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Developing ways to affordably deliver broadband connectivity is one of the major issues of our time. In challenging deployment locations with irregular terrain, traditional Clear-Line-Of-Sight (CLOS) wireless links can be uneconomical to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Edward J. Oughton , Erik Boch , Julius Kusuma

In the past, NLOS propagation was shown to be a source of distortion for radio-based positioning systems. Every NLOS component was perceived as a perturbation which resulted from the lack of temporal and spatial resolution of previous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Rico Mendrzik , Henk Wymeersch , Gerhard Bauch , Zohair Abu-Shaban

The accuracy of smartphone-based positioning methods using WiFi usually suffers from ranging errors caused by non-line-of-sight (NLOS) conditions. Previous research usually exploits several statistical features from a long time series…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-11 Yinhuan Dong , Tugrul Arslan

Existing deep neural network (DNN) based wireless localization approaches typically do not capture uncertainty inherent in their estimates. In this work, we propose and evaluate variational and scalable DNN approaches to measure the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-10 Artan Salihu , Stefan Schwarz , Markus Rupp

We consider the downlink transmission in a single cell multiple-input multiple-output system, in which the user equipment correspond to a vehicle moving along a given trajectory. This system utilizes millimeter wave channels characterized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Zhicheng Ye , Julia Vinogradova , Gábor Fodor , Peter Hammarberg

In the recent years, there has been a huge advancement in wireless sensor computing technology. Today, wireless sensor network (WSN) has become a key technology for different types of smart environment. Nodes localization in WSN has arisen…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Biljana Risteska Stojkoska

Accurate indoor positioning for wireless communication systems represents an important step towards enhanced reliability and security, which are crucial aspects for realizing Industry 4.0. In this context, this paper presents an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-07 Ivo Bizon , Zhongju Li , Ahmad Nimr , Marwa Chafii , Gerhard P. Fettweis

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

Near-field (NF) communications is receiving renewed interest in the context of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems involving large physical apertures with respect to the signal wavelength. While line-of-sight (LOS) links are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-26 Mohamadreza Delbari , George C. Alexandropoulos , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor , Vahid Jamali

Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC), as a fundamental technology of 6G, empowers Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) systems with enhanced sensing capabilities. One of its promising applications is the reliance on constructed maps for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Hanyuan Jiang , Yuxiang Zhang , Yameng Liu , Jianhua Zhang , Lei Tian , Tao Jiang

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are a promising tool for Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning in the presence of multipath and non-line-of-sight errors, owing to their ability to model complex errors using data. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Ashwin V. Kanhere , Shubh Gupta , Akshay Shetty , Grace Gao

In wireless positioning systems, non-line-of-sight (NLOS) is a challenging problem. NLOS causes great ranging bias and location error, so NLOS mitigation is essential for high accuracy positioning. In this letter, we propose the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-13 Ruixin Fan , Xin Du

This paper introduces a novel framework for high-accuracy outdoor user equipment (UE) positioning that applies a conditional generative diffusion model directly to high-dimensional massive MIMO channel state information (CSI). Traditional…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Taekyun Lee , Tommaso Balercia , Heasung Kim , Hyeji Kim , Jeffrey G. Andrews

Non-line-of-sight (NLoS) imaging is an important challenge in many fields ranging from autonomous vehicles and smart cities to defense applications. Several recent works in optics and acoustics tackle the challenge of imaging targets hidden…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-05-12 Jeremy Boger-Lombard , Yevgeny Slobodkin , Ori Katz

User localization and tracking in the upcoming generation of wireless networks have the potential to be revolutionized by technologies such as the Dynamic Metasurface Antennas (DMAs). Commonly proposed algorithmic approaches rely on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-31 Kyriakos Stylianopoulos , Murat Bayraktar , Nuria González Prelcic , George C. Alexandropoulos

The fundamental limits of single-anchor multi-antenna positioning are investigated. Exploiting the structure of the multiple input-multiple output-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) channel at millimeter-wave…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Anastasios Kakkavas , Mario H. Castañeda García , Richard A. Strirling-Gallacher , Josef A. Nossek

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are announced as a truly transformative technology, capable of smartly shaping wireless environments to optimize next-generation communication networks. Among their numerous foreseen applications,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Moustafa Rahal , Benoit Denis , Taghrid Mazloum , Frederic Munoz , Raffaele D Errico

Mobile robots on construction sites require accurate pose estimation to perform autonomous surveying and inspection missions. Localization in construction sites is a particularly challenging problem due to the presence of repetitive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Benjamin Krummenacher , Jonas Frey , Turcan Tuna , Olga Vysotska , Marco Hutter

This paper presents a non-cooperative source localization approach based on received signal strength (RSS) and 2D environment map, considering both line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) conditions. Conventional localization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-11 Hao Sun , Weiming Huang , Xianghao Yu , Junting Chen

This paper proposes two efficient and easy-to-use error mitigation solutions to the problem of three-dimensional (3-D) angle-of-arrival (AOA) source localization in the mixed line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) indoor…