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Internet of Things (IoT) device localization is fundamental to smart home functionalities, including indoor navigation and tracking of individuals. Traditional localization relies on relative methods utilizing the positions of anchors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Yan Li , Jie Yang , Shang-Ling Shih , Wan-Ting Shih , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin

In most existing grant-free (GF) studies, the two key tasks, namely active user detection (AUD) and payload data decoding, are handled separately. In this paper, a two-step dataaided AUD scheme is proposed, namely the initial AUD step and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Linjie Yang , Pingzhi Fan , Des McLernon , Li X Zhang

Large-scale MIMO systems are well known for their advantages in communications, but they also have the potential for providing very accurate localization thanks to their high angular resolution. A difficult problem arising indoors and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-13 Nil Garcia , Henk Wymeersch , Erik G. Larsson , Alexander M. Haimovich , Martial Coulon

We consider outdoor optical access points (OAPs), which, enabled by recent advances in metasurface technology, have attracted growing interest. While OAPs promise high data rates and strong physical-layer security, practical deployments…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Meysam Ghanbari , Mohammad Taghi Dabiri , Rula Ammuri , Mazen Hasna , Khalid Qaraqe

This paper investigates an uplink user equipment (UE) location and orientation estimation problem in an indoor rich-scattering environment (RSE) for a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) narrowband reconfigurable intelligent surfaces…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Anum Umer , Ivo Müürsepp , Muhammad Mahtab Alam

Device activity detection and channel estimation for massive grant-free access under frequency-selective fading have unfortunately been an outstanding problem. This paper aims to address the challenge. Specifically, we present an orthogonal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Yuhang Jia , Ying Cui , Wuyang Jiang

We investigate the activity detection and channel estimation issues for cell-free Internet of Things (IoT) networks with massive random access. In each time slot, only partial devices are active and communicate with neighboring access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Xinhua Wang , Alexei Ashikhmin , Zhicheng Dong , Chao Zhai

Reliable and prompt identification of active users is critical for enabling random access in massive machine-to-machine type networks which typically operate within stringent access delay and energy constraints. In this paper, an energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Jyotish Robin , Elza Erkip

Recently, grant-free transmission paradigm has been introduced for massive Internet of Things (IoT) networks to save both time and bandwidth and transmit the message with low latency. In order to accurately decode the message of each device…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-04 Mehrtash Mehrabi , Mostafa Mohammadkarimi , Masoud Ardakani

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a newly-emerged technology that, with its unique features, is considered to be a game changer for future wireless networks. Channel estimation is one of the most critical challenges for the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-30 Mehdi Haghshenas , Parisa Ramezani , Emil Björnson

Visual perception is an effective way to obtain the spatial characteristics of wireless channels and to reduce the overhead for communications system. A critical problem for the visual assistance is that the communications system needs to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Weihua Xu , Feifei Gao , Yong Zhang , Chengkang Pan , Guangyi Liu

With the rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT), massive machine-type communication has become a promising application scenario, where a large number of devices transmit sporadically to a base station (BS). Reconfigurable intelligent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Shuhao Xia , Yuanming Shi , Yong Zhou , Xiaojun Yuan

The flourishing low-Earth orbit (LEO) constellation communication network provides a promising solution for seamless coverage services to Internet-of-Things (IoT) terminals. However, confronted with massive connectivity and rapid variation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Xingyu Zhou , Zhen Gao

Location-aware networks will introduce new services and applications for modern convenience, surveillance, and public safety. In this paper, we consider the problem of cooperative localization in a wireless network where the position of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Wenyu Zhang , Bryan Teague , Florian Meyer

This paper addresses the problem of activity detection in distributed Internet of Things (IoT) networks, where devices employ asynchronous transmissions with heterogeneous power levels to report their local observations. The system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Amirhossein Taherpour , Somayeh Khani , Abbas Taherpour , Tamer Khattab

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been recognized as a promising solution for enhancing localization accuracy. Traditional RIS-based localization methods typically rely on prior channel knowledge, beam scanning, and pilot-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-04 Jiawei Yao , Yijie Mao , Mingzhe Chen

A great amount of endeavor has recently been devoted to activity detection for massive machine-type communications in cell-free multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. However, as the number of antennas at the access points (APs)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Jingreng Lei , Yang Li , Ziyue Wang , Qingfeng Lin , Ya-Feng Liu , Yik-Chung Wu

This paper studies the massive machine-type communications (mMTC) for the future Internet of Things (IoT) applications, where a large number of IoT devices exist in the network and a random subset of them become active at each time instant.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-22 Lei Cheng , Liang Liu , Shuguang Cui

The number of wireless devices is drastically increasing, resulting in many devices contending for radio resources. In this work, we present an algorithm to detect active devices for unsourced random access, i.e., the devices are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Gilles Callebaut , François Rottenberg , Liesbet Van der Perre , Erik G. Larsson

Mobile users are prone to experience beam failure due to beam drifting in millimeter wave (mmWave) communications. Sensing can help alleviate beam drifting with timely beam changes and low overhead since it does not need user feedback. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-12 Xiyu Wang , Gilberto Berardinelli , Hei Victor Cheng , Petar Popovski , Ramoni Adeogun