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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

Movable antenna (MA) systems have attracted growing interest in wireless communications due to their ability to reshape wireless channels via local antenna movement within a confined region. However, optimizing antenna positions to enhance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-26 Changhao Liu , Weidong Mei , Zhi Chen , Jun Fang , Boyu Ning

Six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA) is an effective solution for enhancing wireless network capacity through the adjustment of both 3D positions and 3D rotations of distributed antennas/antenna surfaces. Although freely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Xiaoming Shi , Xiaodan Shao , Rui Zhang

Six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA) has been identified as a new disruptive technology for future wireless systems to support a large number of users with only a few antennas. However, the intricate relationships between the signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Xiaodan Shao , Limei Hu , Yulong Sun , Xing Li , Yixiao Zhang , Jingze Ding , Xiaoming Shi , Feng Chen , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

This paper proposes a novel towed movable antenna (ToMA) array architecture to enhance the physical layer security of airborne communication systems. Unlike conventional onboard arrays with fixed-position antennas (FPAs), the ToMA array…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Lipeng Zhu , Haobin Mao , Wenyan Ma , Zhenyu Xiao , Jun Zhang , Rui Zhang

With multi-GHz bandwidth, Terahertz (THz) beamforming has drawn increasing attention in the sixth generation (6G) and beyond communications. Existing beamforming designs mainly focus on a compact antenna array where typical communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Heyin Shen , Yuhang Chen , Chong Han , Jinhong Yuan

Conventional beamforming with fixed-position antenna (FPA) arrays has a fundamental trade-off between maximizing the signal power (array gain) over a desired direction and simultaneously minimizing the interference power over undesired…

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

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

In this correspondence, we study deploying movable antenna (MA) array in a wideband multiple-input-single-output (MISO) communication system, where near-field (NF) channel model is considered. To alleviate beam squint effect, we propose to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Yanze Zhu , Qingqing Wu , Yang Liu , Qingjiang Shi , Wen Chen

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a key enabling technology for next-generation wireless networks. However, most existing ISAC systems rely on fixed-position antennas, which restrict performance when balancing sensing and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Yifei Wu , Dongfang Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Wolfgang Gerstacker , Robert Schober

Recent advancements in movable antennas (MAs) technology create new opportunities for 6G and beyond wireless systems. MAs are promising for radio frequency wireless energy transfer because they can dynamically adjust antenna positions,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Osmel Martínez Rosabal , Onel Alcaraz López , Marco Di Renzo , Richard Demo Souza , Hirley Alves

The recently emerged movable antenna (MA) shows great promise in leveraging spatial degrees of freedom to enhance the performance of wireless systems. However, resource allocation in MA-aided systems faces challenges due to the nonconvex…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-05 Yichen Jin , Qingfeng Lin , Yang Li , Hancheng Zhu , Bingyang Cheng , Yik-Chung Wu , Rui Zhang

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

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

In conventional artificial noise (AN)-aided physical-layer security systems, fixed-position antenna (FPA) arrays exhibit inherent vulnerability to coverage gaps due to their static spatial configuration. Adversarial eavesdroppers can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Kan Yu , Wenxu Wang , Xiaowu Liu , Yujia Zhao , Qixun Zhang , Zhiyong Feng , Dong Li

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

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

In this paper, we propose a new wireless sensing system equipped with the movable-antenna (MA) array, which can flexibly adjust the positions of antenna elements for improving the sensing performance over conventional antenna arrays with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Wenyan Ma , Lipeng Zhu , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) and movable antenna (MA)/fluid antenna (FA) techniques have both received increasing attention in the realm of wireless communications due to their ability to reconfigure and improve wireless channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Xin Wei , Weidong Mei , Qingqing Wu , Boyu Ning , Zhi Chen

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…