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This paper presents a unified Cram\'er-Rao lower bound (CRLB) framework for signal-level parameters in integrated sensing and communications (ISAC)-enabled radar systems. Starting from the generic signal model, we analyze the coupling…

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Near-field sensing with extremely large-scale antenna arrays (ELAAs) in practical 6G systems is expected to operate over broad bandwidths, where delay, Doppler, and spatial effects become tightly coupled across frequency. The purpose of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Tong Wei , Kumar Vijay Mishra , Bhavani Shankar M. R. , Björn Ottersten

Movable antennas (MAs) have emerged as a promising technology to improve wireless communication and sensing performance towards sixth-generation (6G) networks through flexible antenna movement. In this paper, we propose a novel wireless…

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In this paper, we propose a new wireless sensing system equipped with the movable-antenna (MA) array, which can flexibly adjust the positions of antenna elements for improving the sensing performance over conventional antenna arrays with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Wenyan Ma , Lipeng Zhu , Rui Zhang

This paper presents a Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB) on the variance of unbiased estimates of factor matrices in Canonical Polyadic (CP) or CANDECOMP/PARAFAC (CP) decompositions of a tensor from noisy observations, (i.e., the tensor plus a…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2014-02-10 Petr Tichavsky , Anh Huy Phan , Zbynek Koldovsky

As a green MIMO structure, massive H$^2$AD is viewed as a potential technology for the future 6G wireless network. For such a structure, it is a challenging task to design a low-complexity and high-performance fusion of target direction…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Feng Shu , Jiatong Bai , Di Wu , Wei Zhu , Bin Deng , Fuhui Zhou , Jiangzhou Wang

In the next generation of wireless systems, Massive MIMO offers high angular resolution for localization. By virtue of large number of antennas, the Angle of Arrival (AoA) of User Terminals (UTs) can be estimated with high accuracy.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Masoud Arash , Hamed Mirghasemi , Ivan Stupia , Luc Vandendorpe

A framework is presented for analyzing the impact of active attacks to location-based physical layer authentication (PLA) using the machinery of misspecified Cram\'er--Rao bound (MCRB). In this work, we focus on the MCRB in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-19 Sotiris Skaperas , Arsenia Chorti

Cooperative sensing with uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a key enabler for low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs), where sensing accuracy critically depends on the spatial configuration of the UAV formation. In this paper, we study…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-02 Jun Wu , Haijia Jin , Nanchi Su , Jinna Li , Haoyuan Pan , Tse-Tin Chan

Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radar is known for its superiority over conventional radar due to its antenna and waveform diversity. Although higher angular resolution, improved parameter identifiability, and better target detection…

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This paper studies distance estimation for diffusive molecular communication. The Cramer-Rao lower bound on the variance of the distance estimation error is derived. The lower bound is derived for a physically unbounded environment with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Adam Noel , Karen C. Cheung , Robert Schober

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…

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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is expected to play a pivotal role in future wireless sensing networks owing to its potential for high-resolution and high-accuracy sensing. In this work, we investigate a multi-target…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Renwang Li , Shu Sun , Meixia Tao

Mobile communication networks were designed to mainly support ubiquitous wireless communications, yet they are also expected to achieve radio sensing capabilities in the near future. However, most prior studies on radio sensing usually rely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Huizhi Wang , Zhiqiang Xiao , Yong Zeng

We consider a mixed analog-to-digital converter (ADC) based architecture for direction of arrival (DOA) estimation using a uniform linear array (ULA). We derive the Cram{\'e}r-Rao bound (CRB) of the DOA under the optimal time-varying…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Xinnan Zhang , Yuanbo Cheng , Xiaolei Shang , Jun liu

In this paper, we derive the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) for blind channel estimation in redundant block transmission systems, a lower bound for the mean squared error of any blind channel estimators. The derived CRB is valid for any full-rank…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-08 Yen-Huan Li , Borching Su , Ping-Cheng Yeh

The Cramer-Rao lower bound for the estimation of the affine transformation parameters in a multivariate heteroscedastic errors-in-variables model is derived. The model is suitable for feature-based image registration in which both sets of…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-06-30 E. A. K. Cohen , D. Kim , R. J. Ober

In modern radar systems, precise target localization using azimuth and velocity estimation is paramount. Traditional unbiased estimation methods have utilized gradient descent algorithms to reach the theoretical limits of the Cramer Rao…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-24 Shyam Venkatasubramanian , Sandeep Gogineni , Bosung Kang , Muralidhar Rangaswamy

Magnetic induction (MI) enables communication in RF-denied environments (underground, underwater, in-body), where the medium conductivity imprints a deterministic signature on the channel. This letter derives a closed-form Cram\'{e}r--Rao…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Haofan Dong , Ozgur B. Akan

Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation is an important research in the area of array signal processing, and has been studied for decades. High resolution DOA estimation requires large array aperture, which leads to the increase of hardware…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Yangying Zhao , Peng Chen , Zhenxin Cao , Xianbin Wang