English
Related papers

Related papers: Pinching Antenna-Aided Wireless Powered Communicat…

200 papers

To meet the urgent demands for spectral efficiency and multi-user access in high-frequency application scenario for the sixth-generation wireless communication, this paper investigates a rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) system assisted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-17 Peiyu Wang , Hong Wang , Yaru Fu , Rongfang Song

The integration of pinching antenna systems with non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has emerged as a promising technique for future 6G applications. This paper is the first to investigate power minimization for NOMA-assisted pinching…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yaru Fu , Fuchao He , Zheng Shi , Haijun Zhang

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

Recently, the pinching antenna system (PASS) has attracted considerable attention due to their advantages in flexible deployment and reduction of signal propagation loss. In this work, a multiple waveguide PASS assisted integrated sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Haochen Li , Ruikang Zhong , Jiayi Lei , Yuanwei Liu

This paper considers a wireless powered communication network (WPCN), where multiple users harvest energy from a dedicated power station and then communicate with an information receiving station. Our goal is to investigate the maximum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Qingqing Wu , Meixia Tao , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Wen Chen , Robert Schober

In this paper, we investigate an uplink communication scenario in which multiple users communicate with an access point (AP) employing non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). A pinching antenna, which can be activated at an arbitrary point…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Ming Zeng , Ji Wang , Xingwang Li , Gongpu Wang , Octavia A. Dobre , Zhiguo Ding

This paper investigates a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multi-waveguide pinching-antenna (PA) system (PASS) for multi-user downlink information transmission, motivated by the unknown impact of the integration of emerging…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Changpeng He , Yang Lu , Yanqing Xu , Chong-Yung Chi , Bo Ai , Arumugam Nallanathan

The pinching-antenna systems (PASS), which dynamically activate and relocate the pinching-antennas (PAs) along the dielectric waveguide, offer unprecedented potential for integrated positioning and communication. The multi-waveguide-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Yaoyu Zhang , Xin Sun , Jun Wang , Tianwei Hou , Anna Li , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

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

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

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

As a novel member of flexible antennas, the pinching antenna (PA) is realized by integrating small dielectric particles on a waveguide, offering unique regulatory capabilities on constructing line-of-sight (LoS) links and enhancing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-29 Haolian Chi , Kunrui Cao , Zhou Su , Lei Zhou , Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis , Yuanwei Liu , George K. Karagiannidis

The sixth generation of wireless networks envisions intelligent and adaptive environments capable of meeting the demands of emerging applications such as immersive extended reality, advanced healthcare, and the metaverse. However, this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Dimitrios Tyrovolas , Sotiris A. Tegos , Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis , Sotiris Ioannidis , Christos K. Liaskos , George K. Karagiannidis

We characterize time and power allocations to optimize the sum-throughput of a Wireless Powered Communication Network (WPCN) with Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA). In our setup, an Energy Rich (ER) source broadcasts wireless energy to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Alessandro Biason , Tamer ElBatt , Karim G. Seddik , Michele Zorzi

Pinching antenna system (PASS) configures the positions of pinching antennas (PAs) along dielectric waveguides to change both large-scale fading and small-scale scattering, which is known as pinching beamforming. A novel non-orthogonal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Deqiao Gan , Xiaoxia Xu , Jiakuo Zuo , Xiaohu Ge , Yuanwei Liu

In this paper, a novel pinching antenna-aided spatial multiplexing (PASM) architecture is conceived, which intrinsically amalgamates the benefits of flexible radiating element placement with radio-frequency (RF) chain transmission.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Ruijie Li , Yue Xiao , Shuaixin Yang , Gang Wu , Xianfu Lei , Ming Xiao

In this paper, we explore a novel joint uplink and downlink framework utilizing a pinching antenna system (PASS). We consider two waveguides, one dedicated to transmission and one to reception, and both of them are connected to a base…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Shreya Khisa , Ali Amhaz , Mohamed Elhattab , Chadi Assi , Sanaa Sharafeddine

This paper investigates a novel fluid antenna multiple access (FAMA)-assisted wireless powered communication network (WPCN), in which a hybrid access point (HAP) equipped with multiple fixed position antennas (FPAs) provides integrated data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Xiao Lin , Yizhe Zhao , Halvin Yang , Jie Hu

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

For a self-sustaining wireless communication system in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks, energy harvesting (EH) can be implemented at each user node as a constant renewable power supply source. Hence, an investigation into the use of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Derek Kwaku Pobi Asiedu , Sumaila Mahama , Changick Song , Dongwan Kim , Kyoung-Jae Lee