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Fluid antenna system (FAS) becomes a promising paradigm for next-generation wireless networks, which enables position-flexible antenna elements that can dynamically adjust to more favorable channel conditions. However, the optimization of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Wanzhe Wang , Tong Zhang , Hao Xu , Shuai Wang , Rui Wang , Kai-Kit Wong

Metasurface-based fluid antenna systems (FASs) have been recently proposed as an inexpensive, scalable and practical alternative implementation for the fluid-antenna concept. This work thoroughly evaluates the performance of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Pablo Ramírez-Espinosa , F. Javier López-Martínez , David Morales-Jiménez

This work explores the channel estimation (CE) problem in uplink transmission for unsourced random access (URA) with a fluid antenna receiver. The additional spatial diversity in a fluid antenna system (FAS) addresses the needs of URA…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Keru Zhou , Zhentian Zhang , Jian Dang , Qianqian Sun , Zaichen Zhang

Fluid antenna systems (FASs) can reconfigure their antenna locations freely within a spatially continuous space. To keep favorable antenna positions, the channel state information (CSI) acquisition for FASs is essential. While some…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Zijian Zhang , Jieao Zhu , Linglong Dai , Robert W. Heath

Most existing antenna array-based source localization methods rely on fixed-position arrays (FPAs) and strict assumptions about source field conditions (near-field or far-field), which limits their effectiveness in complex, dynamic…

To realize orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based grant-free access for wideband systems under frequency-selective fading, existing device activity detection and channel estimation methods need substantial accuracy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zhiyan Li , Ying Cui , Danny H. K. Tsang

When the concept of fluid antenna system (FAS) is applied to multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, this gives rise to MIMO-FAS, a.k.a.~fluid MIMO. Under rich scattering, the spatial correlation matrices are governed by the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Tuo Wu , Kai-Kit Wong , Baiyang Liu , Kin-Fai Tong , Hyundong Shin

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

Fluid antenna system (FAS) represents the concept of treating antenna as a reconfigurable physical-layer resource to broaden system design and network optimization and inspire next-generation reconfigurable antennas. FAS can unleash new…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Tuo Wu , Kai-Kit Wong , Jie Tang , Junteng Yao , Baiyang Liu , Kin-Fai Tong , Chan-Byoung Chae , Matthew C. Valenti , Kwai-Man Luk

Fluid antenna systems (FASs) have introduced a new paradigm for wireless system design by revealing how mutual correlation can be exploited to harvest inherent spatial diversity. While existing studies have mainly focused on one-sided FAS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zhentian Zhang , Yuanhui Wu , Kai-Kit Wong , Hao Jiang , An Li

This letter studies the performance of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided communications for a fluid antenna system (FAS) enabled receiver. Specifically, a fixed singleantenna base station (BS) transmits information through a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Kai-Kit Wong , Wee Kiat New , Hao Xu , Ross Murch , Yangyang Zhang

We introduce a novel received signal strength intensity (RSSI)-based positioning method using fluid antenna systems (FAS), leveraging their inherent channel correlation properties to improve location accuracy. By enabling a single antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Wenzhi Liu , Zhisheng Rong , Xiayue Liu , Yufei Jiang , Xu Zhu

This paper proposes a hardware-software co-design approach to efficiently optimize beamforming and port selection in fluid antenna systems (FASs). To begin with, a fluid-antenna (FA)-enabled downlink multi-cell multiple-input…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-21 Sai Xu , Kai-Kit Wong , Yanan Du , Hanjiang Hong , Chan-Byoung Chae , Baiyang Liu , Kin-Fai Tong

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

By recognizing the tremendous flexibility of the emerging fluid antenna system (FAS), which allows dynamic reconfigurability of the location of the antenna within a given space, this paper investigates the performance of a single-antenna…

Enormous fluid antenna systems (E-FAS) have recently emerged as a surface-wave (SW)-enabled architecture that can induce controllable large-scale channel gains through guided electromagnetic routing. This paper develops a secrecy analysis…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Kai-Kit Wong , Masoud Kaveh , Mohammad Javad Ahmadi , Kin-Fai Tong , Hyundong Shin

In this paper, we investigate cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) systems in which access points (APs) are equipped with fluid antennas (FAs) and develop a comprehensive framework for channel estimation, antenna port selection, and uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Maryam Olyaee , Giovanni Interdonato , Stefano Buzzi

This paper presents a novel framework for enhancing physical-layer security in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems by leveraging the reconfigurability of fluid antenna systems (FAS). We propose a joint precoding and port…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Abdelhamid Salem , Hao Xu , Kai-Kit Wong , Chan-Byoung Chae , Yangyang Zhang

Fluid antenna systems (FAS) offer a promising paradigm for enhancing wireless communication by exploiting spatial diversity, yet a rigorous analytical framework for their error probability has been notably absent. To this end, this paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Xusheng Zhu , Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Tuo Wu , Kaitao Meng , Chao Wang , Gui Zhou

Fluid antenna represents a concept where a mechanically flexible antenna can switch its location freely within a given space. Recently, it has been reported that even with a tiny space, a single-antenna fluid antenna system (FAS) can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Kai-Kit Wong , Arman Shojaeifard , Kin-Fai Tong , Yangyang Zhang