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Movable-antenna (MA) arrays are envisioned as a promising technique for enhancing secrecy performance in wireless communications by leveraging additional spatial degrees of freedom. However, when the eavesdropper is located in the same…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Chu Li , Marjan Boloori , Eduard Jorswieck , Aydin Sezgin

Movable antenna (MA) introduces a new degree of freedom for future wireless communication systems by enabling the adaptive adjustment of antenna positions. Its large-range movement renders wireless channels transmission into the near-field…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Chongjia Sun , Ziwei Wan , Lipeng Zhu , Zhenyu Xiao , Zhen Gao , Rui Zhang

In this correspondence, we propose a movable antenna (MA)-aided multi-user hybrid beamforming scheme with a sub-connected structure, where multiple movable sub-arrays can independently change their positions within different local regions.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yichi Zhang , Yuchen Zhang , Lipeng Zhu , Sa Xiao , Wanbin Tang , Yonina C. Eldar , Rui Zhang

Movable antenna (MA) systems have recently attracted significant attention in the field of wireless communications owing to their exceptional capability to proactively reconfigure wireless channels via flexible antenna movements. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Nianzu Li , Peiran Wu , Lipeng Zhu , Weidong Mei , Boyu Ning , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

This paper investigates a movable antenna (MA)-enabled wireless-powered communication network (WPCN), where multiple wireless devices (WDs) first harvest energy from the downlink (DL) signal broadcast by a hybrid access point (HAP) and then…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-15 Ying Gao , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology has significantly impacted wireless communication, by providing extraordinary performance gains. However, a minimum inter-antenna space constraint in MIMO systems does not allow its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Priyadarshi Mukherjee , Constantinos Psomas , Ioannis Krikidis

The movable antenna (MA) technology has attracted great attention recently due to its promising capability in improving wireless channel conditions by flexibly adjusting antenna positions. To reap maximal performance gains of MA systems,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Ge Yan , Lipeng Zhu , Rui Zhang

Due to the ultra-dense constellation, efficient beam coverage and interference mitigation are crucial to low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication systems, while the conventional directional antennas and fixed-position antenna (FPA)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Lipeng Zhu , Xiangyu Pi , Wenyan Ma , Zhenyu Xiao , Rui Zhang

The recently emerged movable antenna (MA) and fluid antenna technologies offer promising solutions to enhance the spatial degrees of freedom in wireless systems by dynamically adjusting the positions of transmit or receive antennas within…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Yikun Wang , Yang Li , Zeyi Ren , Jingreng Lei , Yik-Chung Wu , Rui Zhang

To meet the growing data traffic demand in future wireless systems, novel transmission architectures capable of adapting to complex propagation environments are required. Movable antenna (MA) systems have recently emerged as a promising…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Xiaoyi Zhang , Amna Irshad , Emil Björnson

Fluid antennas (FAs) and movable antennas (MAs) have emerged as promising technologies in wireless communications, which offer the flexibility to improve channel conditions by adjusting transmit/receive antenna positions within a spatial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Weidong Mei , Xin Wei , Boyu Ning , Zhi Chen , Rui Zhang

Movable antenna (MA), which can flexibly change the position of antenna in three-dimensional (3D) continuous space, is an emerging technology for achieving full spatial performance gains. In this paper, a prototype of MA communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Zhenjun Dong , Zhiwen Zhou , Zhiqiang Xiao , Chaoyue Zhang , Xinrui Li , Hongqi Min , Yong Zeng , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

Movable antenna (MA)-enabled near-field (NF) communications offer significant potential for 6G, yet existing designs often neglect the practical constraints of hybrid beamforming (HBF) for extremely large-scale MIMO (XL-MIMO). Conversely,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Xiangqian Xu , Songjie Yang , Arumugam Nallanathan

Continuous aperture arrays (CAPAs) provide a theoretical upper bound on the performance of densely packed antenna arrays, but their analysis is limited by the lack of closed-form signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) distributions under realistic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Amy S. Inwood , Abdulla Firag , Peter J. Smith , Michail Matthaiou

Movable antenna (MA) technology offers a flexible approach to enhancing wireless channel conditions by adjusting antenna positions within a designated region. While most existing works focus on narrowband MA systems, this paper investigates…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-03 Ruixi Feng , Weidong Mei , Lele Lu , Xin Wei , Zhi Chen , Zhen Gao , Boyu Ning

Movable antennas (MAs) are a promising paradigm to enhance the spatial degrees of freedom of conventional multi-antenna systems by flexibly adapting the positions of the antenna elements within a given transmit area. In this paper, we model…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Yifei Wu , Dongfang Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Wolfgang Gerstacker , Robert Schober

In conventional antenna arrays, mutual coupling between antenna elements is often regarded as detrimental. However, under specific conditions, it can be harnessed to enhance the far-field directivity (i.e., beamforming gain). Theoretically,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Wei Xu , Lipeng Zhu , Wenyan Ma , An Liu , Rui Zhang

Movable antenna (MA) has been recently proposed as a promising candidate technology for the next generation wireless communication systems due to its significant capability of reconfiguring wireless channels via antenna movement. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-17 Nianzu Li , Peiran Wu , Boyu Ning , Lipeng Zhu

In this correspondence, we study deploying movable antenna (MA) array in a wideband multiple-input-single-output (MISO) communication system, where near-field (NF) channel model is considered. To alleviate beam squint effect, we propose to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Yanze Zhu , Qingqing Wu , Yang Liu , Qingjiang Shi , Wen Chen

Contemporary wireless communication systems rely on Multi-User Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MU-MIMO) techniques. In such systems, each Access Point (AP) is equipped with multiple antenna elements and serves multiple devices…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Eduardo Noboro Tominaga , Onel Luis Alcaraz López , Tommy Svensson , Richard Demo Souza , Hirley Alves