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In this letter, we consider a new type of flexible-antenna system, termed pinching-antenna, where multiple low-cost pinching antennas, realized by activating small dielectric particles on a dielectric waveguide, are jointly used to serve a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Yanqing Xu , Zhiguo Ding , George K. Karagiannidis

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

A multiple-waveguide pinching-antenna (PA)-based multi-user communication system is investigated. With a given number of PAs, two deployment strategies are considered, namely the centralized PA deployment, where all PAs are switched between…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-27 Mengyu Qian , Xidong Mu , Li You , Michail Matthaiou

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

Pinching antennas (PAs), as an emerging flexible-antenna technology, enables movable PAs deployed along waveguides to customize channel conditions over a large scale. This paper investigates an application of PAs to enable physical-layer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Yang Lu , Xinke Xie , Yanqing Xu , Bo Ai , Octavia A. Dobre , Dusit Niyato

Movable antenna (MA) technology, which can reconfigure wireless channels by flexibly moving antenna positions in a specified region, has great potential for improving communication performance. In this paper, we consider a new setup of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Guojie Hu , Qingqing Wu , Donghui Xu , Kui Xu , Jiangbo Si , Yunlong Cai , Naofal Al-Dhahir

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 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

Wireless communications in intelligent rail transit face harsh propagation conditions, including severe penetration loss, frequent blockages, and amplified large-scale fading. Existing leaky coaxial cables (LCX) provide wired-to-wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Yiran Guo , Wei Chen , Cong Yu , Bo Ai , Yuanwei Liu , Michail Matthaiou

Transmit beamforming is a versatile technique for signal transmission from an array of $N$ antennas to one or multiple users [1]. In wireless communications, the goal is to increase the signal power at the intended user and reduce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-22 Emil Björnson , Mats Bengtsson , Björn Ottersten

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

This paper investigates a rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) for uplink pinching antenna system (PASS). Our objective is to maximize the uplink sum rate by jointly optimizing a continuous antenna positioning and user's transmission…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-24 Zar Chi Phyo , Shreya Khisa , Chadi Assi , Sanaa Sharafaddine

This letter proposes a novel pinching antenna systems (PASS) enabled non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) multi-access edge computing (MEC) framework. An optimization problem is formulated to minimize the maximum task delay by optimizing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Yuan Ai , Xidong Mu , Pengbo Si , Yuanwei Liu

The use of the millimeter (mm) wave spectrum for next generation (5G) mobile communication has gained significant attention recently. The small carrier wavelengths at mmwave frequencies enable synthesis of compact antenna arrays, providing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-22 Jaspreet Singh , Sudhir Ramakrishna

This paper investigates a pinching-antenna (PA)-enabled cognitive radio network, where both the primary transmitter (PT) and secondary transmitter (ST) are equipped with a single waveguide and multiple PAs to facilitate simultaneous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Zeyang Sun , Xidong Mu , Shuai Han , Sai Xu , Michail Matthaiou

A segmented waveguide-enabled pinching-antenna system (SWAN)-assisted over-the-air computation (AirComp) framework is proposed. Three transmission architectures, namely segment selection (SS), phase-shifter-free segment aggregation (SA),…

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

Movable antennas offer new potential for wireless communication by introducing degrees of freedom in antenna positioning, which has recently been explored for improving sum rates. In this paper, we aim to fully leverage the capabilities of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Songjie Yang , Zihang Wan , Yue Xiu , Boyu Ning , Yong Li , Yuenwei Liu , Chau Yuen

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

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

In this paper, we investigate a multiuser distributed antenna system with simultaneous wireless information and power transmission under the assumption of imperfect channel state information (CSI). In this system, a distributed antenna port…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Zhengyu Zhu , Sai Huang , Zheng Chu , Fuhui Zhou , Di Zhang , Inkyu Lee