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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

Analog beamforming holds great potential for future terahertz (THz) communications due to its ability to generate high-gain directional beams with low-cost phase shifters. However, conventional analog beamforming may suffer substantial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Yike Xie , Weidong Mei , Dong Wang , Yingqi Wen , Zhi Chen , Jun Fang , Wei Guo , Boyu Ning

The design of an interferometric array should allow optimal instrumental response regarding all possible source positions, times of integration and scientific goals. It should also take into account constraints such as forbidden regions on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Boone

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be deployed as flying base stations (BSs) to leverage the strength of line-of-sight connections and effectively support the coverage and throughput of wireless communication. This paper considers a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Ali A. Nasir , Hoang D. Tuan , Trung Q. Duong , H. Vincent Poor

We consider the problem of active and sequential beam tracking at mmWave frequencies and above. We focus on the dynamic scenario of a UAV to UAV communications where we formulate the problem to be equivalent to tracking an optimal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Nancy Ronquillo , Tara Javidi

In this paper, we propose an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system aided by the movable-antenna (MA) array, which can improve the communication and sensing performance via flexible antenna movement over conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Wenyan Ma , Lipeng Zhu , Rui Zhang

This paper investigates reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) downlink networks with fluid antennas (FA), where RIS enables non-line-of-sight (NLoS) transmissions. Moreover, the FA is equipped on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Li-Hsiang Shen , Yi-Hsuan Chiu

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms utilizing collaborative beamforming (CB) in low-altitude wireless networks (LAWN) demonstrate significant potential for enhanced communication range, energy efficiency, and signal directivity through the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Geng Sun , Chenbang Liu , Jiahui Li , Guannan Qu , Shuang Liang , Jiacheng Wang , Changyuan Zhao , Dusit Niyato

Rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) is regarded as a crucial and powerful physical layer (PHY) paradigm for next-generation communication systems. Particularly, users employ successive interference cancellation (SIC) to decode part of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Cixiao Zhang , Size Peng , Yin Xu , Qingqing Wu , Xiaowu Ou , Xinghao Guo , Dazhi He , Wenjun Zhang

Multibeam technology enables the use of two or more subbeams for joint communication and radio sensing, to meet different requirements of beamwidth and pointing directions. Generating and optimizing multibeam subject to the requirements is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-03 Yuyue Luo , J. Andrew Zhang , Xiaojing Huang , Wei Ni , Jin Pan

Most works evaluating the performance of Multi-User Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MU-MIMO) systems consider Access Points (APs) with fixed antennas, that is, without any movement capability. Recently, the idea of APs with antenna arrays…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-04 Eduardo Noboro Tominaga , Onel Luis Alcaraz López , Tommy Svensson , Richard Demo Souza , Hirley Alves

Fluid antenna system (FAS) is emerging as a key technology for enhancing spatial flexibility and sensing accuracy in future wireless systems. This paper investigates an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled FAS for multi-target wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Xuhui Zhang , Wenchao Liu , Chunjie Wang , Jinke Ren , Huijun Xing , Shuqiang Wang , Yanyan Shen

Beam alignment (BA) is to ensure the transmitter and receiver beams are accurately aligned to establish a reliable communication link in millimeter-wave (mmwave) systems. Existing BA methods search the entire beam space to identify the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-10 Wen Wu , Nan Cheng , Ning Zhang , Peng Yang , Weihua Zhuang , Xuemin , Shen

Spatially structured beams have emerged as a promising technology for enhancing spectrum efficiency (SE) in sixth-generation (6G) networks. However, structured beam schemes based on fixed-position antennas (FPAs) fail to fully exploit the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Hongyun Jin , Wenchi Cheng , Jingqing Wang

Over-the-air (OTA) federated learning (FL) effectively utilizes communication bandwidth, yet it is vulnerable to errors during analog aggregation. While removing users with unfavorable channel conditions can mitigate these errors, it also…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Yang Zhao , Minrui Xu , Ping Wang , Dusit Niyato

Movable antennas (MAs) have attracted significant attention in wireless communications due to their ability to reconfigure channel conditions by flexibly adjusting the antenna positions within a confined region. However, MA movement…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Jiaxuan Li , Weidong Mei , Changhao Liu , Zhi Chen , Boyu Ning , Rui Zhang

Movable antenna (MA) is an emerging technology which enables a local movement of the antenna in the transmitter/receiver region for improving the channel condition and communication performance. In this paper, we study the deployment of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Zhenyu Xiao , Xiangyu Pi , Lipeng Zhu , Xiang-Gen Xia , Rui Zhang

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

This paper considers downlink multi-group multicasting via beamforming facilitated by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). We develop a fast and scalable algorithm for the joint base station (BS) and RIS beamforming optimization to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Mohammad Ebrahimi , Min Dong , Mitra Hekmat

The effective utilization of unlicensed spectrum is regarded as an important direction to enable the massive access and broad coverage for next-generation wireless local area network (WLAN). Due to the crowded spectrum occupancy and dense…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Xiangyu Pi , Lipeng Zhu , Haobin Mao , Zhenyu Xiao , Xiang-Gen Xia , Rui Zhang