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Autori principali: Bicer, H. Nazim, Laneman, J. Nick
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2026
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.01446
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author Bicer, H. Nazim
Laneman, J. Nick
author_facet Bicer, H. Nazim
Laneman, J. Nick
contents Radio frequency spectrum awareness requires the ability to detect, localize, and characterize emitters in dense and contested wireless environments. In this work, we propose a task-oriented distributed compression framework for joint multi-emitter localization and characterization using spatially distributed receivers. Each receiver observes a short window of complex IQ samples, converts the observation to a time--frequency representation, and encodes it into a compact latent vector. A central fusion decoder combines the receiver latents to estimate an unordered set of active emitters, including their locations, center-frequency offsets, occupied bandwidths, and waveform families. A permutation-invariant training objective is used to handle the arbitrary ordering of emitters and predictions. Experiments on synthetic multi-emitter scenes with spectral overlap show that even extremely compact receiver-side representations can preserve useful information for emitter counting and waveform-family estimation. However, accurate localization and spectral-parameter regression require larger latent dimensions. Increasing the receiver latent dimension from $d_{\mathrm{rx}}=1$ to $d_{\mathrm{rx}}=16$ provides the largest improvement, while further increasing to $d_{\mathrm{rx}}=64$ gives smaller gains. These results demonstrate the potential of learned task-oriented compression for communication-efficient distributed spectrum awareness.
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spellingShingle Spatially Distributed Task-Oriented Compression for Multi-Emitter Localization and Characterization with Spectral Overlap
Bicer, H. Nazim
Laneman, J. Nick
Signal Processing
Machine Learning
Radio frequency spectrum awareness requires the ability to detect, localize, and characterize emitters in dense and contested wireless environments. In this work, we propose a task-oriented distributed compression framework for joint multi-emitter localization and characterization using spatially distributed receivers. Each receiver observes a short window of complex IQ samples, converts the observation to a time--frequency representation, and encodes it into a compact latent vector. A central fusion decoder combines the receiver latents to estimate an unordered set of active emitters, including their locations, center-frequency offsets, occupied bandwidths, and waveform families. A permutation-invariant training objective is used to handle the arbitrary ordering of emitters and predictions. Experiments on synthetic multi-emitter scenes with spectral overlap show that even extremely compact receiver-side representations can preserve useful information for emitter counting and waveform-family estimation. However, accurate localization and spectral-parameter regression require larger latent dimensions. Increasing the receiver latent dimension from $d_{\mathrm{rx}}=1$ to $d_{\mathrm{rx}}=16$ provides the largest improvement, while further increasing to $d_{\mathrm{rx}}=64$ gives smaller gains. These results demonstrate the potential of learned task-oriented compression for communication-efficient distributed spectrum awareness.
title Spatially Distributed Task-Oriented Compression for Multi-Emitter Localization and Characterization with Spectral Overlap
topic Signal Processing
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.01446