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Our aim is to assess the benefits and limitations of using the redundant visibility information in regular phased array systems for improving the calibration. Regular arrays offer the possibility to use redundant visibility information to…

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The Fisher Information Metric (FIM) and the associated Cram\'er-Rao Bound (CRB) are fundamental tools in statistical signal processing, which inform the efficient design of experiments and algorithms for estimating the underlying…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Shiraz Khan , Gregory S. Chirikjian

This paper presents key performance metrics for near-field communication and sensing systems and their scaling behavior as a function of the antenna array aperture. Analytical expressions are derived for several standard array geometries to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-09 Marcin Wachowiak , André Bourdoux , Sofie Pollin

Next generation cellular networks will experience the combination of femtocells, millimeter-wave (mm-wave) communications and massive antenna arrays. Thanks to the beamforming capability as well as the high angular resolution provided by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Anna Guerra , Francesco Guidi , Davide Dardari

With the deployment of large antenna arrays at high-frequency bands, future wireless communication systems are likely to operate in the radiative near-field. Unlike far-field beam steering, near-field beams can be focused on a spatial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Ahmed Hussain , Asmaa Abdallah , Abdulkadir Celik , Emil Björnson , Ahmed M. Eltawil

Index modulation (IM) significantly enhances the spectral efficiency of fluid antennas (FAs) enabled multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, which is named FA-IM. However, due to the dense distribution of ports on the FA, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Xinghao Guo , Yin Xu , Dazhi He , Cixiao Zhang , Wenjun Zhang , Yi-yan Wu

Flexible-geometry arrays have garnered much attention in wireless communications, which dynamically adjust wireless channels to improve the system performance. In this paper, we propose a novel flexible-geometry array for a $360^\circ$…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-17 Songjie Yang , Jiahe Guo , Zilin He , Boyu Ning , Weidong Mei , Zhongpei Zhang , Chadi Assi , Chau Yuen

The performance bounds of near-field sensing are studied for circular arrays, focusing on the impact of bandwidth and array size. The closed-form Cramer-Rao bound (CRBs) for angle and distance estimation are derived, revealing the scaling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zhaolin Wang , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu

This letter addresses a multivariate optimization problem for linear movable antenna arrays (MAAs). Particularly, the position and beamforming vectors of the under-investigated MAA are optimized simultaneously to maximize the minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Manh Kha Hoang , Tuan Anh Le , Kieu-Xuan Thuc , Tong Van Luyen , Xin-She Yang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

With the deployment of large antenna arrays at high frequency bands, future wireless communication systems are likely to operate in the radiative near-field. Unlike far-field beam steering, near-field beams can be focused within a spatial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-19 Ahmed Hussain , Asmaa Abdallah , Abdulkadir Celik , Ahmed M. Eltawil

Dense arrays can facilitate the integration of multiple antennas into finite volumes. In addition to the compact size, sub-wavelength spacing enables superdirectivity for endfire operation, a phenomenon that has been mainly studied for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Konstantinos Dovelos , Stylianos D. Assimonis , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

Reconfigurable reflectarray antennas (RRAs) have rapidly developed with various prototypes proposed in recent literatures. However, designing wideband, multiband, or high-frequency RRAs faces great challenges, especially the lengthy…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-10-09 Changhao Liu , You Wu , Songlin Zhou , Fan Yang , Yongli Ren , Shenheng Xu , Maokun Li

A novel uniform circular array (UCA) based near-field (NF) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) framework is proposed, where the Cylindrical coordinate is invoked to evaluate the joint positioning performance. The joint squared…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Na Xue , Xidong Mu , Yue Chen , Yuanwei Liu

Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radar is known for its superiority over conventional radar due to its antenna and waveform diversity. Although higher angular resolution, improved parameter identifiability, and better target detection…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-30 Ehsan Tohidi , Mario Coutino , Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri , Hamid Behroozi , Mohammad Mahdi Nayebi , Geert Leus

Fluid antenna systems (FAS) have recently emerged as a promising paradigm for achieving spatially reconfigurable, compact, and energy-efficient wireless communications in beyond fifth-generation (B5G) and sixth-generation (6G) networks. By…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Saeid Pakravan , Mohsen Ahmadzadeh , Ming Zeng , Wessam Ajib , Ji Wang , Xingwang Li

The most challenging thing in the real world is communicating with aircraft, even though several communication technologies have been adopted for tracking and monitoring the aircraft there is no cent per cent efficiency, for the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-28 Laxminarayen N , Lokeshwaran G , Murugan K S , Jothilakshmi P

Graph matching, typically formulated as a Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP), seeks to establish node correspondences between two graphs. To address the NP-hardness of QAP, some existing methods adopt projection-based relaxations that embed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Binrui Shen , Yuan Liang , Shengxin Zhu

In this letter, we study a discrete optimization problem, namely, the maximization of channel capacity in fluid multiple-input multiple-output (fluid-MIMO) systems through the selection of antenna ports/positions at both the transmitter and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 Christos N. Efrem , Ioannis Krikidis

In a fluid antenna system (FAS), a single reconfigurable antenna is able to activate one of $N$ correlated ports to exploit spatial diversity. However, outage analysis is challenging because exact evaluation requires an $N$-dimensional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Tuo Wu , Junteng Yao , Kai-Kit Wong , Jie Tang , Maged Elkashlan , Baiyang Liu , Kin-Fai Tong , Hyundong Shin

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…

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