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Several Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications provide location-based services, wherein it is critical to obtain accurate position estimates by aggregating information from individual sensors. In the recently proposed narrowband IoT (NB-IoT)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-19 Saeid Sedighi , Kumar Vijay Mishra , M. R. Bhavani Shankar , Björn Ottersten

Synchronization and ranging in internet of things (IoT) networks are challenging due to the narrowband nature of signals used for communication between IoT nodes. Recently, several estimators for range estimation using phase difference of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-05 Tarik Kazaz , Mario Coutino , Gerard J. M. Janssen , Geert Leus , Alle-Jan van der Veen

Initial timing acquisition in narrow-band IoT (NB-IoT) devices is done by detecting a periodically transmitted known sequence. The detection has to be done at lowest possible latency, because the RF-transceiver, which dominates downlink…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Harald Kroll , Matthias Korb , Benjamin Weber , Samuel Willi , Qiuting Huang

This letter proposes an algebraic solution for the problem of 3-D source localization utilizing the minimum number of measurements, i.e., one Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) and one Angle of Arrival (AOA) pair. The proposed method employs…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Mojtaba Amiri , Rouhollah Amiri

signal direction-of-arrival estimation using an array of sensors has been the subject of intensive research and development during the last two decades. Efforts have been directed to both, better solutions for the general data model and to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Farzan Haddadi , Mohammad Mahdi Nayebi , Mohammad Reza Aref

The quick detection and localization of partial discharge (PD) in an air-insulated substation (AIS) based on ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) sensor arrays are efficient for power equipment monitoring. The adopted UHF PD time difference of arrival…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-19 Bei Han , Lingen Luo , Gehao Sheng , Xiuchen Jiang

In this work, a system scheme is proposed for tracking a radio emitting target moving in two-dimensional space. The localization is based on the use of biased time-of-arrival (TOA) measurements obtained at two asynchronous receivers, each…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-05-14 Siamak Yousefi , Xiao-Wen Chang , Benoit Champagne

NarrowBand-Internet of Things (NB-IoT) is a new 3GPP radio access technology designed to provide better coverage for Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) networks. To provide reliable connections with extended coverage, a repetition transmission…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Yan Liu , Yansha Deng , Nan Jiang , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan

Achieving high resolution time-of-arrival (TOA) estimation in multipath propagation scenarios from bandlimited observations of communication signals is challenging because the multipath channel impulse response (CIR) is not bandlimited.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-19 Tarik Kazaz , Raj Thilak Rajan , Gerard J. M. Janssen , Alle-Jan van der Veen

In this paper, we study the problem of joint wideband spectrum sensing and direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation in a sub-Nyquist sampling framework. Specifically, considering a scenario where a few uncorrelated narrowband signals spread…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-01 Feiyu Wang , Jun Fang , Huiping Duan , Hongbin Li

The problem of off-grid direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation is investigated. We develop a grid-based method to jointly estimate the closest spatial frequency (the sine of DOA) grids, and the gaps between the estimated grids and the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-01 Huiping Huang , Hing Cheung So , Abdelhak M. Zoubir

Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation is a fundamental problem in array signal processing with applications spanning radar, sonar, wireless communications, and acoustic signal processing. This tutorial survey provides a comprehensive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Amgad A. Salama

Narrow-band Internet of Things (NB-IoT) is a low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) method that was first launched by the 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) Rel- 13 with the purpose of enabling low-cost, low-power and wide-area cellular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-01 Abdulwahid Mohammed , Mohammed. S. El-Bakry , Hassan Mostafa , Abd El-Hady. A. Ammar

The satellite component is recognized as a promising solution to complement and extend the coverage of future Internet of things (IoT) terrestrial networks (TNs). In this context, a study item to integrate satellites into narrowband IoT…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-30 Houcine Chougrani , Steven Kisseleff , Wallace A. Martins , Symeon Chatzinotas

With the introduction of shared spectrum sensing and beam-forming based multi-antenna transceivers, 5G networks demand spectrum sensing to identify opportunities in time, frequency, and spatial domains. Narrow beam-forming makes it…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-26 Piyush Sahoo , Romesh Rajoria , Shivam Chandhok , S. J. Darak , Danilo Pau , Hem-Dutt Dabral

High-performance computing of array signal processing problems is a critical task as real-time system performance is required for many applications. Noise subspace-based Direction-of-Arrival (DOA) estimation algorithms are popular in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Hamza Eray , Alptekin Temizel

In this paper, we study probabilistic time-of-arrival (ToA) and angle-of-arrival (AoA) joint localization in real indoor environments. To mitigate the effects of multipath propagation, the joint localization algorithm incorporates into the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Chunhua Geng , Traian E. Abrudan , Veli-Matti Kolmonen , Howard Huang

Lots of real-time applications over Internet of things (IoT)-based status update systems have imperative demands on information freshness, which is usually evaluated by age of information (AoI). Compared to the average AoI and peak AoI…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Tianci Zhang , Shutong Chen , Zhengchuan Chen , Zhong Tian , Yunjian Jia , Min Wang , Dapeng Oliver Wu

An ambiguity-free direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation scheme is proposed for sparse uniform linear arrays under low signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) and non-stationary broadband signals. First, for achieving better DOA estimation performance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-06 Wei Wang , Shefeng Yan , Linlin Mao , Zeping Sui , Jirui Yang

The generalized cross correlation (GCC) is regarded as the most popular approach for estimating the time difference of arrival (TDOA) between the signals received at two sensors. Time delay estimates are obtained by maximizing the GCC…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-25 Maximo Cobos , Fabio Antonacci , Luca Comanducci , Augusto Sarti