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A novel architecture of the center-fed pinching antenna system (C-PASS) is proposed. In contrast to the conventional end-fed PASS, signals are fed from the center input ports and propagate towards both sides of the waveguide. By doing so,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Xu Gan , Yuanwei Liu

The spectral and energy efficiency (SE-EE) trade-off in pinching-antenna systems (PASS) is investigated in this paper. In particular, two practical operating protocols, namely waveguide multiplexing (WM) and waveguide switching (WS), are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-09 Guangyu Zhu , Xidong Mu , Li Guo , Shibiao Xu , Yuanwei Liu , Naofal Al-Dhahir

The Pinching-Antenna SyStem (PASS) reconstructs wireless channels through \emph{pinching beamforming}, wherein the activated positions of pinching antennas along dielectric waveguides are optimized to shape the radiation pattern. The aim of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-16 Chongjun Ouyang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiguo Ding

The novel architecture of the center-fed pinching antenna system (C-PASS) is investigated, where the waveguide-fed signal is divided into two propagation directions through controllable power splitting. By doing so, a doubled degree of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Xu Gan , Yuanwei Liu

The evolution toward the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks has flexible reconfigurable antenna architectures capable of adapting their radiation characteristics to the surrounding environment. At the center-stage, while waveguide…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Kaidi Wang , Zhiguo Ding , Lajos Hanzo

We study a coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission where two base stations (BSs), each supported by a pinching antenna system (PASS), are deployed to jointly serve communication users under spatial division multiple access (SDMA)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Ali Amhaz , Shreya Khisa , Mohamed Elhattab , Chadi Assi , Sanaa Sharafeddine

This paper conducts a comprehensive performance analysis for pinching-antenna systems (PASS) under both orthogonal multiple access (OMA) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) transmission. Given the cost of waveguides, we consider a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-04 Yanyu Cheng , Chongjun Ouyang , Yuanwei Liu , George K. Karagiannidis

In this correspondence, we propose a movable antenna (MA)-aided multi-user hybrid beamforming scheme with a sub-connected structure, where multiple movable sub-arrays can independently change their positions within different local regions.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yichi Zhang , Yuchen Zhang , Lipeng Zhu , Sa Xiao , Wanbin Tang , Yonina C. Eldar , Rui Zhang

In this paper,we investigate a novel wireless powered mobile edge computing (MEC) system assisted by pinching antennas (PAs), where devices first harvest energy from a base station and then offload computation-intensive tasks to an MEC…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-19 Peng Liu , Meng Hua , Guangji Chen , Xinyi Wang , Zesong Fei

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication has led to immense enhancements in data rates and efficient spectrum management. The evolution of MIMO, though, has been accompanied by increased hardware complexity and array sizes,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Miguel Rodrigo Castellanos , Siyun Yang , Chan-Byoung Chae , Robert W. Heath

This paper aims to design multiple access (MA) schemes to improve the max-min fairness (MMF) for pinching antennas (PAs)-based multigroup multicast communications, where PA placement and resource allocation are jointly optimized.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Shan Shan , Chongjun Ouyang , Yong Li , Yuanwei Liu

Pinching antennas, as a novel flexible-antenna technology capable of establishing line of sight (LoS) connections and effectively mitigating large-scale path loss, have recently attracted considerable research interests. However, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-07 Kaidi Wang , Zhiguo Ding , George K. Karagiannidis

The pinching-antenna architecture has emerged as a promising solution for reconfiguring wireless propagation environments and enhancing system performance. While prior research has primarily focused on sum-rate maximization or transmit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Ming Zeng , Xingwang Li , Ji Wang , Gaojian Huang , Octavia A. Dobre , Zhiguo Ding

The emerging pinching antenna (PA) technology enables flexible antenna positioning for creating line-of-sight (LoS) links, thus offering substantial potential to facilitate ambient signal-based backscatter communication (BSC). This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-15 Yulei Wang , Yalin Liu , Yaru Fu , Yuanwei Liu

The integration of pinching antenna systems with non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has emerged as a promising technique for future 6G applications. This paper is the first to investigate power minimization for NOMA-assisted pinching…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yaru Fu , Fuchao He , Zheng Shi , Haijun Zhang

This paper investigates the secrecy performance of pinching-antenna systems (PAS) under practical pinching-position activation uncertainty. By dynamically selecting the radiation point along a dielectric waveguide, PAS enables low-cost…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Saeid Pakravan , Imene Trigui , Wessam Ajib , Wei-Ping Zhu

This paper considers a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided millimeter wave (mmWave) downlink communication system where hybrid analog-digital beamforming is employed at the base station (BS). We formulate a power minimization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Bei Guo , Renwang Li , Meixia Tao

This work proposes a novel joint design for multiuser multiple-input multiple-output wiretap channels. The base station exploits a switching network to connect a subset of its antennas to the available radio frequency chains. The switching…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Zhenqiao Cheng , Nanxi Li , Ruizhe Long , Jianchi Zhu , Chongjun Ouyang , Peng Chen

A multiuser uplink transmission framework based on the segmented waveguide-enabled pinching-antenna system (SWAN) is proposed under two operating protocols: segment selection (SS) and segment aggregation (SA). For each protocol, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-24 Songnan Gu , Hao Jiang , Chongjun Ouyang , Yuanwei Liu , Dong In Kim

The uplink where both the transmitter and receiver can use a large antenna array is considered. This is proposed as a method of antenna offloading and connecting small cell access points (SCAP) in a Two-Tier cellular network. Due to having…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-27 Namal Rajatheva , Elvino Sousa