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In this letter, we propose to deploy rotatable antennas (RAs) at the base station (BS) to enhance both communication and sensing (C&S) performances, by exploiting a new spatial degree-of-freedom (DoF) offered by array rotation.…

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This letter proposes a hybrid mechanically and electronically tunable six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA) base station (BS) architecture for future wireless communication networks. Such BS consists of multiple antenna arrays that are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yuyan Zhou , Haocheng Hua , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang

In this work, we study a six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA)-enhanced Terahertz (THz) network that supports a large number of users with a few antennas by controlling the three-dimensional (3D) positions and 3D rotations of antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Xiaodan Shao , Yixiao Zhang , Shisheng Hu , Zhixuan Tang , Mingcheng He , Xinyu Huang , Weihua Zhuang , Xuemin Shen

Movable antenna (MA) has been recognized as a promising technology to enhance the performance of wireless communication and sensing by enabling antenna movement. Such a significant paradigm shift from conventional fixed antennas (FAs) to…

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As 6G wireless communication systems evolve toward intelligence, high reconfigurability, and space-air-ground integration \cite{liu2025toward, liu2024near}, the limitations of traditional fixed antenna (TFA) have become increasingly…

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As a green MIMO structure, massive H$^2$AD is viewed as a potential technology for the future 6G wireless network. For such a structure, it is a challenging task to design a low-complexity and high-performance fusion of target direction…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Feng Shu , Jiatong Bai , Di Wu , Wei Zhu , Bin Deng , Fuhui Zhou , Jiangzhou Wang

Movable antenna (MA) has emerged as a promising technology to enhance wireless communication performance by exploiting the new degree of freedom (DoF) via antenna position optimization. In this letter, we investigate the MA-enhanced wide…

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Deploying six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA) systems in Internet-of-Vehicles (IoV) scenarios can greatly enhance spectral efficiency. However, the high mobility of vehicles causes rapid spatio-temporal channel variations, posing a…

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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) and movable antenna (MA) are promising technologies to enhance wireless communication by reconfiguring channels at the environment and transceiver sides. However, their performance is constrained by…

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In this paper, we investigate a multi-cell six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA) network for enhancing downlink communication performance under inter-cell interference (ICI). Each base station (BS) is equipped with multiple 6DMA surfaces,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Qijun Jiang , Xiaodan Shao , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is composed of numerous passive reflecting elements and can be mounted on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to achieve six-dimensional (6D) movement by adjusting the UAV's three-dimensional (3D) location…

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In this paper, we propose an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system enabled by movable antennas (MAs), which can dynamically adjust antenna positions to enhance both sensing and communication performance for future wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Lebin Chen , Ming-Min Zhao , Min-Jian Zhao , Rui Zhang

Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) is a key enabling technique for sixth-generation (6G) wireless systems due to its powerful interference management, and Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) improves communication performance by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Mingyu Hu , Nan Liu , Wei Kang

Rotatable antenna (RA) is an emerging technology that has great potential to exploit additional spatial degrees of freedom (DoFs) by flexibly altering the three-dimensional (3D) orientation/boresight of each antenna. In this demonstration,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Liang Dai , Beixiong Zheng , Yanhua Tan , Lipeng Zhu , Fangjiong Chen , Rui Zhang

Movable antenna (MA) introduces a new degree of freedom for future wireless communication systems by enabling the adaptive adjustment of antenna positions. Its large-range movement renders wireless channels transmission into the near-field…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Chongjia Sun , Ziwei Wan , Lipeng Zhu , Zhenyu Xiao , Zhen Gao , Rui Zhang

Movable antennas (MA) have gained significant attention in recent years to overcome the limitations of extremely large antenna arrays in terms of cost and power consumption. In this paper, we investigate the use of MA arrays at the base…

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is emerging as a pivotal technology for next-generation wireless networks. However, existing ISAC systems are based on fixed-position antennas (FPAs), which inevitably incur a loss in performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Jingze Ding , Zijian Zhou , Xiaodan Shao , Bingli Jiao , Rui Zhang

The recent trend for extremely massive antenna arrays and high frequencies facilitates localization and sensing, offering increased angular and range resolution. In this letter, we focus on the emerging technology of Dynamic Metasurface…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Ioannis Gavras , George C. Alexandropoulos

Sensing emerges as a critical challenge in 6G networks, which require simultaneous communication and target sensing capabilities. State-of-the-art super-resolution techniques for the direction of arrival (DoA) estimation encounter…

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