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Sensor selection is a useful method to help reduce data throughput, as well as computational, power, and hardware requirements, while still maintaining acceptable performance. Although minimizing the Cram\'er-Rao bound has been adopted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Costas A. Kokke , Mario Coutiño , Laura Anitori , Richard Heusdens , Geert Leus

Movable antenna (MA) technology exhibits great promise for enhancing the sensing capabilities of future sixth-generation (6G) networks due to its capability to alter antenna array geometry. With the growing prevalence of near-field…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Yushen Wang , Weidong Mei , Xin Wei , Ya Fei Wu , Zhi Chen , Boyu Ning

Rain attenuates Ku-band satellite signals by up to 20~dB, encoding precipitation information along the Earth-space slant path. This paper derives the Bayesian Cram\'{e}r-Rao bound (BCRB) for rain rate estimation from LEO broadband OFDM…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Haofan Dong , Houtianfu Wang , Hanlin Cai , O. Tansel Baydas , Ozgur B. Akan

In this lecture note, we show a general property of the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) that quantifies the interdependencies between the parameters in a vector. The presented result is valid for more general models than the additive noise model and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-07 Dave Zachariah , Petre Stoica

Blazars are a subclass of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with extreme observation properties, which is caused by the beaming effect, expressed by a Doppler factor, in a relativistic jet. Doppler factor is an important parameter in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-21 Zhiyuan Pei , Junhui Fan , Jianghe Yang , Denis Bastieri

In this paper, theoretical limits on time delay estimation are studied for ultra-wideband (UWB) cognitive radio systems. For a generic UWB spectrum with dispersed bands, the Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB) is derived for unknown channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Sinan Gezici , Hasari Celebi , Huseyin Arslan , H. Vincent Poor

Electromagnetic (EM) vector sensor arrays can track both the polarisation and direction of arrival (DOA) of the impinging signals. For linear crossed-dipole arrays, as shown by our analysis, due to inherent limitation of the structure, it…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Xiang Lan , Wei Liu , Henry Y. T. Ngan

Utilizing communication signals to extract motion parameters has emerged as a key direction in Vehicle-to- Everything (V2X) networks. Accurately modeling the relationship between communication signals and sensing performance is critical for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Shengcai Zhou , Luping Xiang , Yi Wang , Kun Yang , Kai Kit Wong , Chan-Byoung Chae

This work is devoted to solve the problem of estimating the carrier frequency offset, phase offset, amplitude, and SNR between two mmWave transceivers. The Cram\'{e}r-Rao Lower Bound (CRLB) for the different parameters is provided first, as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Javier Rodríguez-Fernández , Nuria González-Prelcic , Robert W. Heath

A Cram\'er-Rao bound (CRB) optimization framework for near-field sensing (NISE) with continuous-aperture arrays (CAPAs) is proposed. In contrast to conventional spatially discrete arrays (SPDAs), CAPAs emit electromagnetic (EM) probing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Hao Jiang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

In this paper we use the Cramer-Rao lower uncertainty bound to estimate the maximum precision that could be achieved on the joint simultaneous (or 2D) estimation of photometry and astrometry of a point source measured by a linear CCD…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Rene A. Mendez , Jorge F. Silva , Rodrigo Orsotica , Rodrigo Lobos

With the deployment of large antenna arrays at high-frequency bands, future wireless communication systems are likely to operate in the radiative near-field. Unlike far-field beam steering, near-field beams can be focused on a spatial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Ahmed Hussain , Asmaa Abdallah , Abdulkadir Celik , Emil Björnson , Ahmed M. Eltawil

Modern mobile communication receivers are often implemented with a direct-conversion architecture, which features a number of advantages over competing designs. A notable limitation of direct-conversion architectures, however, is their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Moritz Tockner , Oliver Lang , Andreas Meingassner-Lang , Mario Huemer

The recent trend for extremely massive antenna arrays and high frequencies facilitates localization and sensing, offering increased angular and range resolution. In this letter, we focus on the emerging technology of Dynamic Metasurface…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Ioannis Gavras , George C. Alexandropoulos

This paper investigates unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) localization using time difference of arrival (TDOA) measurements under mixed line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) conditions. A 3D TDOA Cram\'er-Rao lower bound (CRLB) model…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Cole Dickerson , Saad Masrur , Jonah Dickerson , Özgür Özdemir , Ismail Güvenç

With the introduction of shared spectrum sensing and beam-forming based multi-antenna transceivers, 5G networks demand spectrum sensing to identify opportunities in time, frequency, and spatial domains. Narrow beam-forming makes it…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-26 Piyush Sahoo , Romesh Rajoria , Shivam Chandhok , S. J. Darak , Danilo Pau , Hem-Dutt Dabral

This letter addresses the estimation of directions-of-arrival (DoA) by a sensor array using a sparse model in the presence of array calibration errors and off-grid directions. The received signal utilizes previously used models for unknown…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-04 Cheng-Yu Hung , Mostafa Kaveh

The paper investigates the direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation of narrow band signals with conventional co-prime arrays by using probabilistic Bayesian neural networks (PBNN). A super resolution DOA estimation method based on Bayesian…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Wael Elshennawy

Due to the narrow beamwidths of laser Gaussian beams, accurate tracking of laser beam's angle-of-arrival is an important problem in mobile free-space optical communications. In most optical receivers today, fine tracking of angle-of-arrival…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Ming-Cheng Tsai , Muhammad Salman Bashir , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

A robust and sparse Direction of Arrival (DOA) estimator is derived for array data that follows a Complex Elliptically Symmetric (CES) distribution with zero-mean and finite second-order moments. The derivation allows to choose the loss…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-31 Christoph F. Mecklenbräuker , Peter Gerstoft , Esa Ollila , Yongsung Park