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This paper proposes a novel location information aided multiple intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) systems. Assuming imperfect user location information, the effective angles from the IRS to the users are estimated, which is then used to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Xiaoling Hu , Caijun Zhong , Yu Zhang , Xiaoming Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang

We extend our work on a novel indoor positioning system (IPS) for autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) based on radar sensing of local, passive radar reflectors. Through the combination of simple reflectors and a single-channel frequency…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Sven Hinderer , Pascal Schlachter , Zhibin Yu , Xiaofeng Wu , Bin Yang

Smartphones have become a popular tool for indoor localization and position estimation of users. Existing solutions mainly employ Wi-Fi, RFID, and magnetic sensing techniques to track movements in crowded venues. These are highly sensitive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-16 Amir Ivry , Elad Fisher , Roger Alimi , Idan Mosseri , Kanna Nahir

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

In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has grown to include the tracking of devices through the use of Indoor Positioning Systems (IPS) and Location Based Services (LBS). When designing an IPS, a popular approach involves using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Sebastian Sadowski , Petros Spachos , Konstantinos Plataniotis

The following paper proposes a new target localization system design using an architecture based on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) and passive radars (PRs) for integrated sensing and communications systems. The preamble of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-02 Dexin Wang , Ahmad Bazzi , Marwa Chafii

Leveraging received signal strength (RSS) measurements for indoor localization is highly attractive due to their inherent availability in ubiquitous wireless protocols. However, prevailing RSS-based methods often depend on complex…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Luis F. Abanto-Leon , Muhammad Salman , Lismer Andres Caceres-Najarro

Consider indoor positioning systems (IPS) in production halls where objects equipped with sensors send their current position. Beside its large volume, the analyzation of the resulting raw data is challenging due to the susceptibility…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Jonathan Flossdorf , Anne Meyer , Dmitri Artjuch , Jaques Schneider , Carsten Jentsch

The pinching-antenna systems (PASS), which dynamically activate and relocate the pinching-antennas (PAs) along the dielectric waveguide, offer unprecedented potential for integrated positioning and communication. The multi-waveguide-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Yaoyu Zhang , Xin Sun , Jun Wang , Tianwei Hou , Anna Li , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

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

Individual tracking of museum visitors based on portable radio beacons, an asset for behavioural analyses and comfort/performance improvements, is seeing increasing diffusion. Conceptually, this approach enables room-level localisation…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-02-08 Elia Onofri , Alessandro Corbetta

This paper presents a mobile crowdsensing approach to identify the indoor points of interest (POI) by exploiting Wi-Fi similarity measurements. Since indoor environments are lacking the GPS positioning accuracy when compared to outdoors, we…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Sumudu Hasala Marakkalage , Ran Liu , Sanjana Kadaba Viswanath , Chau Yuen

We propose a 6D Bayesian-based localization framework to estimate the position and rotation angles of a mobile station (MS) within an indoor reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided system. This framework relies on a probabilistic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Leonardo Tercas , Markku Juntti

The received signal strength (RSS) based technique is extensively utilized for localization in the indoor environments. Since the RSS values of neighboring locations may be similar, the localization accuracy of the RSS based technique is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-27 Haobo Zhang , Hongliang Zhang , Boya Di , Kaigui Bian , Zhu Han , Lingyang Song

Received signal strength (RSS)-based optical wireless positioning (OWP) systems are becoming popular for indoor localization because they are low-cost and accurate. However, few open-source datasets are available to test and analyze…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-23 Fan Wu , Jorik De Bruycker , Daan Delabie , Nobby Stevens , Francois Rottenberg , Lieven De Strycker

Indoor localization has recently witnessed an increase in interest, due to the potential wide range of services it can provide by leveraging Internet of Things (IoT), and ubiquitous connectivity. Different techniques, wireless technologies…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Faheem Zafari , Athanasios Gkelias , Kin Leung

Passive radio frequency (PRF)-based indoor positioning systems (IPS) have attracted researchers' attention due to their low price, easy and customizable configuration, and non-invasive design. This paper proposes a PRF-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-14 Liangqi Yuan , Houlin Chen , Robert Ewing , Jia Li

Next-generation cellular networks will witness the creation of smart radio environments (SREs), where walls and objects can be coated with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) to strengthen the communication and localization coverage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Ahmed Elzanaty , Anna Guerra , Francesco Guidi , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

With growing, Car parking increases with the number of car users. With the increased use of smartphones and their applications, users prefer mobile phone-based solutions. This paper proposes the Smart Parking Management System (SPMS) that…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Amira. A. Elsonbaty , Mahmoud Shams

One of the promising technologies for the next generation wireless networks is the reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). This technology provides planar surfaces the capability to manipulate the reflected waves of impinging signals,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini