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Employing large antenna arrays and utilizing large bandwidth have the potential of bringing very high data rates to future wireless communication systems. However, this brings the system into the near-field regime and also makes the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Yu Zhang , Ahmed Alkhateeb

This paper presents a distributed hybrid algorithm that synchronizes the time and rate of a set of clocks connected over a network. Clock measurements of the nodes are given at aperiodic time instants and the controller at each node uses…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-11 Marcello Guarro , Ricardo G. Sanfelice

For integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems, the channel information essential for communication and sensing tasks fluctuates across different timescales. Specifically, wireless sensing primarily focuses on acquiring path state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Zhiqiang Xiao , Yong Zeng , Fuxi Wen , Zaichen Zhang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

The operation of an inverse-Compton scattering source of x-rays or gamma-rays requires the precision alignment and synchronization of highly focused electron bunches and laser pulses at the collision point. The arrival times of electron and…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Michael R. Hadmack , Eric B. Szarmes , John M. J. Madey , Jeremy M. D. Kowalczyk

A new approach to distributed syntonization (frequency alignment) for the coordination of nodes in open loop coherent distributed antenna arrays to enable distributed beamforming is presented. This approach makes use of the concept of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-25 Hassna Ouassal , Ming Yan , Jeffrey A. Nanzer

In this paper we study the identification of a time-varying linear system from its response to a known input signal. More specifically, we consider systems whose response to the input signal is given by a weighted superposition of delayed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Reinhard Heckel , Veniamin I. Morgenshtern , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

Antenna array calibration is necessary to maintain the high fidelity of beam patterns across a wide range of advanced antenna systems and to ensure channel reciprocity in time division duplexing schemes. Despite the continuous development…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-26 Sergey S. Tambovskiy , Gábor Fodor , Hugo M. Tullberg

The enormous success of advanced wireless devices is pushing the demand for higher wireless data rates. Denser spectrum reuse through the deployment of more access points per square mile has the potential to successfully meet the increasing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-08-15 Horia Vlad Balan , Ryan Rogalin , Antonios Michaloliakos , Konstantinos Psounis , Giuseppe Caire

Clock synchronization and ranging over a wireless network with low communication overhead is a challenging goal with tremendous impact. In this paper, we study the use of time-to-digital converters in wireless sensors, which provides clock…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-17 Pol del Aguila Pla , Lissy Pellaco , Satyam Dwivedi , Peter Händel , Joakim Jaldén

A radio interferometer uses time delays to maximize its response to radiation coming from a particular direction. These time delays compensate for differences in the time of arrival of the wavefront at the different elements of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 P. Salas , M. A. Brentjens , D. D. Bordenave , J. B. R. Oonk , H. J. A. Röttgering

This paper investigates channel estimation for linear time-varying (LTV) wireless channels under double sparsity, i.e., sparsity in both the delay and Doppler domains. An on-grid approximation is first considered, enabling rigorous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Wissal Benzine , Ali Bemani , Nassar Ksairi , Dirk Slock

In this paper, we consider multiple signals sharing same instantaneous frequencies. This kind of data is very common in scientific and engineering problems. To take advantage of this special structure, we modify our data-driven…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-09 Thomas Y. Hou , Zuoqiang Shi

This paper presents two-hop relay gain-scheduling control in a Wireless Sensor Network to estimate a static target prior characterized by Gaussian probability distribution. The target is observed by a network of linear sensors, whose…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Johann A. Bengua , Hoang D. Tuan , Ho N. Phien , Ha H. Kha

During the last years the transfer of frequency signals through optical fibers has shown ultra low instabilities in various configurations. The outstanding experimental results of such point-to-point connections is motivation to develop a…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-25 M. Rost , M. Fujieda , D. Piester

In this paper we present a novel method of atomic clock synchronisation combining digital error correction and phase tracking. Microwave broadcasts are used to measure the difference in frequency between a pair of atomic clocks. We use the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-10-14 Adam Walton , Abigail McGlone , Benjamin Varcoe

Achieving optimal synchronization accuracy between two White Rabbit devices hinges on the proper selection of transceivers, which act as electro-optical converters connecting WR devices to the optical network infrastructure. The correct…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Michal Špaček , Josef Vojtěch , Jaroslav Roztočil

Synchronous laser-microwave networks delivering attosecond timing precision are highly desirable in many advanced applications, such as geodesy, very-long-baseline interferometry, high-precision navigation and multi-telescope arrays. In…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-07-28 M. Xin , K. Shafak , M. Y. Peng , A. Kalaydzhyan , W. Wang , O. D. Muecke , F. X. Kaertner

Differential encoding and decoding can be employed to circumvent channel estimation in wireless relay networks. This article studies differential amplify-and-forward relaying using linear combining with arbitrary fixed combining weights in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 M. R. Avendi , Ha H. Nguyen , Dac-Binh Ha

In this paper, we investigate the beam alignment problem in millimeter-wave (mmWave) distributed antenna systems where a home base station communicates with multiple users through a number of distributed remote radio units (RRUs).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Zhiqiang Wei , Min Qiu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

Through the last decade, we have witnessed a surge of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and with that a greater need to choreograph their actions across both time and space. Although these two problems, namely time synchronization and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Amr Alanwar , Henrique Ferraz , Kevin Hsieh , Rohit Thazhath , Paul Martin , Joao Hespanha , Mani Srivastava