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This paper studies multi-antenna-aided covert communications coexisting with randomly located wardens and interferers, considering both centralized and distributed antenna systems (CAS/DAS). The throughput performance of the covert…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Tong-Xing Zheng , Hui-Ming Wang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

Multiple-antenna technologies are advancing towards large-scale aperture sizes and extremely high frequencies, leading to the emergence of near-field communications (NFC) in future wireless systems. To this context, we investigate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Chongjun Ouyang , Yuanwei Liu , Xingqi Zhang , Lajos Hanzo

Fluid antenna system (FAS) is an emerging technology that uses the new form of shape- and position-reconfigurable antennas to empower the physical layer for wireless communications. Prior studies on FAS were however limited to narrowband…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Hanjiang Hong , Kai-Kit Wong , Haoyang Li , Hao Xu , Han Xiao , Hyundong Shin , Kin-Fai Tong , Yangyang Zhang

Straggler synchronization is a dominant wall-clock bottleneck in synchronous wireless federated learning (FL). Under non-IID data, however, aggressively sampling only fast clients may significantly slow convergence due to statistical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yushen Lin , Zhiguo Ding

We investigate a novel integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system enabled by pinching antennas (PAs), which are dynamically activated along a dielectric waveguide. Unlike prior designs, the PAs are organized into multiple clusters…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Ata Khalili , Brikena Kaziu , Vasilis K. Papanikolaou , Robert Schober

Integrating coded caching (CC) into multi-input multi-output (MIMO) setups significantly enhances the achievable degrees of freedom (DoF). We consider a cache-aided MIMO configuration with a CC gain $t$, where a server with $L$ Tx-antennas…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Mohammad NaseriTehrani , MohammadJavad Salehi , Antti Tölli

In-band full-duplex (IBFD) systems are expected to double the spectral efficiency compared to half-duplex systems, provided that loopback self-interference (SI) can be effectively suppressed. The inherent interference mitigation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Hanjiang Hong , Kai-Kit Wong , Hao Xu , Yiyan Wu , Sai Xu , Chan-Byoung Chae , Baiyang Liu , Kin-Fai Tong

Multi-antenna coded caching is known to combine a global caching gain that is proportional to the cumulative cache size found across the network, with an additional spatial multiplexing gain that stems from using multiple transmitting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-12 MohammadJavad Salehi , Emanuele Parrinello , Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi , Petros Elia , Antti Tölli

Cache-aided MIMO communications aims to jointly exploit both coded caching~(CC) and spatial multiplexing gains to enhance communication efficiency. In this paper, we analyze both the achievable degrees of freedom~(DoF) under linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Mohammad NaseriTehrani , MohammadJavad Salehi , Antti Tölli

Pinching-antenna systems have recently been proposed as a new candidate for flexible-antenna systems, not only inheriting the reconfiguration capability but also offering a unique feature: establishing line-of-sight links to mitigate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-21 Ximing Xie , Fang Fang , Zhiguo Ding , Xianbin Wang

The pinching-antenna system is a novel flexible-antenna technology, which has the capabilities not only to combat large-scale path loss, but also to reconfigure the antenna array in a flexible manner. The key idea of pinching antennas is to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Xinke Xie , Yang Lu , Zhiguo Ding

In conventional multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems, the positions of antennas are fixed. To take full advantage of spatial degrees of freedom, a new technology called fluid antenna (FA) is proposed to obtain higher…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Yuqi Ye , Li You , Jue Wang , Hao Xu , Kai-Kit Wong , Xiqi Gao

A segmented waveguide-enabled pinching-antenna system (SWAN) is proposed, in which a segmented waveguide composed of multiple short dielectric waveguide segments is employed to radiate or receive signals through the pinching antennas (PAs)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Chongjun Ouyang , Hao Jiang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiguo Ding

This paper investigates antenna coding based on pixel antennas as a new degree of freedom for enhancing multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless power transfer (WPT) systems. Antenna coding is closely related to the Fluid Antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Yijun Chen , Shanpu Shen , Tianrui Qiao , Hongyu Li , Jun Qian , Ross Murch

This paper examines a fluid antenna (FA)-assisted simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) system. Unlike traditional SWIPT systems with fixed-position antennas (FPAs), our FA-assisted system enables dynamic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-25 Liaoshi Zhou , Junteng Yao , Tuo Wu , Ming Jin , Chau Yuen , Fumiyuki Adachi

Interference and scattering, often deemed undesirable, are inevitable in wireless communications, especially when the current mobile networks and upcoming sixth generation (6G) have turned into ultra-dense networks. Current approaches…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-02-10 Baiyang Liu , Kin-Fai Tong , Kai-Kit Wong , Chan-Byoung Chae , Hang Wong

Pinching antennas, implemented by applying small dielectric particles on a waveguide, have emerged as a promising flexible-antenna technology ideal for next-generation wireless communications systems. Unlike conventional flexible-antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-25 Yanqing Xu , Zhiguo Ding , Donghong Cai , Vincent W. S. Wong

This paper investigates a pinching-antenna (PA)-enabled cognitive radio network, where both the primary transmitter (PT) and secondary transmitter (ST) are equipped with a single waveguide and multiple PAs to facilitate simultaneous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Zeyang Sun , Xidong Mu , Shuai Han , Sai Xu , Michail Matthaiou

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) emerges as an essential technique for overcoming spectrum congestion. However, the performance of traditional ISAC systems with fixed-position-antennas (FPA) is limited due to insufficient spatial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-30 Tian Hao , Changxin Shi , Qingqing Wu , Bin Xia , Yinghong Guo , Lianghui Ding , Feng Yang

Enormous fluid antenna systems (E-FAS) have recently emerged as a new wireless architecture in which intelligent metasurfaces act as guided electromagnetic interfaces, enabling surface-wave (SW) propagation with much lower attenuation and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Kai-Kit Wong , Masoud Kaveh , Hao Xu , Baiyang Liu , Kin-Fai Tong , Chan-Byoung Chae