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Movable antenna (MA) has emerged as a promising technology to enhance wireless communication performance by exploiting the new degree of freedom (DoF) via antenna position optimization. In this letter, we investigate the MA-enhanced wide…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Dong Wang , Weidong Mei , Zhi Chen , Boyu Ning

This paper investigates a fluid antenna (FA) array-enhanced over-the-air computation (AirComp) system in the presence of hardware impairments (HWIs), exploiting the new degrees of freedom offered by reconfigurable antenna positioning. To…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-08 Zilong Li , Jianxin Dai , Zhaohui Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang , Kai-Kit Wong , Zhiyang Li , Shunkuan Cheng

Fluid antenna systems (FAS) have emerged as a promising technology for next-generation wireless systems. However, practical multiuser multiple-input multiple-output FAS (MIMO-FAS) faces two inherently coupled challenges: acquiring accurate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Erqiang Tang , Wei Guo , Hengtao He , Shenghui Song , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

High-frequency wideband cellular communications over mmWave and sub-THz offer the opportunity for high data rates. However, it also presents high path loss, resulting in limited coverage. High-gain beamforming from the antenna array is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Ozlem Yildiz , Ahmad AlAmmouri , Jianhua Mo , Younghan Nam , Elza Erkip , Jianzhong , Zhang

Radio frequency (RF) wireless power transfer (WPT) is a promising technology for charging the Internet of Things. Practical RF-WPT systems usually require energy beamforming (EB), which can compensate for the severe propagation loss by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Amirhossein Azarbahram , Onel L. A. Lopez , Richard D. Souza , Rui Zhang , Matti Latva-Aho

Following recent advances in flexible electronics and programmable metasurfaces, flexible intelligent metasurfaces (FIMs) have emerged as a promising enabling technology for next-generation wireless networks. A FIM is a morphable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Ahmed Magbool , Vaibhav Kumar , Marco Di Renzo , Mark F. Flanagan

Full dimension (FD) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology has attracted substantial research attention from both wireless industry and academia in the last few years as a promising technique for next-generation wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem , Abla Kammoun , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Recently, a technique called beam-space MIMO has been demonstrated as an effective approach for transmitting multiple signals while using a single RF-chain. In this work, we present novel design considerations and a compact antenna solution…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-20 Mohsen Yousefbeiki , Julien Perruisseau-Carrier

In this paper, we investigate the problem of resource allocation for fluid antenna relay (FAR) system with antenna location optimization. In the considered model, each user transmits information to a base station (BS) with help of FAR. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Ruopeng Xu , Yixuan Chen , Jiawen Kang , Minrui Xu , Zhaohui Yang , Chongwen Huang , Dusit Niyato

Large in the number of transmit elements, multi-antenna arrays with per-element limitations are in the focus of the present work. In this context, physical layer multigroup multicasting under per-antenna power constrains, is investigated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Dimitrios Christopoulos , Symeon Chatzinotas , Bjorn Ottersten

Multicast beamforming is a promising technique for multicast communication. Providing an efficient and powerful beamforming design algorithm is a crucial issue because multicast beamforming problems such as a max-min-fair problem are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Satoshi Takabe , Tadashi Wadayama

With fluid antenna system (FAS) gradually establishing itself as a possible enabling technology for next generation wireless communications, channel estimation for FAS has become a pressing issue. Existing methodologies however face…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-09 Zhen Chen , Jianqing Li , Xiu Yin Zhang , Kai-Kit Wong , Chan-Byoung Chae , Yangyang Zhang

In this paper, we investigate a fluid antenna relay (FAR)-assisted communication system with hybrid relaying scheme selection. By leveraging statistical channel state information (CSI) and distribution characteristics of fluid antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Ruopeng Xu , Songling Zhang , Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang , Kai-Kit Wong

Fluid antenna system (FAS) revolutionizes wireless communications via utilizing position-flexible antennas that dynamically optimize channel conditions and mitigate multipath fading. This innovation is particularly valuable in indoor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Tong Zhang , Qianren Li , Shuai Wang , Wanli Ni , Jiliang Zhang , Rui Wang , Kai-Kit Wong , Chan-Byoung Chae

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

This work proposes compact, flexible Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) antennas. The design principle is based on the excitation of different orthogonal radiating modes within the same antenna volume. Via phase control of the excited…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Abel Zandamela , Nicola Marchetti , Adam Narbudowicz

As wireless communication advances toward the 6G era, the demand for ultra-reliable, high-speed, and ubiquitous connectivity is driving the exploration of new degrees-of-freedom (DoFs) in communication systems. Among the key enabling…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Jiahe Guo , Songjie Yang , Xiangyu Dong , Jiapan Yang , Junfeng Deng , Zhongpei Zhang , Chau Yuen

The integration of communication and computation is essential for next-generation wireless systems, especially in scenarios demanding massive connectivity and ultra-low latency. Over-the-air federated learning (AirFL), leveraging the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Saeid Pakravan , Mohsen Ahmadzadeh , Ming Zeng , Ghosheh Abed Hodtani , Xingwang Li

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Mengzhen Liu , Ming Li , Rang Liu , Qian Liu , A. Lee Swindlehurst

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