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Flexible-antenna systems have recently attracted significant research attention due to their potential to intelligently reconfigure wireless channels. However, the current flexible-antenna systems still suffer from fundamental limitations,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Yuanwei Liu , Zhaolin Wang , Xidong Mu , Chongjun Ouyang , Xiaoxia Xu , Zhiguo Ding

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

Pinching antenna (PA) is a flexible antenna composed of a waveguide and multiple dielectric particles, which is capable of reconfiguring wireless channels intelligently in line-of-sight links. By leveraging the unique features of PAs, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Tianwei Hou , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

This paper investigates a pinching-antenna (PA)-enabled cognitive radio network, where both the primary transmitter (PT) and secondary transmitter (ST) are equipped with a single waveguide and multiple PAs to facilitate simultaneous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Zeyang Sun , Xidong Mu , Shuai Han , Sai Xu , Michail Matthaiou

This paper exploits the dynamic features of wireless propagation environments as the basis for a new multiple access technique, termed environment division multiple access (EDMA). In particular, with the proposed pinching-antenna-assisted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Zhiguo Ding , Robert Schober , H. V. Poor

Due to the large power consumption in RF-circuitry of massive MIMO systems, practically relevant performance measures such as energy efficiency or bandwidth efficiency are neither necessarily monotonous functions of the total transmit power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Ali Bereyhi , Saba Asaad , Ralf R. Müller

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

This paper presents an innovative movable antenna (MA)-enhanced multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlink system. We aim to maximize the energy efficiency (EE) under statistical channel state information (S-CSI) through a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Xintai Chen , Biqian Feng , Yongpeng Wu , Xiang-Gen Xia , Chengshan Xiao

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

A reconfigurable pinching-antenna system (PASS) is presented, endowing pinching antennas (PAs) with both amplitude- and phase-controllable radiation beyond conventional implementations. To characterize this feature, a general and physically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zhaolin Wang , Jiaqi Xu , Chongjun Ouyang , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu

Pinching antenna systems (PASS) have been proposed as a revolutionary flexible antenna technology which facilitates line-of-sight links via numerous low-cost pinching antennas with adjustable activation positions over waveguides. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-24 Luyuan Zhang , Xidong Mu , An Liu , Yuanwei Liu

This paper considers a multi-user system, where the users first harvest energy from the base station and then use the harvested energy to transmit information via non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). A pinching antenna array is adopted to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Saeid Pakravan , Mohsen Ahmadzadeh , Ming Zeng , Xingwang Li , Fang Fang

This paper proposes a novel localization framework underpinned by a pinching-antenna (PA) system, in which the target location is estimated using received signal strength (RSS) measurements obtained from downlink signals transmitted by the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Jiajun He , Xidong Mu , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

This paper investigates a novel downlink symbiotic radio framework enabled by the pinching antenna system (PASS), designed to enhance both primary and secondary transmissions through reconfigurable antenna positioning. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Ze Wang , Guoping Zhang , Hongbo Xu , Wei Liu , Ming Zeng , Fang Fang , Dusit Niyato

A Pinching-Antenna SyStem (PASS)-assisted convert communication framework is proposed. PASS utilizes dielectric waveguides with freely positioned pinching antennas (PAs) to establish strong line-of-sight links. Capitalizing on this high…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Hao Jiang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu

Movable antennas represent an emerging field in telecommunication research and a potential approach to achieving higher data rates in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications when the total number of antennas is limited. Most…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Amna Irshad , Emil Björnson , Alva Kosasih , Vitaly Petrov

By allowing a large number of links to be simultaneously transmitted, directional antenna arrays with beamforming have been envisioned as a promising candidate to reach unprecedented levels of spatial isolation. To achieve the high…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Yilin Li , Jian Luo , Richard A. Stirling-Gallacher , Giuseppe Caire

Recently, the pinching antenna systems (PASS) have attracted significant attention due to their ability to exploit dynamically reconfigurable pinching points along waveguides for flexible signal transmission. However, existing work largely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 Ali Amhaz , Mohamed Elhattab , Chadi Assi , Sanaa Sharafeddine

Recently, the pinching-antenna system (PASS) has emerged as a promising architecture owing to its ability to reconfigure large-scale path loss and signal phase by activating radiation points along a dielectric waveguide. However, existing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 Yuan Zhong , Yue Xiao , Yijia Li , Hao Chen , Xianfu Lei , Pingzhi Fan

Pinching antennas (PAs), a new type of reconfigurable and flexible antenna structures, have recently attracted significant research interest due to their ability to create line-of-sight links and mitigate large-scale path loss. Owing to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-26 Peng Liu , Zesong Fei , Meng Hua , Guangji Chen , Xinyi Wang , Ruiqi Liu