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A segmented waveguide-enabled pinching-antenna system (SWAN)-assisted integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) framework is proposed. Unlike conventional pinching antenna systems (PASS), which use a single long waveguide, SWAN divides…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Hao Jiang , Chongjun Ouyang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan , Zhiguo Ding , Robert Schober

Pinching antennas, realized through position-adjustable radiating elements along dielectric waveguides, have emerged as a promising flexible-antenna technology thanks to their ability to dynamically reshape large-scale channel conditions.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Yanqing Xu , Yang Lu , Zhiguo Ding , Tsung-Hui Chang

Pinching antenna systems (PASS) have recently emerged as a promising architecture for high-frequency wireless communications. In this letter, we investigate localization in PASS by jointly exploiting the received signal amplitude and phase…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Hao Feng , Ebrahim Bedeer , Ming Zeng , Xingwang Li , Shimin Gong , Quoc-Viet Pham

Pinching antenna systems (PASS) have the advantages in the perspective of flexible antenna reconfiguration, line-of-sight (LoS) creation, and scalability features. To highlight the ascendancy of PASS, we survey the integration of PASS into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Xinwei Yue , Xinglun Tao , Jingjing Zhao , Xianfu Lei , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiguo Ding

Pinching-antenna systems have recently emerged as a promising solution for enhancing coverage in high-frequency wireless communications by guiding signals through dielectric waveguides and radiating them via position-adjustable antennas.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Hao Feng , Ming Zeng , Ebrahim Bedeer , Xingwang Li , Octavia A. Dobre , Zhiguo Ding

This letter proposes a novel pinching antenna systems (PASS) enabled non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) multi-access edge computing (MEC) framework. An optimization problem is formulated to minimize the maximum task delay by optimizing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Yuan Ai , Xidong Mu , Pengbo Si , Yuanwei Liu

Pinching-antenna systems have recently been proposed as a new candidate for flexible-antenna systems, not only inheriting the reconfiguration capability but also offering a unique feature: establishing line-of-sight links to mitigate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-21 Ximing Xie , Fang Fang , Zhiguo Ding , Xianbin Wang

In this paper, we explore a novel joint uplink and downlink framework utilizing a pinching antenna system (PASS). We consider two waveguides, one dedicated to transmission and one to reception, and both of them are connected to a base…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Shreya Khisa , Ali Amhaz , Mohamed Elhattab , Chadi Assi , Sanaa Sharafeddine

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

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

A pinching-antenna system (PASS)-enhanced mobile edge computing (MEC) architecture is investigated to improve the task offloading efficiency and latency performance in dynamic wireless environments. By leveraging dielectric waveguides and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Zhaoming Hu , Ruikang Zhong , Xidong Mu , Dengao 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

Pinching-antenna technology has lately showcased its promising capability for reconfiguring wireless propagation environments, especially in high-frequency communication systems like millimeter-wave and terahertz bands. By dynamically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Ming Zeng , Xianbin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiguo Ding , George K. Karagiannidis , H. Vincent Poor

This article investigates the integration of movable antennas (MAs) into multicast communication systems. By discretizing the motion of the MAs, a novel MA-assisted multicast transmission architecture is formulated. An alternating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-16 Zhenqiao Cheng , Nanxi Li , Jianchi Zhu , Chongjun Ouyang , Xingqi Zhang

Pinching-antenna systems have emerged as a novel and transformative flexible-antenna architecture for next-generation wireless networks. They offer unprecedented flexibility and spatial reconfigurability by enabling dynamic positioning and…

Federated learning (FL) in wireless networks is limited by straggler delays from unpredictable channel conditions. In this paper, we investigate the pinching-antenna system (PASS), which dynamically 'pinches' the radiator along a dielectric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yushen Lin , Zihan Chen , Zhiguo Ding

Pinching antennas, implemented by applying small dielectric particles on a waveguide, have emerged as a promising flexible-antenna technology ideal for next-generation wireless communications systems. Unlike conventional flexible-antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-25 Yanqing Xu , Zhiguo Ding , Donghong Cai , Vincent W. S. Wong

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 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

This paper addresses, for the first time, the uplink performance optimization of multi-user pinching-antenna (PA) systems, recently developed for next-generation wireless networks. By leveraging the unique capabilities of PAs to dynamically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Sotiris A. Tegos , Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis , Zhiguo Ding , George K. Karagiannidis