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This article analyzes the achievable sum-rate of multiuser uplink segmented waveguide-enabled pinching-antenna systems (SWANs). To unveil system-design insights, an upper bound on the achievable sum-rate is derived, based on which the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Songnan Gu , Zhenqiao Cheng , Hao Jiang , Chongjun Ouyang , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

Uplink sensing in integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) systems, such as Perceptive Mobile Networks, is challenging due to the clock asynchronism between transmitter and receiver. Existing solutions typically require the presence of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-18 Yanmo Hu , J. Andrew Zhang , Weibo Deng , Y. Jay Guo

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

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

In this paper, a novel pinching antenna-aided spatial multiplexing (PASM) architecture is conceived, which intrinsically amalgamates the benefits of flexible radiating element placement with radio-frequency (RF) chain transmission.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Ruijie Li , Yue Xiao , Shuaixin Yang , Gang Wu , Xianfu Lei , Ming Xiao

This paper develops a gradient-based meta-learning framework for real-time control of waveguided pinching-antenna systems under user-location uncertainty and physical-layer security (PLS) constraints. A probabilistic system model is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-05 Khalid T. Musri , Akram Y. Sarhan , Osamah A. Abdullah , Hayder Al-Hraishawi

This two-part paper aims to develop an environment-aware network-level design framework for generalized pinching-antenna systems to overcome the limitations of conventional link-level optimization, which is tightly coupled to instantaneous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Yanqing Xu , Zhiguo Ding , Xiu Yin Zhang , Trung Q. Duong , Tsung-Hui Chang

This paper studies the deployment of multiple movable antennas (MAs) at the base station (BS) for enhancing the multiuser communication performance. First, we model the multiuser channel in the uplink to characterize the wireless channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Xiangyu Pi , Lipeng Zhu , Zhenyu Xiao , Rui Zhang

As a practical physical implementation of pinching-antenna systems, leaky coaxial cable (LCX) enables distributed radiation in more general wireless environments, particularly for lower-frequency applications. In this paper, a leaky-coaxial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Kaidi Wang , Daniel K. C. So , Zhiguo Ding , George K. Karagiannidis

We propose a novel framework for optimizing antenna parameter settings in a heterogeneous cellular network. We formulate an optimization problem for both coverage and capacity - in both the downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) - which configures…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-31 Ezgi Tekgul , Thomas Novlan , Salam Akoum , Jeffrey G. Andrews

The problem of maximizing weighted sum rates in the downlink of a multicell environment is of considerable interest. Unfortunately, this problem is known to be NP-hard. For the case of multi-antenna base stations and single antenna mobile…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-12 Le-Nam Tran , Muhammad Fainan Hanif , Antti Tölli , Markku Juntti

Rotatable antenna (RA) technology can harness additional spatial degrees of freedom by enabling the dynamic three-dimensional orientation control of each antenna. Unfortunately, the hardware cost and control complexity of traditional RA…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Ailing Zheng , Qingqing Wu , Ziyuan Zheng , Qiaoyan Peng , Yanze Zhu , Honghao Wang , Wen Chen , Guoying Zhang

Sharing global channel information at base stations (BSs) is commonly assumed for downlink multi-cell precoding. In the context of massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems where each BS is equipped with a large number of antennas,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Liangbin Li , Alexei Ashikhmin , Thomas Marzetta

We describe a TDD MIMO wireless system designed to operate at high bandwidth and low SNR. Signals are transmitted as a direct sequence. In the uplink (Multiple Access Channel), signal detection is done by a space-time whitening filter…

This paper seeks to determine the most efficient uplink technique for cell-free massive MIMO systems. Despite offering great advances, existing works suffer from fragmented methodologies and inconsistent assumptions (e.g., single- vs.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

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

In this paper, we analyze the achievable rate of the uplink of a single-cell multi-user distributed massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) system. The multiple users are equipped with single antenna and the base station (BS) is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ang Yang , Yindi Jing , Chengwen Xing , Zesong Fei , Jingming Kuang

In downlink multi-antenna systems with many users, the multiplexing gain is strictly limited by the number of transmit antennas $N$ and the use of these antennas. Assuming that the total number of receive antennas at the multi-antenna users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-25 Emil Björnson , Marios Kountouris , Mats Bengtsson , Björn Ottersten

Movable antennas (MAs) have received increasing attention in wireless communications due to their capability of antenna position adjustment to reconfigure wireless channels. However, moving MAs results in non-negligible delay, which may…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Qingliang Li , Weidong Mei , Boyu Ning , 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