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Source localization is of pivotal importance in several areas such as wireless sensor networks and Internet of Things (IoT), where the location information can be used for a variety of purposes, e.g. surveillance, monitoring, tracking, etc.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-16 Luis F. Abanto-Leon , Arie Koppelaar , Sonia Heemstra de Groot

Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions for wireless location estimation are likely to prevail in many real-world scenarios. In this work, we demonstrate for the first time how the Cramer-Rao upper bound on localization accuracy can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Ihsan Ullah , Robert Malaney , Shihao Yan

A distributed integrated sensing and communication (D-ISAC) system offers significant cooperative gains for both sensing and communication performance. These gains, however, can only be fully realized when the distributed nodes are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-13 Kawon Han , Kaitao Meng , Christos Masouros

We consider time-of-arrival (ToA) estimation of a first arrival-path for a device working in narrowband Internet-of-Things (NB-IoT) systems. Due to a limited 180 KHz bandwidth used in NB-IoT, the time-domain auto-correlation function (ACF)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Sha Hu , Xuhong Li , Fredrik Rusek

Clock synchronization has become a key design objective in wireless networks for its essential importance in many applications. However, as the wireless link is prone to random network delays due to unreliable channel conditions, it is in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-06 Osama Elnahas , Zhi Quan

We study decentralized estimation of time-varying signals at a fusion center, when energy harvesting sensors transmit sampled data over rate-constrained links. We propose dynamic strategies to select radio parameters, sampling set, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-05 C. Battiloro , P. Di Lorenzo , P. Banelli , S. Barbarossa

Positioning is becoming a key component in many Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The main challenges and limitations are the narrow bandwidth, low power and low cost which reduces the accuracy of the time of arrival (TOA) estimation.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Guangjin Pan , Tao Wang , Xiufeng Jiang , Shunqing Zhang

Ultra-dense networks (UDNs) represent a transformative access architecture for upcoming sixth generation (6G) systems, poised to meet the surging demand for high data rates. Achieving precise synchronization across diverse base stations…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Debjani Goswami , Indrakshi Dey , Nicola Marchetti , Suvra Sekhar Das

This letter proposes an algebraic solution for the problem of 3-D source localization utilizing the minimum number of measurements, i.e., one Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) and one Angle of Arrival (AOA) pair. The proposed method employs…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Mojtaba Amiri , Rouhollah Amiri

In UAV-to-UAV communication, airborne UAVs need to detect the location and direction of ultra-high-speed millimeter-wave (mmWave) and Terahertz (THz) coverage areas, referred to as ultra-spots. This predictive capability allows UAVs to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Phuc Duc Nguyen , Ryosuke Isogai , Keitarou Kondou , Satoshi Yasuda , Nobuyasu Shiga , Yozo Shoji

The precision of synchronization algorithms based on the theory of pulse-coupled oscillators is evaluated on FPGA-based radios for the first time. Measurements show that such algorithms can reach precision in the low microsecond range when…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Günther Brandner , Johannes Klinglmayr , Udo Schilcher , Dominik Egarter , Christian Bettstetter

In this paper, we present a maximum likelihood (ML) based time synchronization algorithm for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN). The proposed technique takes advantage of soft information retrieved from the soft demapper for the time delay…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-02 Imen Nasr , Leila Najjar Atallah , Sofiane Cherif , Jianxiao Yang , Kulun Wang

Time-sensitive wireless networks are an important enabling building block for many emerging industrial Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Quick prototyping and evaluation of time-sensitive wireless technologies are desirable for R&D…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Jiaxin Liang , He Chen , Soung Chang Liew

In this article, we design a new time-of-arrival (TOA) system for simultaneous user device (UD) localization and synchronization with a periodic asymmetric ranging network, namely PARN. The PARN includes one primary anchor node (PAN)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-18 Sihao Zhao , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Xiaowei Cui , Mingquan Lu

We propose a neural network (NN)-based algorithm for device detection and time of arrival (ToA) and carrier frequency offset (CFO) estimation for the narrowband physical random-access channel (NPRACH) of narrowband internet of things…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Fayçal Aït Aoudia , Jakob Hoydis , Sebastian Cammerer , Matthijs Van Keirsbilck , Alexander Keller

In this paper, localization using narrowband communication signals are considered in the presence of fading channels with time of arrival measurements. When narrowband signals are used for localization, due to existing hardware constraints,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Xue Zhang , Cihan Tepedelenlioglu , Mahesh K. Banavar , Andreas Spanias , Gowtham Muniraju

In this paper, we focus on the localization of a passive source from time difference of arrival (TDOA) measurements. TDOA values are computed with respect to pairs of fixed sensors that are required to be accurately time-synchronized. This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Marguerite Delcourt , Jean-Yves Le Boudec

In a time-division broadcast positioning system (TDBPS), localizing mobile targets using classical time difference of arrival (TDOA) methods poses significant challenges. Concurrent TDOA measurements are infeasible because targets receive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Chenxin Tu , Xiaowei Cui , Gang Liu , Sihao Zhao , Mingquan Lu

Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTNs) are widely recognized as a potential solution to achieve ubiquitous connections of Narrow Bandwidth Internet of Things (NB-IoT). In order to adopt NTNs in NB-IoT, one of the main challenges is the uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Jiaqi Jiang , Yihang Huang , Yin Xu , Runnan Liu , XiaoWu Ou , Dazhi He

We consider two transceivers, the first with perfect clock and the second with imperfect clock. We investigate the joint estimation of the delay between the transceivers and the offset and the drift of the imperfect clock. We propose a…

Applications · Statistics 2014-06-27 Achraf Mallat , Luc Vandendorpe