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Non-fixed flexible antenna architectures, such as fluid antenna system (FAS), movable antenna (MA), and pinching antenna, have garnered significant interest in recent years. Among them, rotatable antenna (RA) is a promising antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Xue Xiong , Beixiong Zheng , Wen Wu , Xiaodan Shao , Liang Dai , Ming-Min Zhao , Jie Tang

Conventional beamforming with fixed-orientation antenna (FOA) arrays may struggle to effectively enhance signal and/or suppress interference due to significant variations in antenna directive gains over different steering angles. To break…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Jie Feng , Zhenbing Liu , Junjie Dai , Hongbin Chen , Fangjiong Chen

Flexible coupler antenna systems have recently received significant research interest due to their capability to intelligently reconfigure wireless channels by controlling coupler positions and/or rotations and dynamically exploiting mutual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Xiaodan Shao , Chuangye Shan , Weihua Zhuang , Xuemin Shen

This paper investigates a rotatable antenna (RA) assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) network, where multiple users offload their computation tasks to an edge server equipped with an RA array under a time-division multiple access protocol.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ji Wang , Hao Chen , Yixuan Li , Jun Zhang , Xingwang Li , Ming Zeng , Octavia A. Dobre

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

Movable antenna (MA) array is a novel technology recently developed where positions of transmit/receive antennas can be flexibly adjusted in the specified region to reconfigure the wireless channel and achieve a higher capacity. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Guojie Hu , Qingqing Wu , Kui Xu , Jiangbo Si , Naofal Al-Dhahir

In this paper, we investigate covert communication in an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system, where a legitimate transmitter (Alice) applies NOMA for downlink and uplink transmissions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Lu Lv , Qingqing Wu , Zan Li , Zhiguo Ding , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Jian Chen

In physical layer security, the channel state information (CSI) of passive eavesdroppers is usually difficult to obtain, which has motivated sensing-aided secure communication (SASC). However, in secure multicast scenarios, conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zequan Wang , Liang Yin , Hao Xu , Yunan Sun , Yitong Liu , Hongwen Yang

Covert transmission is studied for an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided communication system, where Alice aims to transmit messages to Bob without being detected by the warden Willie. Specifically, an IRS is used to increase the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Jiangbo Si , Zan Li , Yan Zhao , Julian Cheng , Lei Guan , Jia Shi , Naofal Al-Dhahir

This letter considers a fluid antenna system (FAS)-aided secure and covert communication system, where the transmitter adjusts multiple fluid antennas' positions to achieve secure and covert transmission under the threat of an eavesdropper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-15 Junteng Yao , Liangxiao Xin , Tuo Wu , Ming Jin , Kai-Kit Wong , Chau Yuen , Hyundong Shin

Reconfigurable antenna technology, such as movable antennas (MAs) and rotatable antennas (RAs), has emerged as a promising solution to enhance the communication performance of wireless systems by exploiting the new degree of freedom (DoF)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Weijia Wang , Changsheng You , Xiaodan Shao , Rui Zhang

This paper investigates the multi-antenna covert communications assisted by a simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS). In particular, to shelter the existence of communications between…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Han Xiao , Xiaoyan Hu , Pengcheng Mu , Wenjie Wang , Tong-Xing Zheng , Kai-Kit Wong , Kun Yang

In this letter, we investigate a dynamic reconfigurable distributed antenna and reflection surface (RDARS)-driven secure communication system, where the working mode of the RDARS can be flexibly configured. We aim to maximize the secrecy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Ziqian Pei , Jintao Wang , Pingping Zhang , Zheng Shi , Guanghua Yang , Shaodan Ma

In this paper, we construct a framework of the movable antenna (MA) aided covert communication shielded by the general noise uncertainty for the first time. According to the analysis performance on the derived closed-form expressions of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Yida Wang , Guojie Hu , Xiaoling Hu , Xingbo Lu , Yuzhen Huang

Conventional multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems mainly rely on fixed antenna arrays, which limits their capability to adapt the effective channel matrix to the propagation environment. Rotatable antennas (RAs), which enable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Zheng Ailing , Wu Qingqing , Peng Xingxiang , Peng Qiaoyan , Zheng Ziyuan , Chen Wen

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) and movable antenna (MA) are promising technologies to enhance wireless communication by reconfiguring channels at the environment and transceiver sides. However, their performance is constrained by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Chao Zhou , Changsheng You , Cong Zhou , Liujia Yao , Weijie Yuan , Beixiong Zheng , Nan Wu

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

Movable antenna (MA) technology is highly promising for improving communication performance, due to its advantage of flexibly adjusting positions of antennas to reconfigure channel conditions. In this paper, we investigate MAs-assisted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Guojie Hu , Qingqing Wu , Donghui Xu , Kui Xu , Jiangbo Si , Yunlong Cai , Naofal Al-Dhahir

This paper studies an extremely large-scale reconfigurable intelligent surface (XL-RIS) empowered covert communication system in the near-field region. Alice covertly transmits messages to Bob with the assistance of the XL-RIS, while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jun Liu , Gang Yang , Yuanwei Liu , Xiangyun Zhou

In this letter, we propose to employ movable antenna (MA) to enhance covert communications with noise uncertainty, where the confidential data is transmitted from an MA-aided access point (AP) to multiple users with a warden attempting to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Haobin Mao , Xiangyu Pi , Lipeng Zhu , Zhenyu Xiao , Xiang-Gen Xia , Rui Zhang