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Movable antennas (MAs), traditionally explored in antenna design, have recently garnered significant attention in wireless communications due to their ability to dynamically adjust the antenna positions to changes in the propagation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-09 Boyu Ning , Songjie Yang , Yafei Wu , Peilan Wang , Weidong Mei , Chau Yuen , Emil Björnson

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

Pinching antenna systems (PASS) enable reconfigurable radiating elements and extended line-of-sight communication, mitigating path loss effects. However, existing designs lack fully controllable radiation weights, as they are governed by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Askin Altinoklu , Leila Musavian

A novel GPASS architecture is proposed for jointly learning pinching beamforming and transmit beamforming in pinching antenna systems (PASS). The GPASS is with a staged architecture, where the positions of pinching antennas are first…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-04 Jia Guo , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

In this paper, we investigate the resource allocation for multi-dielectric waveguide-assisted broadcast systems, where each waveguide employs multiple pinching antennas (PAs), aiming to maximize the minimum achievable rate among multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Ruotong Zhao , Shaokang Hu , Deepak Mishra , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

The aim of this letter is to explore the capability of pinching-antenna systems to construct line-of-sight (LoS) links in the presence of LoS blockages. Specifically, pinching antennas are pre-installed at preconfigured positions along…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Kaidi Wang , Chongjun Ouyang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiguo Ding

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

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 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

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

This letter introduces a novel pinching-antenna-system (PASS) assisted simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT), where multiple pinching antennas (PAs) are strategically activiated on a waveguide to facilitate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Yixuan Li , Ji Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiguo Ding

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) enables fast data aggregation for edge intelligence applications. However the performance of AirComp can be severely degraded by channel misalignments. Pinching antenna systems (PASS) have recently emerged…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Zhonghao Lyu , Haoyun Li , Yulan Gao , Ming Xiao , H. Vincent Poor

A Pinching-Antenna SyStem (PASS)-assisted convert communication framework is proposed. PASS utilizes dielectric waveguides with freely positioned pinching antennas (PAs) to establish strong line-of-sight links. Capitalizing on this high…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Hao Jiang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu

This letter introduces a novel wireless powered communication system, referred to as a wireless powered pinching-antenna network (WPPAN), utilizing a single waveguide with pinching antennas to address the double near-far problem inherent in…

This letter investigates the potential of pinching-antenna systems for enhancing physical layer security. By pre-installing multiple pinching antennas at discrete positions along a waveguide, the capability of the considered system to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Kaidi Wang , Zhiguo Ding , Naofal Al-Dhahir

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

Pinching antenna systems (PASS) have been proposed as a revolutionary flexible antenna technology which facilitates line-of-sight links via numerous low-cost pinching antennas with adjustable activation positions over waveguides. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-24 Luyuan Zhang , Xidong Mu , An Liu , Yuanwei Liu

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 considers a multi-user system, where the users first harvest energy from the base station and then use the harvested energy to transmit information via non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). A pinching antenna array is adopted to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Saeid Pakravan , Mohsen Ahmadzadeh , Ming Zeng , Xingwang Li , Fang Fang

In this work, we investigate a blockage-aware pinching antenna (PA) system designed for secure and robust wireless communication. The considered system comprises a base station equipped with multiple waveguides, each hosting multiple PAs,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Ruotong Zhao , Shaokang Hu , Deepak Mishra , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng