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most citedCFAR Feature Plane: a Novel Framework for the Analysis and Design of Radar Detectors

45 citations · 145 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

eess.SP2026

Optimal Placement of Movable Antennas for Angle-of-Departure Estimation Under User Location Uncertainty

Lucía Pallarés-Rodríguez, Angelo Coluccia, Alessio Fascista +4

Movable antennas (MA) have gained significant attention in recent years to overcome the limitations of extremely large antenna arrays in terms of cost and power consumption. In thi…

eess.SP2024

Joint Localization, Synchronization and Mapping via Phase-Coherent Distributed Arrays

Alessio Fascista, Benjamin J. B. Deutschmann, Musa Furkan Keskin +6

Extremely large-scale antenna array (ELAA) systems emerge as a promising technology in beyond 5G and 6G wireless networks to support the deployment of distributed architectures. Th…

eess.SP2023

Uplink Joint Positioning and Synchronization in Cell-Free Deployments with Radio Stripes

Alessio Fascista, Benjamin J. B. Deutschmann, Musa Furkan Keskin +6

Radio stripes (RSs) is an emerging technology in beyond 5G and 6G wireless networks to support the deployment of cell-free architectures. In this paper, we investigate the potentia…

eess.SP2023

ESPRIT-Oriented Precoder Design for mmWave Channel Estimation

Musa Furkan Keskin, Alessio Fascista, Fan Jiang +3

We consider the problem of ESPRIT-oriented precoder design for beamspace angle-of-departure (AoD) estimation in downlink mmWave multiple-input single-output communications. Standar…

eess.SP2022

RIS-Aided Monostatic Sensing and Object Detection with Single and Double Bounce Multipath

Hyowon Kim, Alessio Fascista, Hui Chen +4

We propose a framework for monostatic sensing by a user equipment (UE), aided by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) in environments with single- and double-bounce signal pr…

eess.SP2022★ 19 cited

Cramér-Rao Bound Analysis of Radars for Extended Vehicular Targets with Known and Unknown Shape

Nil Garcia, Alessio Fascista, Angelo Coluccia +4

Due to their shorter operating range and large bandwidth, automotive radars can resolve many reflections from their targets of interest, mainly vehicles. This calls for the use of…

eess.SP2022★ 1 cited

RIS-aided Joint Localization and Synchronization with a Single-Antenna Receiver: Beamforming Design and Low-Complexity Estimation

Alessio Fascista, Musa Furkan Keskin, Angelo Coluccia +2

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have attracted enormous interest thanks to their ability to overcome line-of-sight blockages in mmWave systems, enabling in turn accurate…

eess.SP2022★ 23 cited

Design of Customized Adaptive Radar Detectors in the CFAR Feature Plane

Angelo Coluccia, Alessio Fascista, Giuseppe Ricci

The paper addresses the design of adaptive radar detectors having desired behavior, in Gaussian disturbance with unknown statistics. Specifically, given detection probability speci…

eess.SP2020

RIS-aided Joint Localization and Synchronization with a Single-Antenna MmWave Receiver

Alessio Fascista, Angelo Coluccia, Henk Wymeersch +1

MmWave multiple-input single-output (MISO) systems using a single-antenna receiver are regarded as promising solution for the near future, before the full-fledged 5G MIMO will be w…

eess.SP2020

Downlink Single-Snapshot Localization and Mapping with a Single-Antenna Receiver

Alessio Fascista, Angelo Coluccia, Henk Wymeersch +1

5G mmWave MIMO systems enable accurate estimation of the user position and mapping of the radio environment using a single snapshot when both the base station (BS) and user are equ…

eess.SP2019★ 45 cited

CFAR Feature Plane: a Novel Framework for the Analysis and Design of Radar Detectors

Angelo Coluccia, Alessio Fascista, Giuseppe Ricci

Since Kelly's pioneering work on GLRT-based adaptive detection, many solutions have been proposed to enhance either selectivity or robustness of radar detectors to mismatched signa…

eess.SP2019★ 29 cited

A k-nearest neighbors approach to the design of radar detectors

Angelo Coluccia, Alessio Fascista, Giuseppe Ricci

A k-nearest neighbors (KNN) approach to the design of radar detectors is investigated. The idea is to start with either raw data or well-known radar receiver statistics as feature…

eess.SP2019★ 27 cited

A novel approach to robust radar detection of range-spread targets

Angelo Coluccia, Alessio Fascista, Giuseppe Ricci

This paper proposes a novel approach to robust radar detection of range-spread targets embedded in Gaussian noise with unknown covariance matrix. The idea is to model the useful ta…

eess.SP2018

Millimeter-Wave Downlink Positioning with a Single-Antenna Receiver

Alessio Fascista, Angelo Coluccia, Henk Wymeersch +1

The paper addresses the problem of determining the unknown position of a mobile station for a mmWave MISO system. This setup is motivated by the fact that massive arrays will be in…

eess.SP2018★ 1 cited

Mobile Positioning in Multipath Environments: a Pseudo Maximum Likelihood approach

Alessio Fascista, Angelo Coluccia, Giuseppe Ricci

The problem of mobile position estimation in multipath scenarios is addressed. A low-complexity, fully-adaptive algorithm is proposed, based on the pseudo maximum likelihood approa…