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Movable antennas (MAs) show great promise for enhancing the sensing capabilities of future sixth-generation (6G) networks. With the growing prevalence of near-field propagation at ultra-high frequencies, this paper focuses on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Yushen Wang , Weidong Mei , Xin Wei , Boyu Ning , Zhi Chen

Movable antennas (MAs) are a promising paradigm to enhance the spatial degrees of freedom of conventional multi-antenna systems by flexibly adapting the positions of the antenna elements within a given transmit area. In this paper, we model…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Yifei Wu , Dongfang Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Wolfgang Gerstacker , Robert Schober

Movable antenna (MA)-enabled near-field (NF) communications offer significant potential for 6G, yet existing designs often neglect the practical constraints of hybrid beamforming (HBF) for extremely large-scale MIMO (XL-MIMO). Conversely,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Xiangqian Xu , Songjie Yang , Arumugam Nallanathan

In this paper, we propose a new multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system with movable antennas (MAs) to exploit the antenna position optimization for enhancing the capacity. Different from conventional MIMO systems with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Wenyan Ma , Lipeng Zhu , Rui Zhang

Movable antenna (MA) is a promising technology to improve wireless communication performance by varying the antenna position in a given finite area at the transceivers to create more favorable channel conditions. In this paper, we…

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

The flexible-position multiple-input multiple-output (FLP-MIMO), such as fluid antennas and movable antennas, is a promising technology for future wireless communications. This is due to the fact that the positions of antennas at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Jiakang Zheng , Jiayi Zhang , Hongyang Du , Dusit Niyato , Sumei Sun , Bo Ai , Khaled B. Letaief

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

Movable antenna (MA) has emerged as a promising technology to enhance wireless communication performance by enabling the local movement of antennas at the transmitter (Tx) and/or receiver (Rx) for achieving more favorable channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Lipeng Zhu , Wenyan Ma , Zhenyu Xiao , Rui Zhang

The interplay between large antenna apertures and high frequencies in future generations of wireless networks will give rise to near-field communications. In this paper, we focus on the hybrid analog and digital beamforming architecture of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Panagiotis Gavriilidis , George C. Alexandropoulos

In recent years, high-speed trains (HSTs) communications have developed rapidly to enhance the stability of train operations and improve passenger connectivity experiences. However, as the train continues to accelerate, urgent technological…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Jie Dai , Yuchen Liu , Jiakang Zheng , Ruichen Zhang , Jiayi Zhang , Bo Ai

This letter investigates movable antenna (MA)-aided downlink (DL) multiuser communication systems under the near-field channel condition, where both the base station (BS) and the users are equipped with MAs to fully exploit the degrees of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Jingze Ding , Lipeng Zhu , Zijian Zhou , Bingli Jiao , Rui Zhang

This paper proposes a practical method for the definition of communication modes when antennas operate in the near-field region, by realizing ad-hoc beams exploiting the focusing capability of large antennas. The beamspace modeling proposed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-07 Nicolò Decarli , Davide Dardari

This paper presents an optimization framework for near-field localization with Dynamic Metasurface Antenna (DMA) receivers. This metasurface technology offers enhanced angular and range resolution realizing efficient hybrid Analog and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-15 Ioannis Gavras , George C. Alexandropoulos

Fluid antennas (FAs) and mobile antennas (MAs) are innovative technologies in wireless communications that are able to proactively improve channel conditions by dynamically adjusting the transmit/receive antenna positions within a given…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-19 Weidong Mei , Xin Wei , Yijie Liu , Boyu Ning , Zhi Chen

Movable antenna (MA) has been recognized as a promising technology to enhance the performance of wireless communication and sensing by enabling antenna movement. Such a significant paradigm shift from conventional fixed antennas (FAs) to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Lipeng Zhu , Wenyan Ma , Weidong Mei , Yong Zeng , Qingqing Wu , Boyu Ning , Zhenyu Xiao , Xiaodan Shao , Jun Zhang , Rui Zhang

In mixed near-field and far-field systems, the nonorthogonality between near-field and far-field channels may cause severe inter-user interference and hence degrade rate performance, when the analog beamforming is designed based on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Tianyu Liu , Changsheng You , Chao Zhou , Mingjiang Wu , Ming-Min Zhao , Zhaocheng Wang

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

Ultra-massive multiple-input multiple-output MIMO (UM-MIMO) leverages large antenna arrays at high frequencies, transitioning communication paradigm into the radiative near-field (NF), where spherical wavefronts enable full-vector…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-21 Ahmed Hussain , Asmaa Abdallah , Abdulkadir Celik , Ahmed M. Eltawil

The increasingly demanding objectives for next generation wireless communications have spurred recent research activities on multi-antenna transceiver hardware architectures and relevant intelligent communication schemes. Among them belong…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-18 George C. Alexandropoulos , Md Atiqul Islam , Besma Smida

This paper considers a deterministic physical model of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with uniform linear antenna arrays. It is known that the maximum spatial degrees of freedom is achieved by spacing antenna elements…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-22 Keigo Takeuchi