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In physical layer security, the channel state information (CSI) of passive eavesdroppers is usually difficult to obtain, which has motivated sensing-aided secure communication (SASC). However, in secure multicast scenarios, conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zequan Wang , Liang Yin , Hao Xu , Yunan Sun , Yitong Liu , Hongwen Yang

Pinching-antenna systems (PASS) have emerged as a promising flexible-antenna architecture capable of dynamically reconfiguring wireless channels by activating dielectric particles along waveguides. The sum rate maximization problem in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Guangyu Li , Xin Sun , Tianwei Hou , Anna Li , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

A novel fully-connected (FC) tri-hybrid beamforming (THB) architecture is proposed for pinching antenna systems (PASS). In contrast to conventional sub-connected (SC) PASS, the proposed FC architecture employs a tunable phase-shifter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-19 Cheng-Jie Zhao , Zhaolin Wang , Hyundong Shin , Yuanwei Liu

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

In this paper, we study multibeam satellite secure communication through physical (PHY) layer security techniques, i.e., joint power control and beamforming. By first assuming that the Channel State Information (CSI) is available and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Jiang Lei , Zhu Han , M. A. Vázquez-Castro , Are Hjørungnes

This paper studies a downlink secure integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, in which a multi-antenna base station (BS) transmits confidential messages to a single-antenna communication user (CU) while performing sensing on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Zixiang Ren , Ling Qiu , Jie Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

In this paper, we investigate a novel integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system aided by movable antennas (MAs). A bistatic radar system, in which the base station (BS) is configured with MAs, is integrated into a multi-user…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Wanting Lyu , Songjie Yang , Yue Xiu , Zhongpei Zhang , Chadi Assi , Chau Yuen

This letter investigates the integration of pinching-antenna systems (PASS) with orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) to ensure their compatibility and to explore the frequency-selective behavior inherent to PASS. First, an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Jian Xiao , Ji Wang , Ming Zeng , Yuanwei Liu , George K. Karagiannidis

A novel architecture of the center-fed pinching antenna system (C-PASS) is proposed. In contrast to the conventional end-fed PASS, signals are fed from the center input ports and propagate towards both sides of the waveguide. By doing so,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Xu Gan , Yuanwei Liu

In this paper, a novel movable antenna (MA) empowered secure transmission scheme is designed for cell-free symbiotic radio (SR) systems in the presence of an eavesdropper (Eve). Specifically, multiple distributed access points (APs)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Jiayu Guan , Bin Lyu , Yan Liu , Feng Tian

Movable antenna (MA) is a promising technology to improve wireless communication performance by varying the antenna position in a given finite area at the transceivers to create more favorable channel conditions. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Lipeng Zhu , Wenyan Ma , Boyu Ning , Rui Zhang

This paper investigates the passive beamforming and information transfer (PBIT) technique for the multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with the aid of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), where the RIS enhances the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Wenjing Yan , Xiaojun Yuan , Zhen-Qing He , Xiaoyan Kuai

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

A novel movable antenna (MA)-aided secure transmission framework is proposed to enhance the secrecy transmission rate without relying on the eavesdropper's channel state information. Within this framework, a joint beamforming and jamming…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Zhenqiao Cheng , Chongjun Ouyang , Xingqi Zhang

In this paper, we investigate physical layer security (PLS) for full-duplex (FD) multi-user systems. We consider a base station (BS) that operates in FD mode and transmits artificial noise (AN) to simultaneously protect uplink (UL) and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Jingze Ding , Zijian Zhou , Bingli Jiao

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication systems relying on hybrid beamforming structures are capable of achieving high spectral efficiency at a low hardware complexity and low power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-13 Chenghao Feng , Wenqian Shen , Jianping An , Lajos Hanzo

This paper considers downlink multicast transmit beamforming for secure layered transmission systems with wireless simultaneous information and power transfer. We study the power allocation algorithm design for minimizing the total transmit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober , Hussein Alnuweiri

A segmented waveguide-enabled pinching-antenna system (SWAN) is proposed, in which a segmented waveguide composed of multiple short dielectric waveguide segments is employed to radiate or receive signals through the pinching antennas (PAs)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Chongjun Ouyang , Hao Jiang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiguo Ding

In this paper, we propose a new multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system with movable antennas (MAs) to exploit the antenna position optimization for enhancing the capacity. Different from conventional MIMO systems with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Wenyan Ma , Lipeng Zhu , Rui Zhang

This work proposes a novel joint design for multiuser multiple-input multiple-output wiretap channels. The base station exploits a switching network to connect a subset of its antennas to the available radio frequency chains. The switching…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Zhenqiao Cheng , Nanxi Li , Ruizhe Long , Jianchi Zhu , Chongjun Ouyang , Peng Chen