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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 paper investigates PASS-enabled downlink covert communication in the presence of distributed surveillance, where multiple wardens perform signal detection and fuse their local binary decisions via majority-voting rule. We consider a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ji He

Pinching antennas have emerged as a promising technology for reconfiguring wireless propagation environments, particularly in high-frequency communication systems operating in the millimeter-wave and terahertz bands. By enabling dynamic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Ming Zeng , Ji Wang , Octavia A. Dobre , Zhiguo Ding , George K. Karagiannidis , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor

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…

This paper considers a multiuser multiple-input single-output (MISO) downlink system with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer. In particular, we focus on secure communication in the presence of passive eavesdroppers and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Ernest S. Lo , Robert Schober

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

Physical layer security (PLS) is a promising paradigm for safeguarding 6G wireless networks by exploiting the inherent characteristics of wireless channels. However, the efficiency of conventional PLS is often limited by fixed orientation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ailing Zheng , Qingqing Wu , Xingxiang Peng , Qiaoyan Peng , Ziyuan Zheng , Yuxuan Chen , Wen Chen

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

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

Reconfigurable-antenna systems have received increasing attention for their ability to adapt wireless channels. However, existing architectures exhibit scenario-dependent limitations: fluid antennas provide strong diversity gains in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Xiao Lin , Yizhe Zhao , Xiangyang Wang , Halvin Yang , Bingxin Zhang

This paper presents an analytical framework for downlink pinching antenna systems (PASS) employing waveguide division multiple access (WDMA) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). A unified channel model is developed to capture antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-18 Han Zhang , Bingxin Zhang , Yizhe Zhao , Kun Yang

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

This letter considers a fluid antenna system (FAS)-aided secure and covert communication system, where the transmitter adjusts multiple fluid antennas' positions to achieve secure and covert transmission under the threat of an eavesdropper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-15 Junteng Yao , Liangxiao Xin , Tuo Wu , Ming Jin , Kai-Kit Wong , Chau Yuen , Hyundong Shin

Movable antennas (MA) are a novel technology that allows for the flexible adjustment of antenna positions within a specified region, thereby enhancing the performance of wireless communication systems. In this paper, we explore the use of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Weijie Xiong , Kai Zhong , Zhiling Xiao , Jingran Lin , Qiang Li

With great flexibility to adjust antenna positions, pinching antennas (PAs) are promising for alleviating large-scale attenuation in wireless networks. In this work, we investigate the antenna positioning and beamforming (AP-BF) design in a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-08 Lei Li , Yanqing Xu , Tenghao Cai , Tsung-Hui Chang

Polarforming is a promising technique that enables dynamic adjustment of antenna polarization to mitigate depolarization effects commonly encountered during electromagnetic (EM) wave propagation. In this letter, we investigate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jingze Ding , Zijian Zhou , Bingli Jiao , Rui Zhang

Unlike conventional systems using a fixed-location antenna, the channel capacity of the pinching-antenna system (PASS) is determined by the activated positions of pinching antennas. This article characterizes the capacity region of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Chongjun Ouyang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiguo Ding

We study physical-layer security in wireless ad hoc networks and investigate two types of multi-antenna transmission schemes for providing secrecy enhancements. To establish secure transmission against malicious eavesdroppers, we consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Xi Zhang , Xiangyun Zhou , Matthew R. McKay

In this paper, we consider the physical layer security (PLS) problem for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems in the presence of hybrid-colluding eavesdroppers, where an active eavesdropper (AE) and a passive eavesdropper…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-10 Meiding Liu , Zhengchun Zhou , Qiao Shi , Guyue Li , Zilong Liu , Pingzhi Fan , Inkyu Lee

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