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With the deployment of large antenna arrays at high frequency bands, future wireless communication systems are likely to operate in the radiative near-field. Unlike far-field beam steering, near-field beams can be focused within a spatial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-19 Ahmed Hussain , Asmaa Abdallah , Abdulkadir Celik , Ahmed M. Eltawil

In this paper, we study efficient multi-beam training design for near-field communications to reduce the beam training overhead of conventional single-beam training methods. In particular, the array-division based multi-beam training…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-24 Cong Zhou , Changsheng You , Zixuan Huang , Shuo Shi , Yi Gong , Chan-Byoung Chae , Kaibin Huang

In this work, the uplink channel estimation problem is considered for a millimeter wave (mmWave) multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system. It is well known that pilot overhead and computation complexity in estimating the channel increases…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Rakesh Mundlamuri , Rajeev Gangula , Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Florian Kaltenberger , Walid Saad

One strategy to obtain user location information in a wireless network operating at millimeter wave (mmWave) is based on the exploitation of the geometric relationships between the channel parameters and the user position. These…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Yun Chen , Nuria González-Prelcic , Takayuki Shimizu , Hongsheng Lu

Movable antenna (MA) has gained increasing attention in the field of wireless communications due to its exceptional capability to proactively reconfigure wireless channels via localized antenna movements. In this paper, we investigate the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-16 Nianzu Li , Peiran Wu , Lipeng Zhu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

In this paper, we propose a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) Full-Duplex Integrated Sensing and Communication System consisting of multiple targets, a single downlink, and a single uplink user. We employed signal-to-interference plus…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Muhammad Talha , Besma Smida , Md Atiqul Islam , George C. Alexandropoulos

Radio-based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) has the potential to provide precise user equipment (UE) localization and environmental sensing capabilities by exploiting radio signals. Most existing approaches leverage…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-04 Xi Zhang , Yu Ge , Ossi Kaltiokallio , Musa Furkan Keskin , Henk Wymeersch , Mikko Valkama

Multi-path sensing, which aims to extract the geometric attributes of multiple propagation paths, is expected to be a key functionality of 6G. A movable antenna (MA) can enable this functionality by creating a synthetic aperture through…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jaehong Kim , Jihong Park , Changsheng You , Seung-Woo Ko

The design of low-complexity transceivers is crucial for the deployment of next-generation wireless systems. In this work, we combine two emerging concepts, movable antennas (MA) and transmissive reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (TRIS),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Marjan Boloori , Chu Li , Aydin Sezgin

With the deployment of large antenna arrays at high-frequency bands, future wireless communication systems are likely to operate in the radiative near-field (NF). Unlike far-field beam steering, NF beams can be focused on a spatial region…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Ahmed Hussain , Asmaa Abdallah , Abdulkadir Celik , Ahmed M. Eltawil

This paper investigates integrated localization and communication in a multi-cell system and proposes a coordinated beamforming algorithm to enhance target localization accuracy while preserving communication performance. Within this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Meidong Xia , Wei Xu , Jindan Xu , Zhenyao He , Zhaohui Yang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

In next-generation vehicular environments, precise localization is crucial for facilitating advanced applications such as autonomous driving. As automation levels escalate, the demand rises for enhanced accuracy, reliability, energy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-23 Marina Lotti , Nicolò Decarli , Gianni Pasolini , Davide Dardari

This article investigates the integration of movable antennas (MAs) into multicast communication systems. By discretizing the motion of the MAs, a novel MA-assisted multicast transmission architecture is formulated. An alternating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-16 Zhenqiao Cheng , Nanxi Li , Jianchi Zhu , Chongjun Ouyang , Xingqi Zhang

Shifting 6G-and-beyond wireless systems to higher frequency bands and the utilization of massive multiple-input multiple-output arrays will extend the near-field region, affecting beamforming and user localization schemes. In this paper, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-04 Nima Mozaffarikhosravi , Prathapasinghe Dharmawansa , Italo Atzeni

This work establishes a framework of near-field communication under different array geometries of extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO). We first formulate the near-field spatial non-stationary channel model which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Kangda Zhi , Yi Song , Tianyu Yang , Tuo Wu , Tengjiao Wang , Songyan Xue , Fangzhou Wu , Giuseppe Caire

The performance of the sensing system is limited by the signal attenuation and the number of receiving components. In this letter, we investigate the sensor position selection in a semi-passive intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) enabled…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Qiaoyan Peng , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Guangji Chen , Ying Gao , Lexi Xu , Shaodan Ma

Estimation of User Terminals' (UTs') Angle of Arrival (AoA) plays a significant role in the next generation of wireless systems. Due to high demands, energy efficiency concerns, and scarcity of available resources, it is pivotal how these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Masoud Arash , Ivan Stupia , Luc Vandendorpe

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

Extremely large-scale multiple-input multipleoutput (XL-MIMO) is believed to be a cornerstone of sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. XL-MIMO uses more antennas to both achieve unprecedented spatial degrees of freedom (DoFs) and exploit…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-16 Hao Lei , Jiayi Zhang , Zhe Wang , Huahua Xiao , Bo Ai , Emil Björnson

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