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To meet the urgent demands for spectral efficiency and multi-user access in high-frequency application scenario for the sixth-generation wireless communication, this paper investigates a rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) system assisted…

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The large spectrum available in the millimeter-Wave (mmWave) band has emerged as a promising solution for meeting the huge capacity requirements of the 5th generation (5G) wireless networks. However, to fully harness the potential of mmWave…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Mojtaba Ahmadi Almasi , Hani Mehrpouyan , Vida Vakilian , Nader Behdad , Hamid Jafarkhani

Pinching-antenna systems (PASS) have been recently proposed to improve the performance of wireless networks by reconfiguring both the large-scale and small-scale channel conditions. However, existing studies ignore the physical constraints…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-04 Yiming Xu , Dongfang Xu , Xianghao Yu , Shenghui Song , Zhiguo Ding , Robert Schober

Flexible-antenna systems, which use a small number of radio frequency (RF) chains to dynamically access a large set of candidate antenna locations, have emerged as a hardware-efficient architecture for 6G networks. Acquiring accurate…

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This paper presents an analytical framework for downlink pinching antenna systems (PASS) employing waveguide division multiple access (WDMA) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). A unified channel model is developed to capture antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-18 Han Zhang , Bingxin Zhang , Yizhe Zhao , Kun Yang

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is potentially capable of circumventing the limitations of the classic orthogonal multiple access schemes, hence it has recently received significant research attention both in industry and academia.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Yuanwei Liu , Hong Xing , Cunhua Pan , Arumugam Nallanathan , Maged Elkashlan , Lajos Hanzo

Pinching antenna system (PAS) serves as a groundbreaking paradigm that enhances wireless communications by flexibly adjusting the position of pinching antenna (PA) and establishing a strong line-of-sight (LoS) link, thereby reducing the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 Kunrui Cao , Jingyu Chen , Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis , Lei Zhou , Xingwang Li , Yuanwei Liu , George K. Karagiannidis

The position-fluid antenna (PFA) architecture has become one of the appealing technologies to support ubiquitous connectivity demand in next-generation wireless systems. Specifically, allowing the antenna to adjust its physical position to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Heyin Shen , Chong Han , Hao Liu , Tao Yang

Fluid antennas, including those based on liquid, mechanical, and pixel-based technologies, are poised to significantly enhance next-generation wireless systems by adaptively optimizing their radiation characteristics. Many theoretical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Halvin Yang , Yizhe Zhao , Kai-Kit Wong , Hsiao-Hwa Chen , Chan-Byoung Chae

As an emerging wireless communication technology, movable antennas (MAs) offer the ability to adjust the spatial correlation of steering vectors, enabling more flexible beamforming compared to fixed-position antennas (FPAs). In this paper,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Shun Yang , Xin Wei , Nianbing Su , Weidong Mei , Zhi Chen , Boyu Ning

With great flexibility to adjust antenna positions, pinching antennas (PAs) are promising for alleviating large-scale attenuation in wireless networks. In this work, we investigate the antenna positioning and beamforming (AP-BF) design in a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-08 Lei Li , Yanqing Xu , Tenghao Cai , Tsung-Hui Chang

This article investigates secure multicast communications in pinching-antenna systems (PASS), where pinching beamforming is enabled by adaptively adjusting pinching antenna (PAs) positions along waveguides to improve multicast security.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Shan Shan , Chongjun Ouyang , Yong Li , Yuanwei Liu

Pinching antennas (PAs), as an emerging flexible-antenna technology, enables movable PAs deployed along waveguides to customize channel conditions over a large scale. This paper investigates an application of PAs to enable physical-layer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Yang Lu , Xinke Xie , Yanqing Xu , Bo Ai , Octavia A. Dobre , Dusit Niyato

The benefit of multi-antenna receivers is investigated in wireless ad hoc networks, and the main finding is that network throughput can be made to scale linearly with the number of receive antennas nR even if each transmitting node uses…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Nihar Jindal , Jeffrey G. Andrews , Steven Weber

The emerging pinching antenna (PA) technology has high flexibility to reconfigure wireless channels and combat line-of-sight blockage, thus holding transformative potential for indoor immersive applications in 6G. This paper investigates…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yulei Wang , Yalin Liu , Yaru Fu , Zhiguo Ding

Pinching antenna system (PASS) configures the positions of pinching antennas (PAs) along dielectric waveguides to change both large-scale fading and small-scale scattering, which is known as pinching beamforming. A novel non-orthogonal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Deqiao Gan , Xiaoxia Xu , Jiakuo Zuo , Xiaohu Ge , Yuanwei Liu

The pinching-antenna systems (PASS) enable blockage mitigation in urban micro (UMi) networks through flexible antenna placement. However, the joint optimization of antenna positions and beamforming precoding is inherently nonconvex and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Qiushi Zhao , Zihan Feng , Ximing Xie , Hao Qin , Yuanwei Liu , Xingqi Zhang

In this paper, we investigate the resource allocation for multi-dielectric waveguide-assisted broadcast systems, where each waveguide employs multiple pinching antennas (PAs), aiming to maximize the minimum achievable rate among multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Ruotong Zhao , Shaokang Hu , Deepak Mishra , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Federated learning (FL) over wireless networks is fundamentally constrained by unreliable communication links, particularly when uplink channels suffer from blockage, fading, or weak line-of-sight (LoS) conditions. Pinching-antenna systems…

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