Movable antenna (MA) has demonstrated great potential in enhancing wireless communication performance. In this paper, we investigate an MA-enabled multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system with spatial modulation (SM), which improves communication performance by utilizing flexible MA placement while reducing the cost of RF chains. To this end, we propose a joint transceiver design framework aimed at minimizing the bit error rate (BER) based on the maximum minimum distance (MMD) criterion. To address the intractable problem, we develop an efficient iterative algorithm based on alternating optimization (AO) and successive convex approximation (SCA) techniques. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm achieves rapid convergence performance and significantly outperforms the existing benchmark schemes.
@article{arxiv.2601.12788,
title = {Movable Antenna Enhanced MIMO Communications with Spatial Modulation},
author = {Kaihe Wang and Ran Yang and Lipeng Zhu and Rongyan Xi and Yue Xiu and Zhongpei Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.12788},
year = {2026}
}