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The stringent requirements of ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) require rethinking of the physical layer transmission techniques. Massive antenna arrays are seen as an enabler of the emerging $5^\text{th}$ generation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Alexandru-Sabin Bana , Marko Angjelichinoski , Elisabeth de Carvalho , Petar Popovski

The broadcast characteristics of sixth-generation (6G) low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications raise serious security issues. Movable antenna (MA) technology offers a promising physical layer security (PLS) solution by flexibly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Suhong Luo , Pan Tang , Jianhua Zhang , Ji Wang , Yixuan Li , Zihang Ding , Xingwang Li

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

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Ahmed Hussain , Asmaa Abdallah , Abdulkadir Celik , Ahmed M. Eltawil

Movable antennas (MAs) represent a novel approach that enables flexible adjustments to antenna positions, effectively altering the channel environment and thereby enhancing the performance of wireless communication systems. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Weijie Xiong , Jingran Lin , Kai Zhong , Liu Yang , Hongli Liu , Qiang Li , Cunhua Pan

Flexible intelligent metasurfaces (FIMs) show great potential for improving the wireless network capacity in an energy-efficient manner. An FIM is a soft array consisting of several low-cost radiating elements. Each element can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Jiancheng An , Zhu Han , Dusit Niyato , Mérouane Debbah , Chau Yuen , Lajos Hanzo

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

Movable antenna (MA) has demonstrated great potential in enhancing wireless communication performance. In this paper, we investigate an MA-enabled multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system with spatial modulation (SM),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Kaihe Wang , Ran Yang , Lipeng Zhu , Rongyan Xi , Yue Xiu , Zhongpei Zhang

In this paper, we propose a distributed flexible coupler antenna (FCA) array to enhance communication performance with low hardware cost. At each FCA, there is one fixed-position active antenna and multiple passive couplers that can move…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Xiaodan Shao , Chuangye Shan , Weihua Zhuang , Xuemin Shen

This paper investigates the potential of movable antenna (MA)-enabled micro-mobility to replace UAV-enabled macro-mobility for enhancing physical layer security (PLS) in air-to-ground communications. While UAV trajectory optimization offers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Kaixuan Li , Kan Yu , Dingyou Ma , Yujia Zhao , Xiaowu Liu , Qixun Zhang , ZHiyong Feng

Extremely large-scale multi-input multi-output (XL-MIMO) is a promising technology for the sixth generation (6G) wireless networks, thanks to its superior spatial resolution and beamforming gains. In order to realize XL-MIMO…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Xuancheng Zhu , Zhiwen Zhou , Zhenjun Dong , Yong Zeng

Recently, movable antenna (MA) array becomes a promising technology for improving the communication quality in wireless communication systems. In this letter, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled multi-user multi-input-single-output…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-24 Wenchao Liu , Xuhui Zhang , Huijun Xing , Jinke Ren , Yanyan Shen , Shuguang Cui

Future wireless networks, deploying thousands of antenna elements, may operate in the radiative near-field (NF), enabling spatial multiplexing across both angle and range domains. Sparse arrays have the potential to achieve comparable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-22 Ahmed Hussain , Asmaa Abdallah , Abdulkadir Celik , Emil Björnson , Ahmed M. Eltawil

Movable antenna (MA) is a promising technology to exploit the spatial variation of wireless channel for performance enhancement, by dynamically varying the antenna position within a certain region. However, for multi-antenna communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Haiquan Lu , Yong Zeng , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

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

This paper considers a lens antenna array-assisted millimeter wave (mmWave) multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) system. The base station's beam selection matrix and user terminals' phase-only beamformers are jointly designed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Chongjun Ouyang , Hao Xu , Xujie Zang , Hongwen Yang

In this paper, we propose a novel directional modulation (DM) scheme based on random frequency diverse arrays with artificial noise (RFDA-DM-AN) to enhance physical layer security of wireless communications. Specifically, we first design…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Jinsong Hu , Shihao Yan , Feng Shu , Jiangzhou Wang , Jun Li , Yijin Zhang

For autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) secure communications, traditional designs based on fixed position antenna (FPA) lack sufficient spatial degrees of freedom (DoF), which leaves the line-of-sight-dominated AAV links vulnerable to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Yingjie Wu , Junshan Luo , Weiyu Chen , Shilian Wang , Fanggang Wang , Haiyang Ding

A novel movable antenna (MA)-aided secure transmission framework is proposed to enhance the secrecy transmission rate without relying on the eavesdropper's channel state information. Within this framework, a joint beamforming and jamming…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Zhenqiao Cheng , Chongjun Ouyang , Xingqi Zhang

Flexible antenna arrays (FAAs), distinguished by their rotatable, bendable, and foldable properties, are extensively employed in flexible radio systems to achieve customized radiation patterns. This paper aims to illustrate that FAAs,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Songjie Yang , Jiancheng An , Yue Xiu , Wanting Lyu , Boyu Ning , Zhongpei Zhang , Merouane Debbah , Chau Yuen

In this paper, a novel movable antenna (MA) empowered secure transmission scheme is designed for cell-free symbiotic radio (SR) systems in the presence of an eavesdropper (Eve). Specifically, multiple distributed access points (APs)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Jiayu Guan , Bin Lyu , Yan Liu , Feng Tian