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In this correspondence, we propose a movable antenna (MA)-aided multi-user hybrid beamforming scheme with a sub-connected structure, where multiple movable sub-arrays can independently change their positions within different local regions.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yichi Zhang , Yuchen Zhang , Lipeng Zhu , Sa Xiao , Wanbin Tang , Yonina C. Eldar , Rui Zhang

A segmented waveguide-enabled pinching-antenna system (SWAN)-based tri-hybrid beamforming architecture is proposed for uplink multi-user MIMO communications, which jointly optimizes digital, analog, and pinching beamforming. Both…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Hao Jiang , Chongjun Ouyang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan , Zhiguo Ding , Robert Schober

Recently, the pinching-antenna system (PASS) has emerged as a promising architecture owing to its ability to reconfigure large-scale path loss and signal phase by activating radiation points along a dielectric waveguide. However, existing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 Yuan Zhong , Yue Xiao , Yijia Li , Hao Chen , Xianfu Lei , Pingzhi Fan

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

As an emerging flexible antenna technology for wireless communications, pinching-antenna systems, offer distinct advantages in terms of cost efficiency and deployment flexibility. This paper investigates joint transmission strategies of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Enzhi Zhou , Jingjing Cui , Ziyue Liu , Zhiguo Ding , Pingzhi Fan

This article addresses the design of multigroup multicast communications in the pinching-antenna system (PASS). A PASS-enabled multigroup transmission framework is proposed to maximize multicast rates under a couple of transmission…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Shan Shan , Chongjun Ouyang , Yong Li , Yuanwei Liu

Rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) has emerged as a novel, general, and powerful framework for the design and optimization of non-orthogonal transmission, multiple access (MA), and interference management strategies for future wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Yijie Mao , Onur Dizdar , Bruno Clerckx , Robert Schober , Petar Popovski , H. Vincent Poor

In this letter, we consider a new type of flexible-antenna system, termed pinching-antenna, where multiple low-cost pinching antennas, realized by activating small dielectric particles on a dielectric waveguide, are jointly used to serve a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Yanqing Xu , Zhiguo Ding , George K. Karagiannidis

Pinching-antenna systems (PASS) have recently emerged as a promising technology for improving wireless communications by establishing or strengthening reliable line-of-sight (LoS) links by adjusting the positions of pinching antennas (PAs).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Haoyun Li , Zhonghao Lyu , Yulan Gao , Ming Xiao , H. Vincent Poor

A segmented waveguide-enabled pinching-antenna system (SWAN)-assisted over-the-air computation (AirComp) framework is proposed. Three transmission architectures, namely segment selection (SS), phase-shifter-free segment aggregation (SA),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Songnan Gu , Hao Jiang , Chongjun Ouyang , Dian Fan , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

The full potential of pinching-antenna systems (PAS) can be unblocked if pinching antennas can be accurately activated at positions tailored for the serving users', which means that acquiring accurate channel state information (CSI) at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Gui Zhou , Vasilis Papanikolaou , Zhiguo Ding , Robert Schober

This paper studies the performance of single-input multiple-output (SIMO) systems under receive antenna selection (RAS) and BPSK/QPSK modulations. At the receiver, a subset of branches are selected and combined using maximal-ratio combining…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-16 Chongjun Ouyang , Zeliang Ou , Pei Yang , Lu Zhang , Hongwen Yang , Xin 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, an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) design for segmented waveguide-enabled pinching-antenna array (SWAN) systems is proposed to improve the performance of systems by leveraging the low in-waveguide propagation loss…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Qian Gao , Ruikang Zhong , Hyundong Shin , Yuanwei Liu

Over the past few years, the prevalence of wireless devices has become one of the essential sources of electromagnetic (EM) radiation to the public. Facing with the swift development of wireless communications, people are skeptical about…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Hanyu Jiang , Li You , Ahmed Elzanaty , Jue Wang , Wenjin Wang , Xiqi Gao , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) has been recognized as a promising multiple access technique for future wireless communication systems. Recent research demonstrates that RSMA can maintain its superiority without relying on Successive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Sibo Zhang , Bruno Clerckx , David Vargas

In this paper, we investigate the problem of rate maximization in a fluid antenna system (FAS) assisted semantic communication system. In the considered model, a base station (BS) with multiple static antennas employs semantic extraction…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Siyun Liang , Chen Zhu , Zhaohui Yang , Changsheng You , Dusit Niyato , Kai-Kit Wong , Zhaoyang Zhang

In this paper, we take all users' secrecy rate requirements into consideration and propose a rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA)-based secure beamforming approach to maximize the weighted sum-rate (WSR), where multi-user interference…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Huiyun Xia , Yijie Mao , Xiaokang Zhou , Bruno Clerckx , Shuai Han , Cheng Li

A novel pinching antenna system (PASS) enabled wireless power transfer (WPT) framework is proposed, where energy harvesting receivers (EHRs) and information decoding receivers (IDRs) coexist. By activating pinching antennas (PAs) near both…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-17 Deqiao Gan , Xiaoxia Xu , Xiaohu Ge , Yue Liu , Yuanwei Liu

In the upcoming 6G era, multiple access (MA) will play an essential role in achieving high throughput performances required in a wide range of wireless applications. Since MA and interference management are closely related issues, the…