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Movable antenna (MA) is a new technology with great potential to improve communication performance by enabling local movement of antennas for pursuing better channel conditions. In particular, the acquisition of complete channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Zhenyu Xiao , Songqi Cao , Lipeng Zhu , Yanming Liu , Xiang-Gen Xia , Rui Zhang

This letter introduces a novel pinching-antenna-system (PASS) assisted simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT), where multiple pinching antennas (PAs) are strategically activiated on a waveguide to facilitate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Yixuan Li , Ji Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiguo Ding

This paper conducts a comprehensive performance analysis for pinching-antenna systems (PASS) under both orthogonal multiple access (OMA) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) transmission. Given the cost of waveguides, we consider a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-04 Yanyu Cheng , Chongjun Ouyang , Yuanwei Liu , George K. Karagiannidis

Future wireless multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems will employ sub-6 GHz and millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency bands working cooperatively. Establishing a MIMO communication link usually relies on estimating…

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

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

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

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

In this paper, we investigate channel estimation for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) empowered millimeter-wave (mmWave) multi-user single-input multiple-output communication systems using low-resolution quantization. Due to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Gyoseung Lee , In-soo Kim , Yonina C. Eldar , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Hyeongtaek Lee , Minje Kim , Junil Choi

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication in typical wearable and data center settings is short range. As the distance between the transmitter and the receiver in short range scenarios can be comparable to the length of the antenna arrays, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-12 Nitin Jonathan Myers , Jarkko Kaleva , Antti Tölli , Robert W. Heath

Pinching-antenna (PA) systems route millimeter wave (mmWave) signals through a leaky waveguide and radiate them at "pinch" apertures, offering low-cost line-of-sight (LoS) coverage. However, when multiple PAs serve multiple users…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Thrassos K. Oikonomou , Sotiris A. Tegos , Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis , Yuanwei Liu , George K. Karagiannidis

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have been introduced as a remedy for mitigating frequent blockages in millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication networks. However, perfect or nearly perfect…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Rafaela Schroeder , Jiguang He , Markku Juntti

Recently, the study on pinching-antenna technique has attracted significant attention. However, most relevant literature focuses on a single-cell scenario, where the effect from the interfering pinching-antennas on waveguides connected to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Yanshi Sun , Zhiguo Ding , George K. Karagiannidis

In this paper, we develop a low-complexity channel estimation for hybrid millimeter wave (mmWave) systems, where the number of radio frequency (RF) chains is much less than the number of antennas equipped at each transceiver. The proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Lou Zhao , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

Millimeter wave (mmWave) cellular systems will enable gigabit-per-second data rates thanks to the large bandwidth available at mmWave frequencies. To realize sufficient link margin, mmWave systems will employ directional beamforming with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Omar El Ayach , Geert Leus , Robert W. Heath

Pinching-antenna (PA) systems have recently emerged as a promising member of the flexible-antenna family due to their ability to dynamically establish line-of-sight (LoS) links. While most existing studies assume ideal environments without…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Ximing Xie , Fang Fang , Zhiguo Ding , Xianbin Wang

Pinching antennas systems (PASSs) have recently been proposed as a novel flexible-antenna technology. These systems are implemented by attaching low-cost pinching elements to dielectric waveguides. As the direct link is bypassed through…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Saba Asaad , Ali Bereyhi

Recently, a switch-based hybrid massive MIMO structure that aims to reduce the hardware complexity and power consumption has been proposed as a potential candidate for millimeter wave (mmWave) communications. Exploiting the sparse nature of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Rui Hu , Jun Tong , Jiangtao Xi , Qinghua Guo , Yanguang Yu

This paper develops a channel estimation technique for millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems. Our method exploits the sparse structure in mmWave channels for low training overhead and accounts for the phase errors in the channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-12 Weijia Yi , Nitin Jonathan Myers , Geethu Joseph

Millimeter-wave (mm-Wave) cellular systems are a promising option for a very high data rate communication because of the large bandwidth available at mm-Wave frequencies. Due to the large path-loss exponent in the mm-Wave range of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-06 Saeid Haghighatshoar , Giuseppe Caire