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The broadcast nature of wireless communication renders it inherently vulnerable to security threats such as jamming and eavesdropping. While traditional array beamforming techniques help to mitigate these threats, they usually incur high…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yaodong Ma , Kai Liu , Lipeng Zhu , Yanming Liu , Yanbo Zhu , Daniel Benevides da Costa

Movable-antennas (MAs) are revolutionizing spatial signal processing by providing flexible beamforming in next-generation wireless systems. This paper investigates an MA-empowered autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) system in low-altitude…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Xuhui Zhang , Wenchao Liu , Jinke Ren , Chunjie Wang , Huijun Xing , Yanyan Shen , Shuguang Cui

This paper investigates a movable-antenna (MA) array empowered integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) over low-altitude platform (LAP) system to support low-altitude economy (LAE) applications. In the considered system, an unmanned…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-23 Ziming Kuang , Wenchao Liu , Chunjie Wang , Zhenzhen Jin , Jinke Ren , Xuhui Zhang , Yanyan Shen

In this paper, we propose a novel antenna architecture called movable antenna (MA) to improve the performance of wireless communication systems. Different from conventional fixed-position antennas (FPAs) that undergo random wireless channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Lipeng Zhu , Wenyan Ma , Rui Zhang

The movable antenna (MA) is a promising technology to exploit more spatial degrees of freedom for enhancing wireless system performance. However, the MA-aided system introduces the non-convex antenna distance constraints, which poses…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-12 Yichen Jin , Qingfeng Lin , Yang Li , Yik-Chung Wu

The collaborative research project 6G-ANNA develops concepts for the 6G radio access network (RAN) architecture and technology components. Previous RAN generations have become inherently more complex and reach their limits in handling…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Peter Schefczik , Umar Toseef , Paolo Baracca , Ralf Klotsche , Torsten Dudda , Mai-Anh Phan , Lorenzo Miretti , David Ginthoer , Bin Han

Movable antenna (MA) technology exhibits great promise for enhancing the sensing capabilities of future sixth-generation (6G) networks due to its capability to alter antenna array geometry. With the growing prevalence of near-field…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Yushen Wang , Weidong Mei , Xin Wei , Ya Fei Wu , Zhi Chen , Boyu Ning

In this paper, we propose an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system aided by the movable-antenna (MA) array, which can improve the communication and sensing performance via flexible antenna movement over conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Wenyan Ma , Lipeng Zhu , Rui Zhang

A novel multiuser communication system with movable antennas (MAs) is proposed, where the antenna position optimization is exploited to enhance the downlink sum-rate. The joint optimization of the transmit beamforming vector and transmit MA…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Zhenqiao Cheng , Nanxi Li , Jianchi Zhu , Chongjun Ouyang

In complex urban environments, dynamic obstacles and multipath effects lead to significant link attenuation and pervasive coverage blind spots. Conventional approaches based on large-scale fixed antenna arrays and UAV trajectory…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Kan Yu , Kaixuan Li , Xiaowu Liu , Qixun Zhang , Zhiyong Feng

The most challenging thing in the real world is communicating with aircraft, even though several communication technologies have been adopted for tracking and monitoring the aircraft there is no cent per cent efficiency, for the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-28 Laxminarayen N , Lokeshwaran G , Murugan K S , Jothilakshmi P

In this paper, we investigate the problem of resource allocation for fluid antenna relay (FAR) system with antenna location optimization. In the considered model, each user transmits information to a base station (BS) with help of FAR. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Ruopeng Xu , Yixuan Chen , Jiawen Kang , Minrui Xu , Zhaohui Yang , Chongwen Huang , Dusit Niyato

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is known as a promising technology to improve the performance of wireless communication networks, which has been extensively studied. Movable antenna (MA) is a novel technology that fully exploits…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-14 Yunan Sun , Hao Xu , Chongjun Ouyang , Hongwen Yang

Movable antenna (MA) has emerged as a promising technology to flexibly reconfigure wireless channels by adjusting antenna placement. In this paper, we study a dual-functional radar-communication (DFRC) system enhanced with movable antennas.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Ran Yang , Zheng Dong , Peng Cheng , Lin Zhang , Wanting Lyu , Yue Xiu , Ning Wei , Chadi Assi

This paper presents a novel planar phased array that can work in Ka band designed for two-dimensional scanning. A four-modes pattern reconfigurable element based on microstrip Yagi antenna is proposed, and then developed into the 4X4 phased…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-23 Ze Yan , Naibo Zhang , Guangcun Shan

We present a unified model for connected antenna arrays with a large number of tightly integrated (i.e., coupled) antennas in a compact space within the context of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication. We refer to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Mohamed Akrout , Volodymyr Shyianov , Faouzi Bellili , Amine Mezghani , Robert W. Heath

Contemporary wireless communication systems rely on Multi-User Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MU-MIMO) techniques. In such systems, each Access Point (AP) is equipped with multiple antenna elements and serves multiple devices…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Eduardo Noboro Tominaga , Onel Luis Alcaraz López , Tommy Svensson , Richard Demo Souza , Hirley Alves

Recently, a technique called beam-space MIMO has been demonstrated as an effective approach for transmitting multiple signals while using a single RF-chain. In this work, we present novel design considerations and a compact antenna solution…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-20 Mohsen Yousefbeiki , Julien Perruisseau-Carrier

Modern multi-access 5G+ networks provide mobile terminals with additional capacity, improving network stability and performance. However, in highly mobile environments such as vehicular networks, supporting multi-access connectivity remains…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Gregorio Maglione , Veselin Rakocevic , Markus Amend , Touraj Soleymani

This paper provides a thorough mathematical analysis of continuous movable antenna (MA) arrays. Focusing on the multiple antenna case, we consider a linear antenna array with multiple fixed antenna elements that moves along a line. We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Gayani Siriwardana , Peter J. Smith , Himal A. Suraweera , Rajitha Senanayake