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With the deployment of large antenna arrays at high frequency bands, future wireless communication systems are likely to operate in the radiative near-field. Unlike far-field beam steering, near-field beams can be focused within a spatial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-19 Ahmed Hussain , Asmaa Abdallah , Abdulkadir Celik , Ahmed M. Eltawil

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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In this paper, we consider signals with a low-rank covariance matrix which reside in a low-dimensional subspace and can be written in terms of a finite (small) number of parameters. Although such signals do not necessarily have a sparse…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Mahdi Shaghaghi , Sergiy A. Vorobyov

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

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

We consider the potential for positioning with a system where antenna arrays are deployed as a large intelligent surface (LIS). We derive Fisher-informations and Cram\'{e}r-Rao lower bounds (CRLB) in closed-form for terminals along the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Sha Hu , Fredrik Rusek , Ove Edfors

This paper develops a comprehensive target modeling, beamforming optimization, and parameter estimation framework for extended-target sensing in wideband MIMO-OFDM integrated sensing and communication systems. We propose a parametric…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Rang Liu , Ming Li , A. Lee Swindlehurst

In modern radar systems, precise target localization using azimuth and velocity estimation is paramount. Traditional unbiased estimation methods have utilized gradient descent algorithms to reach the theoretical limits of the Cramer Rao…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-24 Shyam Venkatasubramanian , Sandeep Gogineni , Bosung Kang , Muralidhar Rangaswamy

In this work, we propose a general framework for wireless imaging in distributed MIMO wideband communication systems, considering multi-view non-isotropic targets and near-field propagation effects. For indoor scenarios where the objective…

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The use of Intelligent Reflective Surfaces (IRS) to assist communication and sensing has proven cost-effective in challenging scenarios. For sensing, IRS is shown to sense non-line-of-sight (NLOS) and stealth targets, albeit with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Sanjeeva Reddy S , Vinod Veera Reddy

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…

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As a green MIMO structure, the partially-connected hybrid analog and digital (PC-HAD) structure has been widely used in the far-field (FF) scenario for it can significantly reduce the hardware cost and complexity of large-scale or extremely…

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This paper studies transmit beamforming design in an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where a base station sends symbols to perform downlink multi-user communication and sense an extended target simultaneously. We first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yiqiu Wang , Meixia Tao , Shu Sun

Compressed sensing (CS) schemes are proposed for monostatic as well as synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging with chirped signals and Ultra-Narrowband (UNB) continuous waveforms. In particular, a simple, perturbation method is developed to…

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This paper explores the potential of near-field beamforming (NFBF) in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems with extremely large-scale arrays (XL-arrays). The large-scale antenna arrays increase the possibility of having…

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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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Cooperative sensing with uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a key enabler for low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs), where sensing accuracy critically depends on the spatial configuration of the UAV formation. In this paper, we study…

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Joint Communication and Sensing (JCAS) technology facilitates the seamless integration of communication and sensing functionalities within a unified framework, enhancing spectral efficiency, reducing hardware complexity, and enabling…

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This letter aims at extending the Constrained Semiparametric Cramer-Rao Bound (CSCRB) for the joint estimation of mean vector and scatter matrix of Real Elliptically Symmetric (RES) distributions to Complex Elliptically Symmetric (CES)…

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