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The growing demands of 6G mobile communication networks necessitate advanced antenna technologies. Movable antennas (MAs) and reconfigurable antennas (RAs) enable dynamic control over antenna's position, orientation, radiation,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Lipeng Zhu , Haobin Mao , Ge Yan , Wenyan Ma , Zhenyu Xiao , Rui Zhang

Spatial multiplexing plays a significant role in improving the capacity of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems. To improve the spectral efficiency (SE) of a point-to-point MIMO system, we exploit the channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Yuxuan Chen , Qingqing Wu , Guangji Chen , Wen Chen

Dynamic metasurface antennas (DMA) provide a solution to form compact, cost-effective, energy-efficient multiple-input-multiple output (MIMO) arrays. In this paper, we implement a practical hierarchical codebook with a realistic DMA design…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Joseph Carlson , Miguel R. Castellanos , Robert W. Heath

Interference management is a central bottleneck in dense multi-antenna wireless networks. Therefore, in this study, we present a digital precoding-free hierarchical rate-splitting multiple access (HRSMA) architecture assisted by a stacked…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Hiroaki Hashida , Boya Di

In wideband near-field arrays, frequency-dependent array responses cause wavefronts at different frequencies to deviate from that at the center frequency, producing beam squint and degrading multi-user performance. True-time-delay (TTD)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-12 Cixiao Zhang , Yin Xu , Xinghao Guo , Xiaowu Ou , Dazhi He , Wenjun Zhang

Analog beamforming holds great potential for future terahertz (THz) communications due to its ability to generate high-gain directional beams with low-cost phase shifters. However, conventional analog beamforming may suffer substantial…

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With increasing frequencies, bandwidths, and array apertures, the phenomenon of beam squint arises as a serious impairment to beamforming. Fully digital arrays with true time delay per antenna element are a potential solution, but they…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Heedong Do , Namyoon Lee , Robert W. Heath , Angel Lozano

The on-demand tailoring of light's spatial shape is of great relevance in a wide variety of research areas. Computer-controlled devices, such as Spatial Light Modulators (SLMs) or Digital Micromirror Devices (DMDs), offer a very accurate,…

Movable antenna (MA) has demonstrated great potential in enhancing wireless communication performance. In this paper, we investigate an MA-enabled multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system with spatial modulation (SM),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Kaihe Wang , Ran Yang , Lipeng Zhu , Rongyan Xi , Yue Xiu , Zhongpei Zhang

Intelligent metasurfaces may be harnessed for realizing efficient holographic multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) systems, at a low hardware-cost and high energy-efficiency. As part of this family, we propose a hybrid beamforming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Qingchao Li , Mohammed El-Hajjar , Chao Xu , Jiancheng An , Chau Yuen , Lajos Hanzo

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) offers substantial spectral-efficiency gains, but scaling to very large antenna arrays with conventional all-digital and hybrid beamforming architectures quickly results in excessively high…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-03 Carolina Nolasco-Ferencikova , Georg Schwan , Raphael Rolny , Alexander Stutz-Tirri , Christoph Studer

This article investigates the influential role of flexible antenna array curvature on the performance of 6G communication systems with carrier frequencies above 100 GHz. It is demonstrated that the curvature of flexible antenna arrays can…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Mahdi Alesheikh , Soheil Saadat , Hamidreza Aghasi

The millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication technology, which employs large-scale antenna arrays, enables inherent sensing capabilities. Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) can utilize channel multipath angle estimates to realize…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Hang Que , Jie Yang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shuqiang Xia , Xiao Li , Shi Jin

Extremely large-scale antenna array (ELAA) is a key candidate technology for the sixth generation (6G) mobile networks. Nevertheless, using substantial numbers of antennas to transmit high-frequency signals in ELAA systems significantly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-23 Mengzhen Liu , Ming Li , Rang Liu , Qian Liu

This paper investigates a phased array ground station capable of tracking multiple sources, multi-beamforming, electronic steering, easy scaling, and low cost. The project will develop a 20-pair dual-polarized yagi-UHF/VHF phased array with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-15 Luis M. Bres , Luis A. Hernandez , Teviet D. Creighton

For the accurate representation and reconstruction of band-limited signals on the sphere, an optimal-dimensionality sampling scheme has been recently proposed which requires the optimal number of samples equal to the number of degrees of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Wajeeha Nafees , Zubair Khalid , Rodney A. Kennedy , Jason D. McEwen

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) have emerged as a powerful paradigm for wave-domain signal processing, enabling fine-grained control over electromagnetic (EM) propagation in next-generation wireless systems. However, conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Hong Niu , Chau Yuen , Marco Di Renzo , Mérouane Debbah , H. Vincent Poor

A movable antennas (MAs)-enabled secure multiuser transmission framework is developed to enhance physical-layer security. Novel expressions are derived to characterize the achievable sum secrecy rate based on the secure channel coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Zhenqiao Cheng , Chongjun Ouyang , Boqun Zhao , Xingqi Zhang

The potential of using of millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency for future wireless cellular communication systems has motivated the study of large-scale antenna arrays for achieving highly directional beamforming. However, the conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Foad Sohrabi , Wei Yu

Analog beamforming with phased arrays is a promising technique for 5G wireless communication in millimeter wave bands. A beam focuses on a small range of angles of arrival or departure and corresponds to a set of fixed phase shifts across…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-15 Mingming Cai , J. Nicholas Laneman , Bertrand Hochwald