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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

Radio Dynamic Zones (RDZs) are geographically defined areas specifically allocated for testing new wireless technologies. It is essential to safeguard the regular spectrum users outside the zones from the interference caused by the deployed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Mushfiqur Rahman , Sung Joon Maeng , Ismail Guvenc , Chau-Wai Wong

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) networks offer the potential for high-speed data transfer and precise localization, leveraging large antenna arrays and extensive bandwidths. However, these networks are challenged by significant path loss and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Wan-Ting Shih , Chao-Kai Wen , Shang-Ho Tsai , Shi Jin , Chau Yuen

This work establishes a framework of near-field communication under different array geometries of extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO). We first formulate the near-field spatial non-stationary channel model which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Kangda Zhi , Yi Song , Tianyu Yang , Tuo Wu , Tengjiao Wang , Songyan Xue , Fangzhou Wu , Giuseppe Caire

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

The performance of holographic multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications, employing two-dimensional (2-D) planar antenna arrays, is typically compromised by finite degrees-of-freedom (DOF) stemming from limited array size. The…

In this work, we propose a novel approach for high accuracy user localization by merging tools from both millimeter wave (mmWave) imaging and communications. The key idea of the proposed solution is to leverage mmWave imaging to construct a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Mohammed Aladsani , Ahmed Alkhateeb , Georgios C. Trichopoulos

The capabilities of multi-antenna technology have recently been significantly enhanced by the proliferation of extra large array architectures. The high dimensionality of these systems implies that communications take place in the nearfield…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Xavier Mestre , Adrian Agustin , David Sarda

In this paper, we propose a quadruple-UPA architecture for realizing the beamforming with wide coverage in terahertz (THz) communication. Considering the severe path loss suffered in the THz wave propagation, the pilot signals of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Zhongbao Tian , Zhi Chen , Boyu Ning

This paper investigates how near-field beamfocusing can be achieved using a modular linear array (MLA), composed of multiple widely spaced uniform linear arrays (ULAs). The MLA architecture extends the aperture length of a standard ULA…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Alva Kosasih , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

This paper presents an analysis of target localization accuracy, attainable by the use of MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) radar systems, configured with multiple transmit and receive sensors, widely distributed over a given area. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Hana Godrich , Alexander M. Haimovich , Rick S. Blum

The dense and distributed deployment of sub-THz radio units (RUs) alongside sub-10 GHz access point (AP) is a promising approach to provide high data rate and reliable coverage for future 6G applications. However, beam search or RU…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Nishant Gupta , Muris Sarajlic , Erik G. Larsson

We study the performance bounds of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) relative positioning for vehicles with multiple antenna arrays. The Cram\'{e}r-Rao bound for the estimation of the relative position and the orientation of the Tx vehicle is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-06 Anastasios Kakkavas , Mario H. Castañeda García , Richard A. Stirling-Gallacher , Josef A. Nossek

Extremely large-scale antenna arrays are poised to play a pivotal role in sixth-generation (6G) networks. Utilizing such arrays often results in a near-field spherical wave transmission environment, enabling the generation of focused beams,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-31 Qianyu Yang , Anna Guerra , Francesco Guidi , Nir Shlezinger , Haiyang Zhang , Davide Dardari , Baoyun Wang , Yonina C. Eldar

We study the problem of sensor placement in environments in which localization is a necessity, such as ad-hoc wireless sensor networks that allow the placement of a few anchors that know their location or sensor arrays that are tracking a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-07-21 Ioana O. Bercea , Volkan Isler , Samir Khuller

This paper addresses the challenges of mobile user requirements in shadowing and multi-fading environments, focusing on the Downlink (DL) radio node selection based on Uplink (UL) channel estimation. One of the key issues tackled in this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Mervat Zarour , Qiuheng Zhou , Sergiy Melnyk , Hans D. Schotten

The paper addresses the problem of determining the unknown position of a mobile station for a mmWave MISO system. This setup is motivated by the fact that massive arrays will be initially implemented only on 5G base stations, likely leaving…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-29 Alessio Fascista , Angelo Coluccia , Henk Wymeersch , Gonzalo Seco-Granados

High-frequency bands such as millimeter-wave and terahertz require narrow beams due to path loss and shadowing. Beam alignment (BA) methods allow the transceivers to adjust the directions of these beams efficiently by exploiting the channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Ozlem Yildiz , Abbas Khalili , Elza Erkip

For unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided millimeter wave (mmWave) networks, we propose a unified three-dimensional (3D) spatial framework in this paper to model a general case that uncovered users send messages to base stations via UAVs.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Wenqiang Yi , Yuanwei Liu , Eliane Bodanese , Arumugam Nallanathan , George K. Karagiannidis

We address the problem of localizing multiple sources in 3D by combining sensor array measurements with camera observations. We propose a fusion framework extending the covariance matrix fitting method with an unbalanced optimal transport…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Ilyes Jaouedi , Gilles Chardon , José Picheral