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Conventional antenna arrays rely primarily on digital beamforming for spatial control. While adding more elements can narrow beamwidth and suppress interference, such scaling incurs prohibitive hardware and power costs. Rotatable antennas…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-29 Xingxiang Peng , Qingqing Wu , Ziyuan Zheng , Wen Chen , Yanze Zhu , Ying Gao

To meet the growing data traffic demand in future wireless systems, novel transmission architectures capable of adapting to complex propagation environments are required. Movable antenna (MA) systems have recently emerged as a promising…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Xiaoyi Zhang , Amna Irshad , Emil Björnson

Millimeter wave (mmWave) systems will likely employ large antenna arrays at both the transmitters and receivers. A natural application of antenna arrays is simultaneous transmission to multiple users, which requires multi-user precoding at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Robert W. Heath , Geert Leus

Movable antenna (MA) systems have emerged as a promising technology for future wireless communication systems. The movement of antennas gives rise to mutual coupling (MC) effects, which have been previously ignored and can be exploited to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Tianyi Liao , Wei Guo , Jun Qian , Shenghui Song , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

In this letter, we consider optimal hybrid beamforming design to minimize the transmission power under individual signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) constraints in a multiuser massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-27 Guangda Zang , Ying Cui , Hei Victor Cheng , Feng Yang , Lianghui Ding , Hui Liu

In complex urban environments, dynamic obstacles and multipath effects lead to significant link attenuation and pervasive coverage blind spots. Conventional approaches based on large-scale fixed antenna arrays and UAV trajectory…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Kan Yu , Kaixuan Li , Xiaowu Liu , Qixun Zhang , Zhiyong Feng

Movable antennas (MAs) have attracted growing interest for their ability to improve channel conditions via adaptive antenna movement. Nevertheless, such movement inevitably introduces mutual coupling (MC), whose impact has been largely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Tianyi Liao , Wei Guo , Jun Qian , Zixin Wang , Shenghui Song , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

A wireless network serving multiple users in the millimeter-wave or the sub-terahertz band by a base station is considered. High-throughput multi-user hybrid-transmit beamforming is conceived by maximizing the minimum rate of the users. For…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-27 W. Zhu , H. D. Tuan , E. Dutkiewicz , H. V. Poor , L. Hanzo

Dynamic metasurface antennas (DMA) provide low-power beamforming through reconfigurable radiative slots. Each slot has a tunable component that consumes low power compared to typical analog components like phase shifters. This makes DMAs a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-10 Joseph M. Carlson , Nitish V. Deshpande , Miguel Rodrigo Castellanos , Robert W. Heath

The emergence of movable antenna (MA) technology has marked a significant advancement in the field of wireless communication research, paving the way for enhanced connectivity, improved signal quality, and adaptability across diverse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-18 Youssef Maghrebi , Mohamed Elhattab , Chadi Assi , Ali Ghrayeb , Georges Kaddoum

In this paper, we propose a full-duplex integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system enabled by a movable antenna (MA). By leveraging the characteristic of MA that can increase the spatial diversity gain, the performance of the system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-07 Zhendong Li , Jianle Ba , Zhou Su , Haixia Peng , Yuntao Wang , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) and movable antenna (MA)/fluid antenna (FA) techniques have both received increasing attention in the realm of wireless communications due to their ability to reconfigure and improve wireless channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Xin Wei , Weidong Mei , Qingqing Wu , Boyu Ning , Zhi Chen

Contemporary wireless communication systems rely on Multi-User Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MU-MIMO) techniques. In such systems, each Access Point (AP) is equipped with multiple antenna elements and serves multiple devices…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Eduardo Noboro Tominaga , Onel Luis Alcaraz López , Tommy Svensson , Richard Demo Souza , Hirley Alves

This letter investigates the weighted sum rate maximization problem in movable antenna (MA)-enhanced systems. To reduce the computational complexity, we transform it into a more tractable weighted minimum mean square error (WMMSE) problem…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Biqian Feng , Yongpeng Wu , Xiang-Gen Xia , Chengshan Xiao

The broadcast nature of wireless communication renders it inherently vulnerable to security threats such as jamming and eavesdropping. While traditional array beamforming techniques help to mitigate these threats, they usually incur high…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yaodong Ma , Kai Liu , Lipeng Zhu , Yanming Liu , Yanbo Zhu , Daniel Benevides da Costa

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), which can flexibly change the position of antenna in three-dimensional (3D) continuous space, is an emerging technology for achieving full spatial performance gains. In this paper, a prototype of MA communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Zhenjun Dong , Zhiwen Zhou , Zhiqiang Xiao , Chaoyue Zhang , Xinrui Li , Hongqi Min , Yong Zeng , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

This paper pioneers the field of multi-user holographic unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications, laying a solid foundation for future innovations in next-generation aerial wireless networks. The study focuses on the challenging problem…

Multiuser beamforming is considered for partially-connected millimeter wave massive MIMO systems. Based on perfect channel state information (CSI), a low-complexity hybrid beamforming scheme that decouples the analog beamformer and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Chenhao Qi , Jinlin Hu , Yang Du , Arumugam Nallanathan

Hybrid digital and analog beamforming is a highly effective technique for implementing beamforming methods in millimeter wave (mmWave) systems. It provides a viable solution to replace the complex fully digital beamforming techniques.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Rohollah Vahdani , S. Mohammad Razavizadeh