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The 6G wireless networks impose extremely high requirements on physical layer secure communication. However, the existing solutions usually can only achieve one-dimensional physical layer security (PLS) in the angle dimension, and cannot…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Zhendong Wang , Chenyang Meng , Jun Yang , Jiayuan Wang , Yin Li , Linshan Jiang , Jin Zhang

Metasurfaces have been used to realize optical functions such as focusing and beam steering. They use sub-wavelength nanostructures to control the local amplitude and phase of light. Here we show that such control could also enable a new…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-09-26 Zhicheng Wu , Ming Zhou , Erfan Khoram , Boyuan Liu , Zongfu Yu

Most 6-DoF localization and SLAM systems use static landmarks but ignore dynamic objects because they cannot be usefully incorporated into a typical pipeline. Where dynamic objects have been incorporated, typical approaches have attempted…

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) optical imaging and sensing of objects imply new capabilities valuable to autonomous technology, machine vision, and other applications. Existing NLOS imaging methods rely heavily on the prowess of computational…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-21 Shenyu Zhu , Yong Meng Sua , Patrick Rehain , Yu-Ping Huang

Metasurfaces, and in particular reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), are revolutionizing wireless communications by dynamically controlling electromagnetic waves. Recent wireless communication advancements necessitate broadband and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-20 Rafid Umayer Murshed , Md Shoaib Akhter Rafi , Sakib Reza , Mohammad Saquib , Ifana Mahbub

Constrained environments, such as indoor and urban settings, present a significant challenge for accurate moving object positioning due to the diminished line-of-sight (LoS)communication with the wireless anchor used for positioning. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-04 Qamar Bader , Sharief Saleh , Mohamed Elhabiby , Aboelmagd Noureldin

Navigation solutions suitable for cases when both autonomous robot's pose (\textit{i.e}., attitude and position) and its environment are unknown are in great demand. Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) fulfills this need by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Hashim A. Hashim , Abdelrahman E. E. Eltoukhy

In a time division broadcast positioning system (TDBPS), a user device (UD) determines its position by obtaining sequential time-of-arrival (TOA) or pseudorange measurements from signals broadcast by multiple synchronized base stations…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-03 Sihao Zhao , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Xiaowei Cui , Mingquan Lu

Efficient integration of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) into the current wireless network standard is not a trivial task due to the overhead generated by performing channel estimation (CE) and phase-shift optimization. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Fabio Saggese , Kimmo Kansanen , Petar Popovski

In this letter, we study the problem of cooperative sensing design for an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) multiple base stations (MBS) system. We consider a practical scenario where the base stations (BSs) exploit certain…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-02 Xinghe Li , Kainan Cheng , Hongzhi Guo , Huiyong Li , Ziyang Cheng

The fifth-generation (5G) wireless communication is useful for positioning due to its large bandwidth and low cost. However, the presence of obstacles that block the line-of-sight (LOS) path between devices would affect localization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-17 Jiankun Zhang , Hao Wang

Metasurfaces' ability to control electromagnetic wave propagation has led to a rapid paradigm shift in wireless operation. These metasurfaces are often called reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) due to active tuning elements…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-29 Md. Abrar A Mushfik , Mohammad Ali Kaisar , Mohiminul Islam Bhuiyan Sahed , Idban Alamzadeh

The challenging problem of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) localization is critical for many wireless networking applications. The lack of available datasets has made NLOS localization difficult to tackle with ML-driven methods, but recent…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Rafayel Darbinyan , Hrant Khachatrian , Rafayel Mkrtchyan , Theofanis P. Raptis

This letter studies the problem of jointly detecting active user equipments (UEs) and estimating their location in the near field, wherein the base station (BS) is unaware of the number of active (or inactive) UEs and their positions. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Georgios Mylonopoulos , Behrooz Makki , Stefano Buzzi , Gábor Fodor

The sixth generation (6G) targets ultra reliable, low latency (URLLC) gigabit connectivity in mmWave bands, where directional channels require precise beam alignment. Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) reshape wave propagation and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 M. T. Hassan , D. Zelenchuk , M. A. B. Abbasi

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging relies on collecting light that is rendered incoherent from the multiple scattering events and is then post-processed to provide an estimate of the hidden scene. Here we employ coherent phase control of the…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-25 Ilya Starshynov , Omair Ghafur , James Fitches , Daniele Faccio

We present a neural network for mitigating biased errors in pseudoranges to improve localization performance with data collected from mobile phones. A satellite-wise Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) is designed to regress the pseudorange bias…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Xu Weng , Keck Voon Ling , Haochen Liu

Mobile users are prone to experience beam failure due to beam drifting in millimeter wave (mmWave) communications. Sensing can help alleviate beam drifting with timely beam changes and low overhead since it does not need user feedback. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-12 Xiyu Wang , Gilberto Berardinelli , Hei Victor Cheng , Petar Popovski , Ramoni Adeogun

Sensing in non-line-of-sight (NLOS) is a well-known issue that limits the effective range of radar-like sensors. Existing approaches for NLOS sensing consider the usage of either metallic mirrors, that only work under specular reflection,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-20 Davide Tornielli Bellini , Dario Tagliaferri , Marouan Mizmizi , Stefano Tebaldini , Umberto Spagnolini

The intrinsic integration of the nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) techniques is envisioned to be a promising approach to significantly improve both the spectrum efficiency and energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Zhe Zhang , Chensi Zhang , Chengjun Jiang , Fan Jia , Jianhua Ge , Fengkui Gong