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Future sixth-generation (6G) networks require high spectral efficiency (SE), massive connectivity, and stringent reliability under imperfect channel state information at the transmitter. Rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) addresses part…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Jinyuan Liu , Yong Liang Guan , Hong Niu , Qian Zhang , Mérouane Debbah , Hyundong Shin , Bruno Clerckx

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

We study the energy efficiency of pinching-antenna systems (PASSs) by developing a consistent formulation for power distribution in these systems. The per-antenna power distribution in PASSs is not controlled explicitly by a power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Saba Asaad , Chongjun Ouyang , Ali Bereyhi , Zhiguo Ding

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is considered a key technology for improving the spectral efficiency of fifth-generation (5G) and beyond 5G cellular networks. NOMA is beneficial when the channel vectors of the users are in the same…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Kusuma Priya P. , Pavan Reddy M. , Abhinav Kumar

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

With the increasing number of wireless communication systems and the demand for bandwidth, the wireless medium has become a congested and contested environment. Operating under such an environment brings several challenges, especially for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Onur Dizdar , Bruno Clerckx

In this letter, we investigate a novel pinching antenna (PA)-aided wireless powered communication network (WPCN), in which multiple PAs are activated along a waveguide to establish robust line-of-sight links with multiple devices. Both time…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yixuan Li , Hongbo Xu , Ming Zeng , Yuanwei Liu

This article investigates secure multicast communications in pinching-antenna systems (PASS), where pinching beamforming is enabled by adaptively adjusting pinching antenna (PAs) positions along waveguides to improve multicast security.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Shan Shan , Chongjun Ouyang , Yong Li , Yuanwei Liu

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

As a promising downlink multiple access scheme, Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) has been shown to achieve superior spectral and energy efficiencies compared with Space-Division Multiple Access (SDMA) and Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Yijie Mao , Bruno Clerckx , Victor O. K. Li

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

Uplink rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) requires optimization of decoding order and power allocation, while decoding order is a discrete variable, and it is very complex to find the optimal decoding order if the number of users is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Jiewen Hu , Gang Liu , Zheng Ma , Ming Xiao , Pingzhi Fan

This paper investigates the secrecy performance of pinching-antenna systems (PAS) under practical pinching-position activation uncertainty. By dynamically selecting the radiation point along a dielectric waveguide, PAS enables low-cost…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Saeid Pakravan , Imene Trigui , Wessam Ajib , Wei-Ping Zhu

Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) is an emerging flexible and powerful multiple access for downlink multiantenna networks. In this paper, we introduce the concept of RSMA into short-packet downlink communications. We design optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Yunnuo Xu , Yijie Mao , Onur Dizdar , Bruno Clerckx

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

In the upcoming 6G era, multiple access (MA) will play an essential role in achieving high throughput performances required in a wide range of wireless applications. Since MA and interference management are closely related issues, the…

This paper aims to provide a comprehensive solution for the design, analysis, and optimization of a multiple-antenna non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system for multiuser downlink communication with both time duplex division (TDD) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Xiaoming Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang , Caijun Zhong , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Non Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) is a key technique to satisfy large users densities in future wireless networks. However, NOMA may provide poor performance compared to Orthogonal Multiple Access (OMA) due to inter-user interference.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Mylene Pischella , Ivan Stupia , Luc Vandendorpe

As next-generation wireless networks emerge, security is becoming a critical performance metric. However, conventional multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems often suffer from severe path loss and are vulnerable to nearby…

This letter proposes a novel user localization and channel estimation framework for pinching-antenna systems (PASS), where pinching antennas are grouped into subarrays on each waveguide to cooperatively estimate user/scatterer locations,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Xiaoxia Xu , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Hong Xing , Arumugam Nallanathan