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Fluid antenna system (FAS) is an emerging technology that uses the new form of shape- and position-reconfigurable antennas to empower the physical layer for wireless communications. Prior studies on FAS were however limited to narrowband…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Hanjiang Hong , Kai-Kit Wong , Haoyang Li , Hao Xu , Han Xiao , Hyundong Shin , Kin-Fai Tong , Yangyang Zhang

Fluid antenna systems (FAS) have emerged as a revolutionary technology offering enhanced spatial diversity within a compact form factor. Concurrently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are integral to future networks, necessitating channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Xusheng Zhu , Kai-Kit Wong , Qingqing Wu , Hyundong Shin , Yangyang Zhang

Fluid antenna represents a concept where a mechanically flexible antenna can switch its location freely within a given space. Recently, it has been reported that even with a tiny space, a single-antenna fluid antenna system (FAS) can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Kai-Kit Wong , Arman Shojaeifard , Kin-Fai Tong , Yangyang Zhang

The fluid antenna system (FAS) has emerged as a new physical-layer concept to provide enhanced propagation conditions for multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications over conventional fixed arrays. This work focuses on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-16 Wenxuan Sun , Mingjie Shao , Luteng Zhu , Yao Ge , Tong Zhang , Zhi Liu

In conventional multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems, the positions of antennas are fixed. To take full advantage of spatial degrees of freedom, a new technology called fluid antenna (FA) is proposed to obtain higher…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Yuqi Ye , Li You , Jue Wang , Hao Xu , Kai-Kit Wong , Xiqi Gao

This paper leverages fluid antenna (FA) and rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) to enhance the physical layer security (PLS) of an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. We consider a practical multi-user multi-input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Cixiao Zhang , Yin Xu , Size Peng , Xinghao Guo , Xiaowu Ou , Hanjiang Hong , Dazhi He , Wenjun Zhang

This paper investigates a fluid antenna system (FAS) where a single-antenna transmitter communicates with a receiver equipped with a fluid antenna (FA) over a Rician fading channel. Considering that multiple ports among the M available FA…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 Tummi Ganesh , Soumya P. Dash , Italo Atzeni

Fluid antenna multiple access (FAMA) has recently emerged as a simple, promising scheme for large-scale multiuser connectivity, offering strong scalability with low implementation complexity. Nevertheless, most existing FAMA studies focus…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Chenguang Rao , Kai-Kit Wong , Sai Xu , Xusheng Zhu , Yangyang Zhang , Chan-Byoung Chae

This correspondence investigates the novel fluid antenna system (FAS) technology, combining with reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) for wireless communications, where a base station (BS) communicates with a FAS-enabled user with the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-27 Junteng Yao , Jianchao Zheng , Tuo Wu , Ming Jin , Chau Yuen , Kai-Kit Wong , Fumiyuki Adachi

This paper proposes a novel multiple-access framework, termed the phased ultra massive antenna array (PUMA), which exploits the distinctive spatial flexibility of fluid antenna systems (FAS) at the user equipment (UE). Building upon fluid…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Hanjiang Hong , Kai-Kit Wong , Xusheng Zhu , Chenguang Rao , Dazhi He , Hyundong Shin

Fluid antenna system (FAS) as a new version of reconfigurable antenna technologies promoting shape and position flexibility, has emerged as an exciting and possibly transformative technology for wireless communications systems. FAS…

As an emerging antenna technology, a fluid antenna system (FAS) enhances spatial diversity to improve both sensing and communication performance by shifting the active antennas among available ports. In this letter, we study the potential…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-12 Jiaqi Zou , Hao Xu , Chao Wang , Lvxin Xu , Songlin Sun , Kaitao Meng , Christos Masouros , Kai-Kit Wong

This letter studies the performance of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided communications for a fluid antenna system (FAS) enabled receiver. Specifically, a fixed singleantenna base station (BS) transmits information through a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Kai-Kit Wong , Wee Kiat New , Hao Xu , Ross Murch , Yangyang Zhang

Fluid antenna systems (FASs) have become a popular topic in the wireless community as an effective yet simple means of exploiting spatial diversity. Due to the limitations of physically moving radiating elements, electronically…

This paper introduces a fluid antenna system (FAS) into reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) communication networks, where the non-orthogonal users are equipped with planar fluid antennas.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Xinwei Yue , He Geng , Jingjing Zhao , Xianli Gong , Aryan Kaushik , Arumugam Nallanathan

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

Millimeter-wave networks have already been successfully rolled out in many countries and now the research direction heads toward new technologies and standards to enable Tbps rates for future sixth-generation (6G) wireless communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Leila Tlebaldiyeva , Sultangali Arzykulov , Khaled M. Rabie , Xingwang Li , Galymzhan Nauryzbayev

This letter investigates a fluid antenna system (FAS) where multiple ports can be activated for signal combining for enhanced receiver performance. Given $M$ ports at the FAS, the best $K$ ports out of the $M$ available ports are selected…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-15 Xiazhi Lai , Tuo Wu , Junteng Yao , Cunhua Pan , Maged Elkashlan , Kai-Kit Wong

The position-fluid antenna (PFA) architecture has become one of the appealing technologies to support ubiquitous connectivity demand in next-generation wireless systems. Specifically, allowing the antenna to adjust its physical position to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Heyin Shen , Chong Han , Hao Liu , Tao Yang

By recognizing the tremendous flexibility of the emerging fluid antenna system (FAS), which allows dynamic reconfigurability of the location of the antenna within a given space, this paper investigates the performance of a single-antenna…