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In this paper, we obtain a family of lower bounds for the sum capacity of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) channels assuming binary inputs and binary signature codes in the presence of additive noise with an arbitrary distribution. The…

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This paper focuses on assessing the limitations in the direction-finding process of radio sources with directional antennas in an urbanized environment, demonstrating how signal source antenna parameters, such as beamwidth and maximum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Cezary Ziolkowski , Jan M. Kelner

Applying basic physical principles to recent observational results, we derive upper and lower limits on microwave anisotropy from point sources over the range of frequencies 10-1000 GHz. We examine the level of noise in the observations as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric Gawiser , Andrew Jaffe , Joseph Silk

This work focuses on assessing the information-theoretic limits of scene parameter estimation in plenoptic imaging systems. A general framework to compute lower bounds on the parameter estimation error from noisy plenoptic observations is…

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The radiological characterization of contaminated elements (walls, grounds, objects) from nuclear facilities often suffers from a too small number of measurements. In order to determine risk prediction bounds on the level of contamination,…

Applications · Statistics 2017-05-30 Géraud Blatman , Thibault Delage , Bertrand Iooss , Nadia Pérot

We establish the multiparameter quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound for simultaneously estimating the centroid, the separation, and the relative intensities of two incoherent optical point sources using alinear imaging system. For equally bright…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-13 J. Rehacek , Z. Hradil , B. Stoklasa , M. Paur , J. Grover , A. Krzic , L. L. Sanchez-Soto

In this letter, we analyse the properties of a maximum likelihood channel estimator based on the syndrome of a linear code. For the two examples of a binary symmetric channel and a binary input additive white Gaussian noise channel, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-12 Gottfried Lechner , Christoph Pacher

We experimentally analyzed the statistical errors in quantum-state estimation and examined whether their lower bound, which is derived from the Cramer-Rao inequality, can be truly attained or not. In the experiments, polarization states of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Koji Usami , Yoshihiro Nambu , Yoshiyuki Tsuda , Keiji Matsumoto , Kazuo Nakamura

Estimating the parameters of max-stable parametric models poses significant challenges, particularly when some parameters lie on the boundary of the parameter space. This situation arises when a subset of variables exhibits extreme values…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-08 Anas Mourahib , Anna Kiriliouk , Johan Segers

In this paper, we investigate threshold effects associated with swapping of signal and noise subspaces in estimating signal parameters from compressed noisy data. The term threshold effect refers to a sharp departure of mean-squared error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Pooria Pakrooh , Louis L. Scharf , Ali Pezeshki

In this work, we study the design of receivers for uplink multi-user systems, aiming to estimate both the channel and the transmitted symbols. We consider two estimation strategies: (i) a joint estimation approach, where the channel and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Xue Zhang , Abla Kammoun , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

The author studies the Cram\'{e}r-Rao type bound by a linear programming approach. By this approach, he found a necessary and sufficient condition that the Cram\'{e}r-Rao type bound is attained by a random measurement. In a spin 1/2 system,…

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We develop a maximum-likelihood based method for regression in a setting where the dependent variable is a random graph and covariates are available on a graph-level. The model generalizes the well-known $\beta$-model for random graphs by…

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In this letter, we develop a unified Cram\'{e}r-Rao bound (CRB) framework to characterize the fundamental performance limits of transmission activity detection in fluid antenna systems (FASs) and conventional multiple fixed-position antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Zhentian Zhang , Kai-Kit Wong , Hao Jiang , Christos Masouros , Chan-Byoung Chae

Shallow seismic sources excite Rayleigh wave ground motion with azimuthally dependent radiation patterns. We place binary hypothesis tests on theoretical models of such radiation patterns to screen cylindrically symmetric sources (like…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-03-22 Joshua D Carmichael

We perform an analysis supplementing the metrology toolbox in the time-frequency domain. While the relevant time-frequency-based metrological protocols can be borrowed from the spatial domain, where they have recently been well developed,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Łukasz Rudnicki , Tomasz Linowski

In diffusion-based communication, as for molecular systems, the achievable data rate is very low due to the slow nature of diffusion and the existence of severe inter-symbol interference (ISI). Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-23 S. Mohammadreza Rouzegar , Umberto Spagnolini

In this paper, tight upper and lower bounds are derived on the weighted sum of minimum mean-squared errors for additive Gaussian noise channels. The bounds are obtained by constraining the input distribution to be close to a Gaussian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Michael Fauß , Abdelhak M. Zoubir , Alex Dytso , H. Vincent Poor , K. G. Nagananda

A technique is described for the detection and measurement of close binary systems whose images are unresolved. The method is based on analysis of the moment of inertia tensor of the image, from which the product of the binary flux ratio…

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