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The Bayesian Cram\'er-Rao bound (BCRB) is a crucial tool in signal processing for assessing the fundamental limitations of any estimation problem as well as benchmarking within a Bayesian frameworks. However, the BCRB cannot be computed…

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This paper presents a Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) for the estimation of parameters confined to an arbitrary set. Unlike existing results that rely on equality or inequality constraints, manifold structures, or the nonsingularity of the Fisher…

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions for wireless location estimation are likely to prevail in many real-world scenarios. In this work, we demonstrate for the first time how the Cramer-Rao upper bound on localization accuracy can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Ihsan Ullah , Robert Malaney , Shihao Yan

The natural integration of extremely large antenna arrays (ELAAs) and terahertz (THz) communications can potentially achieve Tbps data rates in 6G networks. However, due to the extremely large array aperture and wide bandwidth, a new…

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The narrowband and far-field assumption in conventional wireless system design leads to a mismatch with the optimal beamforming required for wideband and near-field systems. This discrepancy is exacerbated for larger apertures and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-01 Nitish Deshpande , Miguel R. Castellanos , Saeed R. Khosravirad , Jinfeng Du , Harish Viswanathan , Robert W. Heath

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extraordinary astrophysical phenomena characterized by short radio pulses that last only a few milliseconds, yet their power can surpass that of 500 million suns. To date, most detected FRBs originate from…

Channel Charting aims to construct a map of the radio environment by leveraging similarity relationships found in high-dimensional channel state information. Although resulting channel charts usually accurately represent local neighborhood…

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We investigate a multi-low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite system that simultaneously provides positioning and communication services to terrestrial user terminals. To address the challenges of accurately acquiring channel state information in…

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This paper studies a near-field integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system with extremely large-scale antenna array (ELAA), in which a base station (BS) deployed with enormous number of antennas transmits wireless signals to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-25 Haocheng Hua , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang

Recently, beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surface (BD-RIS) has emerged as a more flexible solution to engineer the wireless propagation channels, thanks to its non-diagonal reflecting matrix. Although the gain of the BD-RIS over…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-18 Xiaoqi Zhang , Liang Liu , Shuowen Zhang , Haijun Zhang

This paper presents key performance metrics for near-field communication and sensing systems and their scaling behavior as a function of the antenna array aperture. Analytical expressions are derived for several standard array geometries to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-09 Marcin Wachowiak , André Bourdoux , Sofie Pollin

In this letter, the channel estimation problem is studied for wireless communication systems assisted by large intelligent surface. Due to features of assistant channel, channel estimation (CE) problem for the investigated system is shown…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Junliang Lin , Gongpu Wang , Rongfei Fan , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Chintha Tellambura

Channel estimation is of paramount importance in most communication systems in order to optimize the data rate/energy consumption tradeoff. In modern systems, the possibly large number of transmit/receive antennas and subcarriers makes this…

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Extremely large aperture arrays (ELAAs) and millimeter-wave (mmWave) technologies are essential for achieving high data rates in future wireless communication systems. To perform precise beamforming, these systems require accurate channel…

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When nodes in a mobile network use relative noisy measurements with respect to their neighbors to estimate their positions, the overall connectivity and geometry of the measurement network has a critical influence on the achievable…

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Establishing bounds on the accuracy achievable by localization techniques represents a fundamental technical issue. Bounds on localization accuracy have been derived for cases in which the position of an agent is estimated on the basis of a…

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The number of users that can be spatially multiplexed by a wireless access point depends on the aperture of its antenna array. When the aperture increases and wavelength shrinks, "new" electromagnetic phenomena can be utilized to further…

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Reconfigurable antennas (RAs) utilize the electromagnetic (EM) domain to provide dynamic control over antenna radiation patterns, which offers an effective way to enhance power efficiency in wireless links. Unlike conventional arrays with…

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In this paper we explore the maximum precision attainable in the location of a point source imaged by a pixel array detector in the presence of a background, as a function of the detector properties. For this we use a well-known result from…

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In this paper, we propose an oversampling based low-resolution aware least squares channel estimator for large-scale multiple-antenna systems with 1-bit analog-to-digital converters on each receive antenna. To mitigate the information loss…

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