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In this letter, we study the performance of a single-user fluid antenna system (FAS) under arbitrary fading distributions, in which the fading channel coefficients over the ports are correlated. We adopt copula theory to model the structure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Kai-Kit Wong , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez , Kin-Fai Tong

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology has significantly impacted wireless communication, by providing extraordinary performance gains. However, a minimum inter-antenna space constraint in MIMO systems does not allow its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Priyadarshi Mukherjee , Constantinos Psomas , Ioannis Krikidis

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

This paper studies a fluid-antenna-enabled integrated bistatic sensing and backscatter communication system for future networks where connectivity, power delivery, and environmental awareness are jointly supported by the same…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 A. Abdelaziz Salem , Saeed Abdallah , Khawla Alnajjar , Mahmoud A. Albreem , Mohamed Saad , Hayssam Dahrouj , Hesham Elsawy

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

With the surging demand for ultra-reliable, low-latency, and ubiquitous connectivity in Sixth-Generation (6G) networks, Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTNs) emerge as a key complement to terrestrial networks by offering flexible access and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Tianheng Xu , Runke Fan , Jie Zhu , Pei Peng , Xianfu Chen , Qingqing Wu , Ming Jiang , Celimuge Wu , Dusit Niyato , Kai-Kit Wong

Large antenna arrays and high-frequency bands are two key features of future wireless communication systems. The combination of large-scale antennas with high transmission frequencies often results in the communicating devices operating in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-28 Haiyang Zhang , Nir Shlezinger , Francesco Guidi , Davide Dardari , Mohammadreza F. Imani , Yonina C. Eldar

A Cell-Free Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) system comprises a very large number of distributed access points (APs)which simultaneously serve a much smaller number of users over the same time/frequency resources based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Hien Quoc Ngo , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang , Erik G. Larsson , Thomas L. Marzetta

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system has been the defining mobile communications technology in recent generations. With the ever-increasing demands looming towards the sixth generation (6G), we are in need of additional degrees of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Wee Kiat New , Kai-Kit Wong , Hao Xu , Kin-Fai Tong , Chan-Byoung Chae

The reconfigurability of fluid antenna systems (FASs) and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) provides significant flexibility in optimizing channel conditions by jointly adjusting the positions of fluid antennas and the phase shifts…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Xin Zhang , Dongfang Xu , Jingjing Wang , Shenghui Song , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Mérouane Debbah

The integration of communication and computation is essential for next-generation wireless systems, especially in scenarios demanding massive connectivity and ultra-low latency. Over-the-air federated learning (AirFL), leveraging the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Saeid Pakravan , Mohsen Ahmadzadeh , Ming Zeng , Ghosheh Abed Hodtani , Xingwang Li

Cell-free (CF) architecture and full-duplex (FD) communication are leading candidates for next-generation wireless networks. The CF framework removes cell boundaries in traditional cell-based systems, thereby mitigating inter-cell…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Diluka Galappaththige , Mohammadali Mohammadi , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou , Chintha Tellambura

One of the biggest drawbacks of the wireless environment is the limited bandwidth. However, the users sharing this limited bandwidth have been increasing considerably.Space Division Multiple Access (SDMA) is a new technology by which the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-02-18 Md. M. Hossain , J. Hossain

Fluid antennas present a relatively new idea for harnessing the fading and interference issues in multiple user wireless systems, such as 6G. Here, we systematically compare their unique radiation beam forming mechanism to the existing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Wen-Jun Lu , Chun-Xing He , Yongxu Zhu , Kin-Fai Tong , Kai-Kit Wong , Hyundong Shin , Tie Jun Cui

In this paper, we propose a transmission mechanism for fluid antennas (FAs) enabled multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems based on index modulation (IM), named FA-IM, which incorporates the principle of IM into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Jing Zhu , Gaojie Chen , Pengyu Gao , Pei Xiao , Zihuai Lin , Atta Quddus

Enormous fluid antenna systems (E-FAS) have recently emerged as a new wireless architecture in which intelligent metasurfaces act as guided electromagnetic interfaces, enabling surface-wave (SW) propagation with much lower attenuation and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Kai-Kit Wong , Masoud Kaveh , Hao Xu , Baiyang Liu , Kin-Fai Tong , Chan-Byoung Chae

This paper examines the impact of emerging fluid antenna systems (FAS) on reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided secure communications. Specifically, we consider a classic wiretap channel, where a fixed-antenna transmitter sends…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Kai-Kit Wong , Masoud Kaveh , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez , Wee Kiat New , Hao Xu

Cognitive radio (CR) networks face significant challenges in spectrum sensing, especially under spectrum scarcity. Fluid antenna systems (FAS) can offer an unorthodox solution due to their ability to dynamically adjust antenna positions for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-14 Junteng Yao , Ming Jin , Tuo Wu , Maged Elkashlan , Chau Yuen , Kai-Kit Wong , George K. Karagiannidis , Hyundong Shin

The fluid antenna system (FAS) employs reconfigurable antennas for high spatial gains in compact spaces, enhancing physical layer flexibility. Channel state information (CSI) acquisition is vital for port selection and FAS optimization.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Zhentian Zhang , David Morales-Jimenez , Jian Dang , Zaichen Zhang , Christos Masouros , Hao Jiang

As a pivotal usage scenario for 6G networks, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has emerged as a focal point of both academic and industrial research. To accommodate the heterogeneous connectivity requirements of future networks…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-29 Qinyuan Zheng , Pengcheng Zhu