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Ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC) is a pivotal technique for enabling the wireless control over industrial Internet-of-Things (IIoT) devices. By deploying distributed access points (APs), cell-free massive multiple-input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Qihao Peng , Hong Ren , Cunhua Pan , Nan Liu , Maged Elkashlan

Pinching antennas is a novel flexible-antenna technology, which can be realized by employing small dielectric particles on a waveguide. The aim of this letter is to characterize the array gain achieved by pinching-antenna systems (PASS). A…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Chongjun Ouyang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiguo Ding

Relay nodes-enhanced architectures are deemed a viable solution to enhance coverage and capacity of nowadays cellular networks. Besides a number of desirable features, these architectures reduce the average distance between users and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-05-06 Mattia Minelli , Maode Ma , Marceau Coupechoux , Jean-Marc Kelif , Marc Sigelle , Philippe Godlewski

Pinching antenna (PA), a flexible waveguide integrated with dielectric particles, intelligently reconstructs line-of-sight channels. Utilizing its geometric deterministic model and meter-level reconstruction, PA systems (PASS) are applied…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Yaoyu Zhang , Xin Sun , Jun Wang , Tianwei Hou , Anna Li , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

Rate splitting (RS) is a potentially powerful and flexible technique for multi-antenna downlink transmission. In this paper, we address several technical challenges towards its practical implementation for beyond 5G systems. To this end, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Zheng Li , Chencheng Ye , Ying Cui , Sheng Yang , Shlomo Shamai

To efficiently support safety-related vehicular applications, the ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC) concept has become an indispensable component of vehicular networks (VNETs). Due to the high mobility of VNETs,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Haojun Yang , Kan Zheng , Long Zhao , Lajos Hanzo

Radio stripes (RSs) is an emerging technology in beyond 5G and 6G wireless networks to support the deployment of cell-free architectures. In this paper, we investigate the potential use of RSs to enable joint positioning and synchronization…

The strict latency and reliability requirements of ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) use cases are among the main drivers in fifth generation (5G) network design. Link adaptation (LA) is considered to be one of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-02 Alessandro Brighente , Jafar Mohammadi , Paolo Baracca

The next generation ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (xURLLC) need novel design to provide satisfactory services to the emerging mission-critical applications. To improve the spectrum efficiency and enhance the robustness of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Tiantian Li , Haixia Zhang , Shuaishuai Guo , Dongfeng Yuan

In this paper, an uplink scheduling policy problem to minimize the network latency, defined as the air-time to serve all of users with a quality-of-service (QoS), under an energy constraint is considered in a training-based large-scale…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Kyung Jun Choi , Kwang Soon Kim

This article investigates the application of pinching-antenna systems (PASS) in multiuser multiple-input single-output (MISO) communications. Two sum-rate maximization problems are formulated under minimum mean square error (MMSE) decoding,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-24 Jiarui Zhang , Hao Xu , Chongjun Ouyang , Qiuyun Zou , Hongwen Yang

Pinching antenna (PA) systems have recently emerged as a promising architecture for reconfigurable wireless communications by enabling flexible antenna placement along a dielectric waveguide. However, existing works typically assume perfect…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Hao Feng , Ebrahim Bedeer , Ming Zeng , Xingwang Li , Wanming Hao , Dingzhu Wen

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

The practical channel estimation for pinching-antenna networks is investigated, in which an electromagnetic-compliant in-waveguide transmission model is exhibited, incorporating bidirectional power splitting, cumulative power leakage, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Jian Xiao

Modern wireless communication systems are expected to provide improved latency and reliability. To meet these expectations, a short packet length is needed, which makes the first-order Shannon rate an inaccurate performance metric for such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Mohammad Soleymani , Ignacio Santamaria , Eduard Jorswieck , Robert Schober , Lajos Hanzo

This letter explores how pinching antennas, an advanced flexible-antenna system, can enhance the performance of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems by leveraging their adaptability, cost-effectiveness, and ability to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Yunhui Qin , Yaru Fu , Haijun Zhang

The evolution of wireless communication systems requires flexible, energy-efficient, and cost-effective antenna technologies. Pinching antennas (PAs), which can dynamically control electromagnetic wave propagation through binary activation…

The pinching-antenna architecture has emerged as a promising solution for reconfiguring wireless propagation environments and enhancing system performance. While prior research has primarily focused on sum-rate maximization or transmit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Ming Zeng , Xingwang Li , Ji Wang , Gaojian Huang , Octavia A. Dobre , Zhiguo Ding

Ensuring ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC) for 5G wireless networks and beyond is of capital importance and is currently receiving tremendous attention in academia and industry. At its core, URLLC mandates a departure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Mehdi Bennis , Mérouane Debbah , H. Vincent Poor

Ultra Reliable and Low Latency Communications (URLLC) is deemed to be an essential service in 5G systems and beyond to accommodate a wide range of emerging applications with stringent latency and reliability requirements. Coexistence of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Mohammed AL-Mekhlafi , Mohaned Chraiti , Mohamed Amine Arfaoui , Chadi Assi , Ali Ghrayeb , Amira Alloum