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Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have become a promising candidate for the development of future mobile systems. In the context of massive machine-type communications (mMTC), a RIS can be used to support the transmission from a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Sergi Liesegang , Alessio Zappone , Olga Muñoz , Antonio Pascual-Iserte

Movable antenna (MA) has emerged as a promising technology to enhance wireless communication performance by exploiting the new degree of freedom (DoF) via antenna position optimization. In this letter, we investigate the MA-enhanced wide…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Dong Wang , Weidong Mei , Zhi Chen , Boyu Ning

The problem of mobile position estimation in multipath scenarios is addressed. A low-complexity, fully-adaptive algorithm is proposed, based on the pseudo maximum likelihood approach. The processing is done exclusively on-board at the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-12 Alessio Fascista , Angelo Coluccia , Giuseppe Ricci

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

Massive MIMO, a candidate for 5G technology, promises significant gains in wireless data rates and link reliability by using large numbers of antennas (more than 64) at the base transceiver station (BTS). Extra antennas help by focusing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-11 Garimella Rama Murthy , Kunal Sankhe

This paper considers a multi-antenna multicast system with programmable metasurface (PMS) based transmitter. Taking into account of the finite-resolution phase shifts of PMSs, a novel beam training approach is proposed, which achieves…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Xiaoling Hu , Caijun Zhong , Yongxu Zhu , Xiaoming Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang

This letter investigates a channel assignment problem in uplink wireless communication systems. Our goal is to maximize the sum rate of all users subject to integer channel assignment constraints. A convex optimization based algorithm is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-14 Guangyu Jia , Zhaohui Yang , Hak-Keung Lam , Jianfeng Shi , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technique to improve the performance of future wireless communication systems at low energy consumption. To reap the potential benefits of RIS-aided beamforming, it is vital to enhance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Zhenyao He , Jindan Xu , Hong Shen , Wei Xu , Chau Yuen , Marco Di Renzo

Simultaneous lightwave information and power transfer (SLIPT) is a potential way to meet the demands of sustainable power supply and high-rate data transfer in next-generation networks. Although resonant beam-based SLIPT (RB-SLIPT) can…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-28 Mingqing Liu , Shuaifan Xia , Mingliang Xiong , Mengyuan Xu , Qingwen Liu , Hao Deng

The placement problem in Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) circuits is a critical step in chip design. Its primary goal is to optimize the wirelength of circuit components within a confined area while adhering to nonoverlapping…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Yi-Shuang Yue , Yu-Hong Dai , Haijun Yu

This paper studies a networked sensing system with multiple base stations (BSs), which collaboratively sense the unknown and random three-dimensional (3D) location of a target based on the target-reflected echo signals received at the BSs.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Kaiyue Hou , Shuowen Zhang

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are an emerging technology for enhancing the performance of wireless networks at a low and affordable cost, complexity, and power consumption. We introduce an algorithm for optimizing a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Xuewen Qian , Marco Di Renzo

The positioning accuracy of the mobile laser scanning (MLS) system can reach the level of centimeter under the conditions where GPS works normally. However, in GPS-denied environments this accuracy can be reduced to the decimeter or even…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-04 WI. Liu , Zhixiong Li , Shuaishuai Sun , Reza Malekian , Zhenjun Ma , Weihua Li

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

This paper introduces a novel approach of utilizing the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) for joint data modulation and signal beamforming in a multi-user downlink cellular network by leveraging the idea of backscatter communication.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Haseeb Ur Rehman , Faouzi Bellili , Amine Mezghani , Ekram Hossain

Localizing moving targets in unknown harsh environments has always been a severe challenge. This letter investigates a novel localization system based on multi-agent networks, where multiple agents serve as mobile anchors broadcasting their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-27 Qin Shi , Xiaowei Cui , Sihao Zhao , Mingquan Lu

In this letter, we propose a novel Movable Superdirective Pairs (MSP) approach that combines movable antennas with superdirective pair arrays to enhance the performance of millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications on the user side. By…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Liangcheng Han , Haifan Yin , Mengying Gao , Rui Zhang

This paper studies the beamforming optimization challenge in reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multiple-input single-output (MISO) systems, where the RIS phase configuration is discrete. Conventional optimization methods for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Rujing Xiong , Xuihui Dong , Tiebin Mi , Kai Wan , Robert Caiming Qiu

An indoor, real-time location system (RTLS) can benefit both hospitals and patients by improving clinical efficiency through data-driven optimization of procedures. Bluetooth-based RTLS systems are cost-effective but lack accuracy and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-09 Guanglin Tang , Yulong Yan , Chenyang Shen , Xun Jia , Meyer Zinn , Zipalkumar Trivedi , Alicia Yingling , Kenneth Westover , Steve Jiang

Millimeter wave (mmW) communication is a promising solution for providing high-capacity wireless network access. However, the benefits of mmW are limited by the fact that the channel between a mmW access point and the user equipment can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Mehdi Naderi Soorki , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis