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This paper examines a fluid antenna (FA)-assisted simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) system. Unlike traditional SWIPT systems with fixed-position antennas (FPAs), our FA-assisted system enables dynamic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-25 Liaoshi Zhou , Junteng Yao , Tuo Wu , Ming Jin , Chau Yuen , Fumiyuki Adachi

Future sixth-generation (6G) networks require high spectral efficiency (SE), massive connectivity, and stringent reliability under imperfect channel state information at the transmitter. Rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) addresses part…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Jinyuan Liu , Yong Liang Guan , Hong Niu , Qian Zhang , Mérouane Debbah , Hyundong Shin , Bruno Clerckx

Enormous fluid antenna systems (E-FAS), the system concept that utilizes position reconfigurability in the large scale, have emerged as a new architectural paradigm where intelligent surfaces are repurposed from passive smart reflectors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Kai-Kit Wong , Masoud Kaveh , Wee Kiat New , Chan-Byoung Chae , Lajos Hanzo

The fluid antenna system (FAS) refers to a family of reconfigurable antenna technologies that provide substantial spatial gains within a compact, predefined small space, thereby offering extensive degrees of freedom in the physical layer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Zhentian Zhang , Jian Dang , David Morales-Jimenez , Hao Jiang , Zaichen Zhang , Christos Masouros , Chan-Byoung Chae

Fluid antenna systems (FAS) allow dynamic reconfiguration to achieve superior diversity gains and reliability. To quantify the performance scaling of FAS with a large number of antenna ports, this paper leverages extreme value theory (EVT)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yi Zhang , Jintao Wang , Zheng Shi , Xu Wang , Guanghua Yang , Shaodan Ma , Kai-Kit Wong

In this letter, we investigate the fundamental limits of localization in fluid antenna systems (FAS) utilizing a Fisher-information-theoretic framework. We develop a unified model to quantify the localization information extractable from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Abdelhamid Salem , Kai-Kit Wong , Hyundong Shin , Yangyang Zhang

This paper addresses the challenge of co-channel interference and intentional jamming in low-altitude air-ground communications. Since conventional fixed-position antenna (FPA) systems lack spatial adaptability to dynamically balance signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Yifan Guo , Junshan Luo , Fanggang Wang , Haiyang Ding , Shilian Wang , Zhenhai Xu

Fluid antenna system (FAS) is able to exploit spatial degrees of freedom (DoFs) in wireless channels. In this letter, to exploit spatial DoFs in frequency-selective environments, we investigate an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Heyang Xiong , Quanzhong Li , Qi Zhang

Fluid antenna is a promising wireless communication technology that enhances communication rate by changing the antenna positions. This article proposes a new communication system that combines multiple-input single-output (MISO) fluid…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Feilong Zhang , Jianxin Dai , Zhaohui Yang , Kai-Kit Wong , Lingyuxiu Li , Jianglin Ye

This paper investigates a novel fluid antenna multiple access (FAMA)-assisted wireless powered communication network (WPCN), in which a hybrid access point (HAP) equipped with multiple fixed position antennas (FPAs) provides integrated data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Xiao Lin , Yizhe Zhao , Halvin Yang , Jie Hu

The fluid antenna concept represents shape-flexible and position-flexible antenna technologies designed to enhance wireless communication applications. In this paper, we apply this concept to reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Abdelhamid Salem , Kai-Kit Wong , George Alexandropoulos , Chan-Byoung Chae , Ross Murch

Fluid antenna (FA), as an emerging antenna technology, fully exploits spatial diversity. This paper integrates FA with the receive spatial modulation (RSM) scheme and proposes a novel FA-empowered RSM (FA-RSM) system. In this system, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Xinghao Guo , Yin Xu , Dazhi He , Cixiao Zhang , Hanjiang Hong , Kai-Kit Wong , Chan-Byoung Chae , Wenjun Zhang , Yiyan Wu

Fluid Antenna Systems (FASs) have recently been proposed for enhancing the performance of wireless communication. Previous antenna designs to meet the requirements of FAS have been based on mechanically movable or liquid antennas and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-17 Jichen Zhang , Junhui Rao , Zhaoyang Ming , Zan Li , Chi-Yuk Chiu , Kai-Kit Wong , Kin-Fai Tong , Ross Murch

Fluid antenna system (FAS) revolutionizes wireless communications via utilizing position-flexible antennas that dynamically optimize channel conditions and mitigate multipath fading. This innovation is particularly valuable in indoor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Tong Zhang , Qianren Li , Shuai Wang , Wanli Ni , Jiliang Zhang , Rui Wang , Kai-Kit Wong , Chan-Byoung Chae

This paper examines the impact of emerging fluid antenna systems (FAS) on reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided secure communications. Specifically, we consider a classic wiretap channel, where a fixed-antenna transmitter sends…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Kai-Kit Wong , Masoud Kaveh , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez , Wee Kiat New , Hao Xu

Fluid antenna systems (FAS) have recently emerged as a promising solution for sixth-generation (6G) ultra-dense connectivity. These systems utilize dynamic radiating and/or shaping techniques to mitigate interference and improve spectral…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-25 Baiyang Liu , Jiewei Huang , Tuo Wu , Huan Meng , Fengcheng Mei , Lei Ning , Kai-Kit Wong , Hang Wong , Kin-Fai Tong , Kwai-Man Luk

In this letter, we study the performance of a single-user fluid antenna system (FAS) under arbitrary fading distributions, in which the fading channel coefficients over the ports are correlated. We adopt copula theory to model the structure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Kai-Kit Wong , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez , Kin-Fai Tong

Most existing antenna array-based source localization methods rely on fixed-position arrays (FPAs) and strict assumptions about source field conditions (near-field or far-field), which limits their effectiveness in complex, dynamic…

In a fluid antenna system (FAS), a single reconfigurable antenna is able to activate one of $N$ correlated ports to exploit spatial diversity. However, outage analysis is challenging because exact evaluation requires an $N$-dimensional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Tuo Wu , Junteng Yao , Kai-Kit Wong , Jie Tang , Maged Elkashlan , Baiyang Liu , Kin-Fai Tong , Hyundong Shin

In this paper, we investigate the problem of rate maximization in a fluid antenna system (FAS) assisted semantic communication system. In the considered model, a base station (BS) with multiple static antennas employs semantic extraction…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Siyun Liang , Chen Zhu , Zhaohui Yang , Changsheng You , Dusit Niyato , Kai-Kit Wong , Zhaoyang Zhang