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arxiv: 2606.23154 · v1 · pith:6MMR2CVL · submitted 2026-06-22 · cs.IT · eess.SP· math.IT

Movable Antennas for Robust Wireless Sensing via Joint Cram\'er-Rao Bound and Sidelobe Minimization

Wenyan Ma , Lipeng Zhu , Weitong Zhai , Rui Zhang This is my paper

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keywords movable antennasCramér-Rao boundsidelobe levelangle-of-arrival estimationwireless sensingantenna position optimizationrobust sensingambiguity function
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Movable antenna positions can be optimized to minimize the Cramér-Rao bound subject to a maximum sidelobe level constraint, reducing angle-of-arrival estimation mean squared error across all SNR regimes compared with fixed arrays.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper shows that the mean squared error of angle-of-arrival estimation splits into a local Cramér-Rao bound term inside the mainlobe and an extra term from sidelobe ambiguities. At high SNR the first term dominates, at low SNR the second does, and in between the two requirements pull antenna positions in opposite directions. The authors therefore solve an optimization that minimizes the bound while keeping the maximum sidelobe below a tunable threshold, using successive convex approximation on the antenna positions and a one-dimensional search to pick the threshold that actually minimizes measured error for any given SNR. Numerical comparisons indicate that the resulting placements outperform both uniform and non-uniform fixed-position arrays over the full SNR range.

Core claim

By formulating and solving an optimization that minimizes the Cramér-Rao bound of angle-of-arrival estimation subject to a prescribed maximum sidelobe level constraint on the ambiguity function, movable-antenna positions can be chosen so that the overall mean squared error is lower than that of any fixed-position array for every signal-to-noise ratio.

What carries the argument

The successive convex approximation algorithm that iteratively solves for the antenna position vector under the joint CRB-minimization and MSL-constraint objective, together with the outer one-dimensional line search over the MSL threshold.

If this is right

  • The optimal placement concentrates antennas near the edges of the movement region when the CRB term dominates and near the center when sidelobes dominate.
  • A single tunable MSL threshold, found by one-dimensional search, yields the lowest actual MSE for any prescribed SNR.
  • The scheme produces lower AoA estimation MSE than both uniform and non-uniform fixed-position arrays over the entire SNR range.
  • The same position vector works for every SNR once the threshold has been chosen; no per-SNR repositioning is required.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same decomposition and constrained-optimization idea could be applied to two-dimensional movement regions or to joint range-angle estimation.
  • If the movement region is small relative to wavelength, the performance gain over fixed arrays may shrink because the possible position diversity is limited.
  • Hardware imperfections such as mutual coupling or position quantization error would tighten the feasible region of the optimization and could be folded into the same SCA framework.

Load-bearing premise

The mean squared error decomposes cleanly into a local Cramér-Rao term plus a separate sidelobe-induced ambiguity term whose relative size shifts with SNR regime.

What would settle it

A measurement or Monte-Carlo trial at moderate SNR in which the observed mean squared error for the optimized movable-antenna placement is no lower than the error obtained by the fixed-position array that minimizes only the Cramér-Rao bound.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.23154 by Lipeng Zhu, Rui Zhang, Weitong Zhai, Wenyan Ma.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: The 1-D MA array for target angle estimation. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Illustration of the MSE versus SNR [45]. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Illustration of the optimal antenna density functio [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Convergence behavior of Algorithm 1 with different [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Illustration of the MAs’ positions. the prescribed MSL constraint of −15 dB. Nevertheless, by introducing a sufficiently large penalty factor, i.e., τ = 100, the proposed Algorithm 1 can start from an infeasible initial￾ization and progressively drive the solution toward feasibility, which significantly enhances the flexibility of the initialization. Furthermore, for τ = 100, the algorithm converges within… view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: The optimal MSL threshold η¯ versus SNR. -10 -5 0 5 10 15 20 SNR (dB) 10-7 10-6 10-5 10-4 10-3 10-2 10-1 100 MSE Proposed, MLE Proposed, CRB ULA, MLE ULA, CRB SULA, MLE SULA, CRB [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: MSE versus SNR. decreases, allowing the system to relax the MSL constraint in favor of reducing the CRB. Consequently, in the high￾SNR regime, larger values of η¯ become preferable. Therefore, for a given operating SNR, the optimal threshold η¯ can be determined from [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_11.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

This paper presents a novel design approach for movable antenna (MA)-enabled wireless sensing systems by jointly minimizing the Cram\'er-Rao bound (CRB) and the maximum sidelobe level (MSL) of the ambiguity function via antenna position optimization. In particular, the mean squared error (MSE) of angle-of-arrival (AoA) estimation is decomposed into a local estimation error within the mainlobe of the ambiguity function (i.e., CRB) and an additional ambiguity error caused by its sidelobes. Since the MSE is dominated by the CRB in the high-signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime but by the sidelobes of the ambiguity function in the low-SNR regime, our analysis reveals a fundamental trade-off between CRB minimization and MSL minimization in the moderate-SNR regime. Specifically, minimizing the CRB prefers a narrower mainlobe, where antennas are concentrated near the two edges of the one-dimensional (1-D) movement region; whereas minimizing the MSL favors a wider mainlobe, where antennas are distributed more densely near the center of the movement region. Inspired by this and to ensure robust sensing performance across different SNR regimes, we formulate an optimization problem to minimize the CRB subject to a prescribed MSL constraint via antenna position optimization. An efficient successive convex approximation (SCA) algorithm is developed to optimize the antenna position vector (APV), and a 1-D linear search method is proposed to determine the optimal MSL threshold that minimizes the actual MSE for any given SNR. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed scheme effectively balances the trade-off between MSL and CRB minimization, thus achieving a significantly lower AoA estimation MSE across the entire SNR range compared to conventional uniform and non-uniform fixed-position antenna (FPA) arrays.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript proposes optimizing the positions of movable antennas (MAs) to jointly minimize the Cramér-Rao bound (CRB) for angle-of-arrival (AoA) estimation while constraining the maximum sidelobe level (MSL) of the ambiguity function. It decomposes the AoA MSE into a local CRB term (mainlobe) plus an ambiguity term (sidelobes), identifies an SNR-dependent trade-off, formulates a constrained optimization solved via successive convex approximation (SCA) on the antenna position vector together with a 1-D search over the MSL threshold, and reports via numerical results a lower AoA MSE than uniform or non-uniform fixed-position arrays across the full SNR range.

Significance. If the MSE decomposition holds and the reported simulations are reproducible, the work supplies a concrete, algorithmically tractable method for robust sensing with movable antennas that explicitly trades mainlobe width against sidelobe height; the SCA procedure and per-SNR threshold search constitute constructive engineering contributions to position-optimized estimation.

major comments (1)
  1. [§III] §III (MSE decomposition and trade-off analysis): the central justification for the CRB-minimization subject to MSL constraint rests on the claim that AoA MSE decomposes into local CRB error plus sidelobe ambiguity error, with the dominant term shifting by SNR regime. This decomposition is invoked to motivate the optimization and the 1-D search, yet the manuscript provides no explicit Monte-Carlo comparison of the decomposed expression against the empirical MSE of a concrete estimator (e.g., MUSIC or maximum-likelihood). Without that validation the claimed MSE improvement over FPA arrays remains tied to proxy metrics rather than end-to-end performance.

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We thank the referee for the constructive comment. We address the major point below and agree that additional validation will strengthen the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [§III] §III (MSE decomposition and trade-off analysis): the central justification for the CRB-minimization subject to MSL constraint rests on the claim that AoA MSE decomposes into local CRB error plus sidelobe ambiguity error, with the dominant term shifting by SNR regime. This decomposition is invoked to motivate the optimization and the 1-D search, yet the manuscript provides no explicit Monte-Carlo comparison of the decomposed expression against the empirical MSE of a concrete estimator (e.g., MUSIC or maximum-likelihood). Without that validation the claimed MSE improvement over FPA arrays remains tied to proxy metrics rather than end-to-end performance.

    Authors: We agree that direct Monte-Carlo validation of the decomposed MSE expression against the empirical performance of a concrete estimator (such as MUSIC) would provide stronger support for the claimed trade-off and performance gains. The decomposition follows from the standard separation of the ambiguity function into mainlobe (CRB) and sidelobe (ambiguity) contributions, which is theoretically justified in the literature on array processing. Nevertheless, to address the referee's concern, we will add new numerical results in the revised manuscript that compare the decomposed MSE formula to the actual MSE obtained via Monte-Carlo trials of the MUSIC estimator across the full SNR range. These results will also be used to confirm that the optimized positions indeed yield lower end-to-end MSE than the FPA baselines. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; derivation uses standard estimation-theoretic quantities

full rationale

The paper states an MSE decomposition into CRB (mainlobe) plus sidelobe ambiguity error and uses it to motivate a CRB-minimization problem subject to an MSL constraint, followed by a 1-D search over the MSL threshold that minimizes simulated MSE. This decomposition and the subsequent optimization are presented as analysis drawn from classical array signal processing (CRB and ambiguity function), not derived from or reduced to any fitted parameter, self-citation chain, or the paper's own output equations. Numerical comparisons to FPA baselines are external to the optimization variables. No load-bearing step matches any of the enumerated circularity patterns.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the validity of the MSE decomposition into CRB plus sidelobe ambiguity and on the effectiveness of SCA for the non-convex position problem; both are drawn from standard array signal processing without new postulated entities.

free parameters (1)
  • MSL threshold
    Determined via 1-D linear search to minimize the actual MSE for any given SNR rather than fixed a priori.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption MSE of AoA estimation decomposes into local CRB error plus sidelobe-induced ambiguity error whose dominance shifts with SNR regime
    Invoked to establish the fundamental trade-off that motivates the constrained optimization.

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