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Security is emerging as a critical performance metric for next-generation wireless networks, but conventional multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems often suffer from severe path loss and are vulnerable to nearby eavesdroppers due to…

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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

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

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

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

Pinching antenna systems (PASS) have the advantages in the perspective of flexible antenna reconfiguration, line-of-sight (LoS) creation, and scalability features. To highlight the ascendancy of PASS, we survey the integration of PASS into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Xinwei Yue , Xinglun Tao , Jingjing Zhao , Xianfu Lei , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiguo Ding

Pinching antennas, as a novel flexible-antenna technology capable of establishing line of sight (LoS) connections and effectively mitigating large-scale path loss, have recently attracted considerable research interests. However, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-07 Kaidi Wang , Zhiguo Ding , George K. Karagiannidis

Movable antennas (MAs) represent a promising paradigm to enhance the spatial degrees of freedom of conventional multi-antenna systems by dynamically adapting the positions of antenna elements within a designated transmit area. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Yifei Wu , Dongfang Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Wolfgang Gerstacker , Robert Schober

In this paper, a novel pinching-antenna assisted index modulation (PA-IM) scheme is proposed for improving the spectral efficiency without increasing the hardware complexity, where the information bits are conveyed not only by the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-13 Shuaixin Yang , Yijia Li , Yue Xiao , Yong Liang Guan , Xianfu Lei , Zhiguo Ding

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 consider a flexible-antenna architecture, referred to as a pinching-antenna (PA) system, in which multiple PAs realized by activating small dielectric particles along a dielectric waveguide are jointly employed to serve a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Saeed Mohammadzadeh , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Zhiguo Ding

This article investigates the integration of movable antennas (MAs) into multicast communication systems. By discretizing the motion of the MAs, a novel MA-assisted multicast transmission architecture is formulated. An alternating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-16 Zhenqiao Cheng , Nanxi Li , Jianchi Zhu , Chongjun Ouyang , Xingqi Zhang

Flexible-antenna systems have recently received significant research interest due to their capability to reconfigure wireless channels intelligently. This paper focuses on a new type of flexible-antenna technology, termed pinching antennas,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Zhiguo Ding , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor

Pinching-antenna technology has lately showcased its promising capability for reconfiguring wireless propagation environments, especially in high-frequency communication systems like millimeter-wave and terahertz bands. By dynamically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Ming Zeng , Xianbin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiguo Ding , George K. Karagiannidis , H. Vincent Poor

In this work, we investigate a blockage-aware pinching antenna (PA) system designed for secure and robust wireless communication. The considered system comprises a base station equipped with multiple waveguides, each hosting multiple PAs,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Ruotong Zhao , Shaokang Hu , Deepak Mishra , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Waveguide-based pinching-antenna systems (PASS) have recently emerged as a promising solution to mitigate severe propagation losses in millimeter-wave and terahertz bands by intelligently and flexibly establishing line-of-sight links.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Kasun R. Wijewardhana , Animesh Yadav , Ming Zeng , Mohamed Elsayed , Octavia A. Dobre , Zhiguo Ding

Movable antennas (MAs) are a promising paradigm to enhance the spatial degrees of freedom of conventional multi-antenna systems by flexibly adapting the positions of the antenna elements within a given transmit area. In this paper, we model…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Yifei Wu , Dongfang Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Wolfgang Gerstacker , Robert Schober

Reconfigurable-antenna systems have received increasing attention for their ability to adapt wireless channels. However, existing architectures exhibit scenario-dependent limitations: fluid antennas provide strong diversity gains in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Xiao Lin , Yizhe Zhao , Xiangyang Wang , Halvin Yang , Bingxin Zhang

Pinching-antenna systems have recently been proposed as a new candidate for flexible-antenna systems, not only inheriting the reconfiguration capability but also offering a unique feature: establishing line-of-sight links to mitigate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-21 Ximing Xie , Fang Fang , Zhiguo Ding , Xianbin Wang

Pinching antenna (PA) systems provide a new spatial degree of freedom by flexible activation of pinching positions. However, the resulting effective channel strongly depends on the activated pinching positions, rendering conventional…

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