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This paper studies multi-antenna-aided covert communications coexisting with randomly located wardens and interferers, considering both centralized and distributed antenna systems (CAS/DAS). The throughput performance of the covert…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Tong-Xing Zheng , Hui-Ming Wang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

Most existing studies achieve beamforming by adjusting the positions of pinching antennas (PAs) and typically model PAs as isotropic radiators. However, under the dielectric scatterer model, the PA radiation pattern depends on its geometry.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Haoyang Li , Weidong Liu , Zhensheng Chen , Chaoyun Song , Gaojie Chen

Flexible-antenna systems have recently attracted significant research attention due to their potential to intelligently reconfigure wireless channels. However, the current flexible-antenna systems still suffer from fundamental limitations,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Yuanwei Liu , Zhaolin Wang , Xidong Mu , Chongjun Ouyang , Xiaoxia Xu , Zhiguo Ding

Pinching antenna systems (PASS) have emerged as a technology that enables the large-scale movement of antenna elements, offering significant potential for performance gains in next-generation wireless networks. This paper investigates the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Yue Zhang , Yaru Fu , Pei Liu , Yalin Liu , Kevin Hung

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

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…

Pinching-antenna system (PASS) mitigates large-scale path loss by enabling flexible placement of pinching antennas (PAs) along the dielectric waveguide. However, most existing studies assume perfect channel state information (CSI),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Mingjun Sun , Chongjun Ouyang , Shaochuan Wu , Yuanwei Liu

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

Dense cellular networks (DenseNets) are fast becoming a reality with the rapid deployment of base stations (BSs) aimed at meeting the explosive data traffic demand. In legacy systems however this comes with the penalties of higher network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Arman Shojaeifard , Kai-Kit Wong , Khairi Ashour Hamdi , Emad Alsusa , Daniel K. C. So , Jie Tang

A pinching antenna system (PASS) assisted cell-free communication system is proposed. A sum rate maximization problem under the BS power budget constraint and PA deployment constraint is formulated. To tackle the proposed non-convex…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Haochen Li , Jiayi Lei , Cheng Zeng , Zhaoming Hu , Chao Dong , Yuanwei Liu

Pinching-antenna systems (PASs) have been proposed as a flexible antenna technology to fulfill the stringent requirements of high data rate and large-scale equipment deployment in future wireless networks. The principle of PA involves…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Haoran Pang , Miaowen Wen , Fei Ji , Jun Li , Yiwei Tao

In this paper, we studies the performance of a novel simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) system enabled by a flexible pinching-antenna. To support flexible deployment and optimize energy-rate performance, we propose…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-05 Bingxin Zhang , Han Zhang , Kun Yang , Yizhe Zhao , Kezhi Wang

Beam management is central in the operation of beamformed wireless cellular systems such as 5G New Radio (NR) networks. Focusing the energy radiated to mobile terminals (MTs) by increasing the number of beams per cell increases signal power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Sanket S. Kalamkar , François Baccelli , Fuad M. Abinader , Andrea S. Marcano Fani , Luis G. Uzeda Garcia

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

We investigate the performance of the pinching-antenna systems (PASS) for semantic communication (SC) in both single-waveguide and multi-waveguide scenarios, under the constraints of bit-user quality of service (QoS) and bit-to-semantic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Ishtiaque Ahmed , Haris Parvaiz , Leila Musavian

The fundamental sensing limit of pinching-antenna systems (PASS) is studied from a Bayesian Cram\'er-Rao bound (BCRB) perspective. Compared to conventional CRB, BCRB is independent of the exact values of sensing parameters and is not…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Hao Jiang , Chongjun Ouyang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan , Zhiguo Ding

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) bands have been attracting growing attention as a possible candidate for next-generation cellular networks, since the available spectrum is orders of magnitude larger than in current cellular allocations. To…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Mattia Rebato , Jihong Park , Petar Popovski , Elisabeth De Carvalho , Michele Zorzi

This work considers the uplink of a Massive MIMO network wherein the base stations (BSs) are randomly deployed according to a homogenous Poisson point process of intensity $\lambda$. Each BS is equipped with $M$ antennas and serves $K$ user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Fahime Sadat Mirhosseini , Andrea Pizzo , Luca Sanguinetti , Aliakbar Tadaion

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

The performance of a cellular network can be significantly improved by employing many base stations (BSs), which shortens transmission distances. However, there exist no known results on quantifying the performance gains from deploying many…

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