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Fluid antenna systems (FASs) can reconfigure their antenna locations freely within a spatially continuous space. To keep favorable antenna positions, the channel state information (CSI) acquisition for FASs is essential. While some…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Zijian Zhang , Jieao Zhu , Linglong Dai , Robert W. Heath

Since decades ago, multi-antenna has become a key enabling technology in the evolution of wireless communication systems. In contrast to conventional multi-antenna systems that contain antennas at fixed positions, position-flexible antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Yiqin Wang , Heyin Shen , Chong Han , Meixia Tao

Reconfigurable antennas (RAs) have emerged as a promising technology for future wireless networks, offering additional flexibility for wireless communications. Among existing designs, rotatable antennas are particularly effective in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Chao Zhang , Hu Zhou , Ruizhe Long , Ying-Chang Liang , Boon-Hee Soong

Fluid antenna systems (FASs) can reconfigure their locations freely within a spatially continuous space. To keep favorable antenna positions, the channel state information (CSI) acquisition for FASs is essential. While some techniques have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Zijian Zhang , Jieao Zhu , Linglong Dai , Robert W. Heath

The fluid antenna system (FAS) refers to a family of reconfigurable antenna technologies that provide substantial spatial gains within a compact, predefined small space, thereby offering extensive degrees of freedom in the physical layer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Zhentian Zhang , Jian Dang , David Morales-Jimenez , Hao Jiang , Zaichen Zhang , Christos Masouros , Chan-Byoung Chae

The movable antenna (MA) technology has attracted great attention recently due to its promising capability in improving wireless channel conditions by flexibly adjusting antenna positions. To reap maximal performance gains of MA systems,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Ge Yan , Lipeng Zhu , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we investigate reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted communication systems which involve a fixed-antenna base station (BS) and a mobile user (MU) that is equipped with fluid antenna system (FAS). Specifically, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-12 Junteng Yao , Xiazhi Lai , Kangda Zhi , Tuo Wu , Ming Jin , Cunhua Pan , Maged Elkashlan , Chau Yuen , Kai-Kit Wong

Movable antenna (MA) has attracted increasing attention in wireless communications due to its capability of wireless channel reconfiguration through local antenna movement within a confined region at the transmitter/receiver. However, to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Yitai Huang , Weidong Mei , Xin Wei , Zhi Chen , Boyu Ning

In the evolving landscape of mobile edge computing (MEC), enhancing communication reliability and computation efficiency to support increasingly stringent low-latency services remains a fundamental challenge. Rotatable antenna (RA) is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Qiyao Wang , Beixiong Zheng , Xue Xiong , Weidong Mei , Changsheng You , Qingqing Wu , Jie Tang

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) can shape the radio propagation by passively changing the directions of impinging electromagnetic waves. The optimal control of the RIS requires perfect channel state information (CSI) of all the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Jiguang He , Markus Leinonen , Henk Wymeersch , Markku Juntti

This letter investigates the challenge of channel estimation in a multiuser millimeter-wave (mmWave) time-division duplexing (TDD) system. In this system, the base station (BS) employs a multi-antenna uniform linear array (ULA), while each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Hao Xu , Gui Zhou , Kai-Kit Wong , Wee Kiat New , Chao Wang , Chan-Byoung Chae , Ross Murch , Shi Jin , Yangyang Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology to improve the performance of backscatter communication systems by smartly reconfiguring the multi-reflection channel. To fully exploit the passive beamforming gain of IRS in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Samith Abeywickrama , Changsheng You , Rui Zhang , Chau Yuen

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) and movable antenna (MA) are promising technologies to enhance wireless communication by reconfiguring channels at the environment and transceiver sides. However, their performance is constrained by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Chao Zhou , Changsheng You , Cong Zhou , Liujia Yao , Weijie Yuan , Beixiong Zheng , Nan Wu

Movable antennas (MAs) have emerged as a disruptive technology in wireless communications for enhancing spatial degrees of freedom through continuous antenna repositioning within predefined regions, thereby creating favorable channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Xianlong Zeng , Jun Fang , Peilan Wang , Weidong Mei , Ying-Chang Liang

Integrated sensing, communication, and computation (ISCC) has emerged as a promising paradigm for enabling intelligent services in future sixth-generation (6G) networks. However, existing ISCC systems based on fixed-antenna architectures…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Xue Xiong , Beixiong Zheng , Wen Wu , Weihua Zhu , Miaowen Wen , Shaoe Lin , Yong Zeng

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

Fluid antenna systems (FAS) are an emerging technology that promises a significant diversity gain even in the smallest spaces. Motivated by the groundbreaking potentials of liquid antennas, researchers in the wireless communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Malek Khammassi , Abla Kammoun , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This work explores the channel estimation (CE) problem in uplink transmission for unsourced random access (URA) with a fluid antenna receiver. The additional spatial diversity in a fluid antenna system (FAS) addresses the needs of URA…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Keru Zhou , Zhentian Zhang , Jian Dang , Qianqian Sun , Zaichen Zhang

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

This paper presents an end-to-end deep learning framework in a movable antenna (MA)-enabled multiuser communication system. In contrast to the conventional works assuming perfect channel state information (CSI), we address the practical CSI…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Ruizhi Zhang , Yuchen Zhang , Lipeng Zhu , Ying Zhang , Rui Zhang