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The objective of channel charting is to learn a virtual map of the radio environment from high-dimensional CSI that is acquired by a multi-antenna wireless system. Since, in static environments, CSI is a function of the transmitter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Florian Euchner , Phillip Stephan , Marc Gauger , Sebastian Dörner , Stephan ten Brink

Neural networks have been proposed recently for positioning and channel charting of user equipments (UEs) in wireless systems. Both of these approaches process channel state information (CSI) that is acquired at a multi-antenna base-station…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Eric Lei , Oscar Castañeda , Olav Tirkkonen , Tom Goldstein , Christoph Studer

In this paper, a novel framework is proposed for channel charting (CC)-aided localization in millimeter wave networks. In particular, a convolutional autoencoder model is proposed to estimate the three-dimensional location of wireless user…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Qianqian Zhang , Walid Saad

We study the important problem of tracking moving targets in wireless sensor networks. We try to overcome the limitations of standard state of the art tracking methods based on continuous location tracking, i.e. the high energy dissipation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2008-03-17 Andrei Marculescu , Sotiris Nikoletseas , Olivier Powell , Jose Rolim

In future wireless communication networks, existing active localization will gradually evolve into more sophisticated (passive) sensing functionalities. One main enabler for this process is the merging of information collected from the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Maximilian Bauhofer , Silvio Mandelli , Marcus Henninger , Thorsten Wild , Stephan ten Brink

In the beyond fifth-generation (B5G) and upcoming sixth-generation (6G) wireless communication systems, millimeter (mmWave) wave technology is a promising solution for offering additional bandwidth resources and mitigating spectrum…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-10 Jiawei Zhang , Shihan Wang , Jienan Chen , Fan Wu , Jiyun Tao , Zheqi Gu

In a wireless network, gathering information at the base station about mobile users based only on uplink channel measurements is an interesting challenge. Indeed, accessing the users locations and predicting their downlink channels would be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-15 Luc Le Magoarou

Channel charting (CC) consists in learning a mapping between the space of raw channel observations, made available from pilot-based channel estimation in multicarrier multiantenna system, and a low-dimensional space where close points…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-24 Taha Yassine , Luc Le Magoarou , Matthieu Crussière , Stephane Paquelet

Channel charting has emerged as a powerful tool for user equipment localization and wireless environment sensing. Its efficacy lies in mapping high-dimensional channel data into low-dimensional features that preserve the relative…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Ge Chen , Panqi Chen , Lei Cheng

The sensing and positioning capabilities foreseen in 6G have great potential for technology advancements in various domains, such as future smart cities and industrial use cases. Channel charting has emerged as a promising technology in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Omid Esrafilian , Mohsen Ahadi , Florian Kaltenberger , David Gesbert

Accurate and robust wireless localization is a key enabler for a wide range of mobile computing applications. Fingerprint-based localization using channel state information (CSI) has attracted significant attention due to its high accuracy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-09 Haoyu Huang , Guangjin Pan , Kaixuan Huang , Shunqing Zhang , Yuhao Zhang , Musa Furkan Keskin , Zheng Xing , Henk Wymeersch

Channel Charting is a dimensionality reduction technique that reconstructs a map of the radio environment from similarity relationships found in channel state information. Distances in the channel chart are often computed based on some…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Florian Euchner , Phillip Stephan , Stephan ten Brink

In 6G communications, it is envisioned to equip the traditional access point (AP) with sensing capability to fully benefit the existing wireless communication infrastructures. Thus, sensing-assisted communication has attracted significant…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-14 Hui Zhou , Xiaolan Liu , Sangarapillai Lambotharan

A passive radar system uses one or more so-called Illuminators of Opportunity (IO) to detect and localize targets. In such systems, a reference channel is often used at each receiving node to capture the transmitted IO signal, while targets…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Mats Viberg , Daniele Gerosa , Tomas McKelvey , Thomas Eriksson

With the development of the sixth-generation (6G) communication system, Channel State Information (CSI) plays a crucial role in improving network performance. Traditional Channel Charting (CC) methods map high-dimensional CSI data to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Yuan Gao , Wenjing Xie , Yiming Liu , Bintao Hu , Jianbo Du , Shugong Xu

The emerging immersive and autonomous services have posed stringent requirements on both communications and localization. By considering the great potential of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), this paper focuses on the joint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Yunfei Li , Yiting Luo , Xianda Wu , Zheng Shi , Shaodan Ma , Guanghua Yang

Modern techniques in the Internet of Things or autonomous driving require more accuracy positioning ever. Classic location techniques mainly adapt to outdoor scenarios, while they do not meet the requirement of indoor cases with multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-05 Jianyuan Yu , R. Michael Buehrer

Because each indoor site has its own radio propagation characteristics, a site survey process is essential to optimize a Wi-Fi ranging strategy for range-based positioning solutions. This paper studies an unsupervised learning technique…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Jeongsik Choi

Radio map estimation from sparse measurements is fundamental to wireless network planning, optimization, and localized map updating. Most recent learning-based approaches formulate the problem as dense map completion over a predefined grid,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Ang Li , Chengyu Liu , Yue Wang

Advances in wireless localization techniques aiming to exploit context-dependent data has been leading to a growing interest in services able of localizing or tracking targets inside buildings with high accuracy and precision. Hence, the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Fabien Geyer , Thomas Multerer , Paulo Mendes , Dominic Schupke