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Recently, the pinching antenna systems (PASS) have attracted significant attention due to their ability to exploit dynamically reconfigurable pinching points along waveguides for flexible signal transmission. However, existing work largely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 Ali Amhaz , Mohamed Elhattab , Chadi Assi , Sanaa Sharafeddine

Unlike wired networks, the capacity of a wireless network is interference limited due to the broadcast nature of wireless medium. Some multicast wireless network protocols do not consider channel assignment issue, that they cause…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-10-12 Abbas Nargesi , Mehdi Ghasemi

An integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) design for pinching antenna systems (PASS) is proposed, where the pinching antennas are deployed to establish reliable line-of-sight communication and sensing links. More particularly, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Zheng Zhang , Zhaolin Wang , Xidong Mu , Bingtao He , Jian Chen , Yuanwei Liu

Recently, a novel flexible-antenna technology, called pinching antennas, has attracted growing academic interest. By inserting discrete dielectric materials, pinching antennas can be activated at arbitrary points along waveguides, allowing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Weihao Mao , Yang Lu , Yanqing Xu , Bo Ai , Octavia A. Dobre , Dusit Niyato

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 considers the multi-group multicast beamforming optimization problem, for which the optimal solution has been unknown due to the non-convex and NP-hard nature of the problem. By utilizing the successive convex approximation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-13 Min Dong , Qiqi Wang

Pinching antennas is a novel flexible-antenna technology, which can be realized by employing small dielectric particles on a waveguide. The aim of this letter is to characterize the array gain achieved by pinching-antenna systems (PASS). A…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Chongjun Ouyang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiguo Ding

We consider multi-group multicast precoding designs for cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. To optimize the transmit and receive beamforming strategies, we focus on minimizing the sum of the maximum mean squared…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Bikshapathi Gouda , Italo Atzeni , Antti Tölli

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

The pinching-antenna system (PASS) enables wireless channel reconfiguration through optimized placement of pinching antennas along dielectric waveguides. In this article, a unified analytical framework is proposed to characterize the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-13 Chongjun Ouyang , Hao Jiang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiguo Ding

A generalized framework for the novel center-fed pinching antenna system (C-PASS) is proposed. Within this framework, closed-form expressions for the degree of freedom (DoF) and power scaling law of the proposed C-PASS are first derived.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Xu Gan , Yuanwei Liu

Pinching antenna system (PASS) has recently shown its promising ability to flexibly reconfigure wireless channels via dynamically adjusting the positions of pinching antennas over a dielectric waveguide, termed as pinching beamforming. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Guangji Chen , Qingqing Wu , Kangda Zhi , Xidong Mu , 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

This letter proposes a novel user localization and channel estimation framework for pinching-antenna systems (PASS), where pinching antennas are grouped into subarrays on each waveguide to cooperatively estimate user/scatterer locations,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Xiaoxia Xu , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Hong Xing , Arumugam Nallanathan

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

Security is emerging as a critical performance metric for next-generation wireless networks, but conventional multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems often suffer from severe path loss and are vulnerable to nearby eavesdroppers due to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Pigi P. Papanikolaou , Dimitrios Bozanis , Sotiris A. Tegos , Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis , George K. Karagiannidis

A novel GPASS architecture is proposed for jointly learning pinching beamforming and transmit beamforming in pinching antenna systems (PASS). The GPASS is with a staged architecture, where the positions of pinching antennas are first…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-04 Jia Guo , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

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

Switch-based hybrid network is a promising implementation for beamforming in large-scale millimetre wave (mmWave) antenna arrays. By fully exploiting the sparse nature of the mmWave channel, such hybrid beamforming reduces complexity and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-02 Hamed Nosrati , Elias Aboutanios , Xiangrong Wang , David Smith

The novel architecture of the center-fed pinching antenna system (C-PASS) is investigated, where the waveguide-fed signal is divided into two propagation directions through controllable power splitting. By doing so, a doubled degree of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Xu Gan , Yuanwei Liu