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We investigate the performance tradeoff between \textit{bistatic positioning (BP)} and \textit{monostatic sensing (MS)} in a multi-input multi-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing scenario. We derive the Cram\'er-Rao bounds…

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Modern MIMO communication systems are almost exclusively designed under the assumption of locally plane wavefronts over antenna arrays. This is known as the far-field approximation and is soundly justified at sub-6-GHz frequencies at most…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Giacomo Bacci , Luca Sanguinetti , Emil Björnson

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have been recently considered in sensing context to either improve localization performance or to extend the coverage in non-line-of-sight scenarios. While most of the literature considers RISs as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-18 Dario Tagliaferri

This paper considers near-field multiuser communications based on sparse arrays (SAs). First, for the uniform SAs (USAs), we analyze the beam gains of channel steering vectors, which shows that increasing the antenna spacings can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Kangjian Chen , Chenhao Qi , Geoffrey Ye Li , Octavia A. Dobre

In this work, the uplink channel estimation problem is considered for a millimeter wave (mmWave) multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system. It is well known that pilot overhead and computation complexity in estimating the channel increases…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Rakesh Mundlamuri , Rajeev Gangula , Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Florian Kaltenberger , Walid Saad

This paper experimentally and theoretically investigates the fundamental bounds on radio localization precision of far-field Received Signal Strength (RSS) measurements. RSS measurements are proportional to power-flow measurements…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-24 B. J. Dil , F. Gustafsson , B. J. Hoenders

This paper investigates integrated localization and communication in a multi-cell system and proposes a coordinated beamforming algorithm to enhance target localization accuracy while preserving communication performance. Within this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Meidong Xia , Wei Xu , Jindan Xu , Zhenyao He , Zhaohui Yang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Near-field communications present new opportunities over near-field channels, however, the spherical wavefront propagation makes near-field signal processing challenging. In this context, this paper proposes efficient near-field channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Songjie Yang , Chenfei Xie , Wanting Lyu , Boyu Ning , Zhongpei Zhang , Chau Yuen

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) has been extensively researched in past years particularly with regard to range-based or visual-based sensors. Instead of deploying dedicated devices that use visual features, it is more…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Ran Liu , Sumudu Hasala Marakkalage , Madhushanka Padmal , Thiruketheeswaran Shaganan , Chau Yuen , Yong Liang Guan , U-Xuan Tan

In this paper, we consider a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar system for localizing a target based on its reflected echo signals. Specifically, we aim to estimate the random and unknown angle information of the target, by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Chan Xu , Shuowen Zhang

This paper investigates the transmit beamforming design for multiple-input multiple-output systems to support both multi-target localization and multi-user communications. To enhance the target localization performance, we derive the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Bo Tang , Da Li , Wenjun Wu , Astha Saini , Prabhu Babu , Petre Stoica

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) cloud radio access networks (CRANs) provide new opportunities for accurate cooperative localization, in which large bandwidths, large antenna arrays, and increased densities of base stations allow for their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Jie Yang , Shi Jin , Chao-Kai Wen , Jiajia Guo , Michail Matthaiou

This paper investigates the design of channel estimation and 3D localization algorithms in a challenging scenario, where a sub-connected planar extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) communicates with multi-antenna…

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In this paper, we derive for the first time the exact Cramer-Rao bounds (CRBs) on semi-blind channel estimation for amplify-and-forward two-way relay networks. The bounds cover a wide range of modulation schemes that satisfy a certain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-24 Saeed Abdallah , Ioannis N. Psaromiligkos

The recent surge in deploying extremely large antenna arrays is expected to play a vital role in future sixth generation wireless networks, enabling advanced radar target localization with enhanced angular and range resolution. This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Ioannis Gavras , George C. Alexandropoulos

Compressive subspace learning (CSL) with the exploitation of space diversity has found a potential performance improvement for wideband spectrum sensing (WBSS). However, previous works mainly focus on either exploiting antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Tierui Gong , Zhijia Yang , Meng Zheng , Zhifeng Liu , Gengshan Wang

In this letter, we develop a unified Cram\'{e}r-Rao bound (CRB) framework to characterize the fundamental performance limits of transmission activity detection in fluid antenna systems (FASs) and conventional multiple fixed-position antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Zhentian Zhang , Kai-Kit Wong , Hao Jiang , Christos Masouros , Chan-Byoung Chae

This paper proposes a deep learning based method for wideband near-field multi-user localization. In particular, the proposed approach utilizes the Zadoff-Chu (ZC) sequence based pilots to mitigate the inter-user interference, which in turn…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-06 Pearl Hetul Shah , Srikar Sharma Sadhu , Praful D. Mankar

Next generation cellular networks will experience the combination of femtocells, millimeter-wave (mm-wave) communications and massive antenna arrays. Thanks to the beamforming capability as well as the high angular resolution provided by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Anna Guerra , Francesco Guidi , Davide Dardari

We extend the traditional framework for estimating subspace bases that maximize the preserved signal energy to additionally preserve the Cram\'er-Rao bound (CRB) of the biophysical parameters and, ultimately, improve accuracy and precision…

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