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To enable innovative applications and services, both industry and academia are exploring new technologies for sixth generation (6G) communications. One of the promising candidates is fluid antenna system (FAS). Unlike existing systems, FAS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Wee Kiat New , Kai-Kit Wong , Hao Xu , Kin-Fai Tong , Chan-Byoung Chae

The concept of aperture selection is proposed for continuous aperture array (CAPA)-based communications. The achieved performance is analyzed in an uplink scenario by considering both line-of-sight (LoS) and non-line-of-sight (NLoS)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-28 Chongjun Ouyang , Yuanwei Liu , Xingqi Zhang

In this work, a novel design of electromagnetically reconfigurable antennas (ERAs) based on a fluid antenna system (FAS) is proposed, and the corresponding wireless channel model is established. Different from conventional antenna arrays…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Ruiqi Wang , Pinjun Zheng , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Atif Shamim

Fluid antenna systems (FAS) have recently emerged as a promising solution for sixth-generation (6G) ultra-dense connectivity. These systems utilize dynamic radiating and/or shaping techniques to mitigate interference and improve spectral…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-25 Baiyang Liu , Jiewei Huang , Tuo Wu , Huan Meng , Fengcheng Mei , Lei Ning , Kai-Kit Wong , Hang Wong , Kin-Fai Tong , Kwai-Man Luk

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) has emerged as a promising technology for fast wireless data aggregation by harnessing the superposition property of wireless multiple-access channels. This paper investigates a fluid antenna (FA)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Deyou Zhang , Sicong Ye , Ming Xiao , Kezhi Wang , Marco Di Renzo , Mikael Skoglund

In Fixed Wireless Applications (FWA), the Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) is the most promising candidate for wideband data access. The reason is the soft limit on the number of active mobile devices. Many Fixed Wireless Applications…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-12 Muhammad Zeeshan , Shoab A Khan , Muhammad Yasir Malik

Conventional array designs based on circular fourth-order cumulant typically adopt a single expression form of the fourth-order difference co-array (FODCA), which limits the achievable degrees of freedom (DOFs) and neglects the impact of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-28 Si Wang , Guoqiang Xiao

This paper proposes a novel towed movable antenna (ToMA) array architecture to enhance the physical layer security of airborne communication systems. Unlike conventional onboard arrays with fixed-position antennas (FPAs), the ToMA array…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Lipeng Zhu , Haobin Mao , Wenyan Ma , Zhenyu Xiao , Jun Zhang , Rui Zhang

Powered by position-flexible antennas, the emerging fluid antenna system (FAS) technology is postulated as a key enabler for massive connectivity in 6G networks. The free movement of antenna elements enables the opportunistic minimization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-24 Pablo Ramirez-Espinosa , David Morales-Jimenez , Kai-Kit Wong

Fluid antenna multiple access (FAMA) is an emerging technology in massive access designed to meet the demands of future wireless communication networks by naturally mitigating multiuser interference through the utilization of the fluid…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Hanjiang Hong , Kai-Kit Wong , Xusheng Zhu , Hao Xu , Han Xiao , Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Hyundong Shin

In the development of wireless communication technology, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology has emerged as a key enabler, significantly enhancing the capacity of communication systems. However, traditional MIMO systems, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-17 Ruojing Zhao , Yifei Xu , Songjie Yang , Hua Chen , Chadi Assi

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

Compact ultra-massive antenna-array (CUMA) is a novel multiple access technology built on the fluid antenna system (FAS) concept, offering an improved scheme over fluid antenna multiple access (FAMA) that can support massive connectivity on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-25 Chenguang Rao , Kai-Kit Wong , Mohd Hamza Naim Shaikh , Hanjiang Hong , Hyundong Shin , Yangyang Zhang

A continuous-aperture array (CAPA)-based integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) framework is proposed for both downlink and uplink scenarios. Within this framework, continuous operator-based signal models are employed to describe the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Boqun Zhao , Chongjun Ouyang , Xingqi Zhang , Hyundong Shin , Yuanwei Liu

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

Flexible front-end technology will become available in future multifunction radar systems to improve adaptability to the operational theatre. A potential concept to utilize this flexibility is to subdivide radar tasks spatially over the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-28 Pepijn B. Cox , Wim L. van Rossum

In the past several decades, various techniques have been developed and used for multiple-access (MA) communications. With the new applications for 6G, it is desirable to find new resources, physical or virtual, to confront the fast…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Qi-yue Yu , Jiang-xuan Li , Shu Lin

Six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA) is an effective solution for enhancing wireless network capacity through the adjustment of both 3D positions and 3D rotations of distributed antennas/antenna surfaces. Although freely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Xiaoming Shi , Xiaodan Shao , Rui Zhang

Extremely large-scale array (XL-array) has emerged as a promising technology to enable near-field communications for achieving enhanced spectrum efficiency and spatial resolution, by drastically increasing the number of antennas. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Cong Zhou , Changsheng You , Haodong Zhang , Li Chen , Shuo Shi

Beam shaping techniques enable tailored beam trajectories, offering unprecedented connectivity opportunities in wireless communications. Current approaches rely on flat apertures, which limit trajectory flexibility due to inherent geometric…