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Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) is expected to be a technology reshaping the landscape of low-power applications such as the Internet of Things, Radio Frequency identification (RFID) networks, etc. Although there has been some progress…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Yang Huang , Bruno Clerckx

A wireless sensing architecture via pinching antenna systems is proposed. Compared to conventional wireless systems, PASS offers flexible antenna deployment and improved probing performance for wireless sensing by leveraging dielectric…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Zhaolin Wang , Chongjun Ouyang , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

A reconfigurable pinching-antenna system (PASS) is presented, endowing pinching antennas (PAs) with both amplitude- and phase-controllable radiation beyond conventional implementations. To characterize this feature, a general and physically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zhaolin Wang , Jiaqi Xu , Chongjun Ouyang , 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 paper studies a pinching antenna system (PAS)-assisted hybrid uplink architecture that integrates over-the-air computation (AirComp) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) to simultaneously support distributed data aggregation and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Saeid Pakravan , Imene Trigui , Wessam Ajib , Wei-Ping Zhu

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

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

The position-fluid antenna (PFA) architecture has become one of the appealing technologies to support ubiquitous connectivity demand in next-generation wireless systems. Specifically, allowing the antenna to adjust its physical position to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Heyin Shen , Chong Han , Hao Liu , Tao Yang

Millimeter-wave and terahertz communications face a fundamental challenge: overcoming severe path loss without sacrificing spectral efficiency. Pinching antenna systems (PASS) address this by bringing radiators physically close to users,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Dengke Wei , Runxin Zhang , Yulin Shao , Fen Hou , Shaodan Ma

Positioning has recently received considerable attention as a key enabler in emerging applications such as extended reality, unmanned aerial vehicles and smart environments. These applications require both data communication and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Yang Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Yufei Blankenship , Jemin Lee , Zabih Ghassemlooy , Julian Cheng , Shiwen Mao

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

Pinching antenna systems (PASSs) can dynamically adapt their transmit and receive arrays for sensing and communication in wireless systems. This work explores the potential of PASSs for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Saba Asaad , Chongjun Ouyang , Zhiguo Ding , Ali Bereyhi

In this paper,we investigate a novel wireless powered mobile edge computing (MEC) system assisted by pinching antennas (PAs), where devices first harvest energy from a base station and then offload computation-intensive tasks to an MEC…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-19 Peng Liu , Meng Hua , Guangji Chen , Xinyi Wang , Zesong Fei

The joint transmit and pinching beamforming design for spectral efficiency (SE) and energy efficiency (EE) tradeoff in pinching-antenna systems (PASS) is proposed, under practical channel and energy consumption models. In the single-user…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Zihao Zhou , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu

Pinching antenna systems (PASS) have been proposed as a revolutionary flexible antenna technology which facilitates line-of-sight links via numerous low-cost pinching antennas with adjustable activation positions over waveguides. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-24 Luyuan Zhang , Xidong Mu , An Liu , Yuanwei Liu

Federated learning (FL) in wireless networks is limited by straggler delays from unpredictable channel conditions. In this paper, we investigate the pinching-antenna system (PASS), which dynamically 'pinches' the radiator along a dielectric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yushen Lin , Zihan Chen , Zhiguo Ding

A location-aware multi-antenna coded caching scheme is proposed for applications with location-dependent data requests, such as wireless immersive experience, where users are immersed in a three-dimensional virtual world. The wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Hamidreza Bakhshzad Mahmoodi , MohammadJavad Salehi , Antti Tolli

This paper investigates energy efficiency maximization for movable antenna (MA)-aided multi-user uplink communication systems by considering the time delay and energy consumption incurred by practical antenna movement. We first examine the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jingze Ding , Zijian Zhou , Lipeng Zhu , Yuping Zhao , Bingli Jiao , Rui Zhang

Guided wireless technology is an innovative approach that combines the strengths of guided waves and wireless communication. In traditional wireless systems, signals propagate through the air, where they are vulnerable to interference,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Mohamed Akrout , Amine Mezghani , Faouzi Bellili , Robert W. Heath

In this paper, we investigate the design of artificial-noise-aided secure multi-antenna transmission in slow fading channels. The primary design concerns include the transmit power allocation and the rate parameters of the wiretap code. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Xi Zhang , Xiangyun Zhou , Matthew R. McKay