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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

This paper derives a novel pilot-aided phase and channel estimation algorithm for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with phase noise and quasi-static channel fading. Our novel approach allows, for the first time, carrier phase…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-07 Yiming Li , Zhouyi Hu , Andrew Ellis

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is an emerging technique employing metasurface to reflect the signal from the source node to the destination node. By smartly reconfiguring the electromagnetic (EM) properties of the metasurface and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Qi Gu , Dan Wu , Xin Su , Hanning Wang , Jingyuan Cui , Yifei Yuan

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

Velocity estimation is a cornerstone of the recently introduced near-field predictive beamforming. This paper derives the Cramer-Rao bounds (CRBs) for joint radial and transverse velocity estimation within a predictive beamforming framework…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Khalid A. Alshumayri , Mudassir Masood , Ali. A. Nasir

This paper presents a distributed estimator for a deterministic parametric physical field sensed by a homogeneous sensor network and develops a new transformed expression for the Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB) on the variance of distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Salvatore Talarico , Natalia A. Schmid , Marwan Alkhweldi , Matthew C. Valenti

We propose regularized approximate message passing (RAMP), a low-complexity algorithm for discrete signal detection in overloaded multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems where the number of transmit antennas exceeds the number of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Shreesal Shrestha , Getuar Rexhepi , Kuranage Roche Rayan Ranasinghe , Hyeon Seok Rou , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu

This paper introduces a novel approach to efficient localization in next-generation communication systems through a base station (BS)-enabled passive beamforming utilizing beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (BD-RISs).…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-21 Mahmoud Raeisi , Hui Chen , Henk Wymeersch , Ertugrul Basar

This study centers on Line-of-Sight (LoS) MIMO communication enabled by a Transmissive Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) operating in the Terahertz (THz) frequency bands. The study demonstrates that the introduction of RIS can render…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Nithish Sharvirala , Amine Mezghani , Ekram Hossain

We present novel lower bounds on the localization error using a network of satellites randomly deployed on a sphere around Earth. Our new analysis approach characterizes the localization performance by its asymptotic behavior as the number…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-08 Hodaya Halevi , Itsik Bergel , Yair Noam

This paper considers an angle-domain intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) system. We derive maximum likelihood (ML) estimators for the effective angles from the base station (BS) to the user and the effective angles of propagation from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Xiaoling Hu , Caijun Zhong , Zhaoyang Zhang

This paper concerns with the sensor management problem in collocated Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) radars. After deriving the Cramer-Rao Lower Bound (CRLB) as a performance measure, the antenna allocation problem is formulated as a…

Applications · Statistics 2016-11-15 A. A. Gorji , R. Tharmarasa , W. D. Blair , T. Kirubarajan

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has garnered growing interest and attention due to its potential for facilitating and supporting wireless communications and sensing. This paper studies a semi-passive IRS-enabled sensing system, where…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-06 Qiaoyan Peng , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Shaodan Ma , Ming-Min Zhao , Octavia A. Dobre

Optimization of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) via a previously introduced method is effective, but time-consuming, because multiport impedance or scatter matrices are required for each transmitter and receiver position, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-31 Hans-Dieter Lang , Michel A. Nyffenegger , Heinz Mathis , Xingqi Zhang

A near-field integrated sensing, positioning, and communication (ISPAC) framework is proposed, where a base station (BS) simultaneously serves multiple communication users and carries out target sensing and positioning. A novel double-array…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Haochen Li , Zhaolin Wang , Xidong Mu , Zhiwen Pan , Yuanwei Liu

Achieving high-rate communication with accurate localization and wireless environment sensing has emerged as an important trend of beyond-fifth and sixth generation cellular systems. Extension of the antenna array to an extremely large…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Jie Yang , Yong Zeng , Shi Jin , Chao-Kai Wen , Pingping Xu

This paper proposes a hybrid mono- and bi-static sensing framework, by leveraging the base station (BS) and user equipment (UE) cooperation in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. This scheme is built on 3GPP-supported…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Xiaoli Xu , Yong Zeng

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

The carrier phase of cellular signals can be utilized for highly accurate positioning, with the potential for orders-of-magnitude performance improvements compared to standard time-difference-of-arrival positioning. Due to the integer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-04 Henk Wymeersch , Rouhollah Amiri , Gonzalo Seco-Granados

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are one of the most promising technological enablers of the next (6th) generation of wireless systems. In this paper, we introduce a novel use-case of the RIS technology in radio localization,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-24 Kamran Keykhosravi , Gonzalo Seco-Granados , George C. Alexandropoulos , Henk Wymeersch