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Magnetic induction (MI) enables communication in RF-denied environments (underground, underwater, in-body), where the medium conductivity imprints a deterministic signature on the channel. This letter derives a closed-form Cram\'{e}r--Rao…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Haofan Dong , Ozgur B. Akan

In this paper, we derive the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) for blind channel estimation in redundant block transmission systems, a lower bound for the mean squared error of any blind channel estimators. The derived CRB is valid for any full-rank…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-08 Yen-Huan Li , Borching Su , Ping-Cheng Yeh

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

Estimation under model misspecification arises in many signal processing problems, where the assumed observation model deviates from the true data-generating mechanism due to errors or simplifications. The misspecified Cram\'er-Rao bound…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Malaak Khatib , Nadav Harel , Joseph Tabrikian , Tirza Routtenberg

In this paper, we propose multi-input multi-output (MIMO) beamforming designs towards joint radar sensing and multi-user communications. We employ the Cram\'er-Rao bound (CRB) as a performance metric of target estimation, under both point…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-26 Fan Liu , Ya-Feng Liu , Ang Li , Christos Masouros , Yonina C. Eldar

As a method to extract information from optical system, imaging can be viewed as a parameter estimation problem. The fundamental precision in locating one emitter or estimating the separation between two incoherent emitters is bounded below…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-29 Ben Wang , Liang Xu , Lijian Zhang

The Cram\'er-Rao bound serves as a crucial lower limit for the mean squared error of an estimator in frequentist parameter estimation. Paradoxically, it requires highly accurate prior knowledge of the estimated parameter for constructing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-21 Javier Navarro , Ricard Ravell Rodríguez , Mikel Sanz

In this paper, we derive for the first time the exact Cramer-Rao bounds (CRBs) on semi-blind channel estimation for amplify-and-forward two-way relay networks. The bounds cover a wide range of modulation schemes that satisfy a certain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-24 Saeed Abdallah , Ioannis N. Psaromiligkos

Estimation of multiple parameters in an unknown Hamiltonian is investigated. We present upper and lower bounds on the time required to complete the estimation within a prescribed tolerance $\delta$. The lower bound is given on the basis of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-10 Naoto Kura , Masahito Ueda

Bounding the optimal precision in parameter estimation tasks is of central importance for technological applications. In the regime of a small number of measurements, or that of low signal-to-noise ratios, the meaning of common frequentist…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-23 Valentin Gebhart , Manuel Gessner , Augusto Smerzi

In this paper, we consider a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar system for localizing a target based on its reflected echo signals. Specifically, we aim to estimate the random and unknown angle information of the target, by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Chan Xu , Shuowen Zhang

We extend the traditional framework for estimating subspace bases that maximize the preserved signal energy to additionally preserve the Cram\'er-Rao bound (CRB) of the biophysical parameters and, ultimately, improve accuracy and precision…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Andrew Mao , Sebastian Flassbeck , Cem Gultekin , Jakob Assländer

The quantum Fisher information constrains the achievable precision in parameter estimation via the quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound, which has attracted much attention in Hermitian systems since the 60s of the last century. However, less…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-15 Jianning Li , Haodi Liu , Zhihai Wang , Xuexi Yi

For decoherence processes induced by weak interactions with the environment, a general quantum channel with one noise parameter has been formulated. This channel is called low-noise channel and very useful for investigating the parameter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Masahiro Hotta , Tokishiro Karasawa

The goal of this paper is to characterize the best achievable performance for the problem of estimating an unknown parameter having a sparse representation. Specifically, we consider the setting in which a sparsely representable…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Zvika Ben-Haim , Yonina C. Eldar

RF fingerprinting authenticates satellite transmitters by exploiting hardware-specific signal impairments, yet existing methods operate without theoretical performance guarantees. We derive the Fisher information matrix (FIM) for joint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Haofan Dong , Ozgur B. Akan

The quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound is a cornerstone of modern quantum metrology, as it provides the ultimate precision in parameter estimation. In the multiparameter scenario, this bound becomes a matrix inequality, which can be cast to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Aaron Z. Goldberg , Luis L. Sánchez-Soto , Hugo Ferretti

In multiparameter quantum metrology, the weighted-arithmetic-mean error of estimation is often used as a scalar cost function to be minimized during design optimization. However, other types of mean error can reveal different facets of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-12 Xiao-Ming Lu , Zhihao Ma , Chengjie Zhang

Assessing the quality of parameter estimates for models describing the motion of single molecules in cellular environments is an important problem in fluorescence microscopy. We consider the fundamental data model, where molecules emit…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-15 A. Marie d'Avigneau , S. S. Singh , R. J. Ober

In this paper, the Cram\'{e}r-Rao Bounds (CRB) for the simultaneous estimation of power system electromechanical modes and forced oscillations (FO) are derived. Two cases are considered; in the first case only the steady-state response to…

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