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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

Flexible-antenna systems, such as fluid antennas and movable antennas, have been recognized as key enabling technologies for sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks, as they can intelligently reconfigure the effective channel gains of the…

In this paper, we propose a quadruple-UPA architecture for realizing the beamforming with wide coverage in terahertz (THz) communication. Considering the severe path loss suffered in the THz wave propagation, the pilot signals of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Zhongbao Tian , Zhi Chen , Boyu Ning

This paper studies the training design problem for multiple-input single-output (MISO) wireless energy transfer (WET) systems in frequency-selective channels, where the frequency-diversity and energy-beamforming gains can be both reaped to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-15 Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

Millimeter wave (mmWave) and massive MIMO systems are intrinsic components of 5G and beyond. These systems rely on using beamforming codebooks for both initial access and data transmission. Current beam codebooks, however, generally consist…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-26 Muhammad Alrabeiah , Yu Zhang , Ahmed Alkhateeb

This paper studies a pinching antenna system (PAS)-assisted hybrid uplink architecture that integrates over-the-air computation (AirComp) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) to simultaneously support distributed data aggregation and…

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

This paper proposes an adaptive near-field beam training method to enhance performance in multi-user and multipath environments. The approach identifies multiple strongest beams through beam sweeping and linearly combines their received…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-14 Zijun Wang , Rama Kiran , Jinesh Nair , Chien-Hua Chen , Tzu-Han Chou , Shawn Tsai , Rui Zhang

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) enables fast data aggregation for edge intelligence applications. However the performance of AirComp can be severely degraded by channel misalignments. Pinching antenna systems (PASS) have recently emerged…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Zhonghao Lyu , Haoyun Li , Yulan Gao , Ming Xiao , H. Vincent Poor

A near-field simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) network is investigated, where the hybrid beamforming architecture is employed at the base station (BS) for information transmission while charging energy harvesting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Zheng Zhang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhaolin Wang , Xidong Mu , Jian Chen

Swift and accurate alignment of transmitter (Tx) and receiver (Rx) beams is a fundamental design challenge to enable reliable outdoor millimeter-wave communications. In this paper, we propose a new Optimized Two-Stage Search (OTSS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Min Li , Chunshan Liu , Stephen V. Hanly , Iain B. Collings , Philip Whiting

In this paper, adaptive training beam sequence design for efficient channel estimation in large millimeter-wave(mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels is considered. By exploiting the sparsity in large mmWave MIMO channels…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-15 Junyeong Seo , Youngchul Sung , Gilwon Lee , Donggun Kim

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

This paper develops a novel channel estimation approach for multi-user millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless systems with large antenna arrays. By exploiting the inherent mmWave channel sparsity, we propose a novel simultaneous-estimation with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Matthew Kokshoorn , He Chen , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

We introduce a trainable coded modulation scheme that enables joint optimization of the bit-wise mutual information (BMI) through probabilistic shaping, geometric shaping, bit labeling, and demapping for a specific channel model and for a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Fayçal Ait Aoudia , Jakob Hoydis

The aim of this letter is to explore the capability of pinching-antenna systems to construct line-of-sight (LoS) links in the presence of LoS blockages. Specifically, pinching antennas are pre-installed at preconfigured positions along…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Kaidi Wang , Chongjun Ouyang , Yuanwei Liu , 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

This paper studies the optimal training design for a multiple-input single-output (MISO) wireless energy transfer (WET) system in frequency-selective channels, where the frequency-diversity and energy-beamforming gains can be both achieved…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-06 Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

In this paper, an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) design for segmented waveguide-enabled pinching-antenna array (SWAN) systems is proposed to improve the performance of systems by leveraging the low in-waveguide propagation loss…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Qian Gao , Ruikang Zhong , Hyundong Shin , Yuanwei Liu

Millimeter-wave communications rely on beamforming gain from both transmitters and receivers to compensate for severe propagation loss. To achieve adequate gain, beam training is required to identify propagation directions. The main…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-06 Han Yan , Veljko Boljanovic , Danijela Cabric

Intrusion detection poses a significant challenge within expansive and persistently interconnected environments. As malicious code continues to advance and sophisticated attack methodologies proliferate, various advanced deep learning-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Thua Huynh Trong , Thanh Nguyen Hoang