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Fluid antennas (FAs) and mobile antennas (MAs) are innovative technologies in wireless communications that are able to proactively improve channel conditions by dynamically adjusting the transmit/receive antenna positions within a given…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-19 Weidong Mei , Xin Wei , Yijie Liu , Boyu Ning , Zhi Chen

This paper investigates the potential of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with movable-antenna (MA) arrays to strengthen security in wireless communication systems. We propose a novel framework that jointly optimizes the UAV…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Sanghyeok Kim , Jinu Gong , Joonhyuk Kang

In conventional multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), static array configurations struggle in dynamic environments, and further antenna scaling is bounded by cost, energy, and footprint. Emerging approaches, which can enable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Zhe Wang , Jiayi Zhang , Bokai Xu , Wenhui Yi , Emil Björnson , Bo Ai

Movable antenna (MA) has attracted increasing attention in wireless communications due to its capability of wireless channel reconfiguration through local antenna movement within a confined region at the transmitter/receiver. However, to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Yitai Huang , Weidong Mei , Xin Wei , Zhi Chen , Boyu Ning

In this letter, we propose a new movable antenna (MA) enabled symbiotic radio (SR) system that leverages the movement of MAs to maximize both the primary and secondary rates, thereby promoting their mutualism. Specifically, the primary…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-13 Chao Zhou , Bin Lyu , Changsheng You , Ziwei Liu

In this paper, we propose a movable antenna (MA) empowered scheme for symbiotic radio (SR) communication systems. Specifically, multiple antennas at the primary transmitter (PT) can be flexibly moved to favorable locations to boost the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Bin Lyu , Hao Liu , Wenqing Hong , Shimin Gong , Feng Tian

In this letter, we propose to employ movable antenna (MA) to enhance covert communications with noise uncertainty, where the confidential data is transmitted from an MA-aided access point (AP) to multiple users with a warden attempting to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Haobin Mao , Xiangyu Pi , Lipeng Zhu , Zhenyu Xiao , Xiang-Gen Xia , Rui Zhang

This paper investigates flexible beamforming design in an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) network with movable antennas (MAs). A bistatic radar system is integrated into a multi-user multiple-input-single-output (MU-MISO)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-20 Wanting Lyu , Songjie Yang , Yue Xiu , Zhongpei Zhang , Chadi Assi , Chau Yuen

The transition to sixth-generation (6G) networks calls for wireless transceivers with enhanced adaptability and efficiency. Reconfigurable antennas (RAs) have emerged as a promising solution, enabling dynamic control over the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Pinjun Zheng , Ruiqi Wang , Yuchen Zhang , Md. Jahangir Hossain , Anas Chaaban , Atif Shamim , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

This paper investigates an innovative movable antenna (MA)-enhanced multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system designed to enhance communication performance. We aim to maximize the energy efficiency (EE) under statistical channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Xintai Chen , Biqian Feng , Yongpeng Wu , Wenjun Zhang

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems exploit the spatial diversity achieved with an array of many antennas to perform spatial multiplexing of many users. Similar performance can be achieved using fewer antennas if movable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-07 Amna Irshad , Alva Kosasih , Vitaly Petrov , Emil Björnson

Pinching antennas have emerged as a promising technology for reconfiguring wireless propagation environments, particularly in high-frequency communication systems operating in the millimeter-wave and terahertz bands. By enabling dynamic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Ming Zeng , Ji Wang , Octavia A. Dobre , Zhiguo Ding , George K. Karagiannidis , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor

Space--air--ground integrated networks (SAGINs) are emerging as a key foundation for future non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) and low-altitude economy services. However, their performance is increasingly limited not only by communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Heyou Liu , Bang Huang , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA) is an effective solution for enhancing wireless network capacity through the adjustment of both 3D positions and 3D rotations of distributed antennas/antenna surfaces. Although freely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Xiaoming Shi , Xiaodan Shao , Rui Zhang

This paper investigates a six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA)-aided cell-free multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system. In this system, each distributed access point (AP) can flexibly adjust its array…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-09 Yichi Zhang , Yuchen Zhang , Wenyan Ma , Lipeng Zhu , Jianquan Wang , Wanbin Tang , Rui Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is regarded as a key enabling platform for low-altitude economy, due to its advantages such as 3D maneuverability, flexible deployment, and LoS air-to-air/ground communication links. In particular, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Haiquan Lu , Yong Zeng , Shaodan Ma , Bin Li , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

Movable antenna (MA) and intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) are considered promising technologies for the next-generation wireless communication systems due to their shared channel reconfiguration capabilities. This, however, raises a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Xin Wei , Weidong Mei , Qingqing Wu , Qiaoran Jia , Boyu Ning , Zhi Chen , Jun Fang

Wi-Fi access points have been widely deployed in homes, offices, and public spaces. Some APs allow users to adjust the antenna orientation to improve communication performance by optimizing antenna polarization. However, it is difficult for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Akihito Taya , Yuuki Nishiyama , Kaoru Sezaki

In this paper, we investigate a six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA)-enabled wideband terahertz (THz) communication system with sub-connected hybrid beamforming architecture at the base station (BS). In particular, the three-dimensional…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Wencai Yan , Wanming Hao , Yajun Fan , Yabo Guo , Qingqing Wu , Xingwang Li

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Wenyan Ma , Lipeng Zhu , Rui Zhang