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Power allocation is an important task in wireless communication networks. Classical optimization algorithms and deep learning methods, while effective in small and static scenarios, become either computationally demanding or unsuitable for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Irched Chafaa , Giacomo Bacci , Luca Sanguinetti

Enhancing user fairness in advanced multi-user systems like two-layer rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) is a critical yet challenging task. This letter proposes a novel movable antenna (MA) approach to address this challenge. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ji Luo , Yaxuan Chen , Guangchi Zhang , Miao Cui , Hao Fu , Changsheng You

In cell-free massive MIMO systems with multiple distributed access points (APs) serving multiple users over the same time-frequency resources, downlink beamforming is done through spatial precoding. Precoding vectors can be optimally…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Mehdi Zafari , Divyanshu Pandey , Rahman Doost-Mohammady , César A. Uribe

In a cell-free wireless network, distributed access points (APs) jointly serve all user equipments (UEs) within the their coverage area by using the same time/frequency resources. In this paper, we develop a novel downlink cell-free…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Yasser Al-Eryani , Ekram Hossain

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

Reconfigurable antennas (RAs) and movable antennas (MAs) have been recognized as promising technologies to enhance the performance of wireless communication and sensing systems by introducing additional degrees of freedom (DoFs) in tuning…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-23 Wenyan Ma , Lipeng Zhu , Yanhua Tan , Beixiong Zheng , Yujie Zhang , Yuchen Zhang , Keke Ying , Zhen Gao , He Sun , Xiaodan Shao , Zhenyu Xiao , Dusit Niyato , Rui Zhang

In a cell-free massive MIMO architecture a very large number of distributed access points simultaneously and jointly serves a much smaller number of mobile stations; a variant of the cell-free technique is the user-centric approach, wherein…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-28 Mario Alonzo , Stefano Buzzi , Alessio Zappone , Ciro D'Elia

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output is a potential candidate for future networks with pervasive connectivity by utilizing coherent joint transmission and distributed antenna arrays. This paper studies the exploitation of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Trinh Van Chien , Bui Trong Duc , Mohammadali Mohammadi , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

A limitation of bandwidth in the wireless network and the exponential rise in the high data rate requirement prompted the development of Massive Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) technique in 5G. Using this method the ever rising data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Mariea Sharaf Anzum , Moontasir Rafique , Md. Asif Ishrak Sarder , Fehima Tajrian , Abdullah Bin Shams

Emerging communication networks are envisioned to support massive wireless connectivity of heterogeneous devices with sporadic traffic and diverse requirements in terms of latency, reliability, and bandwidth. Providing multiple access to an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Sajad Daei , Marios Kountouris

This article investigates the integration of movable antennas (MAs) into multicast communication systems. By discretizing the motion of the MAs, a novel MA-assisted multicast transmission architecture is formulated. An alternating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-16 Zhenqiao Cheng , Nanxi Li , Jianchi Zhu , Chongjun Ouyang , Xingqi Zhang

We consider a cell-free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system and investigate the system performance for the case when the quantized version of the estimated channel and the quantized received signal are available at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-09 Manijeh Bashar , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Alister G. Burr , Hien Quoc Ngo , Merouane Debbah

Movable antennas represent an emerging field in telecommunication research and a potential approach to achieving higher data rates in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications when the total number of antennas is limited. Most…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Amna Irshad , Emil Björnson , Alva Kosasih , Vitaly Petrov

Movable antenna (MA) is a promising technology to improve wireless communication performance by varying the antenna position in a given finite area at the transceivers to create more favorable channel conditions. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Lipeng Zhu , Wenyan Ma , Boyu Ning , Rui Zhang

We consider the system-wide utility maximization problem in the downlink of a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system whereby a very large number of access points (APs) simultaneously serve a group of users.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-22 Muhammad Farooq , Hien Quoc Ngo , Een-Kee Hong , Le-Nam Tran

This paper investigates the downlink power allocation of the simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS)-assisted cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with multi-antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Jun Qian , Ross Murch , Khaled B. Letaief

In this paper, we investigate reconfigurable pixel antenna (RPA)-based electronic movable antennas (REMAs) for multiuser communications. First, we model each REMA as an antenna characterized by a set of predefined and discrete selectable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Kangjian Chen , Chenhao Qi , Yujing Hong , Chau Yuen

The aim of this article is to investigate the performance of near-field integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems using rotatable movable antennas (RMAs). In the proposed RMA-enabled system, the positions and rotations of antennas…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-17 Yunan Sun , Hao Xu , Chongjun Ouyang , Hongwen Yang

In the fifth-generation and beyond era, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) and dynamic metasurface antennas (DMAs) are emerging metamaterials keeping up with the demand for high-quality wireless communication services, which promote…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Hanyu Jiang , Li You , Jue Wang , Wenjin Wang , Xiqi Gao

The rotary and movable antennas (ROMA) technology is efficient in enhancing wireless network capacity by adjusting both the antenna spacing and three-dimensional (3D) rotation of antenna surfaces, based on the spatial distribution of users…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-06 Wenhui Yi , Jiayi Zhang , Zhe Wang , Huahua Xiao , Bo Ai