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The position-fluid antenna (PFA) architecture has become one of the appealing technologies to support ubiquitous connectivity demand in next-generation wireless systems. Specifically, allowing the antenna to adjust its physical position to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Heyin Shen , Chong Han , Hao Liu , Tao Yang

Reconfigurable antennas (RAs) and movable antennas (MAs) have been recognized as promising technologies to enhance the performance of wireless communication and sensing systems by introducing additional degrees of freedom (DoFs) in tuning…

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In this paper, a novel pinching-antenna assisted index modulation (PA-IM) scheme is proposed for improving the spectral efficiency without increasing the hardware complexity, where the information bits are conveyed not only by the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-13 Shuaixin Yang , Yijia Li , Yue Xiao , Yong Liang Guan , Xianfu Lei , Zhiguo Ding

Pinching-antenna systems (PASs) have recently emerged as a flexible, cost-effective route to large-scale antenna deployments envisioned for integrated sensing and communications (ISAC). This paper establishes the fundamental sensing limits…

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The vision of seamlessly integrating information transfer (IT) and microwave based power transfer (PT) in the same system has led to the emergence of a new research area, called wirelessly power communications (WPC). Extensive research has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Kaibin Huang , Caijun Zhong , Guangxu Zhu

Pinching-antenna systems (PASS) have emerged as a promising technology due to their ability to dynamically reconfigure wireless propagation environments. A novel PASS-based multi-user non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) framework is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-04 Songtao Xue , Jingjing Zhao , Kaiquan Cai , Xidong Mu , Zhenyu Xiao , Yuanwei Liu

This work introduces a reconfigurable leaky-waveguide antenna with a simplified biasing scheme for dynamic beam steering at a fixed frequency. Unlike prior metasurface-aided leaky-waveguide antennas that employ tunable metasurfaces as…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-01-29 Sambong Jang , Minseok Kim

Flexible antenna technology has recently emerged as a key enabler for next-generation wireless communications, which can effectively exploit the spatial degrees of freedom (DoF). However, existing conventional metrics (e.g., spectral and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Cheng Yang , Dong Li

Positioning has recently received considerable attention as a key enabler in emerging applications such as extended reality, unmanned aerial vehicles and smart environments. These applications require both data communication and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Yang Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Yufei Blankenship , Jemin Lee , Zabih Ghassemlooy , Julian Cheng , Shiwen Mao

Antenna array technology enables directional transmission and reception of wireless signals, for communications, localization, and sensing purposes. The signal processing algorithms that underpin this technology began to be developed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-09 Emil Björnson , Henk Wymeersch , Bho Matthiesen , Petar Popovski , Luca Sanguinetti , Elisabeth de Carvalho

The key obstacle to achieving the full potential of the millimeter wave (mmWave) band has been the poor propagation characteristics of wireless signals in this band. One approach to overcome this issue is to use antennas that can support…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-25 Mojtaba Ahmadi Almasi , Hani Mehrpouyan , Vida Vakilian , Nader Behdad , Hamid Jafarkhani

The practical channel estimation for pinching-antenna networks is investigated, in which an electromagnetic-compliant in-waveguide transmission model is exhibited, incorporating bidirectional power splitting, cumulative power leakage, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Jian Xiao

The pinching-antenna systems (PASS), which dynamically activate and relocate the pinching-antennas (PAs) along the dielectric waveguide, offer unprecedented potential for integrated positioning and communication. The multi-waveguide-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Yaoyu Zhang , Xin Sun , Jun Wang , Tianwei Hou , Anna Li , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

Reconfigurable antennas possess the capability to dynamically adjust their fundamental operating characteristics, thereby enhancing system adaptability and performance. To fully exploit this flexibility in modern wireless communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-19 Mengzhen Liu , Ming Li , Rang Liu , Qian Liu

Fluid antenna systems encompass a broad class of reconfigurable antenna technologies that offer substantial spatial diversity for various optimization objectives and communication tasks. Their capability to enhance spatial resolution within…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jingyuan Xu , Zhentian Zhang , Jian Dang , Hao Jiang , Zaichen Zhang

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

Pinching antenna (PA) systems provide a new spatial degree of freedom by flexible activation of pinching positions. However, the resulting effective channel strongly depends on the activated pinching positions, rendering conventional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Yiwei Tao , Yao Ge , Dong Li , Miaowen Wen , Merouane Debbah

Movable antenna (MA) has been recognized as a promising technology for performance enhancement in wireless communication and sensing systems by exploiting the spatial degrees of freedom (DoFs) in flexible antenna movement. However, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-10 Zhenyu Xiao , Xiangyu Pi , Songqi Cao , Lipeng Zhu , Zhen Gao , Xiang-Gen Xia , Rui Zhang

Recently, several advanced multi-antenna radio communications technologies have emerged to meet the increased capacity demands in wireless multi-user networks. Despite their great potential, the extent of these techniques' practical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-16 Konstantinos Ntougias , Dimitrios Ntaikos , Constantinos B. Papadias

Reconfigurable antennas (RAs), capable of dynamically adapting their radiation patterns, polarization states, and operating frequencies, have emerged as a promising technology to meet the stringent performance requirements of…

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