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Wireless sensor networks are often designed to perform two tasks: sensing a physical field and transmitting the data to end-users. A crucial aspect of the design of a WSN is the minimization of the overall energy consumption. Previous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-07 Zichong Chen , Juri Ranieri , Runwei Zhang , Martin Vetterli

As a promising technique, extremely large-scale (XL)-arrays offer potential solutions for overcoming the severe path loss in millimeter-wave (mmWave) and TeraHertz (THz) channels, crucial for enabling 6G. Nevertheless, XL-arrays introduce…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Songjie Yang , Wanting Lyu , Zhongpei Zhang , Chau Yuen

Antenna arrays are widely used in wireless communication, radar systems, radio astronomy, and military defense to enhance signal strength, directivity, and interference suppression. We introduce a deep learning-based optimization approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 David Lu , Lior Maman , Jackson Earls , Amir Boag , Pierre Baldi

We consider sparse array beamfomer design achieving maximum signal-to interference plus noise ratio (MaxSINR). Both array configuration and weights are attuned to the changing sensing environment. This is accomplished by simultaneously…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-24 Syed A. Hamza , Moeness G. Amin

Spectrum congestion and competition over frequency bandwidth could be alleviated by deploying dual-function radar-communications systems, where the radar platform presents itself as a system of opportunity to secondary communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-16 Xiangrong Wang , Aboulnasr Hassanien , Moeness Amin

The aim of antenna array synthesis is to achieve a desired radiation pattern with the minimum number of antenna elements. In this paper the antenna synthesis problem is studied from a totally new perspective. One of the key principles of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-11-06 Lianlin Li , wenji zhang , Fang Li

This paper further investigates the role of the array geometry and redundancy in active sensing. We are interested in the fundamental question of how many point scatterers can be identified (in the angular domain) by a given array geometry…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Robin Rajamäki , Piya Pal

This paper investigates jointly optimal array geometry and waveform designs for active sensing. Specifically, we focus on minimizing the Cram\'er-Rao lower bound (CRB) of the angle of a single target in white Gaussian noise. We first find…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-20 Ids van der Werf , Robin Rajamäki , Geert Leus

Extremely large-scale array (XL-array) has emerged as a promising technology to enable near-field communications for achieving enhanced spectrum efficiency and spatial resolution, by drastically increasing the number of antennas. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Cong Zhou , Changsheng You , Haodong Zhang , Li Chen , Shuo Shi

We investigate synthesis of a large effective aperture using a sparse array of subarrays. We employ a multi-objective optimization framework for placement of subarrays within a prescribed area dictated by form factor constraints, trading…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-17 Anant Gupta , Upamanyu Madhow , Amin Arbabian , Ali Sadri

Compressed sensing is an imaging paradigm that allows one to invert an underdetermined linear system by imposing the a priori knowledge that the sought after solution is sparse (i.e., mostly zeros). Previous works have shown that if one…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Nicholas Dwork , Erin K. Englund

We present an innovative approach to the synthesis of linear arrays having the least possible number of elements while radiating shaped beams lying in completely arbitrary power masks. The approach, based on theory and procedures lend from…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-10-16 A. F. Morabito , A. R. Laganà , G. Sorbello , T. Isernia

Cross-correlation is a popular signal processing technique used in numerous location tracking systems for obtaining reliable range information. However, its efficient design and practical implementation has not yet been achieved on mote…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Prasant Misra , Wen Hu , Mingrui Yang , Marco Duarte , Sanjay Jha

Cognitive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar is capable of adjusting system parameters adaptively by sensing and learning in complex dynamic environment. Beamforming performance of MIMO radar is guided by both beamforming weight…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-05 Weitong Zhai , Xiangrong Wang , Syed A. Hamza , Moeness G. Amin

We study the problem of noisy sparse array interpolation, where a large virtual array is synthetically generated by interpolating missing sensors using matrix completion techniques that promote low rank. The current understanding is quite…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-15 Robin Rajamäki , Mehmet Can Hücümenoğlu , Pulak Sarangi , Piya Pal

We propose a novel sensing approach for the beam alignment problem in millimeter wave systems using a single Radio Frequency (RF) chain. Conventionally, beam alignment using a single phased array involves comparing beamformer output power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-12 Rohan R. Pote , Bhaskar D. Rao

Sparse arrays are popular for performance optimization while keeping the hardware and computational costs down. In this paper, we consider sparse arrays design method for wideband source operating in a wideband jamming environment.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-09 Syed A. Hamza , Moeness G. Amin

Radar-based perception has gained increasing attention in autonomous driving, yet the inherent sparsity of radars poses challenges. Radar raw data often contains excessive noise, whereas radar point clouds retain only limited information.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Jialong Wu , Mirko Meuter , Markus Schoeler , Matthias Rottmann

Future wireless networks, deploying thousands of antenna elements, may operate in the radiative near-field (NF), enabling spatial multiplexing across both angle and range domains. Sparse arrays have the potential to achieve comparable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-22 Ahmed Hussain , Asmaa Abdallah , Abdulkadir Celik , Emil Björnson , Ahmed M. Eltawil

In near-field beam focusing for finite-sized arrays, focal shift is a non-negligible issue. The actual focal point often appears closer to the array than the predefined focal distance, significantly degrading the focusing performance of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Jiawang Li , Yingjie Xu , Hanieh Aliakbari