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Future wireless networks are expected to support increasingly high data rates and user densities, motivating advanced multi-antenna architectures capable of adapting to dynamic propagation environments. Movable antenna (MA) arrays have…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-25 Amna Irshad , Emil Björnson , Alva Kosasih , Vitaly Petrov

A continuous-aperture array (CAPA)-based secure transmission framework is proposed to enhance physical layer security. Continuous current distributions, or beamformers, are designed to maximize the secrecy transmission rate under a power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Boqun Zhao , Chongjun Ouyang , Xingqi Zhang , Yuanwei Liu

Movable antenna (MA) has been regarded as a promising technology to enhance wireless communication performance by enabling flexible antenna movement. However, the hardware cost of conventional MA systems scales with the number of movable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Lipeng Zhu , He Sun , Wenyan Ma , Zhenyu Xiao , Rui Zhang

A mutual coupling-aware beamforming design for continuous aperture array (CAPA)-aided multi-user systems is investigated. First, a transmit coupling kernel is characterized to explicitly capture the mutual coupling effects inherent in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Junjie Ye , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Peichang Zhang , Lei Huang , Arumugam Nallanathan

In this paper, we propose a novel antenna architecture called movable antenna (MA) to improve the performance of wireless communication systems. Different from conventional fixed-position antennas (FPAs) that undergo random wireless channel…

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

Pinching antenna (PA) is a flexible antenna composed of a waveguide and multiple dielectric particles, which is capable of reconfiguring wireless channels intelligently in line-of-sight links. By leveraging the unique features of PAs, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Tianwei Hou , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

The channel statistics of a continuous-aperture array (CAPA)-based channel are analyzed using its continuous electromagnetic (EM) properties. The received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is discussed under isotropic scattering conditions. Using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-21 Chongjun Ouyang , Boqun Zhao , Xingqi Zhang , Yuanwei Liu

The phenomenon of mutual coupling in continuous aperture arrays (CAPAs) is studied. First, a general physical model for the phenomenon that accounts for both polarization and surface dissipation losses is developed. Then, the unipolarized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Zhaolin Wang , Kuranage Roche Rayan Ranasinghe , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu , Yuanwei Liu

This paper introduces a new mathematical framework, which is used to derive joint uplink/downlink achievable rate regions for multi-user spatial multiplexing between one base station and multiple terminals. The framework consists of two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Patrick Marsch , Peter Rost , Gerhard Fettweis

From both practical and theoretical viewpoints, performance analysis of communication systems using information-theoretic results is very important. In this study, first, we obtain a general achievable rate for a two-user wireless multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Akram Entezami , Ghosheh Abed Hodtani

This paper provides a thorough mathematical analysis of continuous movable antenna (MA) arrays. Focusing on the multiple antenna case, we consider a linear antenna array with multiple fixed antenna elements that moves along a line. We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Gayani Siriwardana , Peter J. Smith , Himal A. Suraweera , Rajitha Senanayake

This paper investigates a novel fluid antenna multiple access (FAMA)-assisted wireless powered communication network (WPCN), in which a hybrid access point (HAP) equipped with multiple fixed position antennas (FPAs) provides integrated data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Xiao Lin , Yizhe Zhao , Halvin Yang , Jie Hu

A segmented waveguide-enabled pinching-antenna system (SWAN) is proposed, in which a segmented waveguide composed of multiple short dielectric waveguide segments is employed to radiate or receive signals through the pinching antennas (PAs)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Chongjun Ouyang , Hao Jiang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiguo Ding

The proposed research performs an analysis of the capacity higher-order statistics for a single-input multiple-output multiantenna wireless communication system equipped with a maximum-ratio combining scheme. It was assumed that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Aleksey S. Gvozdarev

As the technical trends for the next-generation wireless network significantly extend the near-field region, a performance reevaluation of integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) with an appropriate channel model to account for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Boqun Zhao , Chongjun Ouyang , Yuanwei Liu , Xingqi Zhang , H. Vincent Poor

A whole suite of innovative technologies and architectures have emerged in response to the rapid growth of wireless traffic. This paper studies an integrated network design that boosts system capacity through cooperation between wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Trinh Van Chien , Eva Lagunas , Tiep M. Hoang , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten , Lajos Hanzo

An efficient beamforming design is proposed for continuous aperture array (CAPA)-based point-to-point multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. In contrast to conventional spatially discrete array (SPDA)-MIMO systems, whose optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Zhaolin Wang , Chongjun Ouyang , Yuanwei Liu

We consider a multiuser wireless system with a full-duplex hybrid access point (HAP) that transmits to a set of users in the downlink channel, while receiving data from a set of energy-constrained sensors in the uplink channel. We assume…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Mohammadali Mohammadi , Batu K. Chalise , Himal A. Suraweera , Zhiguo Ding

Wireless communications with extremely large-scale array (XL-array) correspond to systems whose antenna sizes are so large that conventional modelling assumptions, such as uniform plane wave (UPW) impingement, are longer valid. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Haiquan Lu , Yong Zeng

Spectrum sharing between wireless networks improves the efficiency of spectrum usage, and thereby alleviates spectrum scarcity due to growing demands for wireless broadband access. To improve the usual underutilization of the cellular…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-08-18 Kaibin Huang , Vincent K. N. Lau , Yan Chen