Environment-aware Near-field UE Tracking under Partial Blockage and Reflection

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Auteurs principaux: Park, Hyunwoo, Rou, Hyeon Seok, de Abreu, Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas, Kim, Sunwoo
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Publié: 2026
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author Park, Hyunwoo
Rou, Hyeon Seok
de Abreu, Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas
Kim, Sunwoo
author_facet Park, Hyunwoo
Rou, Hyeon Seok
de Abreu, Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas
Kim, Sunwoo
contents This paper proposes an environment-aware near-field (NF) user equipment (UE) tracking method for extremely large aperture arrays. By integrating known surface geometries and tracking the line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) indicators per antenna element, the method captures partial blockages and reflections specific to the NF spherical-wavefront regime, which are unavailable under the conventional far-field (FF) assumption. The UE positions are tracked by maximizing the cosine similarity between the predicted and received channels, enabling tracking even under complete LOS obstruction. Simulation results confirm that increasing environment-awareness improves accuracy, and that NF consistently outperforms FF baselines, achieving a $0.22\,\mathrm{m}$ root-mean-square error with full environment-awareness.
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spellingShingle Environment-aware Near-field UE Tracking under Partial Blockage and Reflection
Park, Hyunwoo
Rou, Hyeon Seok
de Abreu, Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas
Kim, Sunwoo
Signal Processing
This paper proposes an environment-aware near-field (NF) user equipment (UE) tracking method for extremely large aperture arrays. By integrating known surface geometries and tracking the line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) indicators per antenna element, the method captures partial blockages and reflections specific to the NF spherical-wavefront regime, which are unavailable under the conventional far-field (FF) assumption. The UE positions are tracked by maximizing the cosine similarity between the predicted and received channels, enabling tracking even under complete LOS obstruction. Simulation results confirm that increasing environment-awareness improves accuracy, and that NF consistently outperforms FF baselines, achieving a $0.22\,\mathrm{m}$ root-mean-square error with full environment-awareness.
title Environment-aware Near-field UE Tracking under Partial Blockage and Reflection
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12896