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Multiple antennas arrays play a key role in wireless networks for communications but also for localization and sensing applications. The use of large antenna arrays at high carrier frequencies (in the mmWave range) pushes towards a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-14 Antonio A. D'Amico , Andrea de Jesus Torres , Luca Sanguinetti , Moe Win

In increasing number of electronic devices implement wideband radio technologies for localization and sensing purposes, like ultra-wideband (UWB). Such radio technologies benefit from a large number of antennas, but space for antennas is…

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As an emerging technology and evolution that goes beyond massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO), large intelligent surface (LIS) has gained much interest recently. LIS acts as an electromagnetic surface and can transmit, redirect, and…

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In this letter, we investigate the fundamental limits of localization in fluid antenna systems (FAS) utilizing a Fisher-information-theoretic framework. We develop a unified model to quantify the localization information extractable from…

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This paper presents a theoretical framework to derive information-theoretic bounds on the estimation accuracy of target position and velocity in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based integrated sensing and communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Lorenzo Pucci , Luca Arcangeloni , Andrea Giorgetti

Localization performance in wireless networks has been traditionally benchmarked using the Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB), given a fixed geometry of anchor nodes and a target. However, by endowing the target and anchor locations with…

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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…

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The performance bounds of near-field sensing are studied for circular arrays, focusing on the impact of bandwidth and array size. The closed-form Cramer-Rao bound (CRBs) for angle and distance estimation are derived, revealing the scaling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zhaolin Wang , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu

The concept of large intelligent surface (LIS)-based communication has recently raised research attention, in which a LIS is regarded as an antenna array whose entire surface area can be used for radio signal transmission and reception. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Jide Yuan , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

Terahertz inter-satellite links enable unprecedented sensing precision for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellations, yet face fundamental bounds from hardware impairments, pointing errors, and network interference. We develop a Network…

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This paper addresses the real-time state estimation problem for dynamic systems while protecting exogenous inputs against adversaries, who may be honest-but-curious third parties or external eavesdroppers. The Cram\'er-Rao lower bound…

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This paper considers an antenna structure where a (non-large) array of radiating elements is placed at short distance in front of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). We propose a channel estimation procedure using different…

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While Cram\'er-Rao lower bound is an important metric in sensing functions in integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) designs, its optimization usually involves a computationally expensive solution such as semidefinite relaxation. In…

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Although direct position estimation (DPE) has been demonstrated to offer enhanced robustness in GNSS receivers, its theoretical limits and performance in OFDM based positioning systems remain largely unexplored. In this paper, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Sijia Li , Rui Sun , Bing Xu , Yuanwei Liu

Recently, beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surface (BD-RIS) has emerged as a more flexible solution to engineer the wireless propagation channels, thanks to its non-diagonal reflecting matrix. Although the gain of the BD-RIS over…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-18 Xiaoqi Zhang , Liang Liu , Shuowen Zhang , Haijun Zhang

This paper focuses on radar waveform optimization for minimizing the Cram\'er-Rao bound (CRB) in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar system. In contrast to conventional approaches relying on semi-definite programming (SDP) and…

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In this paper, we study a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system where one multi-antenna base station (BS) sends information to a user with multiple antennas in the downlink and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Chan Xu , Shuowen Zhang

Future sixth-generation (6G) networks are envisioned to provide both sensing and communications functionalities by using densely deployed base stations (BSs) with massive antennas operating in millimeter wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz).…

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We address the localization of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) for a single-input single-output multi-carrier system using bi-static sensing between a fixed transmitter and a fixed receiver. Due to the deployment of RISs with a…

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