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Pinching antennas (PAs), a new type of reconfigurable and flexible antenna structures, have recently attracted significant research interest due to their ability to create line-of-sight links and mitigate large-scale path loss. Owing to…

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We consider a downlink periodic wireless communications system where multiple access points (APs) cooperatively transmit packets to a number of devices, e.g. actuators in an industrial control system. Each period consists of two phases: an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Rebal Jurdi , Saeed R. Khosravirad , Harish Viswanathan , Jeffrey G. Andrews , Robert W. Heath

The use of multi-antenna arrays in both transmission and reception has been shown to dramatically increase the throughput of wireless communication systems. As a result there has been considerable interest in characterizing the ergodic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Aris L. Moustakas , Steven H. Simon

This paper proposes a dynamic access point (AP) selection and pilot power allocation (DAPPA) framework for uplink cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CFmMIMO) systems, aiming to mitigate inter-user interference and improve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Saeed Mohammadzadeh , Rodrigo C. De Lamare , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Hien Quoc Ngo

Movable antenna (MA) is a promising technology to improve wireless communication performance by varying the antenna position in a given finite area at the transceivers to create more favorable channel conditions. In this paper, we…

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

This work investigates a multi-user, multi-antenna uplink wireless system, in which multiple users transmit signals to a base station. Prior research has explored the potential for linear growth in spectral efficiency by employing multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-27 Sajad Daei , Gabor Fodor , Mikael Skoglund

Recently heterogeneous base station structure has been adopted in cellular systems to enhance system throughput and coverage. In this paper, the uplink coverage probability for the heterogeneous cellular systems is analyzed and derived in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Haichuan Ding , Shaodan Ma , Chengwen Xing , Zesong Fei , Jingming Kuang

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

Continuous aperture arrays (CAPAs) have emerged as a promising physical-layer paradigm for sixth generation (6G) systems, offering spatial degrees of freedom beyond those of conventional discrete antenna arrays. This paper investigates the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-03 Kuranage Roche Rayan Ranasinghe , Getuar Rexhepi , Zhaolin Wang , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu

In this letter, we investigate a novel pinching antenna (PA)-aided wireless powered communication network (WPCN), in which multiple PAs are activated along a waveguide to establish robust line-of-sight links with multiple devices. Both time…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yixuan Li , Hongbo Xu , Ming Zeng , Yuanwei Liu

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output is a potential candidate for future networks with pervasive connectivity by utilizing coherent joint transmission and distributed antenna arrays. This paper studies the exploitation of…

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In this paper, we propose a distributed flexible coupler antenna (FCA) array to enhance communication performance with low hardware cost. At each FCA, there is one fixed-position active antenna and multiple passive couplers that can move…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Xiaodan Shao , Chuangye Shan , Weihua Zhuang , Xuemin Shen

Uplink cellular networks are interference-dominated but interference channel state information (CSI) is rarely available at scale. The emerging fluid antenna system (FAS) concept, which provides additional spatial degrees of freedom through…

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This paper examines the uplink user capacity in a two-tier code division multiple access (CDMA) system with hotspot microcells when user terminal power is limited and the wireless channel is finitely-dispersive. A finitely-dispersive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Shalinee Kishore , Larry J. Greenstein , H. Vincent Poor , Stuart C. Schwartz

In this paper, we analyze the impact of relays on the uplink performance of FDMA cellular networks. We focus our analysis on Decode and Forward techniques, with the aim of measuring the improvements which can be achieved in terms of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-06-26 Federico Librino , Michele Zorzi

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) has emerged as a promising technology for fast wireless data aggregation by harnessing the superposition property of wireless multiple-access channels. This paper investigates a fluid antenna (FA)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Deyou Zhang , Sicong Ye , Ming Xiao , Kezhi Wang , Marco Di Renzo , Mikael Skoglund

In future B5G/6G broadband communication systems, non-linear signal distortion caused by the impairment of transmit power amplifier (PA) can severely degrade the communication performance, especially when uplink users share the wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Xiaojia Wang , Suzhi Bi , Xian Li , Xiaohui Lin , Zhi Quan , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

We consider the movable-antenna (MA) arrayenabled wireless communication with coordinate multi-point (CoMP) reception, where multiple destinations adopt the maximal ratio combination technique to jointly decode the common message sent from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Guojie Hu , Qingqing Wu , Jian Ouyang , Kui Xu , Yunlong Cai , Naofal Al-Dhahir

In a heterogeneous network consisting of macro base stations (MBSs) and small base stations (SBSs), the traditional cell association policy, i.e., coupled access (CA), is far from optimal, due to the significant difference between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-30 Ran Li , Kai Luo , Tao Jiang , Shi Jin

In this paper, the capacity of wireless channels is characterized based on electromagnetic and antenna theories with only minimal assumptions. We assume the transmitter can generate an arbitrary current distribution inside a spherical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Wonseok Jeon , Sae-Young Chung