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Conventional beamforming with fixed-orientation antenna (FOA) arrays may struggle to effectively enhance signal and/or suppress interference due to significant variations in antenna directive gains over different steering angles. To break…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Jie Feng , Zhenbing Liu , Junjie Dai , Hongbin Chen , Fangjiong Chen

In this paper, we study the problem of joint wideband spectrum sensing and direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation in a sub-Nyquist sampling framework. Specifically, considering a scenario where a few uncorrelated narrowband signals spread…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-01 Feiyu Wang , Jun Fang , Huiping Duan , Hongbin Li

Movable antennas (MAs) have emerged as a promising technology to improve wireless communication and sensing performance towards sixth-generation (6G) networks through flexible antenna movement. In this paper, we propose a novel wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Haobin Mao , Lipeng Zhu , Wenyan Ma , Zhenyu Xiao , Xiang-Gen Xia , Rui Zhang

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

Rotatable antenna (RA) technology can harness additional spatial degrees of freedom by enabling the dynamic three-dimensional orientation control of each antenna. Unfortunately, the hardware cost and control complexity of traditional RA…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Ailing Zheng , Qingqing Wu , Ziyuan Zheng , Qiaoyan Peng , Yanze Zhu , Honghao Wang , Wen Chen , Guoying Zhang

Direction of Arrival (DOA) estimation serves as a critical sensing technology poised to play a vital role in future intelligent and ubiquitous communication systems. Despite the development of numerous mature super-resolution algorithms,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Jiaji Ren , Ye Tian , Baiyang Liu , Tuo Wu , Wei Liu , Kai-Kit Wong , Kin-Fai Tong , Kwai-Man Luk

In this paper, we consider a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted 3D direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation system, in which a uniform planar array (UPA) RIS is deployed to provide virtual line-of-sight (LOS) links and reflect…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-04 Zhengyu Wang , Wei Yang , Tiebin Mi , Robert Caiming Qiu

This paper proposes design techniques for partially-calibrated sparse linear subarrays and algorithms to perform direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation. First, we introduce array architectures that incorporate two distinct array categories,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 W. Leite , R. C. de Lamare , Y. Zakharov , W. Liu , M. Haardt

Sensor arrays play a significant role in direction of arrival (DOA) estimation. Specifically, arrays with low redundancy and reduced mutual coupling are desirable. In this paper, we investigate a sensor array configuration that has a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Shidong Zhang , Zhengchun Zhou , Guolong Cui , Xiaohu Tang , Pingzhi Fan

The surge of massive antenna arrays in wireless networks calls for the adoption of analog/hybrid array solutions, where multiple antenna elements are driven by a common radio front end to form a beam along a specific angle in order to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Silvio Mandelli , Marcus Henninger , Jinfeng Du

Sparse sensor arrays offer a cost effective alternative to uniform arrays. By utilizing the co-array, a sparse array can match the performance of a filled array, despite having significantly fewer sensors. However, even sparse arrays can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-14 Robin Rajamäki , Visa Koivunen

Efficient and low-complexity beamforming design is an important element of satellite communication systems with mobile receivers equipped with phased arrays. In this work, we apply the simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-20 Zheng Chen , Håkan Johansson

A distributed MIMO radar is considered, in which the transmit and receive antennas belong to nodes of a small scale wireless network. The transmit waveforms could be uncorrelated, or correlated in order to achieve a desirable beampattern.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-07-28 Athina P. Petropulu , Yao Yu , H. Vincent Poor

This paper presents a general technique for the joint Direction-of-Arrival (DoA) and Time-of-Arrival (ToA) estimation in multipath environments. The proposed ultra-wideband technique is based on phase-mode expansions and the use of nearly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-28 Alejandro Ramírez-Arroyo , Antonio Alex-Amor , Pablo Padilla , Juan F. Valenzuela-Valdés

In this paper, we propose an extension to the Propagator algorithm for source bearing estimation by performing root decomposition which eliminates the need for spectral search over angles. Further the propagator spatial spectrum is reused…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-27 Pradeep Dheerendra , Zoltan Derzsi

We consider the problem of direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation in unknown partially correlated noise environments where the noise covariance matrix is sparse. A sparse noise covariance matrix is a common model for a sparse array of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Mohammadreza Malek-Mohammadi , Magnus Jansson , Arash Owrang , Ali Koochakzadeh , Massoud Babaie-Zadeh

Reconfigurable antennas (RAs) have emerged as a promising technology for future wireless networks, offering additional flexibility for wireless communications. Among existing designs, rotatable antennas are particularly effective in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Chao Zhang , Hu Zhou , Ruizhe Long , Ying-Chang Liang , Boon-Hee Soong

This paper addresses the problem of single snapshot Direction-of-Arrival (DOA) estimation, which is of great importance in a wide-range of applications including automotive radar. A popular approach to achieving high angular resolution when…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Yinyan Bu , Robin Rajamäki , Anand Dabak , Rajan Narasimha , Anil Mani , Piya Pal

Eigen-decomposition-based direction finding methods of using large-scale/ultra-large-scale fully-digital receive antenna arrays lead to a high or ultra-high complexity. To address the complexity dilemma, in this paper, three low-complexity…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-11 Yiwen Chen , Xichao Zhan , Feng Shu , Qijuan Jie , Xin Cheng , Zhihong Zhuang , Jiangzhou Wang

Sparse arrays have attracted a lot of interests recently for their capability of providing more degrees of freedom than traditional uniform linear arrays. For a mixture of circular and noncircular signals, most of the existing direction of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-25 Jingjing Cai , Wei Liu , Ru Zong , Yangyang Dong