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Location-based services in a wireless network require nodes to know their locations accurately. Conventional solutions rely on contention-based medium access, where only one node can successfully transmit at any time in any neighborhood. In…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-09-10 Ming Gan , Dongning Guo , Xuchu Dai

The \emph{sensor placement problem} for stochastic linear inverse problems consists of determining the optimal manner in which sensors can be employed to collect data. Specifically, one wishes to place a limited number of sensors over a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Christian Aarset

Pinching antenna systems have attracted much attention recently owing to its capability to maintain reliable line-of-sight (LoS) communication in high-frequency bands. By guiding signals through a waveguide and emitting them via a movable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Hao Feng , Ming Zeng , Xingwang Li , Wenwu Xie , Nian Xia , Octavia A. Dobre

A scalable framework is developed to allocate radio resources across a large number of densely deployed small cells with given traffic statistics on a slow timescale. Joint user association and spectrum allocation is first formulated as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Binnan Zhuang , Dongning Guo , Ermin Wei , Michael L. Honig

This paper analytically characterizes optimal sensor placements for target localization and tracking in 2D and 3D. Three types of sensors are considered: bearing-only, range-only, and received-signal-strength. The optimal placement problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-05-16 Shiyu Zhao , Ben M. Chen , Tong H. Lee

In increasing number of electronic devices implement wideband radio technologies for localization and sensing purposes, like ultra-wideband (UWB). Such radio technologies benefit from a large number of antennas, but space for antennas is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Tobias Lafer , Erik Leitinger , Klaus Witrisal

Localization is expected to play a significant role in future wireless networks as positioning and situational awareness, navigation and tracking, are integral parts of 6G usage scenarios. Nevertheless, in many cases localization requires…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-02 Giorgos Stratidakis , Sotiris Droulias , Angeliki Alexiou

Global localization is a critical problem in autonomous navigation, enabling precise positioning without reliance on GPS. Modern global localization techniques often depend on dense LiDAR maps, which, while precise, require extensive…

This paper proposes a new framework for providing approximation guarantees of local search algorithms. Local search is a basic algorithm design technique and is widely used for various combinatorial optimization problems. To analyze local…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Kaito Fujii

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

The resource recharging station location routing problem is a generalization of the location routing problem with sophisticated and critical resource consumption and recharging constraints. Based on a representation of discretized acyclic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-24 Gongyuan Lu , Xuesong Zhou , Qiyuan Peng , Bisheng He , Monirehalsadat Mahmoudi , Jun Zhao

In this paper, a comprehensive survey of the pioneer as well as the state of-the-art localization and tracking methods in the wireless sensor networks is presented. Localization is mostly applicable for the static sensor nodes, whereas,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Sudhir Kumar , Rajesh M. Hegde

Joint allocation of spectrum and user association is considered for a large cellular network. The objective is to optimize a network utility function such as average delay given traffic statistics collected over a slow timescale. A key…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Binnan Zhuang , Dongning Guo , Ermin Wei , Michael L. Honig

This paper proposes a novel localization framework underpinned by a pinching-antenna (PA) system, in which the target location is estimated using received signal strength (RSS) measurements obtained from downlink signals transmitted by the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Jiajun He , Xidong Mu , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

In this paper, we develop a \textit{distributed} algorithm to localize an arbitrary number of agents moving in a bounded region of interest. We assume that the network contains \textit{at least one} agent with known location (hereinafter…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Sam Safavi , Usman A. Khan

The goal of this paper is to find a low-rank approximation for a given tensor. Specifically, we give a computable strategy on calculating the rank of a given tensor, based on approximating the solution to an NP-hard problem. In this paper,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Xiaofei Wang , Carmeliza Navasca

Sparse coding, which represents a data point as a sparse reconstruction code with regard to a dictionary, has been a popular data representation method. Meanwhile, in database retrieval problems, learning the ranking scores from data points…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Jim Jing-Yan Wang , Xuefeng Cui , Ge Yu , Lili Guo , Xin Gao

This letter addresses the estimation of directions-of-arrival (DoA) by a sensor array using a sparse model in the presence of array calibration errors and off-grid directions. The received signal utilizes previously used models for unknown…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-04 Cheng-Yu Hung , Mostafa Kaveh

Hybrid localization in GNSS-challenged environments using measured ranges and angles is becoming increasingly popular, in particular with the advent of multimodal communication systems. Here, we address the hybrid network localization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-08 Claudia Soares , Filipa Valdeira , Joao Gomes

As Wireless Sensor Networks are penetrating into the industrial domain, many research opportunities are emerging. One such essential and challenging application is that of node localization. A feed-forward neural network based methodology…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Shiu Kumar , Ronesh Sharma , Edwin Vans