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Fluid antennas (FAs) and movable antennas (MAs) have emerged as promising technologies in wireless communications, which offer the flexibility to improve channel conditions by adjusting transmit/receive antenna positions within a spatial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Weidong Mei , Xin Wei , Boyu Ning , Zhi Chen , Rui Zhang

Movable antenna (MA) has been recently proposed as a promising candidate technology for the next generation wireless communication systems due to its significant capability of reconfiguring wireless channels via antenna movement. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-17 Nianzu Li , Peiran Wu , Boyu Ning , Lipeng Zhu

This paper studies the deployment of multiple movable antennas (MAs) at the base station (BS) for enhancing the multiuser communication performance. First, we model the multiuser channel in the uplink to characterize the wireless channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Xiangyu Pi , Lipeng Zhu , Zhenyu Xiao , Rui Zhang

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

Fluid antennas (FAs) and movable antennas (MAs) have attracted increasing attention in wireless communications recently. As compared to the conventional fixed-position antennas (FPAs), their geometry can be dynamically reconfigured, such…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-26 Dong Wang , Weidong Mei , Boyu Ning , Zhi Chen

Recently, movable antenna (MA) array becomes a promising technology for improving the communication quality in wireless communication systems. In this letter, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled multi-user multi-input-single-output…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-24 Wenchao Liu , Xuhui Zhang , Huijun Xing , Jinke Ren , Yanyan Shen , Shuguang Cui

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

In this letter, we propose to employ movable antenna (MA) to enhance covert communications with noise uncertainty, where the confidential data is transmitted from an MA-aided access point (AP) to multiple users with a warden attempting to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Haobin Mao , Xiangyu Pi , Lipeng Zhu , Zhenyu Xiao , Xiang-Gen Xia , Rui Zhang

Movable-antennas (MAs) are revolutionizing spatial signal processing by providing flexible beamforming in next-generation wireless systems. This paper investigates an MA-empowered autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) system in low-altitude…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Xuhui Zhang , Wenchao Liu , Jinke Ren , Chunjie Wang , Huijun Xing , Yanyan Shen , Shuguang Cui

Movable antennas (MAs), traditionally explored in antenna design, have recently garnered significant attention in wireless communications due to their ability to dynamically adjust the antenna positions to changes in the propagation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-09 Boyu Ning , Songjie Yang , Yafei Wu , Peilan Wang , Weidong Mei , Chau Yuen , Emil Björnson

Movable antenna (MA) systems have recently attracted significant attention in the field of wireless communications owing to their exceptional capability to proactively reconfigure wireless channels via flexible antenna movements. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Nianzu Li , Peiran Wu , Lipeng Zhu , Weidong Mei , Boyu Ning , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

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

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

The movable antenna (MA) technology has attracted increasing attention in wireless communications due to its capability for flexibly adjusting the positions of multiple antennas in a local region to reconfigure channel conditions. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Nianzu Li , Weidong Mei , Boyu Ning , Peiran Wu

Movable antennas (MAs) offer additional spatial degrees of freedom (DoFs) to enhance communication performance through local antenna movement. However, to achieve accurate and fast antenna movement, MA drivers entail non-negligible…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Xin Wei , Weidong Mei , Xuan Huang , Zhi Chen , Boyu Ning

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 antennas (MAs) represent a promising paradigm to enhance the spatial degrees of freedom of conventional multi-antenna systems by dynamically adapting the positions of antenna elements within a designated transmit area. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Yifei Wu , Dongfang Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Wolfgang Gerstacker , Robert Schober

This paper studies a novel movable antenna (MA)-enhanced multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system to leverage the corresponding spatial degrees of freedom (DoFs) for improving the performance of wireless communications. We aim to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Xintai Chen , Biqian Feng , Yongpeng Wu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

The advent of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology has provided new opportunities for capacity improvement via strategic antenna deployment, especially when the near-field effect is pronounced due to antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Shicong Liu , Xianghao Yu , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang

Movable antennas (MAs), which can be swiftly repositioned within a defined region, offer a promising solution to the limitations of fixed-position antennas (FPAs) in adapting to spatial variations in wireless channels, thereby improving…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Ziyuan Zheng , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Guojie Hu