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Intelligent Reflecting Surface Deployment for Low-Altitude Coverage: Illumination Geometry, Directional Characteristics, and Optimization
Guoying Zhang, Qingqing Wu, Ailing Zheng +3
Terrestrial base stations (BSs) are typically configured with fixed downtilt to serve ground users, resulting in weak illumination of low-altitude airspace even under line-of-sight…
Sparse Rotatable Arrays (SRA): Unifying Array Aperture and Antenna Directivity for Wireless Communications
Ailing Zheng, Qingqing Wu, Xiyuan Liu +1
Sparse rotatable array (SRA) is a novel reconfigurable antenna architecture that jointly exploits sparse aperture configuration and antenna directivity to enhance spatial resolutio…
Ultra-Low-Cost Hybrid Beamforming: A New Static-Connection Architecture with Sparse Phase-Shifter Sharing
Honghao Wang, Qingqing Wu, Yifei Wu +3
Hybrid beamforming is a promising solution for high-frequency multi-antenna wireless systems, but its implementation is constrained by the cost and complexity of analog phase-shift…
Joint Transmit and Receive Antenna Orientation Design for Secure MIMO Communications
Ailing Zheng, Qingqing Wu, Xingxiang Peng +4
Physical layer security (PLS) is a promising paradigm for safeguarding 6G wireless networks by exploiting the inherent characteristics of wireless channels. However, the efficiency…
Joint Antenna Rotation and IRS Beamforming for Multi-User Uplink Communications
Guoying Zhang, Qingqing Wu, Ziyuan Zheng +4
Rotatable antenna (RA) enhances wireless coverage through directional gain steering, yet suffers from performance degradation under physical blockages. Intelligent reflecting surfa…
Wireless Communication with Cross-Linked Rotatable Antenna Array: Architecture Design and Rotation Optimization
Ailing Zheng, Qingqing Wu, Ziyuan Zheng +5
Rotatable antenna (RA) technology can harness additional spatial degrees of freedom by enabling the dynamic three-dimensional orientation control of each antenna. Unfortunately, th…
Reconfigurable Airspace: Synergizing Movable Antenna and Intelligent Surface for Low-Altitude ISAC Networks
Honghao Wang, Qingqing Wu, Yifan Jiang +7
Low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks are integral to future 6G integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. However, their deployment is hindered by challeng…
A Flexible Design for Beam Squint Effect Suppression in IRS-Aided THz Communications
Yanze Zhu, Qingqing Wu, Wen Chen +2
In this paper, we study employing movable components on both base station (BS) and intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in a wideband terahertz (THz) multiple-input-single-output (…