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We study the energy efficiency of pinching-antenna systems (PASSs) by developing a consistent formulation for power distribution in these systems. The per-antenna power distribution in PASSs is not controlled explicitly by a power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Saba Asaad , Chongjun Ouyang , Ali Bereyhi , Zhiguo Ding

This paper investigates the secrecy performance of pinching-antenna systems (PAS) under practical pinching-position activation uncertainty. By dynamically selecting the radiation point along a dielectric waveguide, PAS enables low-cost…

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

Pinching-antennas systems (PASS) offer reconfigurable wireless channels via low-cost dielectric mediums by creating line-of-sight (LoS) communication links. Most of the existing PASS cover mechanisms of equal power pinching antennas for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Ishtiaque Ahmed , Leila Musavian

Pinching-antenna systems (PASs) have been proposed as a flexible antenna technology to fulfill the stringent requirements of high data rate and large-scale equipment deployment in future wireless networks. The principle of PA involves…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Haoran Pang , Miaowen Wen , Fei Ji , Jun Li , Yiwei Tao

The pinching-antenna system (PASS) reconstructs wireless channels through pinching beamforming, i.e., optimizing the activated locations of pinching antennas (PAs) along the waveguide. The aim of this article is to investigate the joint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Mingjun Sun , Chongjun Ouyang , Shaochuan Wu , Yuanwei Liu

In this paper, a novel pinching-antenna assisted index modulation (PA-IM) scheme is proposed for improving the spectral efficiency without increasing the hardware complexity, where the information bits are conveyed not only by the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-13 Shuaixin Yang , Yijia Li , Yue Xiao , Yong Liang Guan , Xianfu Lei , Zhiguo Ding

A transmit pinching-antenna system (T-PASS) framework is proposed, in which a single pinched waveguide is employed to jointly serve one wired user equipment (UE) and multiple wireless UEs. The signal radiated by the pinching antennas (PAs)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-05 Deqiao Gan , Chongjun Ouyang , Yuanwei Liu , Xiaohu Ge

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 article investigates secure multicast communications in pinching-antenna systems (PASS), where pinching beamforming is enabled by adaptively adjusting pinching antenna (PAs) positions along waveguides to improve multicast security.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Shan Shan , Chongjun Ouyang , Yong Li , Yuanwei Liu

Flexible Antenna Systems (FAS) are a key enabler of next-generation wireless networks, allowing the antenna aperture to be dynamically reconfigured to adapt to channel conditions and service requirements. In this context, pinching-antenna…

Millimeter-wave and terahertz communications face a fundamental challenge: overcoming severe path loss without sacrificing spectral efficiency. Pinching antenna systems (PASS) address this by bringing radiators physically close to users,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Dengke Wei , Runxin Zhang , Yulin Shao , Fen Hou , Shaodan Ma

A wireless sensing architecture via pinching antenna systems is proposed. Compared to conventional wireless systems, PASS offers flexible antenna deployment and improved probing performance for wireless sensing by leveraging dielectric…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Zhaolin Wang , Chongjun Ouyang , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

The pinching-antenna system (PASS) has been proposed as a promising solution for mitigating line-of-sight (LoS) blockages by dynamically repositioning pinching antennas (PAs) along a dielectric waveguide. This paper develops a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Zhehang Ye , Ximing Xie , Hao Qin , Xingqi Zhang , Yuanwei Liu

As next-generation wireless networks emerge, security is becoming a critical performance metric. However, conventional multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems often suffer from severe path loss and are vulnerable to nearby…

Pinching-antenna systems (PASS) have recently emerged as a promising technology for improving wireless communications by establishing or strengthening reliable line-of-sight (LoS) links by adjusting the positions of pinching antennas (PAs).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Haoyun Li , Zhonghao Lyu , Yulan Gao , Ming Xiao , H. Vincent Poor

Flexible-antenna systems have recently received significant research interest due to their capability to reconfigure wireless channels intelligently. This paper focuses on a new type of flexible-antenna technology, termed pinching antennas,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Zhiguo Ding , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor

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

The Pinching Antenna System (PAS) has emerged as a promising technology to dynamically reconfigure wireless propagation environments in 6G networks. By activating radiating elements at arbitrary positions along a dielectric waveguide, PAS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Yu Hua , Yaru Fu , Yalin Liu , Zheng Shi , Kevin Hung

We investigate a novel integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system supported by pinching antennas (PAs), which can be dynamically activated along a dielectric waveguide to collect spatially diverse observations. This capability…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Ata Khalili , Brikena Kaziu , Vasilis K. Papanikolaou , Robert Schober

A pinching antenna system (PASS) assisted cell-free communication system is proposed. A sum rate maximization problem under the BS power budget constraint and PA deployment constraint is formulated. To tackle the proposed non-convex…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Haochen Li , Jiayi Lei , Cheng Zeng , Zhaoming Hu , Chao Dong , Yuanwei Liu