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Parameter estimation using quantized observations is of importance in many practical applications. Under a symmetric $1$-bit setup, consisting of a zero-threshold hard-limiter, it is well known that the large sample performance loss for low…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Manuel Stein , Shahar Bar , Josef A. Nossek , Joseph Tabrikian

Apart from the conventional parameters (such as signal-to-noise ratio, array geometry and size, sample size), several other factors (e.g. alignment of the antenna elements, polarization parameters) influence the performance of direction of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-15 Md Imrul Hasan , Mohammad Saquib

One-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC), performing signal sampling as an extreme simple comparator, is an overwhelming technology for spectrum sensing due to its low-cost, low-power consumptions and high sampling rate. In this letter, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Yuan Zhao , Xiaochuan Ke , Bo Zhao , Yuhang Xiao , Lei Huang

An ambiguity-free direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation scheme is proposed for sparse uniform linear arrays under low signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) and non-stationary broadband signals. First, for achieving better DOA estimation performance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-06 Wei Wang , Shefeng Yan , Linlin Mao , Zeping Sui , Jirui Yang

One-bit quantization with time-varying sampling thresholds has recently found significant utilization potential in statistical signal processing applications due to its relatively low power consumption and low implementation cost. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-10 Arian Eamaz , Farhang Yeganegi , Deanna Needell , Mojtaba Soltanalian

In this letter, we consider the problem of direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation with one-bit quantized array measurements. With analysis, it is shown that, under mild conditions the one-bit covariance matrix can be approximated by the sum…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-30 Xiaodong Huang , Bin Liao

As massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) becomes popular, direction of arrival (DOA) measurement has been made a real renaissance due to the high-resolution achieved. Thus, there is no doubt about DOA estimation using massive MIMO.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Jiangzhou Wang , Baihua Shi , Feng Shu , Qi Zhang , Di Wu , Qijuan Jie , Zhihong Zhuang , Siling Feng , Yijin Zhang

A spectrum- and energy-efficient system is essential for millimeter wave communication systems that require large antenna arrays with power-demanding ADCs. We propose an ADC bit allocation (BA) algorithm that solves a minimum mean squared…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Jinseok Choi , Junmo Sung , Brian L. Evans , Alan Gatherer

We study direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation from coarsely quantized data. We focus on a two-step approach which first estimates the signal subspace via covariance estimation and then extracts DOA angles by the ESPRIT algorithm. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Sjoerd Dirksen , Weilin Li , Johannes Maly

This paper introduces a signal strength-based direction of arrival (DOA) estimation approach for directional sensors that explicitly accounts for missed detections. In traditional phase-based DOA estimation frameworks, negative information…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Gustav Zetterqvist , Fredrik Gustafsson , Gustaf Hendeby

The problem of signal parameter estimation and tracking with measurement data of low resolution is considered. In comparison to an ideal receiver with infinite receive resolution, the performance loss of a simplistic receiver with 1-bit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Manuel Stein , Alexander Kürzl , Amine Mezghani , Josef A. Nossek

In this paper, we study the problem of mean estimation under 1-bit communication constraints. We propose a novel adaptive mean estimator based solely on randomized threshold queries, where each 1-bit outcome indicates whether a given sample…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-25 Ivan Lau , Jonathan Scarlett

Sensing emerges as a critical challenge in 6G networks, which require simultaneous communication and target sensing capabilities. State-of-the-art super-resolution techniques for the direction of arrival (DoA) estimation encounter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Murat Babek Salman , Emil Björnson

This paper proposes a spectrum sensing algorithm from one bit measurements in a cognitive radio sensor network. A likelihood ratio test (LRT) for the one bit spectrum sensing problem is derived. Different from the one bit spectrum sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-26 Hadi Zayyani , Farzan Haddadi , Mehdi Korki

Quantum wireless sensing using Rydberg atomic receivers enables high-sensitivity signal acquisition direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation. However, it suffers from a fundamental limitation, where only the magnitude of the received signal is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Sourav Banerjee , Neel Kanth Kundu , Prajwalita Borah

We proposes an ultra low power wideband spectrum sensing architecture by utilizing a one-bit quantization at the cognitive radio (CR) receiver. The impact of this aggressive quantization is quantified and it is shown that the proposed…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-06-08 Abdelmohsen Ali , Walaa Hamouda

For a massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) system using intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) equipped with radio frequency (RF) chains, the multi-channel RF chains are expensive compared to passive IRS, especially, when the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Weifeng Han , Peng Chen , Zhenxin Cao

Spectrum sensing in cognitive radio necessitates effective monitoring of wide bandwidths, which requires high-rate sampling. Traditional spectrum sensing methods employing high-precision analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) result in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-26 Pei-Wen Wu , Lei Huang , David Ramírez , Yu-Hang Xiao , Hing Cheung So

Energy-efficient signal processing systems require estimation methods operating on data collected with low-complexity devices. Using analog-to-digital converters (ADC) with $1$-bit amplitude resolution has been identified as a possible…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-18 Lin Zhang , Manuel Stein , Josef A. Nossek

We propose a joint estimation method for the Direction-of-Arrival (DoA) and the Noise Covariance Matrix (NCM) tailored for beamforming applications. Building upon an existing NCM framework, our approach simplifies the estimation procedure…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Vitor Gelsleichter Probst Curtarelli , Stephan Paul , Anderson Wedderhoff Spengler