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Reconfigurable antenna multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a promising technology for upcoming 6G communication systems. In this paper, we deal with the problem of configuration selection for reconfigurable antenna MIMO by leveraging…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Ioannis Krikidis , Abhishek Kumar Singh , Kyle Jamieson

Pixel antenna is a promising technology to enhance the wireless communication data rate by adaptively reconfiguring each antenna's radiation pattern via a so-called antenna coding technique which controls the states of switches connected to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Shenrui Lin , Shuowen Zhang

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

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),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Kaihe Wang , Ran Yang , Lipeng Zhu , Rongyan Xi , Yue Xiu , Zhongpei Zhang

Reconfigurable antennas possess the capability to dynamically adjust their fundamental operating characteristics, thereby enhancing system adaptability and performance. To fully exploit this flexibility in modern wireless communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-19 Mengzhen Liu , Ming Li , Rang Liu , Qian Liu

The use of base stations (BSs) and access points (APs) with a large number of antennas, called Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output), is a key technology for increasing the capacity of 5G networks and beyond. While originally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Emil Björnson , Liesbet Van der Perre , Stefano Buzzi , Erik G. Larsson

The focus of this paper is on beamforming in a millimeter-wave (mmW) multi-input multi-output (MIMO) setup that has gained increasing traction in meeting the high data-rate requirements of next-generation wireless systems. For a given MIMO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Vasanthan Raghavan , Sundar Subramanian , Juergen Cezanne , Ashwin Sampath

This work proposes compact, flexible Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) antennas. The design principle is based on the excitation of different orthogonal radiating modes within the same antenna volume. Via phase control of the excited…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Abel Zandamela , Nicola Marchetti , Adam Narbudowicz

The millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequencies have attracted considerable attention for fifth generation (5G) cellular communication as they offer orders of magnitude greater bandwidth than current cellular systems. However, the medium access…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Sourjya Dutta , Marco Mezzavilla , Russell Ford , Menglei Zhang , Sundeep Rangan , Michele Zorzi

Reconfigurable antennas (RAs) and movable antennas (MAs) have been recognized as promising technologies to enhance the performance of wireless communication and sensing systems by introducing additional degrees of freedom (DoFs) in tuning…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-23 Wenyan Ma , Lipeng Zhu , Yanhua Tan , Beixiong Zheng , Yujie Zhang , Yuchen Zhang , Keke Ying , Zhen Gao , He Sun , Xiaodan Shao , Zhenyu Xiao , Dusit Niyato , Rui Zhang

With the explosive growth of mobile data demand, the fifth generation (5G) mobile network would exploit the enormous amount of spectrum in the millimeter wave (mmWave) bands to greatly increase communication capacity. There are fundamental…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-02-26 Yong Niu , Yong Li , Depeng Jin , Li Su , Athanasios V. Vasilakos

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication represents one of the main innovations of the next generation of wireless technologies, allowing users to reach unprecedented data rates. To overcome the high path loss at mmWave frequencies, these…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-12 Mattia Lecci , Tommaso Zugno , Silvia Zampato , Michele Zorzi

In millimeter wave (mmWave) systems, the advanced lens antenna array can effectively reduce the radio frequency chains cost. However, the mmWave signal is still vulnerable to blocking obstacles and suffers from severe path loss. To address…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-03 Yazheng Wang , Hancheng Lu , Dan Zhao , Huan Sun

A multi-beam antenna with a dual band operation in the 28 GHz and 31 GHz millimeter wave band is presented. The antenna has a gain of around 15 dBi in each of the three ports. The spatial footprint of the antenna is 166 mm x 123 mm x 34 mm.…

Large antenna arrays will be needed in future millimeter wave (mmWave) cellular networks, enabling a large number of different possible antenna architectures and multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) techniques. It is still unclear which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Mandar N. Kulkarni , Amitava Ghosh , Jeffrey G. Andrews

Millimeter-wave multi-input multi-output (mm-Wave MIMO) systems are one of the candidate schemes for 5G wireless standardization efforts. In this context, the main contributions of this article are three-fold. 1) We describe parallel sets…

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) techniques have been recently advanced to tremendously improve the performance of wireless communication networks. However, the use of very large antenna arrays at the base stations (BSs) brings…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-27 Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang , Zhi Ning Chen

The millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency band is seen as a key enabler of multi-gigabit wireless access in future cellular networks. In order to overcome the propagation challenges, mmWave systems use a large number of antenna elements both…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Hossein Shokri-Ghadikolaei , Carlo Fischione , Gabor Fodor , Petar Popovski , Michele Zorzi

Millimeter wave offers high bandwidth for air-to-air (A2A) communication. In this paper, we evaluate the rate performance of a multiuser MIMO (MU-MIMO) configuration where several aircraft communicate with a central hub. We consider a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-01 Travis Cuvelier , Robert W. Heath

MIMO technology has enabled spatial multiple access and has provided a higher system spectral efficiency (SE). However, this technology has some drawbacks, such as the high number of RF chains that increases complexity in the system. One of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-28 Yasaman Abdollahian , Ehsan Tohidi , Martin Kasparick , Li Wang , Ahmet Hasim Gokceoglu , Slawomir Stanczak