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Over the past decades, multiple antenna technologies have appeared in many different forms, most notably as multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), to transform wireless communications for extraordinary diversity and multiplexing gains. The…

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Fluid antenna system (FAS) has recently surfaced as a promising technology for the upcoming sixth generation (6G) wireless networks. Unlike traditional antenna system (TAS) with fixed antenna location, FAS introduces a flexible component in…

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Dynamic metasurface antennas (DMA) provide low-power beamforming through reconfigurable radiative slots. Each slot has a tunable component that consumes low power compared to typical analog components like phase shifters. This makes DMAs a…

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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…

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The metasurface concept has emerged as an advantageous reconfigurable antenna architecture for beam forming and wavefront shaping, with applications that include satellite and terrestrial communications, radar, imaging, and wireless power…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 David R. Smith , Okan Yurduseven , Laura Pulido Mancera , Patrick Bowen , Nathan B. Kundtz

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-17 Jichen Zhang , Junhui Rao , Zhaoyang Ming , Zan Li , Chi-Yuk Chiu , Kai-Kit Wong , Kin-Fai Tong , Ross Murch

With the development of the upcoming sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks, there is a pressing need for innovative technologies capable of satisfying heightened performance indicators. Fluid antenna system (FAS) is proposed recently as a…

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Future sixth-generation (6G) networks require high spectral efficiency (SE), massive connectivity, and stringent reliability under imperfect channel state information at the transmitter. Rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) addresses part…

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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

As 6G networks demand massive connectivity and stronger interference control, rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) is attractive because it superposes a common stream and user-private streams and remains effective under imperfect CSIT and…

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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

The fluid antenna system (FAS) concept is an emerging paradigm that promotes the utilization of the feature of shape and position reconfigurability in antennas to broaden the design of wireless communication systems. This also means that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Xusheng Zhu , Kai-Kit Wong , Hao Xu , Han Xiao , Hanjiang Hong , Hyundong Shin , Yangyang Zhang

Next generation wireless base stations and access points will transmit and receive using extremely massive numbers of antennas. A promising technology for realizing such massive arrays in a dynamically controllable and scalable manner with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-17 Nir Shlezinger , George C. Alexandropoulos , Mohammadreza F. Imani , Yonina C. Eldar , David R. Smith

Fluid antenna enables position reconfigurability that gives transceiver access to a high-resolution spatial signal and the ability to avoid interference through the ups and downs of fading channels. Previous studies investigated this fluid…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-30 Tianyu Han , Yongxu Zhu , Kai-Kit Wong , Gan Zheng , Hyundong Shin

In this letter, we study the energy efficiency maximization problem for a fluid antenna system (FAS) in near field communications. Specifically, we consider a point-to-point near-field system where the base station (BS) transmitter has…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Yixuan Chen , Mingzhe Chen , Hao Xu , Zhaohui Yang , Kai-Kit Wong , Zhaoyang Zhang

This paper investigates a multiple input single output (MISO) downlink communication system in which users are equipped with fluid antennas (FAs). First, we adopt a field-response based channel model to characterize the downlink channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Haoran Qin , Wen Chen , Zhendong Li , Qingqing Wu , Nan Cheng , Fangjiong Chen

Dynamic metasurface antennas (DMAs) represent a novel approach to programmable and affordable electromagnetic wave manipulation for enhanced wireless communications, sensing, and imaging applications. Nevertheless, current DMA designs and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Abdul Jabbar , Aakash Bansal , William Whittow

Dynamic Metasurface Antennas (DMAs) constitute a promising solution for extremely large antenna arrays, requiring lower power consumption and reduced hardware cost as compared to conventional phased arrays. In this paper, we consider a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-06 Konstantinos D. Katsanos , Panagiotis Gavriilidis , George C. Alexandropoulos

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

In this paper, we investigate the question of which technology, fluid antenna systems (FAS) or active reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (ARIS), plays a more crucial role in FAS-ARIS wireless communication systems. To address this, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-20 Junteng Yao , Liaoshi Zhou , Tuo Wu , Ming Jin , Chongwen Huang , Chau Yuen