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Location awareness in wireless networks may enable many applications such as emergency services, autonomous driving and geographic routing. Although there are many available positioning techniques, none of them is adapted to work with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-02 Vladimir Savic , Erik G. Larsson

The widespread use of wireless technologies leads to an ever-increasing number of users and permanently functioning devices. However, the growth of the number of wireless users in a limited space and a limited frequency range leads to an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Volodymyr Astapenya , Volodymyr Sokolov , Mahyar TajDini

Device-Free Localization (DFL) is a passive radio method able to detect, estimate, and localize targets (e.g., human or other obstacles) that do not need to carry any electronic device. According to the Integrated Sensing And Communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Vittorio Rampa , Federica Fieramosca , Stefano Savazzi , Michele D'Amico

A network is called localizable if the positions of all the nodes of the network can be computed uniquely. If a network is localizable and embedded in plane with generic configuration, the positions of the nodes may be computed uniquely in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-08-30 Buddhadeb Sau , Krishnendu Mukhopadhyaya

This paper presents a comprehensive dataset of LoRaWAN technology path loss measurements collected in an indoor office environment, focusing on quantifying the effects of environmental factors on signal propagation. Utilizing a network of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Nahshon Mokua Obiri , Kristof Van Laerhoven

Many localization algorithms and systems have been developed by means of wireless sensor networks for both indoor and outdoor environments. To achieve higher localization accuracy, extra hardware equipments are utilized by most of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Tao Huang , Zhikui Chen , Feng Xia , Cheng Jin , Liang Li

A radiomap, representing the spatial distribution of wireless signal strength within a specific region, is fundamentally determined by the local propagation channel and finds extensive applications in network planning and optimization. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Wenli Li , Bin Wang , Guangxu Zhu , Haiyan Fan , Yi Zhang

Device-free localization plays an important role in many ubiquitous applications. Among the different technologies proposed, Wi-Fi based technology using commercial devices has attracted much attention due to its low cost, ease of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Hao Wang , Daqing Zhang , Kai Niu , Qin Lv , Yuanhuai Liu , Dan Wu , Ruiyang Gao , Bing Xie

Spectrum cartography constructs maps of metrics such as channel gain or received signal power across a geographic area of interest using spatially distributed sensor measurements. Applications of these maps include network planning,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-24 Yves Teganya , Daniel Romero , Luis Miguel Lopez Ramos , Baltasar Beferull-Lozano

Wireless systems are getting deployed in many new environments with different antenna heights, frequency bands and multipath conditions. This has led to an increasing demand for more channel measurements to understand wireless propagation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Muhammad Nazmul Islam , Byoung-Jo J. Kim , Paul Henry , Eric Rozner

In future wireless communication networks, existing active localization will gradually evolve into more sophisticated (passive) sensing functionalities. One main enabler for this process is the merging of information collected from the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Maximilian Bauhofer , Silvio Mandelli , Marcus Henninger , Thorsten Wild , Stephan ten Brink

In this paper we consider the problem of high accuracy localization of mobile nodes in a multipath-rich environment where sub-meter accuracies are required. We employ a peer to peer framework where the vehicles/nodes can get pairwise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-30 Venkatesan Ekambaram , Kannan Ramchandran

Due to the severe multipath effect, no satisfactory device-free methods have ever been found for indoor speed estimation problem, especially in non-line-of-sight scenarios, where the direct path between the source and observer is blocked.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-11 Feng Zhang , Chen Chen , Beibei Wang , K. J. Ray Liu

In this work, we present a wireless localization method that operates on self-supervised and unlabeled channel estimates. Our self-supervising method learns general-purpose channel features robust to fading and system impairments. Learned…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-15 Artan Salihu , Stefan Schwarz , Markus Rupp

Positioning has recently received considerable attention as a key enabler in emerging applications such as extended reality, unmanned aerial vehicles and smart environments. These applications require both data communication and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Yang Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Yufei Blankenship , Jemin Lee , Zabih Ghassemlooy , Julian Cheng , Shiwen Mao

In the fifth-generation communication system (5G), multipath-assisted positioning (MAP) has emerged as a promising approach. With the enhancement of signal resolution, multipath component (MPC) are no longer regarded as noise but rather as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-05 Ye Tian , Xueting Xu , Ao Peng

The Internet of Things (IoT) has started to empower the future of many industrial and mass-market applications. Localization techniques are becoming key to add location context to IoT data without human perception and intervention.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-06 You Li , Yuan Zhuang , Xin Hu , Zhouzheng Gao , Jia Hu , Long Chen , Zhe He , Ling Pei , Kejie Chen , Maosong Wang , Xiaoji Niu , Ruizhi Chen , John Thompson , Fadhel Ghannouchi , Naser El-Sheimy

Frequency-domain channel extrapolation is effective in reducing pilot overhead for massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Recently, Deep learning (DL) based channel extrapolator has become a promising candidate for modeling…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Haoyu Wang , Zhi Sun , Shuangfeng Han , Xiaoyun Wang , Zhaocheng Wang

Low-Power Wide-Area Networks operating in the unlicensed bands are being deployed to connect a rapidly growing number of Internet-of-Things devices. While the unlicensed sub-GHz band offers favorable propagation for long-range connections,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-04 Gilles Callebaut , Sara Gunnarsson , Andrea P. Guevara , Fredrik Tufvesson , Sofie Pollin , Liesbet Van der Perre , Anders J Johansson

5G mmWave technology can turn multipath into a friend, as multipath components become highly resolvable in the time and angle domains. Multipath signals have not only been used in the literature to position the user equipment (UE) but also…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-03 Qamar Bader , Sharief Saleh , Mohamed Elhabiby , Aboelmagd Noureldin