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In wireless networks, an essential step for precise range-based localization is the high-resolution estimation of multipath channel delays. The resolution of traditional delay estimation algorithms is inversely proportional to the bandwidth…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Tarik Kazaz , Gerard J. M. Janssen , Jac Romme , Alle-Jan Van der Veen

In this paper, the Cramer Rao bound (CRB) for range estimation between two underwater nodes is calculated under a Gaussian noise assumption on the measurements. The nodes can measure their depths, their mutual time of flight, and they have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-30 Hamid Ramezani , Raj Thilak Rajan , Geert Leus

We determine the bound to the maximum achievable sensitivity in the estimation of a scalar parameter from the information contained in an optical image in the presence of quantum noise. This limit, based on the Cramer-Rao bound, is valid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Vincent Delaubert , Nicolas Treps , Claude Fabre , Hans A. Bachor , Philippe Réfrégier

Channel estimation is of paramount importance in most communication systems in order to optimize the data rate/energy consumption tradeoff. In modern systems, the possibly large number of transmit/receive antennas and subcarriers makes this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-28 Luc Le Magoarou , Stéphane Paquelet

Low-resolution digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital converters (DACs and ADCs) have attracted considerable attention in efforts to reduce power consumption in millimeter wave (mmWave) and massive MIMO systems. This paper presents an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Sourjya Dutta , Abbas Khalili , Elza Erkip , Sundeep Rangan

Complete awareness of the wireless environment, crucial for future intelligent networks, requires sensing all transmitted signals, not just the strongest. A fundamental barrier is estimating the target signal when it is buried under strong…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Bowen Li , Junting Chen , Nikolaos Pappas

Meta-backscatter system that utilizes meta-material sensors is a promising enabler for future environmental sensing, offering distinct advantages such as low cost, zero-power consumption, and robustness. Specifically, the electromagnetic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Mengyuan Cao , Xu Liu , Hongliang Zhang

This paper considers the Cram\`er-Rao lower Bound (CRB) for the source localization problem in the near field. More specifically, we use the exact expression of the delay parameter for the CRB derivation and show how this exact CRB can be…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2013-03-11 Youcef Begriche , Messaoud Thameri , Karim Abed-Meraim

In quantum metrology, it is widely believed that the quantum Cramer-Rao bound is attainable bound while it is not true. In order to clarify this point, we explain why the quantum Cramer-Rao bound cannot be attained geometrically. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-27 Masahito Hayashi , Sai Vinjanampathy , L. C. Kwek

Near-field sensing with extremely large-scale antenna arrays (ELAAs) in practical 6G systems is expected to operate over broad bandwidths, where delay, Doppler, and spatial effects become tightly coupled across frequency. The purpose of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Tong Wei , Kumar Vijay Mishra , Bhavani Shankar M. R. , Björn Ottersten

This paper studies a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, in which a multi-antenna base station (BS) sends unified wireless signals to estimate one sensing target and communicate with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Haocheng Hua , Tony Xiao Han , Jie Xu

The aim of this thesis is to develop a theoretical framework to study parameter estimation of quantum channels. We study the task of estimating unknown parameters encoded in a channel in the sequential setting. A sequential strategy is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-06 Vishal Katariya

A usual assumption in quantum estimation is that the unknown parameter labels the possible states of the system, while it influences neither the sample space of outcomes nor the measurement aimed at extracting information on the parameter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-18 Luigi Seveso , Matteo A. C. Rossi , Matteo G. A. Paris

The fundamental limits of communication over multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks are considered when a limited number of one-bit analog to digital converters (ADC) are used at the receiver terminals. Prior works have mainly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Abbas Khalili , Farhad Shirani , Elza Erkip , Yonina C. Eldar

This paper aims at providing a fresh look at semiparametric estimation theory and, in particular, at the Semiparametric Cram\'{e}r-Rao Bound (SCRB). Semiparametric models are characterized by a finite-dimensional parameter vector of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-02 Stefano Fortunati , Fulvio Gini , Maria S. Greco , Abdelhak M. Zoubir , Muralidhar Rangaswamy

The problem of estimating the parameters of a moving target in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar is considered and a new approach for estimating the moving target parameters by making use of the phase information associated with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Aboulnasr Hassanien , Sergiy A. Vorobyov , Alex B. Gershman

This paper considers channel estimation and uplink achievable rate of the coarsely quantized massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with radio frequency (RF) impairments. We utilize additive quantization noise model (AQNM) and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-01 Liangyuan Xu , Xintong Lu , Shi Jin , Feifei Gao , Yongxu Zhu

In quantum multi-parameter estimation, the precision of estimating unknown parameters is bounded by the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB), defined via the inverse of the Fisher information matrix (FIM). However, in certain scenarios such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Min Namkung , Changhyoup Lee , Hyang-Tag Lim

The carrier phase of cellular signals can be utilized for highly accurate positioning, with the potential for orders-of-magnitude performance improvements compared to standard time-difference-of-arrival positioning. Due to the integer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-04 Henk Wymeersch , Rouhollah Amiri , Gonzalo Seco-Granados

The quantum Fisher information constrains the achievable precision in parameter estimation via the quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound, which has attracted much attention in Hermitian systems since the 60s of the last century. However, less…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-15 Jianning Li , Haodi Liu , Zhihai Wang , Xuexi Yi