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Millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) communication systems typically deploy large antenna arrays to guarantee sufficient receive signal power. The beam training overhead associated with these arrays, however, make it hard for these…

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The Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) constitutes one of the prominent technologies for the next 6-th Generation (6G) of wireless communications. It is envisioned to enhance signal coverage in cases where obstacles block the direct…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Kun Chen-Hu , George C. Alexandropoulos , Ana García Armada

Covert communication in wireless networks ensures that transmissions remain undetectable to adversaries, making it a potential enabler for privacy and security in sensitive applications. However, to meet the high performance and…

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Space-time modulated metasurfaces (STMMs) are a newly investigated technology for next 6G generation wireless communication networks. An STMM augments the spatial phase function with a time-varying one across the elements, allowing for the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-08 Marouan Mizmizi , Dario Tagliaferri , Umberto Spagnolini

In sixth-generation (6G) cellular networks and beyond, aerial platforms, such as uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) and high-altitude platform stations (HAPS), are anticipated to play a crucial role in enhancing connectivity, expanding network…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-24 Faicel Khennoufa , Khelil Abdellatif , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Safwan Alfattani , Metin Ozturk , Ferdi Kara

Non-fixed flexible antenna architectures, such as fluid antenna system (FAS), movable antenna (MA), and pinching antenna, have garnered significant interest in recent years. Among them, rotatable antenna (RA) is an emerging technology that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Beixiong Zheng , Tiantian Ma , Changsheng You , Jie Tang , Robert Schober , Rui Zhang

This paper explores the application of movable antenna (MA), a cutting-edge technology with the capability of altering antenna positions, in a symbiotic radio (SR) system enabled by reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). The goal is to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-24 Bin Lyu , Hao Liu , Meng Hua , Wenqing Hong , Shimin Gong , Feng Tian , Abbas Jamalipour

In this paper, the effective use of multiple quadrotor drones as an aerial antenna array that provides wireless service to ground users is investigated. In particular, under the goal of minimizing the airborne service time needed for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-27 Mohammad Mozaffari , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

In the upcoming 6G networks, integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) will be able to provide a performance boost in both perception and wireless connectivity. This paper considers a multiple base station (BS) architecture to support…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Jiajia Liao , Luping Xiang , Shida Zhong , Lixia Xiao , Haochen Liu , Kun Yang

This paper investigates the movable antenna (MA)- assisted downlink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) network to maximize system throughput. In the considered scenario, both the base station (BS) and users are equipped with MA, and a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-28 Yufeng Zhou , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Xusheng Zhu , Zhendong Li , Kunlun Wang , Qiong Wu

This paper investigates a movable antenna (MA)-enabled wireless-powered communication network (WPCN), where multiple wireless devices (WDs) first harvest energy from the downlink (DL) signal broadcast by a hybrid access point (HAP) and then…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-15 Ying Gao , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen

In complex urban environments, dynamic obstacles and multipath effects lead to significant link attenuation and pervasive coverage blind spots. Conventional approaches based on large-scale fixed antenna arrays and UAV trajectory…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Kan Yu , Kaixuan Li , Xiaowu Liu , Qixun Zhang , Zhiyong Feng

In the fifth-generation and beyond era, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) and dynamic metasurface antennas (DMAs) are emerging metamaterials keeping up with the demand for high-quality wireless communication services, which promote…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Hanyu Jiang , Li You , Jue Wang , Wenjin Wang , Xiqi Gao

Millimeter-Wave (mm-Wave) frequency bands provide an opportunity for much wider channel bandwidth compared with the traditional sub-6 GHz band. Communication at mm-Waves is, however, quite challenging due to the severe propagation path…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Xiaoshen Song , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Giuseppe Caire

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

Device-to-device (D2D)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) is one of the critical technologies of future sixth generation (6G) networks. The core of D2D-assisted MEC is to reduce system latency for network edge UEs by supporting cloud…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Yue Xiu , Yang Zhao , Ran Yang , Huimin Tang , Long Qu , Maurice Khabbaz , Chadi Assi , Ning Wei

A pioneering secure transmission scheme is proposed, which harnesses movable antennas (MAs) to optimize antenna positions for augmenting the physical layer security. Particularly, an MA-enabled secure wireless system is considered, where a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-22 Zhenqiao Cheng , Nanxi Li , Jianchi Zhu , Xiaoming She , Chongjun Ouyang , Peng Chen

Dynamic metasurface antennas (DMAs) are a promising hybrid analog/digital beamforming technology to realize next-generation wireless systems with low cost, footprint, and power consumption. The research on DMA-empowered wireless systems is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 François Yven , Jean Tapie , Jérôme Sol , Philipp del Hougne

By exploiting the degree of freedom on the altitude, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication can provide ubiquitous communication for future wireless networks. In the case of concurrent transmission of multiple UAVs, the directional…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Weihao Wang , Zesong Fei , Jing Guo , Salman Durrani , Halim Yanikomeroglu

In this paper, to fully exploit the performance gains from moveable antennas (MAs) and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), a RIS-aided directional modulation \textcolor{blue}{(DM)} network with movable antenna at base station (BS) is…

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