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With the increasing demand for internet of things (IoT) applications, especially for location-based services, how to locate passive mobile targets (MTs) with minimal beam control has become a challenge. Resonant beam systems are considered…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-14 Yixuan Guo , Qingwei Jiang , Mingliang Xiong , Wen Fang , Mingqing Liu , Qingqing Zhang , Qingwen Liu , Gang Yan

Direction of Arrival (DoA) estimation using Sparse Linear Arrays (SLAs) has recently gained considerable attention in array processing thanks to their capability to provide enhanced degrees of freedom in resolving uncorrelated source…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-01 Saeid Sedighi , M. R. Bhavani Shankar , Mojtaba Soltanalian , Björn Ottersten

Accurate direction of arrival (DoA) and time of arrival (ToA) estimation is an stringent requirement for several wireless systems like sonar, radar, communications, and dual-function radar communication (DFRC). Due to the use of high…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-16 Chandrashekhar Rai , Debarati Sen

Angle-of-arrival (AoA) estimation is a crucial function in wireless communications used for localization, beam-forming, interference management, and other applications. Deep learning (DL) solutions have been proposed for AoA to mitigate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-17 Elsayed Mohammed , Omar Mashaal , Alec Digby , Pasquale Leone , Lorne Swersky , Ashkan Eshaghbeigi , Hatem Abou-Zeid

Multi-static backscatter networks (BNs) are strong candidates for joint communication and localization in the ambient IoT paradigm for 6G. Enabling real-time localization in large-scale multi-static deployments with thousands of devices…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Tara Esmaeilbeig , Kartik Patel , Traian E. Abrudan , John Kimionis , Eleftherios Kampianakis , Michael S. Eggleston

This paper considers joint device activity detection and channel estimation in Internet of Things (IoT) networks, where a large number of IoT devices exist but merely a random subset of them become active for short-packet transmission at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Qipeng Wang , Liang Liu , Shuowen Zhang , Francis C. M. Lau

The ubiquity, large bandwidth, and spatial diversity of the fifth generation (5G) cellular signal render it a promising candidate for accurate positioning in indoor environments where the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signal is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-10 Mengguan Pan , Peng Liu , Shengheng Liu , Wangdong Qi , Yongming Huang , Xiaohu You , Xinghua Jia , Xiaodong Li

We propose a linear time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA) measurement model to improve \textit{distributed} estimation performance for localized target tracking. We design distributed filters over sparse (possibly large-scale) communication…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-27 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Themistoklis Charalambous

Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) is widely used in wireless localization systems. Among the enormous approaches of TDOA, high resolution TDOA algorithms have drawn much attention for its ability to resolve closely spaced signal delays in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Hailong Shi , Hao Zhang , Xiqin Wang

As massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) becomes popular, direction of arrival (DOA) measurement has been made a real renaissance due to the high-resolution achieved. Thus, there is no doubt about DOA estimation using massive MIMO.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Jiangzhou Wang , Baihua Shi , Feng Shu , Qi Zhang , Di Wu , Qijuan Jie , Zhihong Zhuang , Siling Feng , Yijin Zhang

Internet of Things (IoT) device localization is fundamental to smart home functionalities, including indoor navigation and tracking of individuals. Traditional localization relies on relative methods utilizing the positions of anchors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Yan Li , Jie Yang , Shang-Ling Shih , Wan-Ting Shih , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin

Localizing near-field sources considering practical arrays is important in wireless communications. Array-based apertures exhibit mutual coupling between the array elements, which can significantly degrade the performance of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-30 Zohreh Ebadi , Amir Masoud Molaei , Muhammad Ali Babar Abbasi , Simon Cotton , Anvar Tukmanov , Okan Yurduseven

Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation is a classical problem in signal processing with many practical applications. Its research has recently been advanced owing to the development of methods based on sparse signal reconstruction. While…

Applications · Statistics 2016-11-18 Zai Yang , Lihua Xie , Cishen Zhang

To boost energy saving for the general delay-tolerant IoT networks, a two-stage and single-relay queueing communication scheme is investigated. Concretely, a traffic-aware $N$-threshold and gated-service policy are applied at the relay. As…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Nan Qi , Nikolaos I. Miridakis , Ming Xiao , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Rugui Yao , Shi Jin

LoRaWAN is a compelling low-cost solution for large-scale indoor Internet of Things (IoT) data backhaul, owing to its strong penetration capability and low power consumption. However, its default pure ALOHA access mechanism leads to severe…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Junxiao Liu , Xinyu Fan , Luping Xiang , Kun Yang

In this paper, a real-time Internet of Things (IoT) monitoring system is considered in which the IoT devices are scheduled to sample underlying physical processes and send the status updates to a common destination. In a real-world IoT, due…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Bo Zhou , Walid Saad

Integrated satellite-terrestrial communications networks aim to exploit both the satellite and the ground mobile communications, thus providing genuine ubiquitous coverage. For 5G integrated low earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Wenjin Wang , Tingting Chen , Rui Ding , Gonzalo Seco-Granados , Li You , Xiqi Gao

This work analyses the performance-complexity tradeoff for different direction of arrival (DoA) estimation techniques. Such tradeoff is investigated taking into account uniform linear array structures. Several DoA estimation techniques have…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-06 Edno Gentilho , Paulo Rogério Scalassara , Taufik Abrão

This paper proposes a cooperative angle-of-arrival(AoA) estimation, taking advantage of co-processing channel state information (CSI) from a group of access points that receive signals of the same source. Since received signals are sparse,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-28 Shiva Akbari , Shahrokh Valaee

Efficient Random Access (RA) is critical for enabling reliable communication in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) networks. Herein, we propose a deep reinforcement learning based distributed RA scheme, entitled Neural Network-Based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Prasoon Raghuwanshi , Onel Luis Alcaraz López , Neelesh B. Mehta , Hirley Alves , Matti Latva-aho