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Future Communication networks are tending towards a diverse wireless networking world where the positioning information (PI) could be helpful in different techniques like the dynamic resource allocation. On the other hand, the PI could be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-01-20 Youssef Nasser , H. Farhat , Jean-François Hélard

Location awareness is a key factor for a wealth of wireless indoor applications. Its provision requires the careful fusion of diverse information sources. For agents that use radio signals for localization, this information may either come…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Erik Leitinger , Paul Meissner , Christoph Rüdisser , Gregor Dumphart , Klaus Witrisal

In the Wireless Localization Matching Problem (WLMP) the challenge is to match pieces of equipment with a set of candidate locations based on wireless signal measurements taken by the pieces of equipment. This challenge is complicated by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-15 Amin Ghafourian , Orestis Georgiou , Edmund Barter , Thilo Gross

Reliable and accurate localization of mobile objects is essential for many applications in wireless networks. In range-based localization, the position of the object can be inferred using the distance measurements from wireless signals…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-19 Yuan Shen , Wenhan Dai , Moe Z. Win

This paper investigates an infra-structure free global localization of a group of communicating mobile agents (e.g., first responders or exploring robots) via an ultra-wideband (UWB) inter-agent ranging aided dead-reckoning. We propose a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Jianan Zhu , Solmaz S. Kia

Relaying can improve the coverage and performance of wireless access networks. In presence of a localisation system at the mobile nodes, the use of such location estimates for relay node selection can be advantageous as such information can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-05-08 Jimmy J. Nielsen , Rasmus L. Olsen , Tatiana K. Madsen , Bernard Uguen , Hans-Peter Schwefel

The aim of this paper is to study the effect of cooperation on system delay, quantified as the number of retransmissions required to deliver a broadcast message to all intended receivers. Unlike existing works on broadcast scenarios, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-19 Anvar Tukmanov , Zhiguo Ding , Said Boussakta , Abbas Jamalipour

Distributed cooperative localization in wireless networks is a challenging problem since it typically requires solving a large-scale nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization problem. In this paper, we reformulate the classic cooperative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Mei Zhang , Zhiguo Wang , Feng Yin , Xiaojing Shen

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

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) localization refers to the problem of determining the position of each of the agents in a WSN using noisy measurement information. In many cases, such as in distance and bearing-based localization, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-06 Shiraz Khan , Inseok Hwang , James Goppert

We consider the resource allocation problem in cooperative wireless networks wherein nodes perform mutual information accumulation. We consider a unicast setting and arbitrary arrival processes at the source node. Source arrivals can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-08-17 Yanpei Liu , Jing Yang , Stark. C. Draper

The ability of robots to estimate their location is crucial for a wide variety of autonomous operations. In settings where GPS is unavailable, measurements of transmissions from fixed beacons provide an effective means of estimating a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Charles Schaff , David Yunis , Ayan Chakrabarti , Matthew R. Walter

Accurate location information is essential for many wireless sensor network (WSN) applications. A location-aware WSN generally includes two types of nodes: sensors whose locations to be determined and anchors whose locations are known a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-03-17 Liang Heng , Grace Xingxin Gao

We propose a hybrid message passing method for distributed cooperative localization and tracking of mobile agents. Belief propagation and mean field message passing are employed for, respectively, the motion-related and measurement-related…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-05-25 Burak Çakmak , Daniel N. Urup , Florian Meyer , Troels Pedersen , Bernard H. Fleury , Franz Hlawatsch

It is well known that a single anchor can be used to determine the position and orientation of an agent communicating with it. However, it is not clear what information about the anchor or the agent is necessary to perform this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Don-Roberts Emenonye , Harpreet S. Dhillon , R. Michael Buehrer

This paper presents a theoretical framework to derive information-theoretic bounds on the estimation accuracy of target position and velocity in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based integrated sensing and communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Lorenzo Pucci , Luca Arcangeloni , Andrea Giorgetti

Radio-based localization systems conventionally require stationary reference points (e.g. anchors) with precisely surveyed positions, making deployment time-consuming and costly. This paper presents an empirical evaluation of collaborative…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Paul Schwarzbach , Andrea Jung

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) is a promising technology to empower next-generation mobile communication networks. In this paper, to address the computational complexity associated with conventional fingerprint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Ziheng Liu , Jiayi Zhang , Enyu Shi , Yiyang Zhu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Bo Ai

We propose a cooperative sensing framework for mmWave ISAC networks in which a target is sensed by its nearest BS while opportunistically exploiting bistatic echoes from neighboring BSs. Cooperation requires no dedicated resources or…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Yasser Nabil , Hesham ElSawy , Hossam S. Hassanein

This letter investigates target position estimation in integrated sensing and communication networks composed of multiple cooperating monostatic base stations (BSs). Each BS employs a MIMO-orthogonal time-frequency space (OTFS) scheme,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-05 Lorenzo Pucci , Tommaso Bacchielli , Andrea Giorgetti