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Radio localization is applied in high-frequency (e.g., mmWave and THz) systems to support communication and to provide location-based services without extra infrastructure. {For solving localization problems, a simplified, stationary,…

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Large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) holds great promise for the fifth-generation (5G) and future communication systems. In near-field scenarios, the spherical wavefront model is commonly utilized to accurately depict the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-14 Hao Jiang , Wangqi Shi , Xiao Chen , Qiuming Zhu , Zhen Chen

We study 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 multipath-degraded…

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We consider the potential for positioning with a system where antenna arrays are deployed as a large intelligent surface (LIS). We derive Fisher-informations and Cram\'{e}r-Rao lower bounds (CRLB) in closed-form for terminals along the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Sha Hu , Fredrik Rusek , Ove Edfors

In this letter, we develop a unified Cram\'{e}r-Rao bound (CRB) framework to characterize the fundamental performance limits of transmission activity detection in fluid antenna systems (FASs) and conventional multiple fixed-position antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Zhentian Zhang , Kai-Kit Wong , Hao Jiang , Christos Masouros , Chan-Byoung Chae

In increasing number of electronic devices implement wideband radio technologies for localization and sensing purposes, like ultra-wideband (UWB). Such radio technologies benefit from a large number of antennas, but space for antennas is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Tobias Lafer , Erik Leitinger , Klaus Witrisal

Several current ultra-wide band applications, such as millimeter wave radar and communication systems, require high sampling rates and therefore expensive and energy-hungry analogto-digital converters (ADCs). In applications where cost and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-28 Petre Stoica , Xiaolei Shang , Yuanbo Cheng

Movable antennas (MAs) show great promise for enhancing the sensing capabilities of future sixth-generation (6G) networks. With the growing prevalence of near-field propagation at ultra-high frequencies, this paper focuses on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Yushen Wang , Weidong Mei , Xin Wei , Boyu Ning , Zhi Chen

Knowledge about the location of licensed primary-users (PU) could enable several key features in cognitive radio (CR) networks including improved spatio-temporal sensing, intelligent location-aware routing, as well as aiding spectrum policy…

Performance · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Jun Wang , Jianshu Chen , Danijela Cabric

Accurate channel estimation is critical to fully exploit the beamforming gains when communicating with extremely large aperture arrays. The propagation distances between the user and receiver, which potentially has thousands of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-01 Alva Kosasih , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

In this paper, we consider a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar system for localizing a target based on its reflected echo signals. Specifically, we aim to estimate the random and unknown angle information of the target, by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Chan Xu , Shuowen Zhang

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

In modern radar systems, precise target localization using azimuth and velocity estimation is paramount. Traditional unbiased estimation methods have utilized gradient descent algorithms to reach the theoretical limits of the Cramer Rao…

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In this work, we study the design of receivers for uplink multi-user systems, aiming to estimate both the channel and the transmitted symbols. We consider two estimation strategies: (i) a joint estimation approach, where the channel and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Xue Zhang , Abla Kammoun , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Modern MIMO communication systems are almost exclusively designed under the assumption of locally plane wavefronts over antenna arrays. This is known as the far-field approximation and is soundly justified at sub-6-GHz frequencies at most…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Giacomo Bacci , Luca Sanguinetti , Emil Björnson

The "near-field" propagation modeling of wireless channels is necessary to support sixth-generation (6G) technologies, such as intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), that are enabled by large aperture antennas and higher frequency carriers.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Navneet Agrawal , Ehsan Tohidi , Renato L. G. Cavalcante , Sławomir Stańczak

Noncoherent communication systems have regained interest due to the growing demand for high-mobility and low-latency applications. Most existing studies using large antenna arrays rely on the far-field approximation, which assumes locally…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-26 Aniol Martí , Luca Sanguinetti , Meritxell Lamarca , Jaume Riba

Radio-frequency simultaneous localization and mapping (RF-SLAM) methods jointly infer the position of mobile transmitters and receivers in wireless networks, together with a geometric map of the propagation environment. An inferred map of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Benjamin J. B. Deutschmann , Xuhong Li , Florian Meyer , Erik Leitinger

Extremely large antenna array (ELAA) not only effectively enhances system communication performance but also improves the sensing capabilities of communication systems, making it one of the key enabling technologies in 6G wireless networks.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Boyu Teng , Xiaojun Yuan , Rui Wang , Ying-Chang Liang

A Cram\'er-Rao bound (CRB) optimization framework for near-field sensing (NISE) with continuous-aperture arrays (CAPAs) is proposed. In contrast to conventional spatially discrete arrays (SPDAs), CAPAs emit electromagnetic (EM) probing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Hao Jiang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan