RIS CUTTING EDGE FOURM
Movable Antennas for Wireless Communication and Sensing: Fundamental Gain and Practical Design
可移动天线赋能无线通信与感知：基本增益与实用设计
Movable Antennas for Wireless Communication and Sensing: Fundamental Gain and Practical Design
- RISTA CUTTING EDGE FORUM Season 5 Session 18
- Time：8 pm - 9 pm , Oct.24th, 2026
- Speaker guest：Prof.Lipeng Zhu
- Chair guest：Prof.Beixiong Zheng
Movable antenna (MA) is an emerging key technology for next-generation wireless networks. By flexibly adjusting antenna positions at the transmitter and receiver, MA systems can fully exploit spatial variations in wireless channels and substantially improve communication and sensing performance without increasing the numbers of antennas or radio-frequency (RF) chains. This talk will provide an overview of the implementation approaches and application scenarios of MA technology, with a particular focus on its fundamental performance gains over conventional fixed-position antenna systems. For practical dynamic scenarios, we will introduce low-complexity antenna position optimization strategies based on statistical channel information, which can effectively reduce the time overhead associated with antenna movement. We will also present new MA array architectures tailored to different application scenarios, with the aim of reducing the spatial overhead required for antenna movement. In addition, we will further analyze the spatial-temporal degrees of freedom of MA array-based sensing systems and demonstrate their significant performance gains in improving direction-of-arrival estimation accuracy. Finally, this talk will discuss promising future research directions for movable antenna systems.
Lipeng Zhu is a Professor and Ph.D. supervisor with the School of Interdisciplinary Science, Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), China. He is a recipient of a national high-level young talent program for overseas scholars. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electronic and Information Engineering from Beihang University in 2021 and conducted postdoctoral research at the National University of Singapore from 2021 to 2025. His research interests include movable antenna-enabled wireless communications and sensing, space-air broadband communications, and intelligent wireless networks. He has published over 100 journal papers in leading venues including IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), with more than 60 papers as first or corresponding author. More than ten of his papers have been recognized as ESI Hot Papers, and more than twenty as ESI Highly Cited Papers. Since 2022, he has been continuously listed among Stanford University’s World’s Top 2% Scientists in the single-year impact ranking. He has received several honors and awards, including the Beijing Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2022, the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from the China Education Society of Electronics in 2022, the First Prize of the Natural Science Award from the Chinese Institute of Electronics in 2021, and the Best Demo Award at IEEE/CIC ICCC 2025. He has also been recognized as an Exemplary Editor of the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (OJ-COMS) and an Exemplary Reviewer of the IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM). He currently serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and IEEE Communications Letters, and as Lead Guest Editor for special issues of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications and IEEE Wireless Communications.
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