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Estimating the direction of arrival (DOA) of sources is an important problem in aerospace and vehicular communication, localization and radar. In this paper, we consider a challenging multi-source DOA estimation task, where the receiving…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-17 Tom Tirer , Oded Bialer

Movable antenna (MA) technology exhibits great promise for enhancing the sensing capabilities of future sixth-generation (6G) networks due to its capability to alter antenna array geometry. With the growing prevalence of near-field…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Yushen Wang , Weidong Mei , Xin Wei , Ya Fei Wu , Zhi Chen , Boyu Ning

Multi-path sensing, which aims to extract the geometric attributes of multiple propagation paths, is expected to be a key functionality of 6G. A movable antenna (MA) can enable this functionality by creating a synthetic aperture through…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jaehong Kim , Jihong Park , Changsheng You , Seung-Woo Ko

The angle of Arrival (AoA) estimation is of great interest in modern communication systems. Traditional maximum likelihood-based iterative algorithms are sensitive to initialization and cannot be used online. We propose a Bayesian method to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-18 Akshay Sharma , Nancy Nayak , Sheetal Kalyani

Movable antennas (MAs) have emerged as a promising technology to improve wireless communication and sensing performance towards sixth-generation (6G) networks through flexible antenna movement. In this paper, we propose a novel wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Haobin Mao , Lipeng Zhu , Wenyan Ma , Zhenyu Xiao , Xiang-Gen Xia , Rui Zhang

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

We investigate localization of a source based on angle of arrival (AoA) measurements made at a geographically dispersed network of cooperating receivers. The goal is to efficiently compute accurate estimates despite outliers in the AoA…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-06-19 Bharath Ananthasubramaniam , Upamanyu Madhow

We address the problem of search-free direction of arrival (DOA) estimation for sensor arrays of arbitrary geometry under the challenging conditions of a single snapshot and coherent sources. We extend a method of searchfree…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-05 A. Govinda Raj , J. H. McClellan

This paper presents a general technique for the joint Direction-of-Arrival (DoA) and Time-of-Arrival (ToA) estimation in multipath environments. The proposed ultra-wideband technique is based on phase-mode expansions and the use of nearly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-28 Alejandro Ramírez-Arroyo , Antonio Alex-Amor , Pablo Padilla , Juan F. Valenzuela-Valdés

We study the problem of signal source localization using angle of arrival (AOA) measurements. We begin by presenting verifiable geometric conditions for sensor deployment that ensure the model's asymptotic localizability. Then we establish…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Shenghua Hu , Guangyang Zeng , Wenchao Xue , Haitao Fang , Biqiang Mu

Accurate and reliable localization is crucial for various wireless communication applications. Numerous studies have proposed accurate localization methods using hybrid received signal strength (RSS) and angle of arrival (AOA) measurements.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Weizhong Ding , Shengming Chang , Shudi Bao

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

Motivated by recent work on two dimensional (2D) harmonic component recovery via atomic norm minimization (ANM), a fast 2D direction of arrival (DOA) off-grid estimation based on ANM method was proposed. By introducing a matrix atomic norm…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-24 Jian Pan , Jun Tang , Yong Niu

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

The vast amount of spectrum available for millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless communication systems will support accurate real-time positioning concurrent with communication signaling. This paper demonstrates that accurate estimates of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Ojas Kanhere , Theodore S. Rappaport

In this letter, we propose a new wireless sensing system equipped with a rotatable antenna (RA) array to enhance the sensing performance of a uniform sparse array (USA). To tackle the severe spatial undersampling issues, we propose a novel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-22 Chengzhi Ye , Ruoyu Zhang , Jincheng Du , Wenyan Ma , Qingqing Wu , Wen Wu , Rui Zhang

Gridless methods show great superiority in line spectral estimation. These methods need to solve an atomic $l_0$ norm (i.e., the continuous analog of $l_0$ norm) minimization problem to estimate frequencies and model order. Since this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Bai Yan , Qi Zhao , Jin Zhang , J. Andrew Zhang , Xin Yao

This paper proposes two efficient and easy-to-use error mitigation solutions to the problem of three-dimensional (3-D) angle-of-arrival (AOA) source localization in the mixed line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) indoor…

Channel estimation is of critical importance in millimeter-wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Due to the use of large antenna arrays, low-complexity mmWave specific channel estimation algorithms are required. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-26 Dalin Zhu , Junil Choi , Robert W. Heath

mmWave communication has come up as the unexplored spectrum for 5G services. With new standards for 5G NR positioning, more off-the-shelf platforms and algorithms are needed to perform indoor positioning. An object can be accurately…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-15 Neharika Valecha , Jesus Omar Lacruz , Michael Lentmaier , Joerg Widmer , Fredrik Tufvesson