Near-Field Localization with Dynamic Metasurface Antennas at THz: A CRB Minimizing Approach

Fuente: arXiv
Salvato in:
Dettagli Bibliografici
Autori principali: Gavras, Ioannis, Alexandropoulos, George C.
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2025
Soggetti:
Accesso online:
Tags: Aggiungi Tag
Nessun Tag, puoi essere il primo ad aggiungerne!!
_version_ 1866909506675408896
author Gavras, Ioannis
Alexandropoulos, George C.
author_facet Gavras, Ioannis
Alexandropoulos, George C.
contents The recent trend for extremely massive antenna arrays and high frequencies facilitates localization and sensing, offering increased angular and range resolution. In this letter, we focus on the emerging technology of Dynamic Metasurface Antennas (DMAs) and present a novel framework for the design of their analog beamforming weights, targeting high accuracy near-field localization at the THz frequency band. We derive the Cramér-Rao Bound (CRB) for the estimation of the positions of multiple users with a DMA-based receiver, which is then utilized as the optimization objective for the receiver's discrete tunable states of its metamaterials. Leveraging the DMA structure, we reformulate the localization objective into a constrained Rayleigh quotient maximization problem, which is efficiently solved via two schemes: one based on projection and a greedy one. Our simulation results verify the validity of our near-field localization analysis, showcasing the effectiveness of the proposed near-field localization designs over the optimum exhaustive search solution and state-of-the-art schemes.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2502_16647
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Near-Field Localization with Dynamic Metasurface Antennas at THz: A CRB Minimizing Approach
Gavras, Ioannis
Alexandropoulos, George C.
Signal Processing
The recent trend for extremely massive antenna arrays and high frequencies facilitates localization and sensing, offering increased angular and range resolution. In this letter, we focus on the emerging technology of Dynamic Metasurface Antennas (DMAs) and present a novel framework for the design of their analog beamforming weights, targeting high accuracy near-field localization at the THz frequency band. We derive the Cramér-Rao Bound (CRB) for the estimation of the positions of multiple users with a DMA-based receiver, which is then utilized as the optimization objective for the receiver's discrete tunable states of its metamaterials. Leveraging the DMA structure, we reformulate the localization objective into a constrained Rayleigh quotient maximization problem, which is efficiently solved via two schemes: one based on projection and a greedy one. Our simulation results verify the validity of our near-field localization analysis, showcasing the effectiveness of the proposed near-field localization designs over the optimum exhaustive search solution and state-of-the-art schemes.
title Near-Field Localization with Dynamic Metasurface Antennas at THz: A CRB Minimizing Approach
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.16647