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Adaptation of a wireless system to the polarization state of the propagation channel can improve reliability and throughput. This paper in particular considers polarization reconfigurable multiple input multiple output (PR-MIMO) systems,…

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This paper proposes a new architecture for the low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite ground station aided by movable antenna (MA) array. Unlike conventional fixed-position antenna (FPA), the MA array can flexibly adjust antenna positions to…

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The problem addressed in this study is how to design and test compact antenna arrays for portable Mulitple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) transceivers. Mutual coupling in an antenna array affects signal correlation and array radiation…

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This paper investigates the potential of movable antenna (MA)-enabled micro-mobility to replace UAV-enabled macro-mobility for enhancing physical layer security (PLS) in air-to-ground communications. While UAV trajectory optimization offers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Kaixuan Li , Kan Yu , Dingyou Ma , Yujia Zhao , Xiaowu Liu , Qixun Zhang , ZHiyong Feng

Pinching antenna systems (PASS) enable reconfigurable radiating elements and extended line-of-sight communication, mitigating path loss effects. However, existing designs lack fully controllable radiation weights, as they are governed by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Askin Altinoklu , Leila Musavian

Hybrid beamforming via large antenna arrays has shown a great potential for increasing data rate in cellular networks by delivering multiple data streams simultaneously. In this paper, several beamforming design algorithms are proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Shahram Shahsavari , S. Amir Hosseini , Chris Ng , Elza Erkip

Reconfigurable distributed antennas and reflecting surface (RDARS) has emerged as a promising architecture for communication and sensing performance enhancement. In particular, the new selection gain can be achieved by leveraging the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Chengwang Ji , Haiquan Lu , Qiaoyan Peng , Jintao Wang , Shaodan Ma

Low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks are integral to future 6G integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. However, their deployment is hindered by challenges stemming from high mobility of UAVs, complex propagation…

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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…

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In traditional multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems, the antenna spacing is often no smaller than half a wavelength. However, by exploiting the coupling between more closely-spaced antennas, a superdirective array may…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-28 Yali Zhang , Haifan Yin , Liangcheng Han

Extremely large-scale array (XL-array) has emerged as a promising technology to enable near-field communications for achieving enhanced spectrum efficiency and spatial resolution, by drastically increasing the number of antennas. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Cong Zhou , Changsheng You , Haodong Zhang , Li Chen , Shuo Shi

Fluid Antenna Systems (FASs) have recently been proposed for enhancing the performance of wireless communication. Previous antenna designs to meet the requirements of FAS have been based on mechanically movable or liquid antennas and…

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In conventional artificial noise (AN)-aided physical-layer security systems, fixed-position antenna (FPA) arrays exhibit inherent vulnerability to coverage gaps due to their static spatial configuration. Adversarial eavesdroppers can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Kan Yu , Wenxu Wang , Xiaowu Liu , Yujia Zhao , Qixun Zhang , Zhiyong Feng , Dong Li

The evolution of wireless communication systems requires flexible, energy-efficient, and cost-effective antenna technologies. Pinching antennas (PAs), which can dynamically control electromagnetic wave propagation through binary activation…

Fluid antennas (FAs) and movable antennas (MAs) have emerged as promising technologies in wireless communications, which offer the flexibility to improve channel conditions by adjusting transmit/receive antenna positions within a spatial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Weidong Mei , Xin Wei , Boyu Ning , Zhi Chen , Rui Zhang

Distributed Antenna Systems (DASs) employ multiple antenna arrays in remote radio units to achieve highly directional transmission and provide great coverage performance for future-generation networks. However, the utilization of active…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Chengzhi Ma , Xi Yang , Jintao Wang , Guanghua Yang , Wei Zhang , Shaodan Ma

This paper addresses the limitations of current satellite payload architectures, which are predominantly hardware-driven and lack the flexibility to adapt to increasing data demands and uneven traffic. To overcome these challenges, we…

The effective utilization of unlicensed spectrum is regarded as an important direction to enable the massive access and broad coverage for next-generation wireless local area network (WLAN). Due to the crowded spectrum occupancy and dense…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Xiangyu Pi , Lipeng Zhu , Haobin Mao , Zhenyu Xiao , Xiang-Gen Xia , Rui Zhang

In this letter, we propose to employ movable antenna (MA) to enhance covert communications with noise uncertainty, where the confidential data is transmitted from an MA-aided access point (AP) to multiple users with a warden attempting to…

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