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Six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA) is an emerging technology that is able to fully exploit the spatial variation of wireless channels by controlling the 3D positions and 3D rotations of distributed antennas/antenna surfaces at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Xiaodan Shao , Rui Zhang , Robert Schober

Movable antenna (MA) has emerged as a promising technology to flexibly reconfigure wireless channels by adjusting antenna placement. In this paper, we study a secured dual-functional radar-communication (DFRC) system aided by movable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Ran Yang , Ning Wei , Zheng Dong , Lin Zhang , Wanting Lyu , Yue Xiu , Ahmad Bazzi , Chadi Assi

In this paper, we investigate a movable antenna (MA)-aided integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is employed to enhance wireless communication and sensing performance in dead…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-12 Haisu Wu , Hong Ren , Cunhua Pan , Yang Zhang

The emergence of movable antenna (MA) technology has marked a significant advancement in the field of wireless communication research, paving the way for enhanced connectivity, improved signal quality, and adaptability across diverse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-18 Youssef Maghrebi , Mohamed Elhattab , Chadi Assi , Ali Ghrayeb , Georges Kaddoum

Dynamic metasurface antennas (DMA) provide low-power beamforming through reconfigurable radiative slots. Each slot has a tunable component that consumes low power compared to typical analog components like phase shifters. This makes DMAs a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-10 Joseph M. Carlson , Nitish V. Deshpande , Miguel Rodrigo Castellanos , Robert W. Heath

This paper studies the deployment of multiple movable antennas (MAs) at the base station (BS) for enhancing the multiuser communication performance. First, we model the multiuser channel in the uplink to characterize the wireless channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Xiangyu Pi , Lipeng Zhu , Zhenyu Xiao , Rui Zhang

Conventional antenna arrays rely primarily on digital beamforming for spatial control. While adding more elements can narrow beamwidth and suppress interference, such scaling incurs prohibitive hardware and power costs. Rotatable antennas…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-29 Xingxiang Peng , Qingqing Wu , Ziyuan Zheng , Wen Chen , Yanze Zhu , Ying Gao

Movable Antenna (MA) technology is emerging as a promising advancement with the potential to significantly enhance the performance of future wireless communication and sensing systems. In this paper, we address two-dimensional (2D)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Chengzhi Ye , Ruoyu Zhang , Lei Yao , Wen Wu

Movable antennas (MAs) have attracted growing interest for their ability to improve channel conditions via adaptive antenna movement. Nevertheless, such movement inevitably introduces mutual coupling (MC), whose impact has been largely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Tianyi Liao , Wei Guo , Jun Qian , Zixin Wang , Shenghui Song , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

In this paper, we propose a new six-dimensional (6D) movable antenna (6DMA) system for future wireless networks to improve the communication performance. Unlike the traditional fixed-position antenna (FPA) and existing fluid…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Xiaodan Shao , Qijun Jiang , Rui Zhang

Recent advancements in movable antennas (MAs) technology create new opportunities for 6G and beyond wireless systems. MAs are promising for radio frequency wireless energy transfer because they can dynamically adjust antenna positions,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Osmel Martínez Rosabal , Onel Alcaraz López , Marco Di Renzo , Richard Demo Souza , Hirley Alves

In this paper, we propose to leverage rotatable antennas (RAs) for improving the communication performance in mixed near-field and far-field communication systems by exploiting a new spatial degree-of-freedom (DoF) offered by antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-26 Yunpu Zhang , Changsheng You , Hing Cheung So , Dusit Niyato , Yonina C. Eldar

As 6G wireless communication systems evolve toward intelligence, high reconfigurability, and space-air-ground integration \cite{liu2025toward, liu2024near}, the limitations of traditional fixed antenna (TFA) have become increasingly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-09 Yining Li , Ziwei Wan , Chongjia Sun , Kaijun Feng , Keke Ying , Wenyan Ma , Lipeng Zhu , Xiaodan Shao , Weidong Mei , Wenqian Shen , Zhenyu Xiao , Zhen Gao , Rui Zhang

This paper investigates a multiple input single output (MISO) downlink communication system in which users are equipped with fluid antennas (FAs). First, we adopt a field-response based channel model to characterize the downlink channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Haoran Qin , Wen Chen , Zhendong Li , Qingqing Wu , Nan Cheng , Fangjiong Chen

Through adaptive antenna repositioning, the movable antenna (MA) technology enables on-demand reconfiguration of wireless channels, thereby creating an additional spatial degree of freedom in improving communication performance. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Guojie Hu , Qingqing Wu , Lipeng Zhu , Kui Xu , Guoxin Li , Tong-Xing Zheng

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Yike Xie , Weidong Mei , Dong Wang , Yingqi Wen , Zhi Chen , Jun Fang , Wei Guo , Boyu Ning

This letter rethinks traditional precoding in multi-user wireless communications with movable antennas (MAs). Utilizing MAs for optimal antenna positioning, we introduce a sparse optimization (SO)-based approach focusing on regularized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Songjie Yang , Wanting Lyu , Boyu Ning , Zhongpei Zhang , Chau Yuen

Cell-free networks leverage distributed access points (APs) to achieve macro-diversity, yet their performance is often constrained by large disparities in channel quality arising from user geometry and blockages. To address this, rotatable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Xingxiang Peng , Qingqing Wu , Ziyuan Zheng , Yanze Zhu , Wen Chen , Penghui Huang , Ying Gao , Honghao Wang

Future wireless networks are expected to support increasingly high data rates and user densities, motivating advanced multi-antenna architectures capable of adapting to dynamic propagation environments. Movable antenna (MA) arrays have…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-25 Amna Irshad , Emil Björnson , Alva Kosasih , Vitaly Petrov

In this paper, we investigate a six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA)-enabled wideband terahertz (THz) communication system with sub-connected hybrid beamforming architecture at the base station (BS). In particular, the three-dimensional…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Wencai Yan , Wanming Hao , Yajun Fan , Yabo Guo , Qingqing Wu , Xingwang Li