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This paper proposes a deep learning-based beamforming design framework that directly maps a target beam pattern to optimal beamforming vectors across multiple antenna array architectures, including digital, analog, and hybrid beamforming.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Hongpu Zhang , Shu Sun , Hangsong Yan , Jianhua Mo

Millimeter-Wave (mm-Wave) frequency bands provide an opportunity for much wider channel bandwidth compared with the traditional sub-6 GHz band. Communication at mm-Waves is, however, quite challenging due to the severe propagation path…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Xiaoshen Song , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Giuseppe Caire

In this letter, a pinching antennas (PAs) assisted rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) system with multiple waveguides is investigated to maximize sum rate. A two-step algorithm is proposed to determine PA activation scheme and optimize…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-13 Peiyu Wang , Hong Wang , Rongfang Song

Pinching-antenna systems (PASS) have recently attracted considerable attention owing to their capability of flexibly reconfiguring large-scale wireless channels. Motivated by this potential, we investigate the issue of joint localization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-11 Min Liu , Yue Xiao , Shuaixin Yang , Gang Wu , Xianfu Lei , Wei Xiang

This letter investigates the integration of pinching-antenna systems (PASS) with orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) to ensure their compatibility and to explore the frequency-selective behavior inherent to PASS. First, an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Jian Xiao , Ji Wang , Ming Zeng , Yuanwei Liu , George K. Karagiannidis

Beam training is one of the most important and challenging tasks in millimeter-wave and sub-terahertz communications. Novel transceiver architectures and signal processing techniques are required to avoid prohibitive training overhead when…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Veljko Boljanovic , Han Yan , Erfan Ghaderi , Deukhyoun Heo , Subhanshu Gupta , Danijela Cabric

This article investigates the application of pinching-antenna systems (PASS) in multiuser multiple-input single-output (MISO) communications. Two sum-rate maximization problems are formulated under minimum mean square error (MMSE) decoding,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-24 Jiarui Zhang , Hao Xu , Chongjun Ouyang , Qiuyun Zou , Hongwen Yang

Millimeter wave (mmWave) and terahertz MIMO systems rely on pre-defined beamforming codebooks for both initial access and data transmission. Being pre-defined, however, these codebooks are commonly not optimized for specific environments,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Yu Zhang , Muhammad Alrabeiah , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Pinching Antennas (PAs) represent a revolutionary flexible antenna technology that leverages dielectric waveguides and electromagnetic coupling to mitigate large-scale path loss. This letter is the first to explore channel estimation for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Jian Xiao , Ji Wang , Yuanwei Liu

The pinching-antenna system (PASS) introduces new degrees of freedom (DoFs) for physical layer security (PLS) through pinching beamforming. In this paper, a couple of scenarios for secure beamforming for PASS are studied. 1) For the case…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-04 Mingjun Sun , Chongjun Ouyang , Shaochuan Wu , Yuanwei Liu

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is considered as one of the key technologies for future 6G communications. To fully unleash the performance of RIS, accurate channel state information (CSI) is crucial. Beam training is widely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Yuhao Chen , Linglong Dai

In this paper, we studies the performance of a novel simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) system enabled by a flexible pinching-antenna. To support flexible deployment and optimize energy-rate performance, we propose…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-05 Bingxin Zhang , Han Zhang , Kun Yang , Yizhe Zhao , Kezhi Wang

Scaling the number of antennas up is a key characteristic of current and future wireless communication systems. The hardware cost and power consumption, however, motivate large-scale MIMO systems, especially at millimeter wave (mmWave)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Yu Zhang , Muhammad Alrabeiah , Ahmed Alkhateeb

In extremely large-scale multiple input multiple output (XL-MIMO) systems for future sixth-generation (6G) communications, codebook-based beam training stands out as a promising technology to acquire channel state information (CSI). Despite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Tianyue Zheng , Jieao Zhu , Qiumo Yu , Yongli Yan , Linglong Dai

Beam alignment - the process of finding an optimal directional beam pair - is a challenging procedure crucial to millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems. We propose a novel beam alignment method that learns a site-specific probing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-29 Yuqiang Heng , Jianhua Mo , Jeffrey G. Andrews

We present a beamforming algorithm for multiuser wideband millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems where one access point uses hybrid analog/digital beamforming while multiple user stations have phased-arrays with a single RF chain.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-13 Carlos A. Viteri-Mera , Fernando L. Teixeira

The Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) constitutes one of the prominent technologies for the next generation of wireless communications. It is envisioned to enhance the signal coverage in cases when the direct link of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Kun Chen-Hu , George C. Alexandropoulos , Ana García Armada

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

As low frequency band becomes more and more crowded, millimeter-wave (mmWave) has attracted significant attention recently. IEEE has released the 802.11ad standard to satisfy the demand of ultra-high-speed communication. It adopts…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Pei Zhou , Xuming Fang , Yuguang Fang , Yan Long , Rong He , Xiao Han

Sparse Code Multiple Access (SCMA) has been recently proposed for the future generation of wireless communication standards. SCMA system design involves specifying several parameters. In order to simplify the procedure, most works consider…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-03 Bruno Fontana da Silva , Danilo Silva , Bartolomeu F. Uchôa-Filho , Didier Le Ruyet