Pub Date : 2025-12-17DOI: 10.1109/tsp.2025.3645629
Zhen Qin, Zhihui Zhu
{"title":"Optimal Error Analysis of Channel Estimation for IRS-assisted MIMO Systems","authors":"Zhen Qin, Zhihui Zhu","doi":"10.1109/tsp.2025.3645629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tsp.2025.3645629","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13330,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145770889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-17DOI: 10.1109/tsp.2025.3644686
Marco Carpentiero, Virginia Bordignon, Vincenzo Matta, Ali H. Sayed
{"title":"Doubly Adaptive Social Learning","authors":"Marco Carpentiero, Virginia Bordignon, Vincenzo Matta, Ali H. Sayed","doi":"10.1109/tsp.2025.3644686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tsp.2025.3644686","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13330,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145770883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-15DOI: 10.1109/tsp.2025.3643595
Anton Björkman, David Sundström, Andreas Jakobsson, Filip Elvander
{"title":"Optimal Transport Regularization for Simulation-Informed Room Impulse Response Estimation","authors":"Anton Björkman, David Sundström, Andreas Jakobsson, Filip Elvander","doi":"10.1109/tsp.2025.3643595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tsp.2025.3643595","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13330,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145759597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-12DOI: 10.1109/tsp.2025.3643309
Zhidi Lin, Ying Li, Feng Yin, Juan Maroñas, Alexandre H. Thiéry
{"title":"Efficient Transformed Gaussian Process State-Space Models for Non-Stationary High-Dimensional Dynamical Systems","authors":"Zhidi Lin, Ying Li, Feng Yin, Juan Maroñas, Alexandre H. Thiéry","doi":"10.1109/tsp.2025.3643309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tsp.2025.3643309","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13330,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing","volume":"146 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145731418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-11DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2025.3642042
Adarsh M. Subramaniam;Argyrios Gerogiannis;James Z. Hare;Venugopal V. Veeravalli
State of the art methods for target tracking with sensor management (or controlled sensing) are model-based and are obtained through solutions to Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) formulations. In this paper a Reinforcement Learning (RL) approach to the problem is explored for the setting where the motion model for the object/target to be tracked is unknown to the observer. It is assumed that the target dynamics are stationary in time, the state space and the observation space are discrete, and there is complete observability of the location of the target under certain (a priori unknown) sensor control actions. Then, a novel Markov Decision Process (MDP) rather than POMDP formulation is proposed for the tracking problem with controlled sensing, which is termed as Track-MDP. In contrast to the POMDP formulation, the Track-MDP formulation is amenable to an RL based solution. It is shown that the optimal policy for the Track-MDP formulation, which is approximated through RL, is guaranteed to track all significant target paths with certainty. The Track-MDP method is then compared with the optimal POMDP policy, and it is shown that the infinite horizon tracking reward of the optimal Track-MDP policy is the same as that of the optimal POMDP policy. In simulations it is demonstrated that Track-MDP based RL can lead to a policy that can track the target with high accuracy and superior energy efficiency.
{"title":"Track-MDP: Reinforcement Learning for Target Tracking With Controlled Sensing","authors":"Adarsh M. Subramaniam;Argyrios Gerogiannis;James Z. Hare;Venugopal V. Veeravalli","doi":"10.1109/TSP.2025.3642042","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TSP.2025.3642042","url":null,"abstract":"State of the art methods for target tracking with sensor management (or controlled sensing) are model-based and are obtained through solutions to Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) formulations. In this paper a Reinforcement Learning (RL) approach to the problem is explored for the setting where the motion model for the object/target to be tracked is unknown to the observer. It is assumed that the target dynamics are stationary in time, the state space and the observation space are discrete, and there is complete observability of the location of the target under certain (a priori unknown) sensor control actions. Then, a novel Markov Decision Process (MDP) rather than POMDP formulation is proposed for the tracking problem with controlled sensing, which is termed as Track-MDP. In contrast to the POMDP formulation, the Track-MDP formulation is amenable to an RL based solution. It is shown that the optimal policy for the Track-MDP formulation, which is approximated through RL, is guaranteed to track all significant target paths with certainty. The Track-MDP method is then compared with the optimal POMDP policy, and it is shown that the infinite horizon tracking reward of the optimal Track-MDP policy is the same as that of the optimal POMDP policy. In simulations it is demonstrated that Track-MDP based RL can lead to a policy that can track the target with high accuracy and superior energy efficiency.","PeriodicalId":13330,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing","volume":"73 ","pages":"5348-5361"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2025-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145728939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-10DOI: 10.1109/tsp.2025.3642179
Ruiding Hou, Jiaheng Wang, Rui Zhou, Daniel P. Palomar, Xiqi Gao, Björn Ottersten
{"title":"An Efficient and Unified Framework for Downlink Linear Precoding with QoS Constraints","authors":"Ruiding Hou, Jiaheng Wang, Rui Zhou, Daniel P. Palomar, Xiqi Gao, Björn Ottersten","doi":"10.1109/tsp.2025.3642179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tsp.2025.3642179","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13330,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145717710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-09DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2025.3641941
Shenghua Hu;Guangyang Zeng;Wenchao Xue;Haitao Fang;Junfeng Wu;Biqiang Mu
We study the problem of signal source localization using received signal strength measurements. We begin by presenting verifiable geometric conditions for sensor deployment that ensure the model’s asymptotic localizability. Then we establish the consistency and asymptotic efficiency of the maximum likelihood (ML) estimator. However, computing the ML estimator is challenging due to its reliance on solving a non-convex optimization problem. To overcome this, we propose a two-step estimator that retains the same asymptotic properties as the ML estimator while offering low computational complexity—linear in the number of measurements. The main challenge lies in obtaining a consistent estimator in the first step. To address this, we construct two linear least-squares estimation problems by applying algebraic transformations to the nonlinear measurement model, leading to closed-form solutions. In the second step, we perform a single Gauss-Newton iteration using the consistent estimator from the first step as the initialization, achieving the same asymptotic efficiency as the ML estimator. Finally, simulation results validate the theoretical property and practical effectiveness of the proposed two-step estimator.
{"title":"RSS-Based Localization: Ensuring Consistency and Asymptotic Efficiency","authors":"Shenghua Hu;Guangyang Zeng;Wenchao Xue;Haitao Fang;Junfeng Wu;Biqiang Mu","doi":"10.1109/TSP.2025.3641941","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TSP.2025.3641941","url":null,"abstract":"We study the problem of signal source localization using received signal strength measurements. We begin by presenting verifiable geometric conditions for sensor deployment that ensure the model’s asymptotic localizability. Then we establish the consistency and asymptotic efficiency of the maximum likelihood (ML) estimator. However, computing the ML estimator is challenging due to its reliance on solving a non-convex optimization problem. To overcome this, we propose a two-step estimator that retains the same asymptotic properties as the ML estimator while offering low computational complexity—linear in the number of measurements. The main challenge lies in obtaining a consistent estimator in the first step. To address this, we construct two linear least-squares estimation problems by applying algebraic transformations to the nonlinear measurement model, leading to closed-form solutions. In the second step, we perform a single Gauss-Newton iteration using the consistent estimator from the first step as the initialization, achieving the same asymptotic efficiency as the ML estimator. Finally, simulation results validate the theoretical property and practical effectiveness of the proposed two-step estimator.","PeriodicalId":13330,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing","volume":"73 ","pages":"5257-5272"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2025-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145717743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-08DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2025.3641053
Matteo Nerini;Bruno Clerckx
Analog-domain operations offer a promising solution to accelerating signal processing and enabling future multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications with thousands of antennas. In Part I of this paper, we have introduced a microwave linear analog computer (MiLAC) as an analog computer that processes microwave signals linearly, demonstrating its potential to reduce the computational complexity of specific signal processing tasks. In Part II of this paper, we extend these benefits to wireless communications, showcasing how MiLAC enables gigantic MIMO beamforming entirely in the analog domain. MiLAC -aided beamforming enables the maximum flexibility and performance of digital beamforming, while significantly reducing hardware costs by minimizing the number of radio-frequency (RF) chains and only relying on low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and digital-to-analog converters (DACs). In addition, it eliminates per-symbol operations by completely avoiding digital-domain processing and remarkably reduces the computational complexity of zero-forcing (ZF), which scales quadratically with the number of antennas instead of cubically. It also processes signals with fixed matrices, e.g., the discrete Fourier transform (DFT), directly in the analog domain. Numerical results show that it can perform ZF and DFT with a computational complexity reduction of up to $1.5times 10^{4}$ and $4.0times 10^{7}$ times, respectively, compared to digital beamforming.
{"title":"Analog Computing for Signal Processing and Communications – Part II: Toward Gigantic MIMO Beamforming","authors":"Matteo Nerini;Bruno Clerckx","doi":"10.1109/TSP.2025.3641053","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TSP.2025.3641053","url":null,"abstract":"Analog-domain operations offer a promising solution to accelerating signal processing and enabling future multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications with thousands of antennas. In Part I of this paper, we have introduced a microwave linear analog computer (MiLAC) as an analog computer that processes microwave signals linearly, demonstrating its potential to reduce the computational complexity of specific signal processing tasks. In Part II of this paper, we extend these benefits to wireless communications, showcasing how MiLAC enables gigantic MIMO beamforming entirely in the analog domain. MiLAC -aided beamforming enables the maximum flexibility and performance of digital beamforming, while significantly reducing hardware costs by minimizing the number of radio-frequency (RF) chains and only relying on low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and digital-to-analog converters (DACs). In addition, it eliminates per-symbol operations by completely avoiding digital-domain processing and remarkably reduces the computational complexity of zero-forcing (ZF), which scales quadratically with the number of antennas instead of cubically. It also processes signals with fixed matrices, e.g., the discrete Fourier transform (DFT), directly in the analog domain. Numerical results show that it can perform ZF and DFT with a computational complexity reduction of up to <inline-formula><tex-math>$1.5times 10^{4}$</tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><tex-math>$4.0times 10^{7}$</tex-math></inline-formula> times, respectively, compared to digital beamforming.","PeriodicalId":13330,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing","volume":"73 ","pages":"5198-5212"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2025-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145704091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}