiao , Qu Luo , Bing Ji , Yue Zhang , Huiyu Zhou

In this paper we have proposed clock error mitigation from the measurements in the scheduled based self localization system. We propose measurement model with clock errors while following a scheduled transmission among anchor nodes.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Baptiste Cavarec , Satyam Dwivedi , Mats Bengtsson , Peter Händel