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Dynamic metasurface antennas (DMAs) are emerging as a promising technology to enable energy-efficient, large array-based multi-antenna systems. This paper presents a simple channel estimation scheme for the downlink of a multiple-input…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Amarilton L. Magalhães , Fazal E-Asim , André L. F. de Almeida , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Funneling acoustic waves through largely mismatched channels is of fundamental importance to tailor and transmit sound for a variety of applications. In electromagnetics, zero-permittivity metamaterials have been used to enhance the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-12-21 H. Esfahlani , M. S. Byrne , M. McDermott , A. Alù

Electromagnetic waves undergo multiple uncontrollable alterations as they propagate within a wireless environment. Free space path loss, signal absorption, as well as reflections, refractions and diffractions caused by physical objects…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-06 Christos Liaskos , Shuai Nie , Ageliki Tsioliaridou , Andreas Pitsillides , Sotiris Ioannidis , Ian Akyildiz

To meet the growing data traffic demand in future wireless systems, novel transmission architectures capable of adapting to complex propagation environments are required. Movable antenna (MA) systems have recently emerged as a promising…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Xiaoyi Zhang , Amna Irshad , Emil Björnson

An efficient modulation of backscattered energy is one of the key requirements for enabling efficient wireless communication channels. Typical architectures, being based on either electronically or mechanically modulated reflectors, cannot…

Ongoing effort has been devoted to applying metamaterials to boost the imaging performance of magnetic resonance imaging owing to their unique capacity for electromagnetic field confinement and enhancement. However, there are still major…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-10-03 Ke Wu , Xia Zhu , Xiaoguang Zhao , Stephan W. Anderson , Xin Zhang

Movable antenna (MA) has been recognized as a promising technology for performance enhancement in wireless communication and sensing systems by exploiting the spatial degrees of freedom (DoFs) in flexible antenna movement. However, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-10 Zhenyu Xiao , Xiangyu Pi , Songqi Cao , Lipeng Zhu , Zhen Gao , Xiang-Gen Xia , Rui Zhang

The availability of large bandwidth at millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies is one of the major factors that rendered very high frequencies a promising candidate enabler for fifth generation (5G) mobile communication networks. To confront…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-04 George C. Alexandropoulos , Symeon Chouvardas

Beamforming techniques are considered as essential parts to compensate severe path losses in millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications. In particular, these techniques adopt large antenna arrays and formulate narrow beams to obtain…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Muhammad Baqer Mollah , Honggang Wang , Mohammad Ataul Karim , Hua Fang

In analogy with electromagnetic networks which connect multiple input-output ports, metasurfaces can be considered as multi-port devices capable of providing different functionalities for waves of different polarizations illuminating the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Xuchen Wang , Ana Díaz-Rubio , Sergei A. Tretyakov

Superconducting thin-film metamaterial resonators can provide a dense microwave mode spectrum with potential applications in quantum information science. We report on the fabrication and low-temperature measurement of metamaterial…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-06 B. L. T. Plourde , Haozhi Wang , Francisco Rouxinol , M. D. LaHaye

Compared to traditional intelligent reflecting surfaces(IRS), aerial IRS (AIRS) has unique advantages, such as more flexible deployment and wider service coverage. However, modeling AIRS in the channel presents new challenges due to their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Shaoyi Liu , Nan Ma , Yaning Chen , Ke Peng , Dongsheng Xue

We present a planar design of a metamaterial exhibiting electromagnetically induced transparency that is amenable to experimental verification in the microwave frequency band. The design is based on the coupling of a split-ring resonator…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-23 Philippe Tassin , Lei Zhang , Thomas Koschny , E. N. Economou , C. M. Soukoulis

An underwater portable radio antenna operating in the 50 MHz band and efficient for launching surface electromagnetic waves at the seawater/air interface is presented. The antenna operation is based on the field enhancement at the antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-04 Igor I. Smolyaninov , Quirino Balzano , Christopher C. Davis , Dendy Young

We present highly sub-wavelength magnetic metamaterials designed for operation at radio frequencies (RFs). A dual layer design consisting of independent planar spiral elements enables experimental demonstration of a unit cell size (a) that…

Next generation wireless base stations and access points will transmit and receive using extremely massive numbers of antennas. A promising technology for realizing such massive arrays in a dynamically controllable and scalable manner with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-17 Nir Shlezinger , George C. Alexandropoulos , Mohammadreza F. Imani , Yonina C. Eldar , David R. Smith

Backscatter communication is a burgeoning low-power communication technology that has been introduced into the Internet of Things (IoT) due to its excellent self-sustainability. However, conventional backscatter communication (BackCom)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Weilin Chen

We present a unified model for connected antenna arrays with a large number of tightly integrated (i.e., coupled) antennas in a compact space within the context of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication. We refer to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Mohamed Akrout , Volodymyr Shyianov , Faouzi Bellili , Amine Mezghani , Robert W. Heath

Wireless communication environments are unaware of the ongoing data exchange efforts within them. Moreover, their effect on the communication quality is intractable in all but the simplest cases. The present work proposes a new paradigm,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Christos Liaskos , Shuai Nie , Ageliki Tsioliaridou , Andreas Pitsillides , Sotiris Ioannidis , Ian Akyildiz

Media-based modulation (MBM), exploiting rich scattering properties of transmission environments via different radiation patterns of a single reconfigurable antenna (RA), has brought new insights into future communication systems. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Zehra Yigit , Ertugrul Basar , Ibrahim Altunbas