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most citedOn Fundamental Limits for Fluid Antenna-assisted Integrated Sensing and Communications for Unsourced Random Access

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27 papers

eess.SP2026

Turning Multipath into Positioning Information: Persistent Electromagnetic-Twin DoA Localization

Tuo Wu, Zhentian Zhang, Ye Tian +1

Reflected paths can support localization when line-of-sight (LoS) links are blocked, but their usefulness depends on how accurately the stored model predicts their directions. This…

cs.IT2026

CSI Reconstruction in Fluid Antenna Systems Without Spatial Covariance Priors

Zhentian Zhang, Kaitao Meng, Tuo Wu +6

Fluid antenna systems (FASs) exploit many candidate ports for spatial diversity, but hardware constraints allow channel observations at only a few active ports. Whether full-port C…

cs.IT2026

Modeling and Performance Analysis for Fluid Antenna System Enabled UAV Near-Field Communications

Hao Jiang, Wangqi Shi, Zhentian Zhang +3

Fluid antenna systems (FASs) offer a promising solution for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) air-to-ground (A2G) communications by enabling reconfigurable radiation characteristics. A…

cs.IT2026

Learned Blockwise Port Activation for Real Time Beamforming in Fluid Antenna Arrays

Yuanhui Wu, Zhentian Zhang, Hanjiang Hong +5

Fluid antenna arrays (FAAs), support multiuser downlink transmission by activating a subset of reconfigurable ports. The activation mask jointly determines the effective channel an…

cs.IT2026

Electromagnetic-Aware Fluid Antenna Array

Zhentian Zhang, Yuanhui Wu, Hao Jiang +2

Fluid antenna arrays (FAAs) offer a promising means of exploiting spatial degrees of freedom through adaptive port positioning. However, most existing communication models treat an…

cs.IT2026

Finite-Blocklength ISAC Multiple Access: A Source-Channel Coding Perspective

Zhentian Zhang, Kaitao Meng, Hao Jiang +1

Future networks must serve massive populations of devices that sense and communicate simultaneously under short-packet constraints, yet the fundamental limits of integrated sensing…

cs.IT2026

Peak Sidelobe Suppression in Planar Fluid Antenna Array

Haoyu Liang, Zhentian Zhang, Yuanhui Wu +3

Fluid antenna systems (FAS) have emerged as a promising technology for next-generation wireless communications, offering inherent reconfigurability and spatial adaptability. A dist…

cs.IT2026

Fluid-Antenna-Aided Active User Detection With 1D-CNN Channel Reconstruction for Unsourced Random Access

Haoyu Liang, Zhentian Zhang, Hao Jiang +2

In this paper, we investigate the application of fluid antenna systems (FAS) for active user detection (AUD) in unsourced random access (URA). A channel reconstruction method based…

cs.IT2026

Fluid Antenna-assisted Unsourced ISAC Massive Access

Jingyuan Xu, Zhentian Zhang, Hao Jiang +2

Unsourced integrated sensing and communication (UNISAC) has emerged as a promising paradigm for supporting massive connectivity in 6G networks. However, existing approaches predomi…

eess.SP2026

Geometry-Structured Channel Reconstruction for Conventional and Fluid Antenna Systems: Bayesian Inference and Fundamental Limits

Zhentian Zhang, Kai-Kit Wong, Kaitao Meng +5

Accurate channel state information (CSI) acquisition is critical for exploiting the spatial flexibility of fluid antenna systems (FASs). However, port selection and transmission op…

cs.IT2026

Finite-Aperture Planar Fluid Antenna Array

Zhentian Zhang, Jingyuan Xu, Kai-Kit Wong +3

Fluid antenna systems (FASs) are emerging as a reconfigurable-aperture technology that expands physical-layer design beyond fixed, rigid antenna geometries. While the \emph{fading…

cs.IT2026

Jointly Correlated Dual-Side Fluid Antenna System

Zhentian Zhang, Yuanhui Wu, Kai-Kit Wong +2

Fluid antenna systems (FASs) have introduced a new paradigm for wireless system design by revealing how mutual correlation can be exploited to harvest inherent spatial diversity. W…

cs.IT2026

Beyond Covariance: Generative Spatial Correlation Modeling and Channel Interpolation for Fluid Antenna Systems

Zhentian Zhang, Hao Jiang, Kai-Kit Wong +2

Fluid antenna systems (FAS) enable unprecedented spatial diversity within a compact form factor by flexibly switching among high-density antenna ports. To activate this capability,…

cs.IT2026

Information-Theoretic Limits of Fluid Antenna-Aided ISAC with Representation Information Constraints

Farshad Rostami Ghadi, Kai-Kit Wong, F. Javier Lopez-Martinez +3

This paper characterizes the fundamental limits of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) when the transmitter is subject to a representation-constrained encoder modeled via a…

cs.IT2026

Cramer-Rao Bounds for Activity Detection in Conventional and Fluid Antenna Systems

Zhentian Zhang, Kai-Kit Wong, Hao Jiang +2

In this letter, we develop a unified Cramér-Rao bound (CRB) framework to characterize the fundamental performance limits of transmission activity detection in fluid antenna systems…

cs.IT2026★ 7 cited

Finite-Aperture Fluid Antenna Array Design: Analysis and Algorithm

Zhentian Zhang, Kai-Kit Wong, Hao Jiang +3

Finite-aperture constraints render array design nontrivial and can undermine the effectiveness of classical sparse geometries. This letter provides universal guidance for fluid ant…

cs.IT2026

Fundamental Tradeoffs for ISAC Multiple Access in Finite-Blocklength Regime

Zhentian Zhang, Christos Masouros, Kai-Kit Wong +5

This paper investigates the fundamental communication--sensing tradeoffs of uplink dual-functional integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) multiple access under finite blocklen…

cs.IT2025

A Universal Block Error Rate Bound for Fluid Antenna Systems

Zhentian Zhang, David Morales-Jimenez, Hao Jiang +1

Fluid antenna systems (FASs) offer genuine simplicity for communication network design by eliminating expensive hardware overhead and reducing the complexity of access protocol arc…

cs.IT2025

Low-Complexity CSI Acquisition Exploiting Geographical Diversity in Fluid Antenna System

Zhentian Zhang, David Morales-Jimenez, Jian Dang +3

The fluid antenna system (FAS) employs reconfigurable antennas for high spatial gains in compact spaces, enhancing physical layer flexibility. Channel state information (CSI) acqui…

cs.IT2025★ 17 cited

Finite-blocklength Fluid Antenna Systems With Spatial Block-Correlation Channel Model

Zhentian Zhang, Kai-Kit Wong, David Morales-Jimenez +4

Massive connectivity with ultra-low latency and high reliability necessitates fundamental advances in future communication networks operating under finite-blocklength (FBL) transmi…

cs.IT2025★ 3 cited

Finite-blocklength Fluid Antenna Systems

Zhentian Zhang, Kai-Kit Wong, David Morales-Jimenez +4

This paper investigates fluid antenna systems (FASs) subject to finite-blocklength (FBL) constraints, motivated by the strict reliability-latency and ultra-massive connectivity req…

cs.IT2025★ 11 cited

Probabilistic ODMA Receiver with Low-Complexity Algorithm for MIMO Unsourced Random Access

Zhentian Zhang, Jian Dang, Zaichen Zhang

In this work, we present the design for both pilot-uncoupled and pilot-free on-off multiple access (ODMA) receivers in unsourced random access (URA) for multiple-input multiple-out…

cs.IT2025

Sparse Code Transceiver Design for Unsourced Random Access with Analytical Power Division in Gaussian MAC

Zhentian Zhang, Mohammad Javad Ahmadi, Jian Dang +3

In this work, we discuss the problem of unsourced random access (URA) over a Gaussian multiple access channel (GMAC). To address the challenges posed by emerging massive machine-ty…

cs.IT2025

Sparsity-Exploiting Channel Estimation For Unsourced Random Access With Fluid Antenna

Keru Zhou, Zhentian Zhang, Jian Dang +2

This work explores the channel estimation (CE) problem in uplink transmission for unsourced random access (URA) with a fluid antenna receiver. The additional spatial diversity in a…