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Movable antennas (MA) have gained significant attention in recent years to overcome the limitations of extremely large antenna arrays in terms of cost and power consumption. In this paper, we investigate the use of MA arrays at the base…

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Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Marcin Kolakowski

Accurate and ubiquitous localization is crucial for a variety of applications such as logistics, navigation, intelligent transport, monitoring, control, and also for the benefit of communications. Exploiting millimeter-wave (mmWave) signals…

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This paper presents an experimental study of the air-to-ground (AG) propagation channel through ultrawideband(UWB) measurements in an open area using unmanned-aerial-vehicles (UAVs). Measurements were performed using UWB radios operating at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-18 Wahab Khawaja , Ozgur Ozdemir , Fatih Erden , Ismail Guvenc , David Matolak

Device-Free Localization (DFL) employs passive radio techniques capable to detect and locate people without imposing them to wear any electronic device. By exploiting the Integrated Sensing and Communication paradigm, DFL networks employ…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-17 Vittorio Rampa , Federica Fieramosca , Stefano Savazzi , Michele D'Amico

Location-aware networks are of great importance and interest in both civil and military applications. This paper determines the localization accuracy of an agent, which is equipped with an antenna array and localizes itself using wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yanjun Han , Yuan Shen , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Moe Z. Win , Huadong Meng

The commercial availability of low-cost millimeter wave (mmWave) communication and radar devices is starting to improve the penetration of such technologies in consumer markets, paving the way for large-scale and dense deployments in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Anish Shastri , Neharika Valecha , Enver Bashirov , Harsh Tataria , Michael Lentmaier , Fredrik Tufvesson , Michele Rossi , Paolo Casari

In the next generation of wireless systems, Massive MIMO offers high angular resolution for localization. By virtue of large number of antennas, the Angle of Arrival (AoA) of User Terminals (UTs) can be estimated with high accuracy.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Masoud Arash , Hamed Mirghasemi , Ivan Stupia , Luc Vandendorpe

In this paper, we propose an efficient range free localization scheme for large scale three dimensional wireless sensor networks. Our system environment consists of two type of sensors, randomly deployed static sensors and global…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Rajesh Kumar , Sushil Kumar , Diksha Shukla , Ram Shringar Raw

With the rising demand for indoor localization, high precision technique-based fingerprints became increasingly important nowadays. The newest advanced localization system makes effort to improve localization accuracy in the time or…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-25 Kaixuan Huang , Chenlu Xiang , Shunqing Zhang , Shugong Xu , Xianfeng Ma , Qinglong Xian , Hua Yang

This paper presents an infrastructure-free approach for obstacle detection and environmental mapping using ultra-wideband (UWB) radar mounted on a mobile robotic platform. Traditional sensing modalities such as visual cameras and Light…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Adelina Giurea , Stijn Luchie , Dieter Coppens , Jeroen Hoebeke , Eli De Poorter

Ultra-Wideband (UWB) systems are becoming increasingly popular for indoor localization, where range measurements are obtained by measuring the time-of-flight of radio signals. However, the range measurements typically suffer from a…

Efficient localization plays a vital role in many modern applications of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV) and Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which would contribute to improved control, safety, power economy, etc. The ubiquitous 5G NR (New…

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Multiple antenna arrays play a key role in wireless networks for communications but also localization and sensing. The use of large antenna arrays pushes towards a propagation regime in which the wavefront is no longer plane but spherical.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-06 Andrea De Jesus Torres , Antonio Alberto D'Amico , Luca Sanguinetti , Moe Z. Win

Movable antenna (MA) systems have attracted growing interest in wireless communications due to their ability to reshape wireless channels via local antenna movement within a confined region. However, optimizing antenna positions to enhance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-26 Changhao Liu , Weidong Mei , Zhi Chen , Jun Fang , Boyu Ning

In this letter, the localization of terrestrial nodes when unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are used as base stations is investigated. Particularly, a novel localization scenario based on received signal strength (RSS) from terrestrial nodes…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Hazem Sallouha , Mohammad Mahdi Azari , Alessandro Chiumento , Sofie Pollin

In this paper, we present a new wireless sensing system utilizing a movable antenna (MA) that continuously moves and receives sensing signals to enhance sensing performance over the conventional fixed-position antenna (FPA) sensing. We show…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Wenyan Ma , Lipeng Zhu , Rui Zhang

Wireless sensor networks are dynamically formed over the varying topologies. Wireless sensor networks can assist in conducting the rescue operations and can provide search in timely manner. Long time monitoring applications are environment…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-08-26 Anubha Parashar , Susheel Kumar , Vinay S Bhaskar , Rajni Chinia

Six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA) is an emerging technology that is able to fully exploit the spatial variation of wireless channels by controlling the 3D positions and 3D rotations of distributed antennas/antenna surfaces at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Xiaodan Shao , Rui Zhang , Robert Schober