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In a multiuser context, the Bluetooth data from the smartphone could give an approximation of the distance between users. Meanwhile, the Wi-Fi data can be used to calculate the user's position directly. However, both the Wi-Fi-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-17 Viet-Cuong Ta , Trung-Kien Dao , Dominique Vaufreydaz , Eric Castelli

Numerous scheduling algorithms have been proposed to optimize various performance metrics like throughput, delay and utility in wireless networks. However, these algorithms often require instantaneous access to network state information,…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Bai Liu , Eytan Modiano

As we move towards 6G, the demand for high-precision, cost-effective positioning solutions becomes increasingly critical. Single-anchor positioning offers a promising alternative to traditional multi-anchor approaches, particularly in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Thodoris Spanos , Fran Fabra , José A. López-Salcedo , Gonzalo Seco-Granados , Nikos Kanistras , Ivan Lapin , Vassilis Paliouras

We propose an intuitive, simple and hardware friendly, yet surprisingly novel and efficient, received signal's angle of arrival (AoA) estimation scheme. Our intuitive, two-phases cross-correlation based scheme relies on a switched beam…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-09-22 Ahmed Badawy , Tamer Khattab , Daniele Trinchero , Tarek El Fouly , Amr Mohamed

We analyze the open-loop mechanical tracking performance of a sub-Terahertz (sub-THz) and Terahertz (THz) uplink communication system. These high-frequency bands enable multi-gigabit links through large bandwidths and narrow beams, but…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-21 P. Brach del Prever , P. Testolina , A. Masihi , S. Petrushkevich , M. Polese , T. Melodia , J. M. Jornet

Terahertz (THz) communication offers a promising solution for high-throughput wireless systems. However, the severe path loss of THz signals raises concerns about its effectiveness compared to radio frequency (RF) communication. In this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zhengying Lou , Baha Eddine Youcef Belmekki , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) not only assist communication but also help the localization of user equipment (UE). This study focuses on the indoor localization of UE with a single access point (AP) aided by multiple RISs.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Xiyu Wang , Yixuan Huang , Jie Yang , Yu Han , Shi Jin

Utilizing millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequencies for wireless communication in \emph{mobile} systems is challenging since it requires continuous tracking of the beam direction. Recently, beam tracking techniques based on channel sparsity…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-07 Daoud Burghal , Naveed A. Abbasi , Andreas F. Molisch

The Terahertz (THz) band (0.1-10 THz) has emerged as a critical frontier for future communication systems, offering ultra-wide bandwidths that enable Terabits-per-second (Tbps) wireless links and high-precision sensing and imaging. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Chong Han , Jingting Jiang , Zhengdong Hu , Meixia Tao , Wenjun Zhang

In this paper, we propose a joint single-base localization and communication enhancement scheme for the uplink (UL) integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) system with asynchronism, which can achieve accurate single-base localization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Xu Chen , XinXin He , Zhiyong Feng , Zhiqing Wei , Qixun Zhang , Xin Yuan , Ping Zhang

Range-based localization is ubiquitous: global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) power mobile phone-based navigation, and autonomous mobile robots can use range measurements from a variety of modalities including sonar, radar, and even…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Ethan Sequeira , Hussein Saad , Stephen Kelly , Matthew Giamou

This paper investigates the sensing of user's uplink channel and location in terahertz extra-large reconfigurable intelligent surface (XL-RIS) systems, where the unique hybrid far-near field effect and the beam squint effect caused by the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Zhuoran Li , Zhen Gao , Tuan Li

Wireless indoor localization has attracted significant research interest due to its high accuracy, low cost, lightweight design, and low power consumption. Specifically, ultra-wideband (UWB) time difference of arrival (TDOA)-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Wenda Zhao , Abhishek Goudar , Mingliang Tang , Angela P. Schoellig

Currently, accurate localization system based on commodity WiFi devices is not broadly available yet. In the literature, the solutions are based on either network infrastructure like WiFi router, which have at least three antennas, or…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Ouyang Zhang , Kannan Srinivasan

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

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 paper studies a coordinate alignment problem for cooperative mobile sensor network localization with range-based measurements. The network consists of target nodes, each of which has only access position information in a local fixed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Keyou You , Qizhu Chen , Pei Xie , Shiji Song

This paper considers the problem of ground user localization based on received signal strength (RSS) measurements obtained by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). We treat UAV-user link channel model parameters and antenna radiation pattern of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Omid Esrafilian , Rajeev Gangula , David Gesbert

The rapid growth of the low-altitude economy has resulted in a significant increase in the number of Low, slow, and small (LLS) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), raising critical challenges for secure airspace management and reliable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Tianhao Liang , Mu Jia , Tingting Zhang , Junting Chen , Longyu Zhou , Tony Q. S. Quek , Pooi-Yuen Kam

This article discusses the basic system architecture for terahertz (THz) wireless links with bandwidths of more than 50 GHz into optical networks. New design principles and breakthrough technologies are required in order to demonstrate Tbps…