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The Fisher Information Matrix (FIM) has been the standard approximation to the accuracy of parameter estimation on gravitational-wave signals from merging compact binaries due to its ease-of-use and rapid computation time. While the…

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In 5G/6G wireless systems, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) can play a role as a passive anchor to enable and enhance localization in various scenarios. However, most existing RIS-aided localization works assume that the geometry…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-14 Pinjun Zheng , Hui Chen , Tarig Ballal , Henk Wymeersch , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

This paper presents Cram\'er-Rao Lower Bound (CRLB) for the complex-valued Blind Source Extraction (BSE) problem based on the assumption that the target signal is independent of the other signals. Two instantaneous mixing models are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Václav Kautský , Zbyněk Koldovský , Petr Tichavský , Vicente Zarzoso

The inherent randomness of communication symbols creates a fundamental tension in Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC). On the one hand, they enable data transmission while allowing sensing to fully reuse communication resources. On…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Fan Liu , Yifeng Xiong , Ya-Feng Liu , Jie Yang , Christos Masouros , Shi Jin

We derive a vector generalization of the curvature-corrected Cram\'er--Rao bound (CRB) in the nonasymptotic regime using a Hilbert space square-root embedding. Building on previous scalar results, we establish a \emph{directional} curvature…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Sunder Ram Krishnan

Minimum-variance estimators for the parameter fnl that quantifies local-model non-Gaussianity can be constructed from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) bispectrum (three-point function) and also from the trispectrum (four-point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-03 Marc Kamionkowski , Tristan L. Smith , Alan Heavens

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) plays an important role in enhancing source localization accuracy. Based on the information inequality of Fisher information analyses, the Cram\'{e}r-Rao Bound (CRB) of the localization error can be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-18 Yuhua Jiang , Yuanwan Mai , Feifei Gao

This work presents a geometric refinement of the classical Cram\'er--Rao bound (CRB) in the non-asymptotic regime by incorporating curvature-aware corrections based on the second fundamental form associated with the statistical model…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Sunder Ram Krishnan

We introduce the notion of the essential tangent bundle of a parametrized measure model and the notion of reduced Fisher metric on a (possibly singular) 2-integrable measure model. Using these notions and a new characterization of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-07-21 Jürgen Jost , Hông Vân Lê , Lorenz Schwachhöfer

Several current ultra-wide band applications, such as millimeter wave radar and communication systems, require high sampling rates and therefore expensive and energy-hungry analogto-digital converters (ADCs). In applications where cost and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-28 Petre Stoica , Xiaolei Shang , Yuanbo Cheng

This paper presents a unified Cram\'er-Rao lower bound (CRLB) framework for signal-level parameters in integrated sensing and communications (ISAC)-enabled radar systems. Starting from the generic signal model, we analyze the coupling…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-28 Yanpeng Su , Norman Franchi , Maximilian Lübke

The Bayesian Cram\'er-Rao bound (BCRB) is a crucial tool in signal processing for assessing the fundamental limitations of any estimation problem as well as benchmarking within a Bayesian frameworks. However, the BCRB cannot be computed…

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The problem of determining the achievable sensitivity with digitization exhibiting minimal complexity is addressed. In this case, measurements are exclusively available in hard-limited form. Assessing the achievable sensitivity via the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Manuel S. Stein

In this letter, we develop a unified Cram\'{e}r-Rao bound (CRB) framework to characterize the fundamental performance limits of transmission activity detection in fluid antenna systems (FASs) and conventional multiple fixed-position antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Zhentian Zhang , Kai-Kit Wong , Hao Jiang , Christos Masouros , Chan-Byoung Chae

We establish the multiparameter quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound for simultaneously estimating the centroid, the separation, and the relative intensities of two incoherent optical point sources using alinear imaging system. For equally bright…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-13 J. Rehacek , Z. Hradil , B. Stoklasa , M. Paur , J. Grover , A. Krzic , L. L. Sanchez-Soto

This paper investigates jointly optimal array geometry and waveform designs for active sensing. Specifically, we focus on minimizing the Cram\'er-Rao lower bound (CRB) of the angle of a single target in white Gaussian noise. We first find…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-20 Ids van der Werf , Robin Rajamäki , Geert Leus

Channel estimation is of paramount importance in most communication systems in order to optimize the data rate/energy consumption tradeoff. In modern systems, the possibly large number of transmit/receive antennas and subcarriers makes this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-28 Luc Le Magoarou , Stéphane Paquelet

Finite-aperture constraints render array design nontrivial and can undermine the effectiveness of classical sparse geometries. This letter provides universal guidance for fluid antenna array (FAA) design under a fixed aperture. We derive a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zhentian Zhang , Kai-Kit Wong , Hao Jiang , Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Hyundong Shin , Yangyang Zhang

One-bit quantization has garnered significant attention in recent years for various signal processing and communication applications. Estimating model parameters from one bit quantized data can be challenging, particularly when the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Nadav E. Rosenthal , Joseph Tabrikian

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…

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