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Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become a popular approach for wireless localization based on channel state information (CSI). A common practice is to use the raw CSI in the input and allow the network to learn relevant channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-07 Artan Salihu , Stefan Schwarz , Markus Rupp

Modern techniques in the Internet of Things or autonomous driving require more accuracy positioning ever. Classic location techniques mainly adapt to outdoor scenarios, while they do not meet the requirement of indoor cases with multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-05 Jianyuan Yu , R. Michael Buehrer

Accurate indoor positioning for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is critical for logistics, surveillance, and emergency response applications, particularly in GPS-denied environments. Existing indoor localization methods, including optical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Cunyi Yin , Chenwei Wang , Jing Chen , Hao Jiang , Xiren Miao , Shaocong Zheng Zhenghua Chen Senior , Hong Yan

Massive MIMO systems are highly efficient but critically rely on accurate channel state information (CSI) at the base station in order to determine appropriate precoders. CSI acquisition requires sending pilot symbols which induce an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Luc Le Magoarou , Taha Yassine , Stéphane Paquelet , Matthieu Crussière

Channel charting (CC) is an unsupervised learning method allowing to locate users relative to each other without reference. From a broader perspective, it can be viewed as a way to discover a low-dimensional latent space charting the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Luc Le Magoarou , Taha Yassine , Stephane Paquelet , Matthieu Crussière

Herein, an interference-aware predictive aerial-and-terrestrial communication problem is studied, where an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) delivers some data payload to a few nodes within a communication deadline. The first challenge is the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Bowen Li , Junting Chen

Modern indoor localization techniques are essential to overcome the weak GPS coverage in indoor environments. Recently, considerable progress has been made in Channel State Information (CSI) based indoor localization with signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-18 Liping Wang , Sudeep Pasricha

Because of the advantages of computation complexity compared with traditional localization algorithms, fingerprint based localization is getting increasing demand. Expanding the fingerprint database from the frequency domain by channel…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Yuan Ruihao , Huang Kaixuan , Zhang Shunqing

Radio maps find numerous applications in wireless communications and mobile robotics tasks, including resource allocation, interference coordination, and mission planning. Although numerous techniques have been proposed to construct radio…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-14 Raju Shrestha , Daniel Romero , Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri

Research in the field of autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has significantly advanced in recent years, mainly due to their relevance in a large variety of commercial, industrial, and military applications. However, UAV navigation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Akkas Haque , Ahmed Elsaharti , Tarek Elderini , Mohamed Atef Elsaharty , Jeremiah Neubert

The evolution of mobile networks towards user-centric cell-free distributed Massive MIMO configurations requires the development of novel signal processing techniques. More specifically, digital precoding algorithms have to be designed or…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-10 Emiel Vanspranghels , Raquel Marina Noguera Oishi , Franco Minucci , Sofie Pollin

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) as flying radio access network (RAN) nodes offers a promising complement to traditional fixed terrestrial deployments. More recently yet still in the context of wireless networks, drones have also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-09 David Gesbert , Omid Esrafilian , Junting Chen , Rajeev Gangula , Urbashi Mitra

The capabilities of autonomous flight with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have significantly increased in recent times. However, basic problems such as fast and robust geo-localization in GPS-denied environments still remain unsolved.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Shuxiao Chen , Xiangyu Wu , Mark W. Mueller , Koushil Sreenath

Radio signals are used broadly as navigation aids, and current and future terrestrial wireless communication systems have properties that make their dual-use for this purpose attractive. Sub-6 GHz carrier frequencies enable widespread…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Russ Whiton , Junshi Chen , Fredrik Tufvesson

In this paper we study the use of the Channel State Information (CSI) as fingerprint inputs of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for localization. We examine whether the CSI can be used as a distinct fingerprint corresponding to a single…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Anastasios Foliadis , Mario H. Castañeda Garcia , Richard A. Stirling-Gallacher , Reiner S. Thomä

It is expected that unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will play a vital role in future communication systems. Optimum positioning of UAVs, serving as base stations, can be done through extensive field measurements or ray tracing simulations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Ibrahim Shoer , Bahadir K. Gunturk , Hasan F. Ates , Tuncer Baykas

Recent advances in satellite and communication technologies have significantly improved geographical information and monitoring systems. Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) and Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Osman Tokluoglu , Mustafa Ozturk

We present a neural network architecture for jointly learning user locations and environment mapping up to isometry, in an unsupervised way, from channel state information (CSI) values with no location information. The model is based on an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Shreya Kadambi , Arash Behboodi , Joseph B. Soriaga , Max Welling , Roohollah Amiri , Srinivas Yerramalli , Taesang Yoo

Due to the indoor none-line-of-sight (NLoS) propagation and multi-access interference (MAI), it is a great challenge to achieve centimeter-level positioning accuracy in indoor scenarios. However, the sixth generation (6G) wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-23 Yang Wu , Yinghua Wang , Jie Huang , Cheng-Xiang Wang , Chen Huang

Channel Charting (CC) has emerged as a promising framework for data-driven radio localization, yet existing approaches often struggle to scale globally and to handle the distortions introduced by non-line-of-sight (NLoS) conditions. In this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Mohsen Ahadi , Omid Esrafilian , Florian Kaltenberger , Adeel Malik