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This paper is concerned with the fading MIMO-MAC with multiple receive antennas at the base station (BS) and multiple transmit antennas at each mobile terminal (MT). Two multiple-access techniques are considered for scheduling transmissions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-04-22 Rui Zhang , Mehdi Mohseni , John M. Cioffi

We consider a cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) network in which a full-duplex (FD) multi-antenna relay assists transmission from a base station (BS) to a set of far users with poor channel conditions, while at the same time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Zahra Mobini , Mohammadali Mohammadi , Himal A. Suraweera , Zhiguo Ding

Fluid antenna system (FAS), which continuously repositions a single physical element across a deployment region $[0, D]$, breaks this limit by freeing antenna positions from the discrete grid entirely. This paper establishes the theoretical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Tuo Wu , Jie Tang , Ye Tian , Cheng Zeng , Matthew C. Valenti , Hing Cheung So

In a cell-free massive MIMO architecture a very large number of distributed access points simultaneously and jointly serves a much smaller number of mobile stations; a variant of the cell-free technique is the user-centric approach, wherein…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-28 Mario Alonzo , Stefano Buzzi , Alessio Zappone , Ciro D'Elia

This paper investigates a two-timescale uplink transmission framework for a fluid antenna-enabled multiuser multi-input multi-output system (MIMO-FAS). Antenna positions are optimized based on statistical channel state information (CSI),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Linyue Hu , Luchu Li , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren

This paper considers a Fluid Antenna (FA) system comprising a single-antenna transmitter that communicates with a receiver equipped with an FA array with $N$ ports. The transmitter is assumed to deploy any of the modulation schemes:…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Soumya P. Dash , George C. Alexandropoulos

Fluid antenna system (FAS) is emerging as a key technology for enhancing spatial flexibility and sensing accuracy in future wireless systems. This paper investigates an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled FAS for multi-target wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Xuhui Zhang , Wenchao Liu , Chunjie Wang , Jinke Ren , Huijun Xing , Shuqiang Wang , Yanyan Shen

Fluid antenna systems (FAS) have emerged as a promising technology for next-generation wireless systems. However, practical multiuser multiple-input multiple-output FAS (MIMO-FAS) faces two inherently coupled challenges: acquiring accurate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Erqiang Tang , Wei Guo , Hengtao He , Shenghui Song , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning paradigm with immense potential to support advanced services and applications in future industries. However, when deployed over wireless communication systems, FL suffers from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-06 Sangjun Park , Hyowoon Seo

The concept of fluid antennas (FAs) has emerged as a promising solution to enhance the spectral efficiency of wireless networks, achieved by introducing additional degrees of freedom, including reconfigurability and flexibility. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Elio Faddoul , Ghassan M. Kraidy , Constantinos Psomas , Ioannis Krikidis

This paper introduces a novel power allocation and subcarrier optimization algorithm tailored for fixed wireless access (FWA) networks operating under low-rank channel conditions, where the number of subscriber antennas far exceeds those at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Kamyar Rajabalifardi , Sagnik Bhattacharya , Mehrnaz Afshang , Mohammad Mozaffari , John M. Cioffi

Fluid antenna system (FAS)/movable antenna (MA) has emerged as a promising technology to fully exploit the spatial degrees of freedom (DoFs). In this paper, we propose a new rotatable antenna (RA) model, as a simplified implementation of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Qingjie Wu , Beixiong Zheng , Tiantian Ma , Rui Zhang

In the evolving environment of mobile edge computing (MEC), optimizing system performance to meet the growing demand for low-latency computing services is a top priority. Integrating fluidic antenna (FA) technology into MEC networks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yiping Zuo , Jiajia Guo , Biyun Sheng , Chen Dai , Fu Xiao , Shi Jin

In this paper, we investigate the problem of rate maximization in a fluid antenna system (FAS) assisted semantic communication system. In the considered model, a base station (BS) with multiple static antennas employs semantic extraction…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Siyun Liang , Chen Zhu , Zhaohui Yang , Changsheng You , Dusit Niyato , Kai-Kit Wong , Zhaoyang Zhang

The fluid antenna system (FAS) has emerged as a disruptive technology, offering unprecedented degrees of freedom (DoF) for wireless communication systems. However, optimizing fluid antenna (FA) positions entails significant computational…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Tianyi Liao , Wei Guo , Hengtao He , Shenghui Song , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

The problem of beam alignment (BA) in a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system operating at millimeter wave (mmWaves) carrier frequencies is considered in this paper. Two estimation algorithms are proposed, in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Stefano Buzzi , Carmen D'Andrea , Maria Fresia , Xiaofeng Wu

This paper presents a cost-effective and easily-deployable flexible-sector six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA) architecture for future wireless communication networks, which enables flexible antenna configurations to match users' spatial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Xiaoming Shi , Yunli Li , Xiaodan Shao , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang

Cell-free massive multi-input multi-output (CFmMIMO) offers uniform service quality through distributed access points (APs), yet unresolved issues remain. This paper proposes a heterogeneous system design that goes beyond the original…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

This paper studies the performance of backscatter communications (BC) over emerging fluid antenna (FA) technology. In particular, a single-antenna source sends information to a FA reader through the wireless forward (i.e., source-to-tag)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Masoud Kaveh , Kai-Kit Wong

This paper investigates the performance of a single-user fluid antenna system (FAS), by exploiting a class of elliptical copulas to describe the dependence structure amongst the fluid antenna positions (ports). By expressing the well-known…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Kai-Kit Wong , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez , Chan-Byoung Chae , Kin-Fai Tong , Yangyang Zhang