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A practical and scalable multicast beamformer design in multi-input multi-output~(MIMO) coded caching~(CC) systems is introduced in this paper. The proposed approach allows multicast transmission to multiple groups with partially…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Mohammad NaseriTehrani , MohammadJavad Salehi , Antti Tölli

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) has emerged as a promising technology to enhance the wireless propagation environment for next-generation wireless communication systems. This paper introduces a new RIS-assisted multiple-antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Xiaofan Niu , Minquan Cheng , Kai Wan , Robert Caiming Qiu , Giuseppe Caire

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

This paper investigates a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multi-waveguide pinching-antenna (PA) system (PASS) for multi-user downlink information transmission, motivated by the unknown impact of the integration of emerging…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Changpeng He , Yang Lu , Yanqing Xu , Chong-Yung Chi , Bo Ai , Arumugam Nallanathan

Movable antenna (MA) is an emerging technology that utilizes localized antenna movement to achieve better channel conditions for enhancing communication performance. In this paper, we study the MA-enhanced multicast transmission from a base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Ying Gao , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen

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

Federated learning (FL) over wireless networks is fundamentally constrained by unreliable communication links, particularly when uplink channels suffer from blockage, fading, or weak line-of-sight (LoS) conditions. Pinching-antenna systems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Saba Asaad , Hina Tabassum , Ping Wang

Movable antennas (MAs) have drawn increasing attention in wireless communications due to their capability to create favorable channel conditions via local movement within a confined region. In this letter, we investigate its application in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Xuanlin Shen , Xin Wei , Weidong Mei , Zhi Chen , Jun Fang , Boyu Ning

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

Flexible Antenna Systems (FAS) are a key enabler of next-generation wireless networks, allowing the antenna aperture to be dynamically reconfigured to adapt to channel conditions and service requirements. In this context, pinching-antenna…

A multi-antenna broadcast channel scenario is considered where a base station delivers contents to cache-enabled user terminals. A joint design of coded caching (CC) and multigroup multicast beamforming is proposed to benefit from spatial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Antti Tölli , Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi , Jarkko Kaleva , Babak Khalaj

Pinching antenna system (PAS) serves as a groundbreaking paradigm that enhances wireless communications by flexibly adjusting the position of pinching antenna (PA) and establishing a strong line-of-sight (LoS) link, thereby reducing the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 Kunrui Cao , Jingyu Chen , Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis , Lei Zhou , Xingwang Li , Yuanwei Liu , George K. Karagiannidis

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

Pinching antenna systems (PASS) have recently emerged as a promising architecture for high-frequency wireless communications. In this letter, we investigate localization in PASS by jointly exploiting the received signal amplitude and phase…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Hao Feng , Ebrahim Bedeer , Ming Zeng , Xingwang Li , Shimin Gong , Quoc-Viet Pham

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

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

This study investigates subarray-level movable antenna (MA) architecture for multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) systems. Unlike conventional systems with fixed-position antennas (FPAs), the proposed scheme harnesses the additional positional degrees…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-22 Shanshan Zhang , Songjie Yang , Wenxuan Zhang , Youzhi Xiong , Siya Yao

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

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 letter, a pinching antenna (PA)-aided scheme for establishing a secure integrated sensing and communication system (ISAC) is investigated. The underlying system comprises a dual-functional radar communication (DFRC) base station…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Elmehdi Illi , Marwa Qaraqe , Ali Ghrayeb