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This paper presents the first bit error rate (BER) analysis of a pinching-antenna (PA)-based non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) communication system. The PA is assumed to be able to be placed anywhere along the waveguide and serves two…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 Mahmoud AlaaEldin , Amy S. Inwood , Xidong Mu , Michail Matthaiou

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

In this paper, a novel joint design of beamforming and power allocation is proposed for a multi-cell multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) network. In this network, base stations (BSs) adopt…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Xiaofang Sun , Nan Yang , Shihao Yan , Zhiguo Ding , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Chao Shen , Zhangdui Zhong

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

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

We consider a cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access system with radio frequency energy harvesting, in which a user with good channel harvests energy from its received signal and serves as a decode-and-forward relay for enhancing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Binh Van Nguyen , Quang-Doanh Vu , Kiseon Kim

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

This paper investigates a new downlink nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system, where a multiantenna unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is powered by wireless power transfer (WPT) and serves as the base station for multiple pairs of ground…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Zhongyu Wang , Tiejun Lv , Jie Zeng , Wei Ni

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 investigates the application of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) in millimeter wave (mmWave) communications by exploiting beamforming, user scheduling and power allocation. Random beamforming is invoked for reducing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Jingjing Cui , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiguo Ding , Pingzhi Fan , Arumugam Nallanathan

This paper aims to design multiple access (MA) schemes to improve the max-min fairness (MMF) for pinching antennas (PAs)-based multigroup multicast communications, where PA placement and resource allocation are jointly optimized.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Shan Shan , Chongjun Ouyang , Yong Li , Yuanwei Liu

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

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has been considered one of the most promising radio access techniques for next-generation cellular networks. In this paper, we study the joint user and power scheduling for downlink NOMA over fading…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Do-Yup Kim , Hamid Jafarkhani , Jang-Won Lee

In this paper, a downlink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) network is studied. We investigate the problem of jointly optimizing user pairing and beamforming design to maximize the minimum rate among all users. The considered problem…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Van-Phuc Bui , Phu X. Nguyen , Hieu V. Nguyen , Van-Dinh Nguyen , Oh-Soon Shin

This work exploits the advantages of two prominent techniques in future communication networks, namely caching and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). Particularly, a system with Rayleigh fading channels and cache-enabled users is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Khai Nguyen Doan , Mojtaba Vaezi , Wonjae Shin , H. Vincent Poor , Hyundong Shin , Tony Q. S. Quek

Pinching antenna systems have attracted much attention recently owing to its capability to maintain reliable line-of-sight (LoS) communication in high-frequency bands. By guiding signals through a waveguide and emitting them via a movable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Hao Feng , Ming Zeng , Xingwang Li , Wenwu Xie , Nian Xia , Octavia A. Dobre

In this paper, we investigate the energy-efficient resource allocation problem in an uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) millimeter wave system, where the fully-connected-based sparse radio frequency chain antenna structure is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Wanming Hao , Ming Zeng , Gangcan Sun , Osamu Muta , Octavia A. Dobre , Shouyi Yang , Haris Gacanin

This paper introduces a novel power allocation and subcarrier optimization algorithm tailored for fixed wireless access (FWA) networks operating under low-rank channel conditions, where the number of subscriber antennas far exceeds those at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Kamyar Rajabalifardi , Sagnik Bhattacharya , Mehrnaz Afshang , Mohammad Mozaffari , John M. Cioffi

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is recognized as a promising radio access technique for the next generation wireless systems. We consider a practical downlink NOMA system with imperfect successive interference cancellation and derive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-19 Nemalidinne Siva Mouni , Pavan Reddy M. , Abhinav Kumar , Prabhat K. Upadhyay

Pinching-antenna systems (PASS) represent a promising customizable wireless access mechanism in high-frequency bands, enabled by dielectric waveguides and movable dielectric particles, called pinching antennas (PAs). In this work, we study…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Muhammad Fainan Hanif , Yuanwei Liu