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This article investigates the beam training design problems for pinching-antenna systems (PASS), where single-waveguide-single-user (SWSU), single-waveguide-multi-user (SWMU) and multi-waveguide-multi-user (MWMU) scenarios are considered.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Suyu Lv , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiguo Ding

Throughput improvement of the Wireless LANs has been a constant area of research. Most of the work in this area, focuses on designing throughput optimal schemes for fully connected networks (no hidden nodes). But, we demonstrate that the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-06-11 Sundaresan Krishnan , Prasanna Chaporkar

As the capacity demand of mobile applications keeps increasing, the backhaul network is becoming a bottleneck to support high quality of experience (QoE) in next-generation wireless networks. Content caching at base stations (BSs) is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-03 Xi Peng , Juei-Chin Shen , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

Wise arrangement of antennas is critical in wireless cellular systems for both reduction of co-channel interference (CCI) and increase the quality of service (QoS). In this paper, a novel architecture for antenna arrangement in CDMA…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-08-23 Hamed Saghaei

Pinching-antenna systems (PASS) have recently attracted significant attention as a promising architecture for flexible and reconfigurable wireless communications. Despite notable advancements, research on energy efficiency (EE) maximization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-29 Yishi Zhang , Aditya Powari , Kaidi Wang , Yaru Fu , Daniel K. C. So

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

Pinching-antenna systems (PASS) have recently attracted considerable attention owing to their capability of flexibly reconfiguring large-scale wireless channels. Motivated by this potential, we investigate the issue of joint localization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-11 Min Liu , Yue Xiao , Shuaixin Yang , Gang Wu , Xianfu Lei , Wei Xiang

Flexible Antenna Systems (FAS) are a key enabler of next-generation wireless networks, allowing the antenna aperture to be dynamically reconfigured to adapt to channel conditions and service requirements. In this context, pinching-antenna…

Non-fixed flexible antenna architectures, such as fluid antenna system (FAS), movable antenna (MA), and pinching antenna, have garnered significant interest in recent years. In this paper, we propose a new rotatable antenna (RA) model to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Beixiong Zheng , Qingjie Wu , Tiantian Ma , Rui Zhang

The spectral and energy efficiency (SE-EE) trade-off in pinching-antenna systems (PASS) is investigated in this paper. In particular, two practical operating protocols, namely waveguide multiplexing (WM) and waveguide switching (WS), are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-09 Guangyu Zhu , Xidong Mu , Li Guo , Shibiao Xu , Yuanwei Liu , Naofal Al-Dhahir

This article analyzes the achievable sum-rate of multiuser uplink segmented waveguide-enabled pinching-antenna systems (SWANs). To unveil system-design insights, an upper bound on the achievable sum-rate is derived, based on which the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Songnan Gu , Zhenqiao Cheng , Hao Jiang , Chongjun Ouyang , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

This paper aims to design multiple access (MA) schemes to improve the max-min fairness (MMF) for pinching antennas (PAs)-based multigroup multicast communications, where PA placement and resource allocation are jointly optimized.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Shan Shan , Chongjun Ouyang , Yong Li , Yuanwei Liu

Data traffic over wireless communication networks has experienced a tremendous growth in the last decade, and it is predicted to exponentially increase in the next decades. Enabling future wireless networks to fulfill this expectation is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-12 Nima Najari Moghadam , Hamed Farhadi , Per Zetterberg , Majid Nasiri Khormuji , Mikael Skoglund

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

To promote the practicality of deep learning-based localization, existing studies aim to address the issue of scenario dependence through meta-learning. However, these studies primarily focus on variations in environmental layouts while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Qiqi Xiao , Ziqi Ye , Yinghui He , Jianwei Liu , Guanding Yu

In this letter, a pinching antenna (PA)-aided scheme for establishing a secure integrated sensing and communication system (ISAC) is investigated. The underlying system comprises a dual-functional radar communication (DFRC) base station…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Elmehdi Illi , Marwa Qaraqe , Ali Ghrayeb

Flexible antenna technology has recently emerged as a key enabler for next-generation wireless communications, which can effectively exploit the spatial degrees of freedom (DoF). However, existing conventional metrics (e.g., spectral and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Cheng Yang , Dong Li

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

The recently emerged movable antenna (MA) and fluid antenna technologies offer promising solutions to enhance the spatial degrees of freedom in wireless systems by dynamically adjusting the positions of transmit or receive antennas within…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Yikun Wang , Yang Li , Zeyi Ren , Jingreng Lei , Yik-Chung Wu , Rui Zhang

A pinching antenna system (PASS) assisted cognitive radio (CR) system is proposed. A secondary system sum rate maximization problem is formulated by jointly considering the base station (BS) power budget, the pinching antenna (PA)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Haochen Li , Ruikang Zhong , Zhaoming Hu , Zheng Zhang , Yaoyue Hu , Chao Dong