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The Cram\'er-Rao bound serves as a crucial lower limit for the mean squared error of an estimator in frequentist parameter estimation. Paradoxically, it requires highly accurate prior knowledge of the estimated parameter for constructing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-21 Javier Navarro , Ricard Ravell Rodríguez , Mikel Sanz

The adoption of large-scale antenna arrays at high-frequency bands is widely envisioned in the beyond 5G wireless networks. This leads to the near-field regime where the wavefront is no longer planar but spherical, bringing new…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-28 Ang Chen , Li Chen , Yunfei Chen , Changsheng You , Guo Wei , F. Richard Yu

In this paper, we derive Hybrid, Bayesian and Marginalized Cram\'{e}r-Rao lower bounds (HCRB, BCRB and MCRB) for the single and multiple measurement vector Sparse Bayesian Learning (SBL) problem of estimating compressible vectors and their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Ranjitha Prasad , Chandra R. Murthy

This paper presents a Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) for the estimation of parameters confined to an arbitrary set. Unlike existing results that rely on equality or inequality constraints, manifold structures, or the nonsingularity of the Fisher…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Heedong Do , Angel Lozano

In this paper, we derive the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) for joint target position and velocity estimation using an active or passive distributed radar network under more general, and practically occurring, conditions than assumed in previous…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Qian He , Jianbin Hu , Rick S. Blum , Yonggang Wu

Ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) leverages the existing ambient radio frequency (RF) environment to implement communication with battery-free devices. One critical challenge of AmBC systems is signal recovery because the transmitted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-19 Wenjing Liu , Shanpu Shen , Danny H. K. Tsang , Ranjan K. Mallik , Ross Murch

The goal of this paper is to characterize the best achievable performance for the problem of estimating an unknown parameter having a sparse representation. Specifically, we consider the setting in which a sparsely representable…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Zvika Ben-Haim , Yonina C. Eldar

Bounding the optimal precision in parameter estimation tasks is of central importance for technological applications. In the regime of a small number of measurements, or that of low signal-to-noise ratios, the meaning of common frequentist…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-23 Valentin Gebhart , Manuel Gessner , Augusto Smerzi

Ambient backscatter, an emerging green communication technology, has aroused great interest from both academia and industry. One open problem for ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) systems is channel estimation for a massive-antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Wenjing Zhao , Gongpu Wang , Saman Atapattu , Ruisi He , Ying-Chang Liang

Ambient Backscatter Communication (AmBC) is an emerging communication technology that can enable green Internet-of-Things deployments. The widespread acceptance of this paradigm is limited by low Signal-to-Interference-Plus-Noise Ratio…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-25 Xiyu Wang , Hüseyin Yiğitler , Ruifeng Duan , Estifanos Yohannes Menta , Riku Jäntti

Ambient backscatter is an intriguing wireless communication paradigm that allows small devices to compute and communicate by using only the power they harvest from radio-frequency (RF) signals in the air. Ambient backscattering devices…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Donatella Darsena , Giacinto Gelli , Francesco Verde

This paper investigates an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) enabled multiuser integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) system, which consists of one multi-antenna base station (BS), one IRS, multiple single-antenna communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-03 Xianxin Song , Xiaoqi Qin , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we present a signaling design for secure integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems comprising a dual-functional multi-input multi-output (MIMO) base station (BS) that simultaneously communicates with multiple users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Nanchi Su , Fan Liu , Christos Masouros , George C. Alexandropoulos , Yifeng Xiong , Qinyu Zhang

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) have been widely recognized as a key enabler for future wireless networks, where the Cram\'er-Rao bound (CRB) plays a central role in quantifying sensing accuracy.In this paper, we present the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Qian Zhang , Yufei Zhao , Jiancheng An , Zheng Dong , Yong Liang Guan , Ju Liu , Chau Yuen

This paper investigates an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) enabled multiuser integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, which consists of one multi-antenna base station (BS), one IRS, multiple single-antenna communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Xianxin Song , Tony Xiao Han , Jie Xu

In this paper, we consider a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar system for localizing a target based on its reflected echo signals. Specifically, we aim to estimate the random and unknown angle information of the target, by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Chan Xu , Shuowen Zhang

Sensor selection is a useful method to help reduce data throughput, as well as computational, power, and hardware requirements, while still maintaining acceptable performance. Although minimizing the Cram\'er-Rao bound has been adopted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Costas A. Kokke , Mario Coutiño , Laura Anitori , Richard Heusdens , Geert Leus

The performance bounds of near-field sensing are studied for circular arrays, focusing on the impact of bandwidth and array size. The closed-form Cramer-Rao bound (CRBs) for angle and distance estimation are derived, revealing the scaling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zhaolin Wang , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu

Near-field sensing with extremely large-scale antenna arrays (ELAAs) in practical 6G systems is expected to operate over broad bandwidths, where delay, Doppler, and spatial effects become tightly coupled across frequency. The purpose of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Tong Wei , Kumar Vijay Mishra , Bhavani Shankar M. R. , Björn Ottersten

This paper studies the performance trade-off in a multi-user backscatter communication (BackCom) system for integrated sensing and communications (ISAC), where the multi-antenna ISAC transmitter sends excitation signals to power multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yuanming Tian , Dan Wang , Chuan Huang , Wei Zhang