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Direction-of-Arrival (DOA) estimation in sensor arrays faces limitations under demanding conditions, including low signal-to-noise ratio, single-snapshot scenarios, coherent sources, and unknown source counts. Conventional beamforming…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Xuyao Deng , Yong Dou , Kele Xu

A surrogate-based synthesis framework for antenna arrays is presented that incorporates mutual coupling while keeping optimization computationally efficient. The method combines a common characteristic-mode basis, a global modal coupling…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Leonardo Mörlein , Dirk Manteuffel

Antenna layout is an important design consideration for radio interferometers because it determines the quality of the snapshot point spread function (PSF, or array beam). This is particularly true for experiments targeting the 21 cm Epoch…

This paper proposes a novel towed movable antenna (ToMA) array architecture to enhance the physical layer security of airborne communication systems. Unlike conventional onboard arrays with fixed-position antennas (FPAs), the ToMA array…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Lipeng Zhu , Haobin Mao , Wenyan Ma , Zhenyu Xiao , Jun Zhang , Rui Zhang

Flexible antenna arrays (FAAs), distinguished by their rotatable, bendable, and foldable properties, are extensively employed in flexible radio systems to achieve customized radiation patterns. This paper aims to illustrate that FAAs,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Songjie Yang , Jiancheng An , Yue Xiu , Wanting Lyu , Boyu Ning , Zhongpei Zhang , Merouane Debbah , Chau Yuen

This paper presents an efficient optimization technique for super-resolution two-dimensional (2D) direction of arrival (DOA) estimation by introducing a new formulation of atomic norm minimization (ANM). ANM allows gridless angle estimation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-27 Zhi Tian , Zhe Zhang , Yue Wang

We present a MUSIC-based Direction of Arrival (DOA) estimation strategy using small antenna arrays, via employing deep learning for reconstructing the signals of a virtual large antenna array. Not only does the proposed strategy deliver…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-08 Aya Mostafa Ahmed , Udaya Sampath K. P. Miriya Thanthrige , Aly El Gamal , Aydin Sezgin

We present deep learning methods for the design of arrays and single instances of small antennas. Each design instance is conditioned on a target radiation pattern and is required to conform to specific spatial dimensions and to include, as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Shahar Lutati , Lior Wolf

The millimeter wave (mmWave) multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems with discrete lens arrays (DLA) have received great attention due to their simple hardware implementation and excellent performance. In this work, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Qiyu Hu , Yanzhen Liu , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu , Zhi Ding

The signal processing community currently witnesses the emergence of sensor array processing and Direction-of-Arrival (DoA) estimation in various modern applications, such as automotive radar, mobile user and millimeter wave indoor…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Marius Pesavento , Minh Trinh-Hoang , Mats Viberg

We address the challenging problem of estimating the directions-of-arrival (DOAs) of multiple off-grid signals using a single snapshot of one-bit quantized measurements. Conventional DOA estimation methods face difficulties in tackling this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-23 Yunqiao Hu , Shunqiao Sun , Yimin D. Zhang

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems exploit the spatial diversity achieved with an array of many antennas to perform spatial multiplexing of many users. Similar performance can be achieved using fewer antennas if movable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-07 Amna Irshad , Alva Kosasih , Vitaly Petrov , Emil Björnson

A multi-antenna broadcast channel scenario is considered where a base station delivers contents to cache-enabled user terminals. A joint design of coded caching (CC) and multigroup multicast beamforming is proposed to benefit from spatial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Antti Tölli , Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi , Jarkko Kaleva , Babak Khalaj

Recently, compressive antenna arrays have been considered for DoA estimation with reduced hardware complexity. By utilizing compressive sensing, such arrays employ a linear combining network to combine signals from a larger set of antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-06 Sankalp Pawar , Sebastian Semper , Florian Römer

Angle-of-Arrival estimation technology, with its potential advantages, emerges as an intriguing choice for indoor localization. Notably, it holds the promise of reducing installation costs. In contrast to ToF/TDoA based systems, AoA-based…

This paper investigates how near-field beamfocusing can be achieved using a modular linear array (MLA), composed of multiple widely spaced uniform linear arrays (ULAs). The MLA architecture extends the aperture length of a standard ULA…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Alva Kosasih , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

In this paper, we develop a theoretical framework for analyzing the measurable information content of an unknown scene through an active electromagnetic imaging array. We consider monostatic and multistatic array architectures in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Babak Mamandipoor , Amin Arbabian , Upamanyu Madhow

The degrees of freedom (DoF) of an X-network with M transmit and N receive nodes utilizing interference alignment with the support of $J$ relays each equipped with $L_j$ antennas operating in a half-duplex non-regenerative mode is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-16 Daniel Frank , Karlheinz Ochs , Aydin Sezgin

With a careful design of sample spacings either in temporal and spatial domain, co-prime sensing can reconstruct the autocorrelation at a significantly denser set of points based on Bazout theorem. However, still restricted from Bazout…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Hanshen Xiao , Guoqiang Xiao

Extremely Large-scale Array (ELAA) promises to deliver ultra-high data rates with increased antenna elements. However, increasing antenna elements leads to a wider realm of near-field, which challenges the traditional design of codebooks.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Feng Zheng , Hongkang Yu , Chenchen Wang , Luyang Sun , Qingqing Wu , Yijian Chen