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This paper studies a sub-connected six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA)-aided multi-user communication system. In this system, each sub-array is connected to a dedicated radio frequency chain and collectively moves and rotates as a unit…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-24 Yichi Zhang , Yuchen Zhang , Lipeng Zhu , Sa Xiao , Wanbin Tang , Yonina C. Eldar , Rui Zhang

6DMA (six-dimensional movable antenna) is a new and revolutionizing technology that fully exploits the wireless channel spatial variation at the transmitter/receiver by flexibly adjusting the three-dimensional (3D) positions and 3D…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Xiaodan Shao , Rui Zhang

Next generation wireless base stations and access points will transmit and receive using extremely massive numbers of antennas. A promising technology for realizing such massive arrays in a dynamically controllable and scalable manner with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-17 Nir Shlezinger , George C. Alexandropoulos , Mohammadreza F. Imani , Yonina C. Eldar , David R. Smith

The interplay between large antenna apertures and high frequencies in future generations of wireless networks will give rise to near-field communications. In this paper, we focus on the hybrid analog and digital beamforming architecture of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Panagiotis Gavriilidis , George C. Alexandropoulos

User location is a piece of critical information for network management and control. However, location uncertainty is unavoidable in certain settings leading to localization errors. In this paper, we consider the user location uncertainty…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-04 Yujie Yao , Hao Zhou , Melike Erol-Kantarci

Shifting 6G-and-beyond wireless systems to higher frequency bands and the utilization of massive multiple-input multiple-output arrays will extend the near-field region, affecting beamforming and user localization schemes. In this paper, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-04 Nima Mozaffarikhosravi , Prathapasinghe Dharmawansa , Italo Atzeni

Movable antenna (MA) has been recognized as a promising technology to improve communication performance in future wireless networks such as 6G. To unleash its potential, this paper proposes a novel architecture, namely extremely large-scale…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Min Fu , Lipeng Zhu , Rui Zhang

The sixth generation (6G) targets ultra reliable, low latency (URLLC) gigabit connectivity in mmWave bands, where directional channels require precise beam alignment. Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) reshape wave propagation and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 M. T. Hassan , D. Zelenchuk , M. A. B. Abbasi

In the next generation of wireless systems, Massive MIMO offers high angular resolution for localization. By virtue of large number of antennas, the Angle of Arrival (AoA) of User Terminals (UTs) can be estimated with high accuracy.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Masoud Arash , Hamed Mirghasemi , Ivan Stupia , Luc Vandendorpe

Large-aperture coprime arrays (CAs) are expected to achieve higher sensing resolution than conventional dense arrays (DAs), yet with lower hardware and energy cost. However, existing CA far-field localization methods cannot be directly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Hongqiang Cheng , Changsheng You , Cong Zhou

Extremely large-scale multiple-input multipleoutput (XL-MIMO) is believed to be a cornerstone of sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. XL-MIMO uses more antennas to both achieve unprecedented spatial degrees of freedom (DoFs) and exploit…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-16 Hao Lei , Jiayi Zhang , Zhe Wang , Huahua Xiao , Bo Ai , Emil Björnson

Beam alignment (BA) in modern millimeter wave standards such as 5G NR and WiGig (802.11ay) is based on exhaustive and/or hierarchical beam searches over pre-defined codebooks of wide and narrow beams. This approach is slow and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yuqiang Heng , Yu Zhang , Ahmed Alkhateeb , Jeffrey G. Andrews

Communication in high frequencies such as millimeter wave and terahertz suffer from high path-loss and intense shadowing which necessitates beamforming for reliable data transmission. On the other hand, at high frequencies the channels are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Abbas Khalili , Sundeep Rangan , Elza Erkip

6G wireless communication networks are expected to use extremely large-scale antenna arrays (ELAAs) to support higher throughput, massive connectivity, and improved system performance. ELAAs would fundamentally alter wave characteristics,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Amjad Iqbal , Ala'a Al-Habashna , Gabriel Wainer , Gary Boudreau

As an emerging wireless communication technology, movable antennas (MAs) offer the ability to adjust the spatial correlation of steering vectors, enabling more flexible beamforming compared to fixed-position antennas (FPAs). In this paper,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Shun Yang , Xin Wei , Nianbing Su , Weidong Mei , Zhi Chen , Boyu Ning

Dynamic metasurface antennas (DMAs) represent a novel transceiver array architecture for extremely large-scale (XL) communications, offering the advantages of reduced power consumption and lower hardware costs compared to conventional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Songjie Yang , Wanting Lyu , Boyu Ning , Yue Xiu , Youzhi Xiong , Hua Chen , Chadi Assi , Chau Yuen

Dynamic metasurface antennas (DMAs) provide a new paradigm to realize large-scale antenna arrays for future wireless systems. In this paper, we study the downlink millimeter wave (mmWave) DMA systems with limited number of radio frequency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-25 Wei Huang , Haiyang Zhang , Nir Shlezinger , Yonina C. Eldar

The advent of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology has provided new opportunities for capacity improvement via strategic antenna deployment, especially when the near-field effect is pronounced due to antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Shicong Liu , Xianghao Yu , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang

Dynamic metasurface antennas (DMAs), surfaces patterned with reconfigurable metamaterial elements (meta-atoms) that couple waves from waveguides or cavities to free space, are a promising technology to realize 6G wireless base stations and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Hugo Prod'homme , Philipp del Hougne

The effective utilization of unlicensed spectrum is regarded as an important direction to enable the massive access and broad coverage for next-generation wireless local area network (WLAN). Due to the crowded spectrum occupancy and dense…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Xiangyu Pi , Lipeng Zhu , Haobin Mao , Zhenyu Xiao , Xiang-Gen Xia , Rui Zhang