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A fundamental two-user PASS-based communication system is considered under three MA schemes, namely non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), frequency division multiple access (FDMA), and time division multiple access (TDMA). For each MA…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Qiao Ren , Xidong Mu , Siyu Lin , Yuanwei Liu

The full potential of pinching-antenna systems (PAS) can be unblocked if pinching antennas can be accurately activated at positions tailored for the serving users', which means that acquiring accurate channel state information (CSI) at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Gui Zhou , Vasilis Papanikolaou , Zhiguo Ding , Robert Schober

This paper considers the design of the beamformers for a multiple-input single-output (MISO) downlink system that seeks to mitigate the impact of the imperfections in the channel state information (CSI) that is available at the base station…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Mostafa Medra , Timothy N. Davidson

Pinching-antenna systems (PASS) have emerged as a promising flexible-antenna architecture capable of dynamically reconfiguring wireless channels by activating dielectric particles along waveguides. The sum rate maximization problem in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Guangyu Li , Xin Sun , Tianwei Hou , Anna Li , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

Pinching-antenna systems have emerged as a novel and transformative flexible-antenna architecture for next-generation wireless networks. They offer unprecedented flexibility and spatial reconfigurability by enabling dynamic positioning and…

In this paper, we consider a prospective receiving hybrid beamforming structure consisting of several radio frequency (RF) chains and abundant antenna elements in multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems. Due to conventional costly full…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Li-Hsiang Shen , Yen-Chun Lo , Kai-Ten Feng , Sau-Hsuan Wu , Lie-Liang Yang

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

This work investigates the joint learning of pinching antenna (PA) positions and transmit beamforming for PA-aided integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) in the low-altitude wireless networks. By freely deploying antenna positions…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Jia Guo , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

This work studies a low-complexity design for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multiuser multiple-input multiple-output systems. The base station (BS) applies receive antenna selection to connect a subset of its antennas to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-29 Chongjun Ouyang , Ali Bereyhi , Saba Asaad , Ralf R. Müller , Hongwen Yang

This work studies an ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (uRLLC) downlink system using pinching antennas which are realized by activating small dielectric particles along a dielectric waveguide. Our goal is to maximize the data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Tong Lin , Jianyue Zhu , Wei Huang , Meng Hua , Zhizhong Zhang

Pinching antennas have recently garnered significant attention due to their ability to dynamically reconfigure wireless propagation environments. Despite notable advancements in this area, the exploration of energy efficiency (EE)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Ming Zeng , Ji Wang , Gui Zhou , Fang Fang , Xianbin Wang

Pinching antennas, realized through position-adjustable radiating elements along dielectric waveguides, have emerged as a promising flexible-antenna technology thanks to their ability to dynamically reshape large-scale channel conditions.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Yanqing Xu , Yang Lu , Zhiguo Ding , Tsung-Hui Chang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication systems relying on hybrid beamforming structures are capable of achieving high spectral efficiency at a low hardware complexity and low power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-13 Chenghao Feng , Wenqian Shen , Jianping An , Lajos Hanzo

A segmented waveguide-enabled pinching-antenna system (SWAN) is proposed, in which a segmented waveguide composed of multiple short dielectric waveguide segments is employed to radiate or receive signals through the pinching antennas (PAs)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Chongjun Ouyang , Hao Jiang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiguo Ding

Federated learning (FL) in wireless networks is limited by straggler delays from unpredictable channel conditions. In this paper, we investigate the pinching-antenna system (PASS), which dynamically 'pinches' the radiator along a dielectric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yushen Lin , Zihan Chen , Zhiguo Ding

A joint communication and computation (JCC) framework using segmented pinching antenna system (PASS) is proposed, where both the communication bit streams and computation data are simultaneously transmitted via uplink communications. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Deqiao Gan , Xiaoxia Xu , Xiaohu Ge , Yuanwei Liu

The fundamental sensing limit of pinching-antenna systems (PASS) is studied from a Bayesian Cram\'er-Rao bound (BCRB) perspective. Compared to conventional CRB, BCRB is independent of the exact values of sensing parameters and is not…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Hao Jiang , Chongjun Ouyang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan , Zhiguo Ding

A variety of hybrid analog-digital beamforming architectures have recently been proposed for massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems to reduce energy consumption and the cost of implementation. In the analog processing network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Kyungchun Lee

A pinching antennas (PAs)-aided integrated sensing and multicast communication framework is proposed. In this framework, the communication performance is measured by the multicast rate considering max-min fairness. Moreover, the sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Shan Shan , Chongjun Ouyang , Xiaohang Yang , Yong Li , Zhiqin Wang , Yuanwei Liu

A novel dynamic hybrid beamforming architecture is proposed to achieve the spatial multiplexing-power consumption tradeoff for near-field multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks, where each radio frequency (RF) chain is connected to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Zheng Zhang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhaolin Wang , Jian Chen , Tony Q. S. Quek