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Pinching-antenna (PA) systems have recently emerged as a promising member of the flexible-antenna family due to their ability to dynamically establish line-of-sight (LoS) links. While most existing studies assume ideal environments without…

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Facing the dramatic increase of real-time applications and time-sensitive services, large-scale ultra-low delay requirements are put forward for the sixth generation (6G) wireless networks. To support massive ultra-reliable and low-latency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Yixin Zhang , Wenchi Cheng , Wei Zhang

The movable antenna (MA) technology has attracted increasing attention in wireless communications due to its capability for flexibly adjusting the positions of multiple antennas in a local region to reconfigure channel conditions. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Nianzu Li , Weidong Mei , Boyu Ning , Peiran Wu

Optimization of the last-mile delivery and first-mile pickup of parcels is integral to the logistics optimization pipeline as it entails both cost and resource efficiency and a heightened service quality. Such optimization requires accurate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hansi Denis , Ali Anwar , Ngoc-Quang Luong , Siegfried Mercelis

Realizing delay-capacity in intermittently connected mobile networks remains a largely open question, with state-of-the-art routing schemes typically focusing either on delay or on capacity. We show the feasibility of routing with both high…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Dhrubojyoti Roy , Mukundan Sridharan , Satyajeet Deshpande , Anish Arora

Reconfigurable antennas (RAs) utilize the electromagnetic (EM) domain to provide dynamic control over antenna radiation patterns, which offers an effective way to enhance power efficiency in wireless links. Unlike conventional arrays with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Alireza Fadakar , Yuchen Zhang , Hui Chen , Musa Furkan Keskin , Henk Wymeersch , Andreas F. Molisch

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

In this paper, we present a directional antenna-based leader-follower robotic relay system capable of building end-to-end communication in complicated and dynamically changing environments. The proposed system consists of multiple networked…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Byung-Cheol Min , Ramviyas Parasuraman , Sangjun Lee , Jin-Woo Jung , Eric T. Matson

Modern wireless machine-to-machine-type communications aim to provide both ultra reliability and low latency, stringent requirements that appear to be mutually exclusive. From the noisy channel coding theorem, we know that reliable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Diego Barragán Guerrero , Minh Au , Ghyslain Gagnon , François Gagnon , Pascal Giard

In this work, we investigate a blockage-aware pinching antenna (PA) system designed for secure and robust wireless communication. The considered system comprises a base station equipped with multiple waveguides, each hosting multiple PAs,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Ruotong Zhao , Shaokang Hu , Deepak Mishra , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

The movable antenna (MA) technology enables flexible reconfiguration of wireless channels through adaptive antenna deployment, offering significant potential for enhancing communication performance. However, antenna movement requires a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Guojie Hu , Qingqing Wu , Lipeng Zhu , Wen Chen , Shanpu Shen

Future autonomous systems require wireless connectivity able to support extremely stringent requirements on both latency and reliability. In this paper, we leverage recent developments in the field of finite-blocklength information theory…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Johan Östman , Giuseppe Durisi , Erik G. Ström , Jingya Li , Henrik Sahlin , Gianluigi Liva

The evolution of wireless communication systems requires flexible, energy-efficient, and cost-effective antenna technologies. Pinching antennas (PAs), which can dynamically control electromagnetic wave propagation through binary activation…

Movable antennas (MAs) have received increasing attention in wireless communications due to their capability of antenna position adjustment to reconfigure wireless channels. However, moving MAs results in non-negligible delay, which may…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Qingliang Li , Weidong Mei , Boyu Ning , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we consider a bidirectional relay network with half-duplex nodes and block fading where the nodes transmit with a fixed transmission rate. Thereby, user 1 and user 2 exchange information only via a relay node, i.e., a direct…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Vahid Jamali , Nikola Zlatanov , Robert Schober

Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications have stringent delay constraints, and hence use codes with small block length (short codewords). In these cases, classical models that provide good approximations to systems with infinitely long…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Nourhan Hesham , Anas Chaaban

A fundamental understanding of gain provided by motion prediction in wireless ad hoc routing is currently lacking. This paper examines benefits in routing obtainable via prediction. A theoretical best-case non-predictive routing model is…

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This paper investigates fluid antenna systems (FASs) subject to finite-blocklength (FBL) constraints, motivated by the strict reliability-latency and ultra-massive connectivity requirements of future wireless networks. While FAS performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Zhentian Zhang , Kai-Kit Wong , David Morales-Jimenez , Hao Jiang , Hao Xu , Christos Masouros , Zaichen Zhang , Chan-Byoung Chae

Non-fixed flexible antenna architectures, such as fluid antenna system (FAS), movable antenna (MA), and pinching antenna, have garnered significant interest in recent years. In this paper, we propose a new rotatable antenna (RA) model to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Beixiong Zheng , Qingjie Wu , Tiantian Ma , Rui Zhang

In this paper, utilizing the relay buffers, we propose an opportunistic decode-wait-and-forward relay scheme for a point-to-point communication system with a half-duplexing relay network to better exploit the time diversity and relay…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-10 Rui Wang , Vincent K. N. Lau , Kaibin Huang