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The new demands for high-reliability and ultra-high capacity wireless communication have led to extensive research into 5G communications. However, the current communication systems, which were designed on the basis of conventional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-23 Hongji Huang , Song Guo , Guan Gui , Zhen Yang , Jianhua Zhang , Hikmet Sari , Fumiyuki Adachi

5G New Radio (NR) is a key enabler of accurate positioning in smart cities and smart factories. This paper presents the experimental results from three 5G positioning testbeds running open-source OpenAirInterface (OAI) gNB and Core Network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Mohsen Ahadi , Adeel Malik , Omid Esrafilian , Florian Kaltenberger , Cedric Thienot

Joint communication and localization~(JCL) is envisioned to be a key feature in future millimeter-wave~(mmWave) wireless networks for context-aware applications. A map-based channel model considering both site-specific radio environment and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-21 Junquan Deng

The sensing and positioning capabilities foreseen in 6G have great potential for technology advancements in various domains, such as future smart cities and industrial use cases. Channel charting has emerged as a promising technology in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Omid Esrafilian , Mohsen Ahadi , Florian Kaltenberger , David Gesbert

Location awareness in wireless networks may enable many applications such as emergency services, autonomous driving and geographic routing. Although there are many available positioning techniques, none of them is adapted to work with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-02 Vladimir Savic , Erik G. Larsson

High-precision positioning accuracy is among the key features of the future fifth-generation (5G-advanced) cellular networks to enable a wide variety of commercial, critical, and consumer use cases. 5G new radio (NR) systems have relied on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-15 Abdurrahman Fouda , Ryan Keating , Hyun-Su Cha

This paper presents a terrestrial localization system based on 5G infrastructure as a viable alternative to GNSS, particularly in scenarios where GNSS signals are obstructed or unavailable. It discusses network planning aimed at enabling…

Accurate and robust localization is a critical enabler for emerging 5G and 6G applications, including autonomous driving, extended reality (XR), and smart manufacturing. While data-driven approaches have shown promise, most existing models…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-16 Guangjin Pan , Kaixuan Huang , Hui Chen , Shunqing Zhang , Christian Häger , Henk Wymeersch

Machine leaning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) enable new methods for localization and sensing in next-generation networks to fulfill a wide range of use cases. These approaches rely on learning approaches that require large amounts…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Albrecht Michler , Jonas Ninnemann , Jakob Krauthäuser , Paul Schwarzbach , Oliver Michler

Fingerprint-based localization improves the positioning performance in challenging, non-line-of-sight (NLoS) dominated indoor environments. However, fingerprinting models require an expensive life-cycle management including recording and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Maximilian Stahlke , George Yammine , Tobias Feigl , Bjoern M. Eskofier , Christopher Mutschler

As we move towards 6G, the demand for high-precision, cost-effective positioning solutions becomes increasingly critical. Single-anchor positioning offers a promising alternative to traditional multi-anchor approaches, particularly in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Thodoris Spanos , Fran Fabra , José A. López-Salcedo , Gonzalo Seco-Granados , Nikos Kanistras , Ivan Lapin , Vassilis Paliouras

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication is one of the cornerstone innovations of fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks, thanks to the massive bandwidth available in these frequency bands. To correctly assess the performance of such…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-29 Mattia Lecci , Paolo Testolina , Marco Giordani , Michele Polese , Tanguy Ropitault , Camillo Gentile , Neeraj Varshney , Anuraag Bodi , Michele Zorzi

Location information is expected to be the key to meeting the needs of communication and context-aware services in 6G systems. User localization is achieved based on delay and/or angle estimation using uplink or downlink pilot signals.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-24 Hui Chen , Sina Rezaei Aghdam , Musa Furkan Keskin , Yibo Wu , Simon Lindberg , Andreas Wolfgang , Ulf Gustavsson , Thomas Eriksson , Henk Wymeersch

While the 5G cellular system is being deployed worldwide, researchers have started the investigation of the 6G mobile communication networks. Although the essential requirements and key usage scenarios of 6G are yet to be defined, it is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-03 Zhiqiang Xiao , Yong Zeng

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) 5G New Radio (NR) communication systems, with their high-resolution antenna arrays and extensive bandwidth, offer a transformative opportunity for high-throughput data transmission and advanced environmental…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Tao Du , Jie Yang , Fan Liu , Jiaxiang Guo , Shuqiang Xia , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin

One of upcoming mobility enhancements in 5G-Advanced networks is to execute handover based on Layer 1 (L1) measurements using the so called lower layer mobility procedure. In this paper, we provide a system model for lower layer mobility…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Alperen Gündogan , Akın Badalıoglu , Panagiotis Spapis , Ahmad Awada

Radio signals are well suited for user localization because they are ubiquitous, can operate in the dark and maintain privacy. Many prior works learn mappings between channel state information (CSI) and position fully-supervised. However,…

Location-aware communication systems are expected to play a pivotal part in the next generation of mobile communication networks. Therefore, there is a need to understand the localization limits in these networks, particularly, using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Zohair Abu-Shaban , Xiangyun Zhou , Thushara Abhayapala , Gonzalo Seco-Granados , Henk Wymeersch

Radio positioning is an important part of joint communication and sensing in beyond 5G communication systems. Existing works mainly focus on the mmWave bands and under-utilize the sub-6 GHz bands, even though it is promising for accurate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-28 Yu Ge , Maximilian Stark , Musa Furkan Keskin , Frank Hofmann , Thomas Hansen , Henk Wymeersch

When fully implemented, sixth generation (6G) wireless systems will constitute intelligent wireless networks that enable not only ubiquitous communication but also high-accuracy localization services. They will be the driving force behind…