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This paper provides an initial investigation on the application of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for fingerprint-based positioning using measured massive MIMO channels. When represented in appropriate domains, massive MIMO channels…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-22 Joao Vieira , Erik Leitinger , Muris Sarajlic , Xuhong Li , Fredrik Tufvesson

Channel state information (CSI)-based fingerprinting via neural networks (NNs) is a promising approach to enable accurate indoor and outdoor positioning of user equipments (UEs), even under challenging propagation conditions. In this paper,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Emre Gönültaş , Eric Lei , Jack Langerman , Howard Huang , Christoph Studer

Channel charting is a self-supervised learning technique whose objective is to reconstruct a map of the radio environment, called channel chart, by taking advantage of similarity relationships in high-dimensional channel state information.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Phillip Stephan , Florian Euchner , Stephan ten Brink

Numerous communications and networking challenges prevent deploying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in extreme environments where the existing wireless technologies are mainly ground-focused; and, as a consequence, the air-to-air channel…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Alireza Mohammadi , Mehdi Rahmati , Hafiz Malik

With the development of the sixth-generation (6G) communication system, Channel State Information (CSI) plays a crucial role in improving network performance. Traditional Channel Charting (CC) methods map high-dimensional CSI data to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Yuan Gao , Wenjing Xie , Yiming Liu , Bintao Hu , Jianbo Du , Shugong Xu

The increasing deployment of large antenna arrays at base stations has significantly improved the spatial resolution and localization accuracy of radio-localization methods. However, traditional signal processing techniques struggle in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Baptiste Chatelier , Vincent Corlay , Musa Furkan Keskin , Matthieu Crussière , Henk Wymeersch , Luc Le Magoarou

Channel charting is an unsupervised learning method that aims at mapping wireless channels to a so-called chart, preserving as much as possible spatial neighborhoods. In this paper, a model-based deep learning approach to this problem is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Taha Yassine , Luc Le Magoarou , Stéphane Paquelet , Matthieu Crussière

With expeditious development of wireless communications, location fingerprinting (LF) has nurtured considerable indoor location based services (ILBSs) in the field of Internet of Things (IoT). For most pattern-matching based LF solutions,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-13 Luan Chen , Iness Ahriz , Didier Le Ruyet

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained great interest for rapid deployment in both civil and military applications. UAV communication has its own distinctive channel characteristics compared with widely used cellular and satellite…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-24 Aziz Altaf Khuwaja , Yunfei Chen , Nan Zhao , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Paul Dobbins

The low-altitude economy has emerged as a critical focus for future economic development, emphasizing the urgent need for flight activity surveillance utilizing the existing sensing capabilities of mobile cellular networks. Traditional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Yixuan Huang , Jie Yang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shuqiang Xia , Xiao Li , Shi Jin

We analyze the problem of localization algorithms for underwater sensor networks. We first characterize the underwater channel for radio communications and adjust a linear model with measurements of real transmissions. We propose an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-04-14 Javier Zazo , Santiago Zazo , Sergio Valcarcel Macua , Marina Pérez , Iván Pérez-Álvarez , Laura Cardona , Eduardo Quevedo

Channel charting (CC) is a self-supervised positioning technique whose main limitation is that the estimated positions lie in an arbitrary coordinate system that is not aligned with true spatial coordinates. In this work, we propose a novel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 José Miguel Mateos-Ramos , Frederik Zumegen , Henk Wymeersch , Christian Häger , Christoph Studer

Channel charting has emerged as a powerful tool for user equipment localization and wireless environment sensing. Its efficacy lies in mapping high-dimensional channel data into low-dimensional features that preserve the relative…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Ge Chen , Panqi Chen , Lei Cheng

Localization plays a key role for safe operation of UAVs enabling beyond visual line of sight applications. Compared to GPS based localization, cellular networks can reduce the positioning error and cost since cellular connectivity is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-12 Irshad A. Meer , Mustafa Ozger , Cicek Cavdar

Channel charting is a data-driven baseband processing technique consisting in applying self-supervised machine learning techniques to channel state information (CSI), with the objective of reducing the dimension of the data and extracting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-03 Paul Ferrand , Alexis Decurninge , Luis G. Ordoñez , Maxime Guillaud

With the fast growing demand of location-based services in indoor environments, indoor positioning based on fingerprinting has attracted a lot of interest due to its high accuracy. In this paper, we present a novel deep learning based…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-03-24 Xuyu Wang , Lingjun Gao , Shiwen Mao , Santosh Pandey

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are becoming increasingly useful for tasks which require the acquisition of data over large areas. The coverage problem, i.e., the problem of periodically visiting all subregions of an area at a desired…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Floriana Benedetti , Alessio Capitanelli , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni , Gianni Vercelli

This paper proposes a novel approach to map-based navigation system for unmanned aircraft. The proposed system attempts label-to-label matching, not image-to-image matching, between aerial images and a map database. The ground objects can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Youngjoo Kim

The Global Positioning System (GPS) has become a part of our daily life with the primary goal of providing geopositioning service. For an unmanned aerial system (UAS), geolocalization ability is an extremely important necessity which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Jianli Wei , Deniz Karakay , Alper Yilmaz

We propose passive channel charting, an extension of channel charting to passive target localization. As in conventional channel charting, we follow a dimensionality reduction approach to reconstruct a physically interpretable map of target…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Florian Euchner , David Kellner , Phillip Stephan , Stephan ten Brink