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Flexible front-end technology will become available in future multifunction radar systems to improve adaptability to the operational theatre. A potential concept to utilize this flexibility is to subdivide radar tasks spatially over the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-28 Pepijn B. Cox , Wim L. van Rossum

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

This article presents an overview and analysis of spatial-to-spectral harmonic-modulated arrays (SHAs). Compared to traditional analog or digital beamforming arrays, SHAs enable concurrent multi-beamforming without requiring substantial…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Jose Guajardo , Ali Niknejad

Beam shaping techniques enable tailored beam trajectories, offering unprecedented connectivity opportunities in wireless communications. Current approaches rely on flat apertures, which limit trajectory flexibility due to inherent geometric…

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) communications with hybrid precoding architectures have been regarded as energy-efficient solutions to fulfill the vision of high-speed transmissions for 6G communications. Benefiting from the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-05 Zidong Wu , Linglong Dai

Antenna arrays have a long history of more than 100 years and have evolved closely with the development of electronic and information technologies, playing an indispensable role in wireless communications and radar. With the rapid…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Zhenyu Xiao , Zhu Han , Arumugam Nallanathan , Octavia A. Dobre , Bruno Clerckx , Jinho Choi , Chong He , Wen Tong

Recently a novel multi-antenna architecture termed ray antenna array (RAA) was proposed, where several simple uniform linear arrays (sULAs) are arranged in a ray-like structure to enhance communication and sensing performance. By…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Haoyu Jiang , Zhenjun Dong , Zhiwen Zhou , Yong Zeng

The next generation of radar systems will include advanced digital front-end technology in the apertures allowing for spatially subdividing radar tasks over the array, the so-called split-aperture phased array (SAPA) concept. The goal of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-31 Pepijn B. Cox , Wim L. van Rossum

The evolution of wireless networks is driving new paradigms for consideration in upcoming generations. To this end, the 6G anticipates the development of several data-rate-hungry applications, in addition to a forecast growth in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Elmehdi Illi , Marwa Qaraqe

The emerging pinching antenna (PA) technology has high flexibility to reconfigure wireless channels and combat line-of-sight blockage, thus holding transformative potential for indoor immersive applications in 6G. This paper investigates…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yulei Wang , Yalin Liu , Yaru Fu , Zhiguo Ding

Multibeam analog arrays have been proposed for millimeter-wave joint communication and sensing (JCAS). We study multibeam planar arrays for JCAS, providing time division duplex communication and full-duplex sensing with steerable beams. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-20 Hadi Alidoustaghdam , André Kokkeler , Yang Miao

The advent of the sixth-generation (6G) networks presents another round of revolution for the mobile communication landscape, promising an immersive experience, robust reliability, minimal latency, extreme connectivity, ubiquitous coverage,…

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

The performance of linear receive beamforming in continuous-aperture array (CAPA)-based uplink communications is analyzed. Three continuous beamforming techniques are proposed under the criteria of maximum-ratio combining (MRC),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-12 Chongjun Ouyang , Zhaolin Wang , Xingqi Zhang , Yuanwei Liu

This paper proposes a novel multi-antenna architecture, termed ray antenna array (RAA), which aims to enhance wireless communication performance in a cost-effective manner. RAA is composed of massive cheap antenna elements and a few radio…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Zhenjun Dong , Zhiwen Zhou , Yong Zeng

This paper proposes a new channel access procedure to mitigate the channel access contention in next generation of Wireless Local-Area Networks (WLANs) by allowing cooperation among devices belonging to same network, while maintaining high…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Qing Xia , Salvatore Talarico

As 5G networks rolling out in many different countries nowadays, the time has come to investigate how to upgrade and expand them towards 6G, where the latter is expected to realize the interconnection of everything as well as the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Lisu Yu , Zilong Liu , Miaowen Wen , Donghong Cai , Shuping Dang , Yuhao Wang , Pei Xiao

The sixth-generation (6G) wireless systems are expected to adopt extremely large aperture arrays (ELAAs), novel antenna architectures, and operate in extremely high-frequency bands to meet growing data demands. ELAAs significantly increase…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Wen-Xuan Long , Shengyu Ye , Marco Moretti , Michele Morelli , Luca Sanguinetti , Rui Chen , Cheng-Xiang Wang

This paper proposes a novel multi-antenna architecture, termed ray antenna array (RAA), which practically enables flexible beamforming and also enhances wireless communication performance for high frequency systems in a cost-effective…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Zhenjun Dong , Zhiwen Zhou , Yong Zeng

Wide Area Cyber-Physical Systems (WA-CPSs) are a class of control systems that integrate low-powered sensors, heterogeneous actuators and computer controllers into large infrastructure that span multi-kilometre distances. Current wireless…

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