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Movable antennas (MAs) enhance flexibility in beamforming gain and interference suppression by adjusting position within certain areas of the transceivers. In this paper, we propose an MA-assisted integrated sensing and communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Chengjun Jiang , Chensi Zhang , Chongwen Huang , Jianhua Ge , Dusit Niyato , Chau Yuen

This paper exploits the dynamic features of wireless propagation environments as the basis for a new multiple access technique, termed environment division multiple access (EDMA). In particular, with the proposed pinching-antenna-assisted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Zhiguo Ding , Robert Schober , H. V. Poor

This paper investigates flexible beamforming design in an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) network with movable antennas (MAs). A bistatic radar system is integrated into a multi-user multiple-input-single-output (MU-MISO)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-20 Wanting Lyu , Songjie Yang , Yue Xiu , Zhongpei Zhang , Chadi Assi , Chau Yuen

A novel fully-connected (FC) tri-hybrid beamforming (THB) architecture is proposed for pinching antenna systems (PASS). In contrast to conventional sub-connected (SC) PASS, the proposed FC architecture employs a tunable phase-shifter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-19 Cheng-Jie Zhao , Zhaolin Wang , Hyundong Shin , Yuanwei Liu

Fluid antennas (FAs) and movable antennas (MAs) have drawn increasing attention in wireless communications recently due to their ability to create favorable channel conditions via local antenna movement within a confined region. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-26 Xin Wei , Weidong Mei , Dong Wang , Boyu Ning , Zhi Chen

This paper considers a multi-antenna multicast system with programmable metasurface (PMS) based transmitter. Taking into account of the finite-resolution phase shifts of PMSs, a novel beam training approach is proposed, which achieves…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Xiaoling Hu , Caijun Zhong , Yongxu Zhu , Xiaoming Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang

In this paper, we propose a new multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system with movable antennas (MAs) to exploit the antenna position optimization for enhancing the capacity. Different from conventional MIMO systems with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Wenyan Ma , Lipeng Zhu , Rui Zhang

A novel multiuser communication system with movable antennas (MAs) is proposed, where the antenna position optimization is exploited to enhance the downlink sum-rate. The joint optimization of the transmit beamforming vector and transmit MA…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Zhenqiao Cheng , Nanxi Li , Jianchi Zhu , Chongjun Ouyang

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 novel and transformative flexible-antenna architecture for next-generation wireless networks. They offer unprecedented flexibility and spatial reconfigurability by enabling dynamic positioning and…

Pinching antennas (PAs), a new type of reconfigurable and flexible antenna structures, have recently attracted significant research interest due to their ability to create line-of-sight links and mitigate large-scale path loss. Owing to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-26 Peng Liu , Zesong Fei , Meng Hua , Guangji Chen , Xinyi Wang , Ruiqi Liu

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 paper considers a multi-user system, where the users first harvest energy from the base station and then use the harvested energy to transmit information via non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). A pinching antenna array is adopted to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Saeid Pakravan , Mohsen Ahmadzadeh , Ming Zeng , Xingwang Li , Fang Fang

Movable antenna (MA) technology offers promising potential to enhance wireless communication by allowing flexible antenna movement. To maximize spatial degrees of freedom (DoFs), larger movable regions are required, which may render the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Lipeng Zhu , Wenyan Ma , Zhenyu Xiao , Rui Zhang

A segmented waveguide-enabled pinching-antenna system (SWAN)-assisted integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) framework is proposed. Unlike conventional pinching antenna systems (PASS), which use a single long waveguide, SWAN divides…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Hao Jiang , Chongjun Ouyang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan , Zhiguo Ding , 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

Movable antennas (MAs) represent a promising paradigm to enhance the spatial degrees of freedom of conventional multi-antenna systems by dynamically adapting the positions of antenna elements within a designated transmit area. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Yifei Wu , Dongfang Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Wolfgang Gerstacker , Robert Schober

In this paper, we propose a novel antenna architecture called movable antenna (MA) to improve the performance of wireless communication systems. Different from conventional fixed-position antennas (FPAs) that undergo random wireless channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Lipeng Zhu , Wenyan Ma , Rui Zhang

This paper investigates a multiuser millimeter-wave (mmWave) uplink system in which each user is equipped with a multi-antenna fluid antenna system (FAS) while the base station (BS) has multiple fixed-position antennas. Our primary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Hao Xu , Kai-Kit Wong , Wee Kiat New , Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Gui Zhou , Ross Murch , Chan-Byoung Chae , Yongxu Zhu , Shi Jin

Next-generation (NG) wireless networks must embrace innate intelligence in support of demanding emerging applications, such as extended reality and autonomous systems, under ultra-reliable and low-latency requirements. Pinching antennas…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Fang Fang , Zhiguo Ding , Victor C. M. Leung , Lajos Hanzo