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In constrained parameter estimation, the classical constrained Cramer-Rao bound (CCRB) and the recent Lehmann-unbiased CCRB (LU-CCRB) are lower bounds on the performance of mean-unbiased and Lehmann-unbiased estimators, respectively. Both…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Eyal Nitzan , Tirza Routtenberg , Joseph Tabrikian

This paper presents a novel method for estimating the direction of arrival (DOA) for a non-uniform and sparse linear sensor array using the weighted lifted structure low-rank matrix completion. The proposed method uses a single snapshot…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Saeed Razavikia , Mohammad Bokaei , Arash Amini , Stefano Rini , Carlo Fischione

This paper investigates parametric direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation in a particular context: i) each sensor is characterized by an unknown complex gain and ii) the array consists of a collection of subarrays which are substantially…

In this paper we present an approach to geometry calibration in wireless acoustic sensor networks, whose nodes are assumed to be equipped with a compact microphone array. The proposed approach solely works with estimates of the distances…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Tobias Gburrek , Joerg Schmalenstroeer , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) is regarded as a key element of the beyond-fifth-generation (5G) and sixth-generation (6G) systems, raising the question of whether current 5G New Radio (NR) signal structures can meet the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-28 Santiago Fernández , Javier Giménez , Mari Carmen Aguayo-Torres , José A. Cortés

Movable Antenna (MA) technology is emerging as a promising advancement with the potential to significantly enhance the performance of future wireless communication and sensing systems. In this paper, we address two-dimensional (2D)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Chengzhi Ye , Ruoyu Zhang , Lei Yao , Wen Wu

Aims. We investigate the maximum astrometric precision that can be reached on moving targets observed with digital-sensor arrays, and provide an estimate for its ultimate lower limit based on the Cram\'er-Rao bound. Methods. We extend…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 S. Bouquillon , R. A. Mendez , M. Altmann , T. Carlucci , C. Barache , F. Taris , A. H. Andrei , R. Smart

This paper considers the Cram\`er-Rao lower Bound (CRB) for the source localization problem in the near field. More specifically, we use the exact expression of the delay parameter for the CRB derivation and show how this exact CRB can be…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2013-03-11 Youcef Begriche , Messaoud Thameri , Karim Abed-Meraim

This paper derives a Ziv-Zakai Bound (ZZB) on the Mean Squared Error (MSE) for Direction-of-Arrival (DoA) estimation in co-located Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) radar systems and provides closed-form expressions that hold for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Mohammadreza Bakhshizadeh Mohajer , Daniela Tuninetti , Luca Barletta

A full multi--dimensional characterization of the angle of arrival (AoA) has immediate applications to the efficient operation of modern wireless communication systems. In this work, we develop a compressed sensing based method to extract…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Matilde Sánchez-Fernández , Vahid Jamali , Jaime Llorca , Antonia Tulino

In this paper, to jointly estimate the frequency and the direction-of-arrival(DOA) of the narrowband far-field signals, a novel array receiver architecture is presented by the concept of the sub-Nyquist sampling techniques. In particular,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Liang Liu , Ping Wei

We address the feasibility of a GNSS-R code-altimetry space mission and more specifically a dominant term of its error budget: the reflected-signal range precision. This is the RMS error on the reflected-signal delay, as estimated by…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Germain , G. Ruffini

Phase ambiguity happens in uniform linear arrays (ULAs) when the sensor distance is greater than $\lambda/2$. This problem in direction of arrival (DOA) estimation and can be solved by designing a proper sensor configuration. In this work,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-04 Hui Chen , Tarig Ballal , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

Precise astrometric and photometric measurements of celestial point sources are fundamental to modern astronomy. These measurements, used to determine object positions, motions, and fluxes, are based on observational models that have…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-05 Sebastián Espinosa , Rene A. Mendez , Jorge F. Silva , Marcos Orchard

This paper investigates how near-field beamfocusing can be achieved using a modular linear array (MLA), composed of multiple widely spaced uniform linear arrays (ULAs). The MLA architecture extends the aperture length of a standard ULA…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Alva Kosasih , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

The rapid growth of the low-altitude economy has resulted in a significant increase in the number of Low, slow, and small (LLS) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), raising critical challenges for secure airspace management and reliable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Tianhao Liang , Mu Jia , Tingting Zhang , Junting Chen , Longyu Zhou , Tony Q. S. Quek , Pooi-Yuen Kam

We present a new proof of the quantum Cramer-Rao bound for precision parameter estimation [1-3] and extend it to a more general class of measurement procedures. We analyze a generalized framework for parameter estimation that covers most…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-28 Garry Goldstein , Mikhail D. Lukin , Paola Cappellaro

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a promising solution for the future sixth-generation (6G) system. However, classical fixed-position antenna (FPA) ISAC systems fail to fully utilize spatial degrees of freedom (DoFs), resulting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Yuan Guo , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Yang Liu , Qiong Wu

Radar uncertainty principle indicates that there is an inherent invariance in the product of the time-delay and Doppler-shift measurement accuracy and resolution which can be tuned by the waveform at transmitter. In this paper, based on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-24 Seyed MohammadReza Hosseini , Afshin Isazadeh , Ali Noroozi , Mohammad Ali Sebt

In this paper, an algorithm for estimation and compensation of second-order nonlinearity in wireless sensor setwork (WSN) in distributed estimation framework is proposed. First, the effect of second-order nonlinearity on the performance of…

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