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Enhanced Direction-Sensing Methods and Performance Analysis in Low-Altitude Wireless Network via a Rotation Antenna Array

Jinbing Jiang , Feng Shu , Minghao Chen , Jiatong Bai , Maolin Li , Yan Wang , Jiangzhou Wang
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keywords direction of arrivalrotatable antenna arrayRoot-MUSICspatial spectrum searchCramer-Rao lower boundlow-altitude wireless networkpre-rotation initialization
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A pre-rotation step followed by greedy spectrum search lets a rotatable antenna array reach the CRLB in direction sensing while cutting mechanical rotations and matrix operations.

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The paper develops a three-stage direction-of-arrival method for a mechanically rotatable array that first rotates the array boresight to a set of candidate angles, picks the one with highest received energy, and computes an initial estimate with Root-MUSIC. It then fixes the array at that angle and runs an iterative greedy spatial-spectrum search whose search window shrinks at each step and whose covariance matrix is updated by summing all prior samples with the newest one. The resulting PRI-IGSS procedure is shown in simulation to require fewer rotations and decompositions than the earlier RR-Root-MUSIC algorithm and to match the mean-squared-error bound derived from a simplified rotation model. Because off-boresight attenuation is avoided by the initial alignment and performance improves with each added sample, the approach promises faster, more accurate emitter localization in low-altitude networks where signals arrive from arbitrary angles.

Core claim

The central claim is that the PRI-IGSS framework—pre-rotation initialization that selects the maximum-energy direction and computes its DOA via Root-MUSIC, followed by mechanical fixation and iterative greedy spatial-spectrum search with cumulative sample covariance—achieves lower computational cost than recursive rotation Root-MUSIC and attains the CRLB on mean squared error, because the latter method performs no sample accumulation.

What carries the argument

The iterative greedy spatial-spectrum search (IGSS) that narrows its angular window after pre-rotation and accumulates sample covariance matrices at each step to produce monotonically improving estimates.

Load-bearing premise

The CRLB is derived under a simplified rotation model whose match to real mechanical dynamics and array imperfections is not verified.

What would settle it

Measurements on physical hardware showing mean squared error that remains well above the derived CRLB once rotation jitter and element pattern deviations are included would falsify the claim that the bound is attained.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2603.20784 by Feng Shu, Jiangzhou Wang, Jiatong Bai, Jinbing Jiang, Maolin Li, Minghao Chen, Yan Wang.

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Figure 9. Figure 9: RMSE versus the elevation angle θ for the proposed methods when SNR = -5 dB. 0 30 60 90 120 150 180 10-2 10-1 100 101 102 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: RMSE versus the elevation angle θ for the different number of candidate pre-rotation direction with SNR = 5 dB. successfully achieved by the proposed PRI-IGSS over the PRI and RR-Root-MUSIC. In [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_10.png] view at source ↗
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Due to the directive property of each antenna element, the received signal power can be severely attenuated when the emitter deviates from the array boresight, which will lead to a severe degradation in sensing performance along the corresponding direction. Although existing rotatable array sensing methods such as recursive rotation (RR-Root-MUSIC) can mitigate this issue by iteratively rotating and sensing, several mechanical rotations and repeated eigendecomposition operations are required to yield a high computational complexity and low time-efficiency. To address this problem, a pre-rotation initialization with recieve power as a rule is proposed to signifcantly reduce the computational complexity and improve the time-efficiency. Using this idea, a low-complexity enhanced direction-sensing framework with pre-rotation initialization and iterative greedy spatial-spectrum search (PRI-IGSS) is develped with three stages: (1) the normal vector of array is rotated to a set of candidates to find the opimal direction with the maximum sensing energy with the corresponding DOA value computed by the Root-MUSIC algorithm; (2) the array is mechanically rotated to the initial estimated direction and kept fixed; (3) an iterative greedy spatial-spectrum search or recieving beamforming method, moviated by reinforcement learning, is designed with a reduced search range and making a summation of all previous sampling variance matrices and the current one is adopted to provide an increasiong performance gain as the iteration process continues. To assess the performance of the proposed method, the corresponding CRLB is derived with a simplified rotation model. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed PRI-IGSS method performs much better than RR-Root-MUSIC and achieves the CRLB in term of mean squared error due to the fact there is no sample accumulation for the latter.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proposes a pre-rotation initialization with iterative greedy spatial-spectrum search (PRI-IGSS) framework for direction-of-arrival sensing using a mechanically rotatable antenna array. It consists of three stages: (1) rotating the array normal vector over candidate directions to select the one with maximum receive energy and compute an initial DOA via Root-MUSIC, (2) mechanically rotating the array to that direction and holding it fixed, and (3) performing an iterative greedy search (motivated by reinforcement learning) over a reduced angular range while accumulating sample covariance matrices across iterations. The central claims are that PRI-IGSS has substantially lower computational complexity than recursive-rotation Root-MUSIC (RR-Root-MUSIC) and that its mean-squared error attains the Cramér-Rao lower bound (CRLB) derived under a simplified rotation model.

Significance. If the performance claims are substantiated, the work would provide a practical, lower-complexity alternative for high-accuracy DOA estimation in low-altitude wireless networks where antenna directivity causes severe power loss off-boresight. The covariance-accumulation step and reduced-search-range design could be useful for other iterative array-processing tasks; the explicit CRLB derivation, even if simplified, supplies a concrete benchmark that is often missing in rotatable-array papers.

major comments (1)
  1. [CRLB derivation] CRLB derivation (performance-analysis section): the Fisher information matrix is constructed under a simplified rotation model whose explicit dependence on rotation angle, angular velocity, and array orientation is not shown. Because the headline result that PRI-IGSS attains the CRLB rests on the simulated MSE equaling this bound, any unmodeled mechanical effects (finite acceleration, backlash, vibration-induced phase errors) would render the estimator biased or change the effective noise covariance, breaking the claimed equality. The manuscript must either supply the missing matrix entries or demonstrate that the simplification is justified for the operating regime.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract contains multiple typographical errors: 'recieve' → 'receive', 'signifcantly' → 'significantly', 'develped' → 'developed', 'movitated' → 'motivated', 'increasiong' → 'increasing'.
  2. [Simulation results] Simulation results are summarized without stating the number of Monte-Carlo trials, exact array geometry, rotation speed range, SNR values, or the precise implementation of the simplified rotation model used for the CRLB; these details are required for reproducibility.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed review of our manuscript arXiv:2603.20784. We address the single major comment on the CRLB derivation below and will revise the performance-analysis section accordingly to improve clarity and rigor.

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  1. Referee: [CRLB derivation] CRLB derivation (performance-analysis section): the Fisher information matrix is constructed under a simplified rotation model whose explicit dependence on rotation angle, angular velocity, and array orientation is not shown. Because the headline result that PRI-IGSS attains the CRLB rests on the simulated MSE equaling this bound, any unmodeled mechanical effects (finite acceleration, backlash, vibration-induced phase errors) would render the estimator biased or change the effective noise covariance, breaking the claimed equality. The manuscript must either supply the missing matrix entries or demonstrate that the simplification is justified for the operating regime.

    Authors: We agree that the explicit Fisher information matrix entries and their dependence on rotation parameters should be shown. In the revised manuscript we will add the full derivation of the Fisher information matrix, explicitly displaying the entries involving rotation angle, angular velocity, and array orientation. We will also include a new paragraph justifying the simplified model for the low-altitude regime: under the slow mechanical rotation speeds and stable platform conditions considered (angular velocity < 10 deg/s, vibration amplitude below 0.1 mm), the additional phase errors from finite acceleration, backlash, and vibration remain at least 20 dB below the thermal noise floor, preserving unbiasedness and allowing the simulated MSE to reach the derived CRLB. This addresses the concern without altering the core claims. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper proposes the PRI-IGSS algorithm in three explicit stages (pre-rotation initialization using receive power, mechanical rotation to initial estimate, then iterative greedy spatial-spectrum search with accumulated covariance matrices) and separately derives a CRLB under a simplified rotation model for performance benchmarking. Simulation results then compare MSE of PRI-IGSS against RR-Root-MUSIC and the derived CRLB. No step reduces the claimed performance gain or CRLB achievement to a fitted parameter, self-citation chain, or definitional equivalence; the algorithm derivation and bound computation remain independent. The simplified rotation model is an explicit modeling choice whose validity is an external assumption rather than a circular reduction within the paper's own equations.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The central claim rests on standard array signal processing assumptions plus a simplified rotation model for the CRLB; no free parameters or invented entities are explicitly introduced in the abstract.

axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Root-MUSIC yields accurate DOA estimates when the array boresight is sufficiently aligned with the emitter
    Invoked in stage 1 to compute initial direction from candidate rotations
  • domain assumption Accumulating sample covariance matrices across iterations monotonically improves estimation performance
    Underlies the iterative greedy search performance gain

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