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Future wireless networks, deploying thousands of antenna elements, may operate in the radiative near-field (NF), enabling spatial multiplexing across both angle and range domains. Sparse arrays have the potential to achieve comparable…
Phased array radar systems have a wide variety of applications in engineering and physics research. Phased array design usually requires numerical modeling with expensive commercial computational packages. Using the open-source MIT…
The use of planar and concentric circular microphone arrays in beamforming has gained attention due to their ability to optimize both azimuth and elevation angles, making them ideal for spatial audio tasks like sound source localization and…
It is well-known that the high computational complexity and the insufficient samples in large-scale array signal processing restrict the real-world applications of the conventional full-dimensional adaptive beamforming (sample matrix…
Millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) communications with hybrid precoding architectures have been regarded as energy-efficient solutions to fulfill the vision of high-speed transmissions for 6G communications. Benefiting from the…
This paper investigates a coordinated multi-cell integrated sensing, communication, and powering (ISCAP) system operating in the electromagnetic near field, where each base station (BS) employs an extremely large-scale antenna array (ELAA)…
With the deployment of large antenna arrays at high-frequency bands, future wireless communication systems are likely to operate in the radiative near-field. Unlike far-field beam steering, near-field beams can be focused on a spatial…
Programmable metasurfaces promise a great potential to construct low-cost phased array systems due to the capability of elaborate modulation over electromagnetic (EM) waves. However, they are in either reflective or transmissive mode, and…
Fluid antenna system (FAS), which continuously repositions a single physical element across a deployment region $[0, D]$, breaks this limit by freeing antenna positions from the discrete grid entirely. This paper establishes the theoretical…
Conventional multi-beam forming with fixed-position antenna (FPA) arrays needs to trade-off between maximizing the beamforming gain over desired directions and minimizing the interference power over undesired directions. In this letter, we…
This paper proposes a novel multi-antenna architecture, termed ray antenna array (RAA), which aims to enhance wireless communication performance in a cost-effective manner. RAA is composed of massive cheap antenna elements and a few radio…
The concept of self-mixing antenna arrays is presented and analyzed with respect to its beneficial behavior of large gain over a wide angular range. The large gain is attained by an antenna array with large element spacing, where all array…
Recent studies suggest that uniform circular arrays (UCAs) can extend the angular coverage of the radiative near field region. This work investigates whether such enhanced angular coverage translates into improved spatial multiplexing…
Massive MIMO has been the subject of intense interest in both academia and industry for the past few years. 3GPP standardization for cellular systems have adopted the principles of massive MIMO and categorized the use of large rectangular…
Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) for 5G is evolving into the extremely large-scale antenna array (ELAA) to increase the spectrum efficiency by orders of magnitude for 6G communications. ELAA introduces spherical-wave-based…
Beampattern synthesis is a key problem in many wireless applications. With the increasing scale of MIMO antenna array, it is highly desired to conduct beampattern synthesis on a sparse array to reduce the power and hardware cost. In this…
To meet the demand of supreme data rates in terabits-per-second, the next-generation mobile system needs to exploit the abundant spectrum in the millimeter-wave and terahertz bands. However, high-frequency transmission heavily relies on…
Mobile operators commonly use macro cells with traditional wide beam antennas for wider coverage in the cell, but future capacity demands cannot be achieved by using them only. It is required to achieve maximum practical capacity from macro…
The growing demand for efficient delivery of common content to multiple user equipments (UEs) has motivated significant research in physical-layer multicasting. By exploiting the beamforming capabilities of massive MIMO, multicasting…
The aim of this paper is to analyze the array synthesis for 5 G massive MIMO systems in the line-of-sight working condition. The main result of the numerical investigation performed is that non-uniform arrays are the natural choice in this…