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Conventional beamforming with fixed-position antenna (FPA) arrays has a fundamental trade-off between maximizing the signal power (array gain) over a desired direction and simultaneously minimizing the interference power over undesired…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Lipeng Zhu , Wenyan Ma , Rui Zhang

Flexible coupler is a promising solution for enhancing wireless network capacity by moving passive couplers around a fixed-position active antenna to reshape the induced currents on passive elements. Motivated by this, this paper proposes a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Xiaodan Shao , Yixiao Zhang , Nan Cheng , Weihua Zhuang , Xuemin Shen

The pinching-antenna system (PASS) introduces new degrees of freedom (DoFs) for physical layer security (PLS) through pinching beamforming. In this paper, a couple of scenarios for secure beamforming for PASS are studied. 1) For the case…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-04 Mingjun Sun , Chongjun Ouyang , Shaochuan Wu , Yuanwei Liu

Large antenna arrays can steer narrow beams towards a target area, and thus improve the communications capacity of wireless channels and the fidelity of radio sensing. Hardware that is capable of continuously-variable phase shifts is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Minsung Kim , Annalise Stockley , Keith Briggs , Kyle Jamieson

Millimeter-scale implants using ultrasound for power and communication have been proposed for a range of deep-tissue applications, including neural recording and stimulation. However, published implementations have shown high sensitivity to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-02 Braeden C. Benedict , Mohammad Meraj Ghanbari , Rikky Muller

Next-generation networks require intelligent and robust channel conditions to support ultra-high data rates, seamless connectivity, and large-scale device deployments in dynamic environments. While flexible antenna technologies such as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Enzhi Zhou , Yue Xiao , Ziyue Liu , Sotiris A. Tegos , Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis , George K. Karagiannidis

This paper proposes an asymptotically optimal hybrid beamforming solution for large antenna arrays by exploiting the properties of the singular vectors of the channel matrix. It is shown that the elements of the channel matrix with Rayleigh…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Sohail Payami , Mir Ghoraishi , Mehrdad Dianati

The ability to obtain dynamic control over an antenna radiation pattern is one of the main functions, desired in a vast range of applications, including wireless communications, radars, and many others. Widely used approaches include…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-01-03 Dmytro Vovchuk , Anna Mikhailovskaya , Dmitry Dobrykh , Pavel Ginzburg

In this paper, we propose a new frequency-switching array (FSA) to enhance the physical-layer security (PLS) in the presence of multiple eavesdroppers (Eves), where the carrier frequency can be flexibly switched and small frequency offsets…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Cong Zhou , Changsheng You , Chao Zhou , Weidong Mei , Zhi Chen , Chengwen Xing , Rui Zhang

Dynamic metasurface antennas (DMA) provide a solution to form compact, cost-effective, energy-efficient multiple-input-multiple output (MIMO) arrays. In this paper, we implement a practical hierarchical codebook with a realistic DMA design…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Joseph Carlson , Miguel R. Castellanos , Robert W. Heath

A parasitic reconfigurable antenna array is a low-power approach for beamforming using passive tunable elements. Prior work on reconfigurable antennas in communication theory is based on ideal radiation pattern abstractions. It does not…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Nitish Vikas Deshpande , Miguel Rodrigo Castellanos , Saeed R. Khosravirad , Jinfeng Du , Harish Viswanathan , Robert W. Heath

The potential of using of millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency for future wireless cellular communication systems has motivated the study of large-scale antenna arrays for achieving highly directional beamforming. However, the conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Foad Sohrabi , Wei Yu

Spatially structured beams have emerged as a promising technology for enhancing spectrum efficiency (SE) in sixth-generation (6G) networks. However, structured beam schemes based on fixed-position antennas (FPAs) fail to fully exploit the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Hongyun Jin , Wenchi Cheng , Jingqing Wang

The Pinching-Antenna System (PASS) reconfigures wireless channels through \emph{pinching beamforming}, in which the active positions of pinching antennas (PAs) along dielectric waveguides are optimized to shape the radiation pattern. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-04 Zhenqiao Cheng , Chongjun Ouyang , Nicola Marchetti

In this work, an innovative method for controlling the current distribution of the radiating patch by adjusting the input phase is investigated to achieve both pattern and polarization reconfigurable characteristics for the multifunction. A…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Guangwei Yang , Qiao Cheng , Jianying Li , Shuai Zhang , Steven Gao , Xiaodong Chen

Photonic integrated circuit (PIC) phased arrays can be an enabling technology for a broad range of applications including free-space laser communications on compact moving platforms. However, scaling PIC phased arrays to a large number of…

This work explores the potential of integrating an Intelligent Transmissive Surface (ITS) into an antenna array to improve beamforming performance. We show that integrating a moderate number of passive refractive elements into a small…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-10 Robbert Beerten , Wen Shang , Tugce Kobal

A Pinching-Antenna SyStem (PASS)-assisted convert communication framework is proposed. PASS utilizes dielectric waveguides with freely positioned pinching antennas (PAs) to establish strong line-of-sight links. Capitalizing on this high…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Hao Jiang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu

This paper presents a novel planar phased array that can work in Ka band designed for two-dimensional scanning. A four-modes pattern reconfigurable element based on microstrip Yagi antenna is proposed, and then developed into the 4X4 phased…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-23 Ze Yan , Naibo Zhang , Guangcun Shan

This paper proposes a novel multiple-access framework, termed the phased ultra massive antenna array (PUMA), which exploits the distinctive spatial flexibility of fluid antenna systems (FAS) at the user equipment (UE). Building upon fluid…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Hanjiang Hong , Kai-Kit Wong , Xusheng Zhu , Chenguang Rao , Dazhi He , Hyundong Shin