cs.ITSep 27, 2026

SymNetPro: LOS-Aware Directional Multi-Transmitter Localization from Sparse Radio Observations

Authors: Lyuzhou Ye, Heng Fan, Yan Huang

Organizations: University of North Texas Denton, Texas, USA

Abstract

Directional multi-transmitter localization from sparse received-power observations is difficult because the receiver observes only the source-unresolved aggregate field: multiple directional sources superpose, building blockage fragments their visible regions, and stronger sources can mask weaker ones. We present SymNetPro, which retains the dual-task radio-map reconstruction and localization backbone of SymNet and adds two targeted components. First, a sparse line-of-sight (LOS)-aware attention bias injects obstruction-aware spatial relations into selected token interactions. Second, transmitter-drop augmentation recomposes training scenes after removing one sample-supported transmitter, exposing the model to controlled source-cardinality variation. Experiments on directional ray-traced urban environments show substantially lower OSPA than representative localization baselines under extreme sparse sampling, with consistent gains under measurement noise and increasing transmitter count. A transmitter-specific evidence analysis further shows that remaining misses concentrate in regimes where the target contributes little distinguishable power to the aggregate observation.

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