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Conventional beamforming with fixed-orientation antenna (FOA) arrays may struggle to effectively enhance signal and/or suppress interference due to significant variations in antenna directive gains over different steering angles. To break…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Jie Feng , Zhenbing Liu , Junjie Dai , Hongbin Chen , Fangjiong Chen

Conventional antenna arrays rely primarily on digital beamforming for spatial control. While adding more elements can narrow beamwidth and suppress interference, such scaling incurs prohibitive hardware and power costs. Rotatable antennas…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-29 Xingxiang Peng , Qingqing Wu , Ziyuan Zheng , Wen Chen , Yanze Zhu , Ying Gao

Reconfigurable antennas (RAs) and movable antennas (MAs) have been recognized as promising technologies to enhance the performance of wireless communication and sensing systems by introducing additional degrees of freedom (DoFs) in tuning…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-23 Wenyan Ma , Lipeng Zhu , Yanhua Tan , Beixiong Zheng , Yujie Zhang , Yuchen Zhang , Keke Ying , Zhen Gao , He Sun , Xiaodan Shao , Zhenyu Xiao , Dusit Niyato , Rui Zhang

Prior studies on mixed near-field and far-field communications have focused exclusively on single-cell scenarios, where both near-field and far-field users are served by the same base station (BS), leading to intra-cell mixed-field…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Yunpu Zhang , Changsheng You , Ruichen Zhang , Beixiong Zheng , Hing Cheung So , Dusit Niyato , Tony Q. S. Quek

Flexible coupler antenna systems have recently received significant research interest due to their capability to intelligently reconfigure wireless channels by controlling coupler positions and/or rotations and dynamically exploiting mutual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Xiaodan Shao , Chuangye Shan , Weihua Zhuang , Xuemin Shen

Movable antenna (MA) technology, which can reconfigure wireless channels by flexibly moving antenna positions in a specified region, has great potential for improving communication performance. In this paper, we consider a new setup of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Guojie Hu , Qingqing Wu , Donghui Xu , Kui Xu , Jiangbo Si , Yunlong Cai , Naofal Al-Dhahir

The aim of this article is to investigate the performance of near-field integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems using rotatable movable antennas (RMAs). In the proposed RMA-enabled system, the positions and rotations of antennas…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-17 Yunan Sun , Hao Xu , Chongjun Ouyang , Hongwen Yang

Conventional fixed-orientation antenna (FOA) arrays offer limited degrees of freedom (DoF) for flexible beamforming such as null steering. To address this limitation, we propose a new rotatable antenna array (RAA) architecture in this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Yingqi Wen , Weidong Mei , Yike Xie , Beixiong Zheng , Zhi Chen , Boyu Ning

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

This paper studies uplink multiuser MIMO with a rotatable antenna (RA) array under imperfect channel state information (CSI), where each base-station antenna can adjust its boresight direction within an angular region. To balance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Ziyuan Zheng , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen

Movable antenna (MA) technology offers promising potential to enhance wireless communication by allowing flexible antenna movement. To maximize spatial degrees of freedom (DoFs), larger movable regions are required, which may render the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Lipeng Zhu , Wenyan Ma , Zhenyu Xiao , Rui Zhang

Movable antennas (MAs) enhance flexibility in beamforming gain and interference suppression by adjusting position within certain areas of the transceivers. In this paper, we propose an MA-assisted integrated sensing and communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Chengjun Jiang , Chensi Zhang , Chongwen Huang , Jianhua Ge , Dusit Niyato , Chau Yuen

Fluid antennas (FAs) and movable antennas (MAs) have drawn increasing attention in wireless communications recently due to their ability to create favorable channel conditions via local antenna movement within a confined region. In this…

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

In this paper, we propose a novel antenna architecture called movable antenna (MA) to improve the performance of wireless communication systems. Different from conventional fixed-position antennas (FPAs) that undergo random wireless channel…

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

Movable antenna (MA) is a promising technology to improve wireless communication performance by varying the antenna position in a given finite area at the transceivers to create more favorable channel conditions. In this paper, we…

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

Physical layer security (PLS) is a promising paradigm for safeguarding 6G wireless networks by exploiting the inherent characteristics of wireless channels. However, the efficiency of conventional PLS is often limited by fixed orientation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ailing Zheng , Qingqing Wu , Xingxiang Peng , Qiaoyan Peng , Ziyuan Zheng , Yuxuan Chen , Wen Chen

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

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

Contemporary wireless communication systems rely on Multi-User Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MU-MIMO) techniques. In such systems, each Access Point (AP) is equipped with multiple antenna elements and serves multiple devices…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Eduardo Noboro Tominaga , Onel Luis Alcaraz López , Tommy Svensson , Richard Demo Souza , Hirley Alves

As an emerging wireless communication technology, movable antennas (MAs) offer the ability to adjust the spatial correlation of steering vectors, enabling more flexible beamforming compared to fixed-position antennas (FPAs). In this paper,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Shun Yang , Xin Wei , Nianbing Su , Weidong Mei , Zhi Chen , Boyu Ning