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The adoption of large-scale antenna arrays at high-frequency bands is widely envisioned in the beyond 5G wireless networks. This leads to the near-field regime where the wavefront is no longer planar but spherical, bringing new…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-28 Ang Chen , Li Chen , Yunfei Chen , Changsheng You , Guo Wei , F. Richard Yu

In this paper, we present a new wireless sensing system utilizing a movable antenna (MA) that continuously moves and receives sensing signals to enhance sensing performance over the conventional fixed-position antenna (FPA) sensing. We show…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Wenyan Ma , Lipeng Zhu , Rui Zhang

The constrained Cramer-Rao bound (CCRB) is a lower bound on the mean-squared-error (MSE) of estimators that satisfy some unbiasedness conditions. Although the CCRB unbiasedness conditions are satisfied asymptotically by the constrained…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Eyal Nitzan , Tirza Routtenberg , Joseph Tabrikian

Six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA) is an emerging technology that is able to fully exploit the spatial variation of wireless channels by controlling the 3D positions and 3D rotations of distributed antennas/antenna surfaces at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Xiaodan Shao , Rui Zhang , Robert Schober

Direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation using continuous aperture array (CAPA) is studied. Compared to the conventional spatially discrete array (SPDA), CAPA significantly enhances the spatial degrees-of-freedoms (DoFs) for DOA estimation,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Haonan Si , Zhaolin Wang , Xiansheng Guo , Jin Zhang , Yuanwei Liu

We consider high angular resolution detection using distributed mobile platforms implemented with so-called partly calibrated arrays, where position errors between subarrays exist and the counterparts within each subarray are ideally…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-28 Guangbin Zhang , Yan Wang , Tianyao Huang , Yonina C. Eldar

In the context of joint communication and sensing JC&S, the challenge of obtaining accurate parameter estimates is of interest. Parameter estimates, such as the AoA can be utilized for solving the initial access problem, interference…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-08 Carl Collmann , Ahmad Nimr , Gerhard Fettweis

Complete awareness of the wireless environment, crucial for future intelligent networks, requires sensing all transmitted signals, not just the strongest. A fundamental barrier is estimating the target signal when it is buried under strong…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Bowen Li , Junting Chen , Nikolaos Pappas

Ambient backscatter, an emerging green communication technology, has aroused great interest from both academia and industry. One open problem for ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) systems is channel estimation for a massive-antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Wenjing Zhao , Gongpu Wang , Saman Atapattu , Ruisi He , Ying-Chang Liang

The Bayesian Cram\'er-Rao bound (CRB) provides a lower bound on the mean square error of any Bayesian estimator under mild regularity conditions. It can be used to benchmark the performance of statistical estimators, and provides a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-09 Evan Scope Crafts , Xianyang Zhang , Bo Zhao

In this paper we study the joint determination of source and background flux for point sources as observed by digital array detectors. We explicitly compute the two-dimensional Cram\'er-Rao absolute lower bound (CRLB) as well as the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-22 Mario L. Vicuña , Jorge F. Silva , Rene A. Mendez , Marcos E. Orchard , Sebastian Espinosa , Jeremy Tregloan-Reed

This letter exploits moving arrays to enable nearfield multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) sensing via a limited number of antenna elements. We consider a scenario where a base station (BS) is equipped with a uniform linear array (ULA) on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Yilong Chen , Zixiang Ren , Xianghao Yu , Lei Liu , Jie Xu

This paper aims at presenting a numerical investigation of the statistical efficiency of the MUSIC (with different covariance matrix estimates) and the IAA-APES Direction of Arrivals (DOAs) estimation algorithms under a general Complex…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-04 Stefano Fortunati , Fulvio Gini , Maria S. Greco

This paper investigates jointly optimal array geometry and waveform designs for active sensing. Specifically, we focus on minimizing the Cram\'er-Rao lower bound (CRB) of the angle of a single target in white Gaussian noise. We first find…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-20 Ids van der Werf , Robin Rajamäki , Geert Leus

The widely used quantum Cramer-Rao bound (QCRB) sets a lower bound for the mean square error of unbiased estimators in quantum parameter estimation, however, in general QCRB is only tight in the asymptotical limit. With a limited number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 Jing Liu , Haidong Yuan

In this paper, we propose a two-dimensional (2D) joint transmit array interpolation and beamspace design for planar array mono-static multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) radar for direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation via tensor modeling.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Ming-Yang Cao , Sergiy A. Vorobyov , Aboulnasr Hassanien

The recent surge in deploying extremely large antenna arrays is expected to play a vital role in future sixth generation wireless networks, enabling advanced radar target localization with enhanced angular and range resolution. This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Ioannis Gavras , George C. Alexandropoulos

This paper focuses on the gridless direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation for data acquired by non-uniform linear arrays (NLAs) in automotive applications. Atomic norm minimization (ANM) is a promising gridless sparse recovery algorithm…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-09 Silin Gao , Zhe Zhang , Muhan Wang , Yan Zhang , Jie Zhao , Bingchen Zhang , Yue Wang , Yirong Wu

We propose a statistical framework for the problem of parameter estimation from a noisy optomechanical system. The Cram\'er-Rao lower bound on the estimation errors in the long-time limit is derived and compared with the errors of…

Optics · Physics 2013-10-31 Shan Zheng Ang , Glen I. Harris , Warwick P. Bowen , Mankei Tsang

Due to a high spatial angle resolution and low circuit cost of massive hybrid analog and digital (HAD) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), it is viewed as a valuable green communication technology for future wireless networks. Combining…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Feng Shu , Yiwen Chen , Xichao Zhan , Wenlong Cai , Mengxing Huang , Qijuan Jie , Yifang Li , Baihua Shi , Jiangzhou Wang , Xiaohu You