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7 papers

eess.SP2026

GLRT for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface aided Spectrum Sensing

Nikhilsingh Parihar, Praful Mankar, Sachin Chaudhari

Spectrum sensing (SS) is crucial for realising cognitive radio networks, where the secondary user (SU) needs to detect the presence of a primary user (PU) in order to utilise the s…

eess.SP2026

Near-field Wideband Multi-User Localization using NFMR-Net

Pearl Hetul Shah, Srikar Sharma Sadhu, Praful D. Mankar

This paper proposes a deep learning based method for wideband near-field multi-user localization. In particular, the proposed approach utilizes the Zadoff-Chu (ZC) sequence based p…

eess.SP2026

Near-field Anchor-free Localization using Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Srikar Sharma Sadhu, Praful D. Mankar, Santosh Nannuru

Near-field localization is expected to play a crucial role in enabling a plethora of applications under the paradigm of 6G networks. The conventional localization methods rely on c…

eess.SP2026

Time-Frequency Pilot Sequence Design and LoS Delay-Doppler Estimation

Aadarsh Devanand, Praful D. Mankar

We present a novel framework for line-of-sight (LoS) delay-Doppler (DD) estimation in dense scattering propagation environments. We present two time-frequency (TF) domain pilot seq…

cs.IT2025

Detection of Number of Subcarriers of OFDM Systems using Eigen-Spectral Analysis

Vishnu Priya Chekuru, Ganapathiraju S S Ananya Varma, Arti Yardi +1

Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is widely used in modern wireless communication systems due to its robustness against time-dispersive channels. In this work, we c…

cs.IT2025

Capacity Analysis of Cascaded BD-RIS Assisted MIMO Systems

M. S. S. Manasa, Praful D. Mankar, Sundaram Vanka

This paper examines the cascaded deployment of beyond diagonal (BD) reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) and explores its potential to enhance the performance of MIMO systems…