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This paper conducts a comprehensive performance analysis for pinching-antenna systems (PASS) under both orthogonal multiple access (OMA) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) transmission. Given the cost of waveguides, we consider a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-04 Yanyu Cheng , Chongjun Ouyang , Yuanwei Liu , George K. Karagiannidis

Pinching-antenna systems (PASs) have recently emerged as a flexible, cost-effective route to large-scale antenna deployments envisioned for integrated sensing and communications (ISAC). This paper establishes the fundamental sensing limits…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-05 Dimitrios Bozanis , Vasilis K. Papanikolaou , Sotiris A. Tegos , George K. Karagiannidis

A sensing-aided covert communication network empowered by pinching antenna systems (PASS) is proposed in this work. Unlike conventional fixed-position MIMO arrays, PASS dynamically reconfigures its pinching antennas (PAs) closer to the…

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

A dual-scale deployment (DSD) framework is proposed for pinching antenna systems (PASS), under which four protocols are provided. 1) For the coarse-scale deployment, the pinching antenna (PA) is transferred over a large-scale range at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Xu Gan , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu

A novel architecture of the center-fed pinching antenna system (C-PASS) is proposed. In contrast to the conventional end-fed PASS, signals are fed from the center input ports and propagate towards both sides of the waveguide. By doing so,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Xu Gan , Yuanwei Liu

Pinching antenna systems (PAS) have recently emerged as a promising architecture for flexible and reconfigurable wireless communications. However, their performance is fundamentally constrained by in-waveguide attenuation, which is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Ximing Xie , Hao Qin , Fang Fang , Xianbin Wang

A pinching antenna system (PASS) assisted cell-free communication system is proposed. A sum rate maximization problem under the BS power budget constraint and PA deployment constraint is formulated. To tackle the proposed non-convex…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Haochen Li , Jiayi Lei , Cheng Zeng , Zhaoming Hu , Chao Dong , 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

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

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 novel concept of waveguide division multiple access (WDMA) is proposed for multi-user pinching-antenna systems (PASS). The key principle of WDMA is to allocate each user with a dedicated waveguide, which is regarded as a new type of radio…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Jingjing Zhao , Xidong Mu , Kaiquan Cai , Yanbo Zhu , Yuanwei Liu

Federated learning (FL) over wireless networks is fundamentally constrained by unreliable communication links, particularly when uplink channels suffer from blockage, fading, or weak line-of-sight (LoS) conditions. Pinching-antenna systems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Saba Asaad , Hina Tabassum , Ping Wang

The fundamental sensing limit of pinching-antenna systems (PASS) is studied from a Bayesian Cram\'er-Rao bound (BCRB) perspective. Compared to conventional CRB, BCRB is independent of the exact values of sensing parameters and is not…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Hao Jiang , Chongjun Ouyang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan , Zhiguo Ding

This paper investigates a novel downlink symbiotic radio framework enabled by the pinching antenna system (PASS), designed to enhance both primary and secondary transmissions through reconfigurable antenna positioning. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Ze Wang , Guoping Zhang , Hongbo Xu , Wei Liu , Ming Zeng , Fang Fang , Dusit Niyato

Pinching-antenna systems (PASS) represent a promising customizable wireless access mechanism in high-frequency bands, enabled by dielectric waveguides and movable dielectric particles, called pinching antennas (PAs). In this work, we study…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Muhammad Fainan Hanif , Yuanwei Liu

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

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

Unlike conventional systems using a fixed-location antenna, the channel capacity of the pinching-antenna system (PASS) is determined by the activated positions of pinching antennas. This article characterizes the capacity region of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Chongjun Ouyang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiguo Ding

The pinching-antenna system (PASS) reconstructs wireless channels through pinching beamforming, i.e., optimizing the activated locations of pinching antennas (PAs) along the waveguide. The aim of this article is to investigate the joint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Mingjun Sun , Chongjun Ouyang , Shaochuan Wu , Yuanwei Liu

Pinching antennas, realized through position-adjustable radiating elements along dielectric waveguides, have emerged as a promising flexible-antenna technology thanks to their ability to dynamically reshape large-scale channel conditions.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Yanqing Xu , Yang Lu , Zhiguo Ding , Tsung-Hui Chang