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In this paper, we consider a downlink orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system from a base station to a high-speed train (HST) equipped with fully/partly calibrated massive uniform linear antenna-array (ULA) in wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-05 Yinghao Ge , Weile Zhang , Feifei Gao , Hlaing Minn

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

In this letter, we propose to deploy rotatable antennas (RAs) at the base station (BS) to enhance both communication and sensing (C&S) performances, by exploiting a new spatial degree-of-freedom (DoF) offered by array rotation.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-14 Chao Zhou , Changsheng You , Beixiong Zheng , Xiaodan Shao , Rui Zhang

This article introduces a novel lightweight framework using ambient backscattering communications to counter eavesdroppers. In particular, our framework divides an original message into two parts: (i) the active-transmit message transmitted…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Nam H. Chu , Nguyen Van Huynh , Diep N. Nguyen , Dinh Thai Hoang , Shimin Gong , Tao Shu , Eryk Dutkiewicz , Khoa T. Phan

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

An integrated sensing and backscatter communication (ISABC) system is introduced herein. This system features a full-duplex (FD) base station (BS) that seamlessly merges sensing with backscatter communication and supports multiple users.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-30 Diluka Galappaththige , Shayan Zargari , Chintha Tellambura , Geoffrey Ye Li

We consider channel estimation for an uplink massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system where the base station (BS) uses an array with low-resolution (1-2 bit) analog-to-digital converters and a spatial Sigma-Delta…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-15 Shilpa Rao , Gonzalo Seco-Granados , Hessam Pirzadeh , Josef A. Nossek , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Broadband channel is often characterized by a sparse multipath channel where dominant multipath taps are widely separated in time, thereby resulting in a large delay spread. Traditionally, accurate channel estimation is done by sampling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-31 Guan Gui , Aihua Kuang , Ling Wang

In this letter, we study the ambient backscatter communication systems over frequency-selective channels. Specifically, we propose an interference-free transceiver design to facilitate signal detection at the reader. Our design utilizes the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Chong Zhang , Gongpu Wang , Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis , Feifei Gao , George K. Karagiannidis

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis and theoretical foundation for next-generation backscatter networks that move beyond communication and integrate RF location sensing capabilities. An end-to-end system model for wideband OFDM…

We develop a direction of arrival (DoA) and channel estimation algorithm for the one-bit quantized millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. By formulating the estimation problem as a noisy one-bit…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-24 Liangyuan Xu , Feifei Gao , Cheng Qian

In this paper, we consider the Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB) for estimation of a lens-embedded antenna array with deterministic parameters. Unlike CRLB of uniform linear array (ULA), it is noted that CRLB for direction of arrival (DoA) of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Jae-Nam Shim , Hongseok Park , GeeYong Suk , Chan-Byoung Chae , Dong Ku Kim

Backscatter communication (BC) is a promising technique for future Internet-of-Things (IoT) owing to its low complexity, low cost, and potential for energy-efficient operation in sensor networks. There are several network infrastructure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Ahmet Kaplan , Joao Vieira , Erik G. Larsson

This paper investigates the massive random access for a huge amount of user devices served by a base station (BS) equipped with a massive number of antennas. We consider a grant-free unsourced random access (U-RA) scheme where all users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Xinyu Xie , Yongpeng Wu , Junyuan Gao , Wenjun Zhang

Recent efforts to obtain high data rates in wireless systems have focused on what can be achieved in systems that have nonlinear or coarsely quantized transceiver architectures. Estimating the channel in such a system is challenging because…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Kang Gao , J. Nicholas Laneman , N. J. Estes , Jonathan Chisum , Bertrand Hochwald

Extremely large aperture arrays (ELAAs) and millimeter-wave (mmWave) technologies are essential for achieving high data rates in future wireless communication systems. To perform precise beamforming, these systems require accurate channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-22 Heling Zhang , Xiujun Zhang , Xiaofeng Zhong , Shidong Zhou

The use of multiantenna technologies in the near field offers the possibility of focusing the energy in spatial regions rather than just in angle. The objective of this paper is to provide a formal framework that allows to establish the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Xavier Mestre , Adrian Agustin

Atmospheric structure, represented by backscatter coefficients (BC) recovered from satellite LiDAR attenuated backscatter (ATB), provides a volumetric view of clouds, aerosols, and molecules, playing a critical role in human activities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Tianchi Xu

Perfect channel estimation is very hard, time/ power consuming, and expensive; so it is not preferred (e.g. in mobile) communication systems. This paper seeks for new, cheap, low complexity, deep learning based solution. Several new…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-29 M. A. Amirabadi

Doubly selective (DS) channel estimation in largescale multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems is a challenging problem due to the requirement of unaffordable pilot overheads and prohibitive complexity. In this paper, we propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Bo Gong , Qibo Qin , Xiang Ren , Lin Gui , Hanwen Luo , Wen Chen