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This paper studies a novel movable antenna (MA)-enhanced multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system to leverage the corresponding spatial degrees of freedom (DoFs) for improving the performance of wireless communications. We aim to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Xintai Chen , Biqian Feng , Yongpeng Wu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

Movable antennas (MAs) represent a promising paradigm to enhance the spatial degrees of freedom of conventional multi-antenna systems by dynamically adapting the positions of antenna elements within a designated transmit area. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Yifei Wu , Dongfang Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Wolfgang Gerstacker , Robert Schober

Beamforming techniques utilized either at the transmitter or the receiver terminals have achieved superior quality-of-service performances from both the multi-antenna wireless communications systems, communications intelligence and radar…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-09 M. Yaser Yağan , Ahmet F. Coşkun , Ali E. Pusane

In this correspondence, we study deploying movable antenna (MA) array in a wideband multiple-input-single-output (MISO) communication system, where near-field (NF) channel model is considered. To alleviate beam squint effect, we propose to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Yanze Zhu , Qingqing Wu , Yang Liu , Qingjiang Shi , Wen Chen

Flexible antenna technology has recently emerged as a key enabler for next-generation wireless communications, which can effectively exploit the spatial degrees of freedom (DoF). However, existing conventional metrics (e.g., spectral and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Cheng Yang , Dong Li

In this paper, we investigate physical layer security (PLS) for full-duplex (FD) multi-user systems. We consider a base station (BS) that operates in FD mode and transmits artificial noise (AN) to simultaneously protect uplink (UL) and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Jingze Ding , Zijian Zhou , Bingli Jiao

In this paper, we propose a movable antenna (MA) enhanced scheme for wireless powered mobile edge computing (WP-MEC) system, where the hybrid access point (HAP) equipped with multiple MAs first emits wireless energy to charge wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Pengcheng Chen , Yuxuan Yang , Bin Lyu , Zhen Yang , Abbas Jamalipour

In traditional multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems, the antenna spacing is often no smaller than half a wavelength. However, by exploiting the coupling between more closely-spaced antennas, a superdirective array may…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-28 Yali Zhang , Haifan Yin , Liangcheng Han

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

This paper presents a novel wireless sensing system where a movable antenna (MA) continuously moves and receives sensing signals within a three-dimensional (3-D) region to enhance sensing performance compared with conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Wenyan Ma , Lipeng Zhu , Xiaodan Shao , Rui Zhang

Movable antennas (MAs) are a promising technology to achieve a significant enhancement in rate for future wireless networks. The pioneering investigation on near-field directional modulation design for a reconfigurable intelligent surface…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Maolin Li , Feng Shu , Riqing Chen , Cunhua Pan , Yongpeng Wu

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

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

The beamforming optimization in continuous aperture array (CAPA)-based multi-user communications is studied. In contrast to conventional spatially discrete antenna arrays, CAPAs can exploit the full spatial degrees of freedom (DoFs) by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Zhaolin Wang , Chongjun Ouyang , Yuanwei Liu

We consider a multi-user (MU) full-duplex (FD) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system, in which the base station transceiver is equipped with transmit and receive position reconfigurable antennas (PRAs) to mitigate both…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 Chengjie Zhao , Yuanzhe Gong , Tho Le-Ngoc

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

In this paper, we propose a beamforming method for the calibration of the direction-independent gain of the analog chains of aperture arrays. The gain estimates are obtained by cross-correlating the output voltage of each antenna with a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-26 Quentin Gueuning , Antony Brown , Christophe Craeye , Eloy de Lera Acedo

Movable antennas (MAs), which can be swiftly repositioned within a defined region, offer a promising solution to the limitations of fixed-position antennas (FPAs) in adapting to spatial variations in wireless channels, thereby improving…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Ziyuan Zheng , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Guojie Hu

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

The passive electronically scanned array (PESA) is widely used due to its simple structure and low cost. {Its antenna weights have unit modulus and thus, only the weights phases can be controlled. PESA has limited degrees of freedom for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-18 Zhaoyi Xu , Athina P. Petropulu