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In this paper, we propose a new six-dimensional (6D) movable antenna (6DMA) system for future wireless networks to improve the communication performance. Unlike the traditional fixed-position antenna (FPA) and existing fluid…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Xiaodan Shao , Qijun Jiang , Rui Zhang

In this letter, we investigate the channel estimation problem for MIMO wireless communication systems with movable antennas (MAs) at both the transmitter (Tx) and receiver (Rx). To achieve high channel estimation accuracy with low pilot…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Ruoyu Zhang , Lei Cheng , Wei Zhang , Xinrong Guan , Yueming Cai , Wen Wu , Rui Zhang

Non-fixed flexible antenna architectures, such as fluid antenna system (FAS), movable antenna (MA), and pinching antenna, have garnered significant interest in recent years. Among them, rotatable antenna (RA) is an emerging technology that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Beixiong Zheng , Tiantian Ma , Changsheng You , Jie Tang , Robert Schober , Rui Zhang

This paper investigates the energy efficiency optimization for movable antenna (MA) systems by considering the time delay and energy consumption introduced by MA movement. We first derive the upper bound on energy efficiency for a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Jingze Ding , Zijian Zhou , Yuping Zhao , Bingli Jiao

This paper investigates the potential of movable antenna (MA)-enabled micro-mobility to replace UAV-enabled macro-mobility for enhancing physical layer security (PLS) in air-to-ground communications. While UAV trajectory optimization offers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Kaixuan Li , Kan Yu , Dingyou Ma , Yujia Zhao , Xiaowu Liu , Qixun Zhang , ZHiyong Feng

A movable antennas (MAs)-enabled secure multiuser transmission framework is developed to enhance physical-layer security. Novel expressions are derived to characterize the achievable sum secrecy rate based on the secure channel coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Zhenqiao Cheng , Chongjun Ouyang , Boqun Zhao , Xingqi Zhang

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

Fluid antennas (FAs) and mobile antennas (MAs) are innovative technologies in wireless communications that are able to proactively improve channel conditions by dynamically adjusting the transmit/receive antenna positions within a given…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-19 Weidong Mei , Xin Wei , Yijie Liu , Boyu Ning , Zhi Chen

Through adaptive antenna repositioning, the movable antenna (MA) technology enables on-demand reconfiguration of wireless channels, thereby creating an additional spatial degree of freedom in improving communication performance. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Guojie Hu , Qingqing Wu , Lipeng Zhu , Kui Xu , Guoxin Li , Tong-Xing Zheng

This article considers the performance of wireless communication systems that utilize reconfigurable or pattern-dynamic antennas. The focus is on finite-state channels with memory and performance is assessed in terms of real-time behavior.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Santhosh Kumar , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Gregory H. Huff

The movable antenna (MA) is a promising technology to exploit more spatial degrees of freedom for enhancing wireless system performance. However, the MA-aided system introduces the non-convex antenna distance constraints, which poses…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-12 Yichen Jin , Qingfeng Lin , Yang Li , Yik-Chung Wu

Six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA) is an emerging technology that is able to fully exploit the spatial variation of wireless channels by controlling the 3D positions and 3D rotations of distributed antennas/antenna surfaces at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Xiaodan Shao , Rui Zhang , Robert Schober

This paper investigates a novel communication paradigm employing movable antennas (MAs) within a multiple-input single-output (MISO) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) downlink framework, where users are equipped with MAs. Initially,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Yufeng Zhou , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Xusheng Zhu , Nan Cheng

In this work, a novel design of electromagnetically reconfigurable antennas (ERAs) based on a fluid antenna system (FAS) is proposed, and the corresponding wireless channel model is established. Different from conventional antenna arrays…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Ruiqi Wang , Pinjun Zheng , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Atif Shamim

Due to the ultra-dense constellation, efficient beam coverage and interference mitigation are crucial to low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication systems, while the conventional directional antennas and fixed-position antenna (FPA)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Lipeng Zhu , Xiangyu Pi , Wenyan Ma , Zhenyu Xiao , Rui Zhang

The tremendous bandwidth available in the millimeter wave (mmW) frequencies between 30 and 300 GHz have made these bands an attractive candidate for next-generation cellular systems. However, reliable communication at these frequencies…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-20 Parisa A. Eliasi , Sundeep Rangan , Theodore S. Rappaport

This paper investigates a six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA)-aided cell-free multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system. In this system, each distributed access point (AP) can flexibly adjust its array…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-09 Yichi Zhang , Yuchen Zhang , Wenyan Ma , Lipeng Zhu , Jianquan Wang , Wanbin Tang , Rui Zhang

Movable antenna (MA) has emerged as a promising technology to flexibly reconfigure wireless channels by adjusting antenna placement. In this paper, we study a dual-functional radar-communication (DFRC) system enhanced with movable antennas.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Ran Yang , Zheng Dong , Peng Cheng , Lin Zhang , Wanting Lyu , Yue Xiu , Ning Wei , Chadi Assi

Movable antenna (MA) array is a novel technology recently developed where positions of transmit/receive antennas can be flexibly adjusted in the specified region to reconfigure the wireless channel and achieve a higher capacity. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Guojie Hu , Qingqing Wu , Kui Xu , Jiangbo Si , Naofal Al-Dhahir

We investigate resource allocation in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems exploiting movable antennas (MAs) to enhance system performance. Unlike the existing ISAC literature, we account for dynamic radar cross-section (RCS)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-31 Ata Khalili , Robert Schober