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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a revolutionizing solution to enhance wireless communications by intelligently changing the propagation environment. Prior studies on IRS are based on an ideal reflection model with a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-03 Wenhao Cai , Hongyu Li , Ming Li , Qian Liu

A linear scattering problem for which incoming and outgoing waves are restricted to a finite number of radiation channels can be precisely described by a frequency-dependent scattering matrix. The entries of the scattering matrix, as…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-29 Hongyao Wu , Lijun Yuan , Ya Yan Lu

In this work, we tackle the problem of beampattern design for a transmit system employing a large reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to redirect radio frequency signals emitted by a few active antennas (sources). We begin by…

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We present an approach for autonomous sensor control for information gathering under partially observable, dynamic and sparsely sampled environments that maximizes information about entities present in that space. We describe our approach…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-24 J. Brian Burns , Aravind Sundaresan , Pedro Sequeira , Vidyasagar Sadhu

This paper shows that wirelessly powered backscatter communications is subject to a fundamental tradeoff between the harvested energy at the tag and the reliability of the backscatter communication, measured in terms of SNR at the reader.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Bruno Clerckx , Zati Bayani Zawawi , Kaibin Huang

Distributed transmit beamforming enables cooperative radios to act as one virtual antenna array, extending their communications' range beyond the capabilities of a single radio. Most existing distributed beamforming approaches rely on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-14 Samer Hanna , Enes Krijestorac , Danijela Cabric

We study an inverse scattering problem for a generic hyperbolic system of equations with an unknown coefficient called the reflectivity. The solution of the system models waves (sound, electromagnetic or elastic), and the reflectivity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Liliana Borcea , Vladimir Druskin , Alexander V. Mamonov , Mikhail Zaslavsky , Jörn Zimmerling

We study an inverse source problem for the acoustic wave equation in a random waveguide. The goal is to estimate the source of waves from measurements of the acoustic pressure at a remote array of sensors. The waveguide effect is due to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-25 Sebastian Acosta , Ricardo Alonso , Liliana Borcea

Contactless sensing using wireless communication signals has garnered significant attention due to its non-intrusive nature and ubiquitous infrastructure. Despite the promise, the inherent bistatic deployment of wireless communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Wenwei Li , Jiarun Zhou , Qinxiao Quan , Fusang Zhang , Daqing Zhang

In this paper, given a random uniform distribution of sensor nodes on a 2-D plane, a fast self-organized distributed algorithm is proposed to find the maximum number of partitions of the nodes such that each partition is connected and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-12 Dibakar Saha , Nabanita Das

The performance of collaborative beamforming is analyzed using the theory of random arrays. The statistical average and distribution of the beampattern of randomly generated phased arrays is derived in the framework of wireless ad hoc…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Hideki Ochiai , Patrick Mitran , H. Vincent Poor , Vahid Tarokh

It is well known that biology-inspired self-maintaining algorithms in wireless sensor nodes achieve near optimum time division multiple access (TDMA) characteristics in a decentralized manner and with very low complexity. We extend such…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-05-18 Dujdow Buranapanichkit , Yiannis Andreopoulos

This paper is devoted to the algorithmic development of inverse elastic scattering problems. We focus on reconstructing the locations and shapes of elastic scatterers with known dictionary data for the nearly incompressible materials. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-02 Li Jingzhi , Liu Hongyu , Sun Hongpeng

In this paper, a linear model based on multiple measurement vectors model is proposed to formulate the inverse scattering problem of highly conductive objects at one single frequency. Considering the induced currents which are mostly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-27 Shilong Sun , Bert Jan Kooij , Alexander G. Yarovoy

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis and theoretical foundation for next-generation backscatter networks that move beyond communication and integrate RF location sensing capabilities. An end-to-end system model for wideband OFDM…

Diffusion models have gained attention for their success in modeling complex distributions, achieving impressive perceptual quality in SR tasks. However, existing diffusion-based SR methods often suffer from high computational costs,…

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Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have attracted considerable attention in recent years and motivate a host of new challenges for distributed signal processing. The problem of distributed or decentralized estimation has often been considered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-11-11 Joel B. Predd , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni , H. Vincent Poor

Besides improving communication performance, intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are also promising enablers for achieving larger sensing coverage and enhanced sensing quality. Nevertheless, in the absence of a direct path between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Kaitao Meng , Qingqing Wu , Robert Schober , Wen Chen

Transmission through a subwavelength terahertz fiber, which is positioned in parallel to a frequency selective surface, is studied using several finite element tools. Both the band diagram technique and the port-based scattering matrix…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-16 Martin Girard , Maksim Skorobogatiy

Autonomous robot networks are an effective tool for monitoring large-scale environmental fields. This paper proposes distributed control strategies for localizing the source of a noisy signal, which could represent a physical quantity of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2014-04-14 Nikolay A. Atanasov , Jerome Le Ny , George J. Pappas