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With the surging demand for ultra-reliable, low-latency, and ubiquitous connectivity in Sixth-Generation (6G) networks, Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTNs) emerge as a key complement to terrestrial networks by offering flexible access and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Tianheng Xu , Runke Fan , Jie Zhu , Pei Peng , Xianfu Chen , Qingqing Wu , Ming Jiang , Celimuge Wu , Dusit Niyato , Kai-Kit Wong

Fluid antenna system (FAS)/movable antenna (MA) has emerged as a promising technology to fully exploit the spatial degrees of freedom (DoFs). In this paper, we propose a new rotatable antenna (RA) model, as a simplified implementation of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Qingjie Wu , Beixiong Zheng , Tiantian Ma , Rui Zhang

A novel scalable pixel-based reconfigurable beamforming network (PRBFN) that can be used to form a Fluid Antenna System (FAS), referred to as a PRBFN-FAS, is introduced. The concept of FAS has emerged as an attractive new technology for use…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-04 Jichen Zhang , Junhui Rao , Tianqu Kang , Zhaoyang Ming , Yijun Chen , Alikhan Umirbayev , Chi-Yuk Chiu , Ross Murch

An emerging fluid antenna system (FAS) brings a new dimension, i.e., the antenna positions, to deal with the deep fading, but simultaneously introduces challenges related to the transmit design. This paper proposes an ``unsupervised…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-07 Changpeng He , Yang Lu , Wei Chen , Bo Ai , Kai-Kit Wong , Dusit Niyato

With fluid antenna system (FAS) gradually establishing itself as a possible enabling technology for next generation wireless communications, channel estimation for FAS has become a pressing issue. Existing methodologies however face…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-09 Zhen Chen , Jianqing Li , Xiu Yin Zhang , Kai-Kit Wong , Chan-Byoung Chae , Yangyang Zhang

Fluid antenna multiple access (FAMA) is an emerging technology in massive access designed to meet the demands of future wireless communication networks by naturally mitigating multiuser interference through the utilization of the fluid…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Hanjiang Hong , Kai-Kit Wong , Xusheng Zhu , Hao Xu , Han Xiao , Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Hyundong Shin

This letter investigates the performance of content caching in a heterogeneous cellular network (HetNet) consisting of fluid antenna system (FAS)-equipped mobile users (MUs) and millimeter-wave (mm-wave) single-antenna small base stations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Kai-Kit Wong , Kin-Fai Tong , Yangyang Zhang

The fluid antenna system (FAS) employs reconfigurable antennas for high spatial gains in compact spaces, enhancing physical layer flexibility. Channel state information (CSI) acquisition is vital for port selection and FAS optimization.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Zhentian Zhang , David Morales-Jimenez , Jian Dang , Zaichen Zhang , Christos Masouros , Hao Jiang

In single-antenna fluid antenna systems (FASs), the transceiver dynamically selects the antenna port with the strongest instantaneous channel to enhance link reliability. However, deriving accurate yet tractable performance expressions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Rui Xu , Yinghui Ye , Xiaoli Chu , Guangyue Lu , Kai-Kit Wong , Chan-Byoung Chae

This paper derives the outage probability and transmission capacity of ad hoc wireless networks with nodes employing multiple antenna diversity techniques, for a general class of signal distributions. This analysis allows system performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Andrew M. Hunter , Jeffrey G. Andrews , Steven Weber

Fluid antenna (FA) technology has recently emerged as an effective means of exploiting spatial diversity through position-domain reconfigurability. This paper investigates the integration of FA into over-the-air federated learning (OTA-FL)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 Mohsen Ahmadzadeh , Saeid Pakravan , Wessam Ajib , Ming Zeng , Ghosheh Abed Hodtani , Ji Wang

The concept of fluid antennas (FAs) has emerged as a promising solution to enhance the spectral efficiency of wireless networks, achieved by introducing additional degrees of freedom, including reconfigurability and flexibility. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Elio Faddoul , Ghassan M. Kraidy , Constantinos Psomas , Ioannis Krikidis

The current integrated sensing, communication, and computing (ISCC) systems face significant challenges in both efficiency and resource utilization. To tackle these issues, we propose a novel fluid antenna (FA)-enabled ISCC system,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Yiping Zuo , Jiajia Guo , Weicong Chen , Weibei Fan , Biyun Sheng , Fu Xiao , Shi Jin

We consider a single-user (SU) continuous fluid antenna system (CFAS) employing matched filtering (MF) operating over a Ricean fading channel. Focusing on the upper tail of the received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) distribution (the high SNR…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-15 Amy S. Inwood , Peter J. Smith , Rajitha Senanayake , Michail Matthaiou

Unlike fixed-position arrays with static observation entropy, the scalable fluid antenna system (S-FAS) can dynamically adjust its aperture to form different observation spaces with configuration-dependent entropy budgets. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Tuo Wu , Kai-Kit Wong , Jie Tang , Ye Tian , Baiyang Liu , Maged Elkashlan , Kin-Fai Tong , Hing Cheung So , Matthew C. Valenti , Fumiyuki Adachi , Kwai-Man Luk

In this paper, the problem of maximization of the minimum equivalent rate in a unmanned-aerial-vehicle (UAV)-based multi-user semantic communication system is investigated. In the considered model, a multi-antenna UAV employs semantic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-09 Liang Siyun , Chen Zhu , Zhaohui Yang , Changsheng You , Dusit Niyato , Kai-Kit Wong , Zhaoyang Zhang

This paper studies the performance of backscatter communications (BC) over emerging fluid antenna (FA) technology. In particular, a single-antenna source sends information to a FA reader through the wireless forward (i.e., source-to-tag)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Masoud Kaveh , Kai-Kit Wong

Ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) enables ultra-low-power connectivity by allowing passive backscatter devices (BDs) to convey information through reflection of ambient signals. However, the cascaded AmBC channel suffers from severe…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Masoud Kaveh , Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Riku Jantti , Kai-Kit Wong , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez

Over-the-air (OTA) federated learning (FL) effectively utilizes communication bandwidth, yet it is vulnerable to errors during analog aggregation. While removing users with unfavorable channel conditions can mitigate these errors, it also…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Yang Zhao , Minrui Xu , Ping Wang , Dusit Niyato

Fluid antenna (FA) has become a highly promising technology and has recently been used to enhance the integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. However, the scenario where sensing targets act as eavesdroppers in ISAC and how to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Yunxiao Li , Qian Zhang , Xuejun Cheng , Zhiguo Wang , Xiaoyan Wang , Hongji Xu , Ju Liu