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A novel fully-connected (FC) tri-hybrid beamforming (THB) architecture is proposed for pinching antenna systems (PASS). In contrast to conventional sub-connected (SC) PASS, the proposed FC architecture employs a tunable phase-shifter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-19 Cheng-Jie Zhao , Zhaolin Wang , Hyundong Shin , Yuanwei Liu

In this paper, we investigate the resource allocation for multi-dielectric waveguide-assisted broadcast systems, where each waveguide employs multiple pinching antennas (PAs), aiming to maximize the minimum achievable rate among multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Ruotong Zhao , Shaokang Hu , Deepak Mishra , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Recently, the study on pinching-antenna technique has attracted significant attention. However, most relevant literature focuses on a single-cell scenario, where the effect from the interfering pinching-antennas on waveguides connected to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Yanshi Sun , Zhiguo Ding , George K. Karagiannidis

Movable antenna (MA) has been recognized as a promising technology for performance enhancement in wireless communication and sensing systems by exploiting the spatial degrees of freedom (DoFs) in flexible antenna movement. However, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-10 Zhenyu Xiao , Xiangyu Pi , Songqi Cao , Lipeng Zhu , Zhen Gao , Xiang-Gen Xia , Rui Zhang

With great flexibility to adjust antenna positions, pinching antennas (PAs) are promising for alleviating large-scale attenuation in wireless networks. In this work, we investigate the antenna positioning and beamforming (AP-BF) design in a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-08 Lei Li , Yanqing Xu , Tenghao Cai , Tsung-Hui Chang

This paper exploits the dynamic features of wireless propagation environments as the basis for a new multiple access technique, termed environment division multiple access (EDMA). In particular, with the proposed pinching-antenna-assisted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Zhiguo Ding , Robert Schober , H. V. Poor

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

Movable antennas (MAs), traditionally explored in antenna design, have recently garnered significant attention in wireless communications due to their ability to dynamically adjust the antenna positions to changes in the propagation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-09 Boyu Ning , Songjie Yang , Yafei Wu , Peilan Wang , Weidong Mei , Chau Yuen , Emil Björnson

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

In this paper, we investigate the performance of physical-layer security of a pinching-antenna system on a lossless dielectric waveguide. In particular, the system uses a single pinching-antenna to convey confidential information from a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Osamah S. Badarneh , Hugerles S. Silva , Yazan H. Al Badarneh

As a novel member of flexible antennas, the pinching antenna (PA) is realized by integrating small dielectric particles on a waveguide, offering unique regulatory capabilities on constructing line-of-sight (LoS) links and enhancing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-29 Haolian Chi , Kunrui Cao , Zhou Su , Lei Zhou , Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis , Yuanwei Liu , George K. Karagiannidis

Pinching antenna systems have attracted much attention recently owing to its capability to maintain reliable line-of-sight (LoS) communication in high-frequency bands. By guiding signals through a waveguide and emitting them via a movable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Hao Feng , Ming Zeng , Xingwang Li , Wenwu Xie , Nian Xia , Octavia A. Dobre

We investigate a novel integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system enabled by pinching antennas (PAs), which are dynamically activated along a dielectric waveguide. Unlike prior designs, the PAs are organized into multiple clusters…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Ata Khalili , Brikena Kaziu , Vasilis K. Papanikolaou , Robert Schober

This paper studies multi-antenna-aided covert communications coexisting with randomly located wardens and interferers, considering both centralized and distributed antenna systems (CAS/DAS). The throughput performance of the covert…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Tong-Xing Zheng , Hui-Ming Wang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

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

Antenna array technology enables directional transmission and reception of wireless signals, for communications, localization, and sensing purposes. The signal processing algorithms that underpin this technology began to be developed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-09 Emil Björnson , Henk Wymeersch , Bho Matthiesen , Petar Popovski , Luca Sanguinetti , Elisabeth de Carvalho

In the literature of pinching-antenna systems, in-waveguide attenuation is often neglected to simplify system design and enable more tractable analysis. However, its effect on overall system performance has received limited attention in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Yanqing Xu , Zhiguo Ding , Octavia A. Dobre , Tsung-Hui Chang

Fluid antenna system (FAS) as a new version of reconfigurable antenna technologies promoting shape and position flexibility, has emerged as an exciting and possibly transformative technology for wireless communications systems. FAS…

The advent of the sixth-generation (6G) networks presents another round of revolution for the mobile communication landscape, promising an immersive experience, robust reliability, minimal latency, extreme connectivity, ubiquitous coverage,…

Fluid antenna systems (FAS) have recently emerged as a promising paradigm for achieving spatially reconfigurable, compact, and energy-efficient wireless communications in beyond fifth-generation (B5G) and sixth-generation (6G) networks. By…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Saeid Pakravan , Mohsen Ahmadzadeh , Ming Zeng , Wessam Ajib , Ji Wang , Xingwang Li