Bayesian Jammer Localization with a Hybrid CNN and Path-Loss Mixture of Experts

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Authors: Mariona Jaramillo-Civill, Luis González-Gudiño, Tales Imbiriba, Pau Closas
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Abstract

Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals are vulnerable to jamming, particularly in urban areas where multipath and shadowing distort received power. Previous data-driven approaches achieved reasonable localization but poorly reconstructed the received signal strength (RSS) field due to limited spatial context. We propose a hybrid Bayesian mixture-of-experts framework that fuses a physical path-loss (PL) model and a convolutional neural network (CNN) through log-linear pooling. The PL expert ensures physical consistency, while the CNN leverages building-height maps to capture urban propagation effects. Bayesian inference with Laplace approximation provides posterior uncertainty over both the jammer position and RSS field. Experiments on urban ray-tracing data show that localization accuracy improves and uncertainty decreases with more training points, while uncertainty concentrates near the jammer and along urban canyons where propagation is most sensitive.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies Millimeter-Wave Propagation and Modeling Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems

Publication details

Journal / source
ICASSP 2026 - 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
Publisher
IEEE
Pages
22102–22106
Publication date
21 April 2026