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This paper investigates a rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) for uplink pinching antenna system (PASS). Our objective is to maximize the uplink sum rate by jointly optimizing a continuous antenna positioning and user's transmission…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-24 Zar Chi Phyo , Shreya Khisa , Chadi Assi , Sanaa Sharafaddine

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

Pinching-antenna systems have emerged as a promising flexible-antenna architecture for next-generation wireless networks, enabling enhanced adaptability and user-centric connectivity through antenna repositioning along waveguides. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Yanqing Xu , Zhiguo Ding , Robert Schober , Tsung-Hui Chang

Pinching antenna (PA) systems have recently emerged as a promising architecture for reconfigurable wireless communications by enabling flexible antenna placement along a dielectric waveguide. However, existing works typically assume perfect…

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In this paper,we investigate a novel wireless powered mobile edge computing (MEC) system assisted by pinching antennas (PAs), where devices first harvest energy from a base station and then offload computation-intensive tasks to an MEC…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-19 Peng Liu , Meng Hua , Guangji Chen , Xinyi Wang , Zesong Fei

Pinching-antenna systems (PASS) have recently attracted significant attention as a promising architecture for flexible and reconfigurable wireless communications. Despite notable advancements, research on energy efficiency (EE) maximization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-29 Yishi Zhang , Aditya Powari , Kaidi Wang , Yaru Fu , Daniel K. C. So

Movable antenna (MA) technology, which can reconfigure wireless channels by flexibly moving antenna positions in a specified region, has great potential for improving communication performance. In this paper, we consider a new setup of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Guojie Hu , Qingqing Wu , Donghui Xu , Kui Xu , Jiangbo Si , Yunlong Cai , Naofal Al-Dhahir

The pinching-antenna system is a novel flexible-antenna technology, which has the capabilities not only to combat large-scale path loss, but also to reconfigure the antenna array in a flexible manner. The key idea of pinching antennas is to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Xinke Xie , Yang Lu , 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 letter introduces a novel wireless powered communication system, referred to as a wireless powered pinching-antenna network (WPPAN), utilizing a single waveguide with pinching antennas to address the double near-far problem inherent in…

The evolution toward the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks has flexible reconfigurable antenna architectures capable of adapting their radiation characteristics to the surrounding environment. At the center-stage, while waveguide…

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A segmented waveguide-enabled pinching-antenna system (SWAN)-assisted over-the-air computation (AirComp) framework is proposed. Three transmission architectures, namely segment selection (SS), phase-shifter-free segment aggregation (SA),…

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

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

The pinching-antenna systems (PASS) enable blockage mitigation in urban micro (UMi) networks through flexible antenna placement. However, the joint optimization of antenna positions and beamforming precoding is inherently nonconvex and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Qiushi Zhao , Zihan Feng , Ximing Xie , Hao Qin , Yuanwei Liu , Xingqi Zhang

This paper investigates coordinated downlink transmission in a multi-base station (multi-BS) multi-reconfigurable intelligent surface (multi-RIS)-assisted pinching-antenna (PA) system, where each user equipment (UE) is associated with a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Changpeng He , Yang Lu , Wei Chen , Bo Ai , Arumugam Nallanathan , Zhiguo Ding

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 multiuser uplink transmission framework based on the segmented waveguide-enabled pinching-antenna system (SWAN) is proposed under two operating protocols: segment selection (SS) and segment aggregation (SA). For each protocol, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-24 Songnan Gu , Hao Jiang , Chongjun Ouyang , Yuanwei Liu , Dong In Kim

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

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