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A novel pinching antenna system (PASS)-enabled downlink multi-user multiple-input single-output (MISO) framework is proposed. PASS consists of multiple waveguides spanning over thousands of wavelength, which equip numerous low-cost…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Xiaoxia Xu , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

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

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 antennas systems (PASSs) have recently been proposed as a novel flexible-antenna technology. These systems are implemented by attaching low-cost pinching elements to dielectric waveguides. As the direct link is bypassed through…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Saba Asaad , Ali Bereyhi

A reconfigurable pinching-antenna system (PASS) is presented, endowing pinching antennas (PAs) with both amplitude- and phase-controllable radiation beyond conventional implementations. To characterize this feature, a general and physically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zhaolin Wang , Jiaqi Xu , Chongjun Ouyang , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu

Next-generation (NG) wireless networks must embrace innate intelligence in support of demanding emerging applications, such as extended reality and autonomous systems, under ultra-reliable and low-latency requirements. Pinching antennas…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Fang Fang , Zhiguo Ding , Victor C. M. Leung , Lajos Hanzo

In low-altitude wireless communications, the increased complexity of wireless channels and the uncertainty of eavesdroppers (Eves)--caused by diverse altitudes, speeds, and obstacles--pose significant challenges to physical layer security…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Yujia Zhao , Zhiyong Feng , Kan Yu , Qixun Zhang , Dong Li

As an emerging flexible antenna technology for wireless communications, pinching-antenna systems, offer distinct advantages in terms of cost efficiency and deployment flexibility. This paper investigates joint transmission strategies of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Enzhi Zhou , Jingjing Cui , Ziyue Liu , Zhiguo Ding , Pingzhi Fan

Recently, the pinching antenna systems (PASS) have attracted significant attention due to their ability to exploit dynamically reconfigurable pinching points along waveguides for flexible signal transmission. However, existing work largely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 Ali Amhaz , Mohamed Elhattab , Chadi Assi , Sanaa Sharafeddine

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

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

Flexible-antenna systems, such as fluid antennas and movable antennas, have been recognized as key enabling technologies for sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks, as they can intelligently reconfigure the effective channel gains of the…

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

An integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) design for pinching antenna systems (PASS) is proposed, where the pinching antennas are deployed to establish reliable line-of-sight communication and sensing links. More particularly, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Zheng Zhang , Zhaolin Wang , Xidong Mu , Bingtao He , Jian Chen , Yuanwei Liu

Pinching-antenna systems (PASS) have been recently proposed to improve the performance of wireless networks by reconfiguring both the large-scale and small-scale channel conditions. However, existing studies ignore the physical constraints…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-04 Yiming Xu , Dongfang Xu , Xianghao Yu , Shenghui Song , Zhiguo Ding , Robert Schober

A novel pinching antenna system (PASS) enabled wireless power transfer (WPT) framework is proposed, where energy harvesting receivers (EHRs) and information decoding receivers (IDRs) coexist. By activating pinching antennas (PAs) near both…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-17 Deqiao Gan , Xiaoxia Xu , Xiaohu Ge , Yue Liu , Yuanwei Liu

Pinching-antenna systems (PASSs) are a recent flexible-antenna technology that is realized by attaching simple components, referred to as pinching elements, to dielectric waveguides. This work explores the potential of deploying PASS for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Ali Bereyhi , Chongjun Ouyang , Saba Asaad , Zhiguo Ding , H. Vincent Poor

Pinching antennas, realized through position-adjustable radiating elements along dielectric waveguides, have emerged as a promising flexible-antenna technology thanks to their ability to dynamically reshape large-scale channel conditions.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Yanqing Xu , Yang Lu , Zhiguo Ding , Tsung-Hui Chang

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

Millimeter-wave and terahertz communications face a fundamental challenge: overcoming severe path loss without sacrificing spectral efficiency. Pinching antenna systems (PASS) address this by bringing radiators physically close to users,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Dengke Wei , Runxin Zhang , Yulin Shao , Fen Hou , Shaodan Ma