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Ultra-wideband (UWB) is the state-of-the-art and most popular technology for wireless localization. Nevertheless, precise ranging and localization in non-line-of-sight (NLoS) conditions is still an open research topic. Indeed, multipath…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Simone Angarano , Vittorio Mazzia , Francesco Salvetti , Giovanni Fantin , Marcello Chiaberge

In this paper, we study an application of deep learning to uplink multiuser detection (MUD) for non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) scheme based on Welch bound equality spread multiple access (WSMA). Several non-cooperating users, each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Krishna Chitti , Joao Vieira , Behrooz Makki

With the recent development of technology, wireless sensor networks (WSN) are becoming an important part of many applications. Knowing the exact location of each sensor in the network is very important issue. Therefore, the localization…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Biljana Risteska Stojkoska , Vesna Kirandziska

This paper proposes a deep learning-based framework for near-field nulling control beam focusing (NCBF) in extra-large MIMO (XL-MIMO) systems to mitigate multi-user interference (MUI). A dual-estimator architecture comprising two fully…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-25 Mohammadhossein Karimi , Yuanzhe Gong , Tho Le-Ngoc

This paper introduces a new approach to localize user devices located in non-line-of-sight (NLOS) areas using a passive, non-reconfigurable, and frequency-selective metasurface called metaprism. By analyzing the spatial filtering of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Marina Lotti , Giacomo Calesini , Davide Dardari

Localizing near-field sources considering practical arrays is important in wireless communications. Array-based apertures exhibit mutual coupling between the array elements, which can significantly degrade the performance of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-30 Zohreh Ebadi , Amir Masoud Molaei , Muhammad Ali Babar Abbasi , Simon Cotton , Anvar Tukmanov , Okan Yurduseven

For extremely large-scale arrays (XL-arrays), the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) codebook, conventionally used in the far-field, has recently been employed for near-field beam training. However, most existing methods rely on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-27 Jiapeng Li , Changsheng You , Guoliang Cheng , Haobin Sun , Chao Zhou , Linglong Dai

This paper considers near-field multiuser communications based on sparse arrays (SAs). First, for the uniform SAs (USAs), we analyze the beam gains of channel steering vectors, which shows that increasing the antenna spacings can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Kangjian Chen , Chenhao Qi , Geoffrey Ye Li , Octavia A. Dobre

Future wireless multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems will integrate both sub-6 GHz and millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency bands to meet the growing demands for high data rates. MIMO link establishment typically requires accurate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-16 Faruk Pasic , Lukas Eller , Stefan Schwarz , Markus Rupp , Christoph F. Mecklenbräuker

Channel estimation is very challenging when the receiver is equipped with a limited number of radio-frequency (RF) chains in beamspace millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input and multiple-output systems. To solve this problem, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Hengtao He , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Geoffrey Ye Li

To advance integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) in sixth-generation (6G) extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) networks, a low-complexity compressed sensing (CS)-based dictionary design is proposed for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Ruiyun Zhang , Zhaolin Wang , Zhiqing Wei , Yuanwei Liu , Zehui Xiong , Zhiyong Feng

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

For systems and devices, such as cognitive radio and networks, that need to be aware of available frequency bands, spectrum sensing has an important role. A major challenge in this area is the requirement of a high sampling rate in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-21 M. R. Avendi , K. Haghighi , A. Panahi , M. Viberg

This paper proposes an adaptive near-field beam training method to enhance performance in multi-user and multipath environments. The approach identifies multiple strongest beams through beam sweeping and linearly combines their received…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-14 Zijun Wang , Rama Kiran , Jinesh Nair , Chien-Hua Chen , Tzu-Han Chou , Shawn Tsai , Rui Zhang

To phased microphone array for sound source localization, algorithm with both high computational efficiency and high precision is a persistent pursuit. In this paper convolutional neural network (CNN) a kind of deep learning is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-14 Wei Ma , Xun Liu

This paper investigates how near-field beamfocusing can be achieved using a modular linear array (MLA), composed of multiple widely spaced uniform linear arrays (ULAs). The MLA architecture extends the aperture length of a standard ULA…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Alva Kosasih , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

The accuracy of traditional localization methods significantly degrades when the direct path between the wireless transmitter and the target is blocked or non-penetrable. This paper proposes N2LoS, a novel approach for precise…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-14 Zhenguo Shi , Yihe Yan , Yanxiang Wang , Wen Hu , Chun Tung Chou

High-precision cellular-based localization is one of the key technologies for next-generation communication systems. In this paper, we investigate the potential of applying machine learning (ML) to a massive multiple-input multiple-output…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-08 Guoda Tian , Ilayda Yaman , Michiel Sandra , Xuesong Cai , Liang Liu , Fredrik Tufvesson

In low altitude UAV communications, accurate channel estimation remains challenging due to the dynamic nature of air to ground links, exacerbated by high node mobility and the use of large scale antenna arrays, which introduce hybrid near…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Wenli Yuan , Kan Yu , Xiaowu Liu , Kaixuan Li , Qixun Zhang , Zhiyong Feng

Since the beam squint and near-field effects both inherently exist in upper-6 GHz (U6G) extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) systems, wideband near-field channel estimation faces severe challenges, such as higher…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-22 Zhizheng Lu , Yu Han , Xiao Li , Shi Jin , Michail Matthaiou