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This paper considers a power-splitting (PS)-based simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) system employing a reconfigurable pinching antenna (PA) under probabilistic line-of-sight (LoS) blockage. We formulate a joint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Ruihong Jiang , Ruichen Zhang , Yanqing Xu , Huimin Hu , Yang Lu , Dusit Niyato

Pinching antennas, as a novel flexible-antenna technology capable of establishing line of sight (LoS) connections and effectively mitigating large-scale path loss, have recently attracted considerable research interests. However, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-07 Kaidi Wang , Zhiguo Ding , George K. Karagiannidis

This paper investigates the resource allocation design for a pinching antenna (PA)-assisted multiuser multiple-input single-output (MISO) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system featuring multiple dielectric waveguides. To enhance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-31 Shaokang Hu , Ruotong Zhao , Yihuan Liao , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

This paper addresses, for the first time, the uplink performance optimization of multi-user pinching-antenna (PA) systems, recently developed for next-generation wireless networks. By leveraging the unique capabilities of PAs to dynamically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Sotiris A. Tegos , Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis , Zhiguo Ding , George K. Karagiannidis

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

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

A segmented waveguide-enabled pinching-antenna system (SWAN)-assisted over-the-air computation (AirComp) framework is proposed. Three transmission architectures, namely segment selection (SS), phase-shifter-free segment aggregation (SA),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Songnan Gu , Hao Jiang , Chongjun Ouyang , Dian Fan , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

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

Pinching-antenna systems (PASS) have recently attracted considerable attention owing to their capability of flexibly reconfiguring large-scale wireless channels. Motivated by this potential, we investigate the issue of joint localization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-11 Min Liu , Yue Xiao , Shuaixin Yang , Gang Wu , Xianfu Lei , Wei Xiang

This two-part paper aims to develop an environment-aware network-level design framework for generalized pinching-antenna systems to overcome the limitations of conventional link-level optimization, which is tightly coupled to instantaneous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Yanqing Xu , Zhiguo Ding , Xiu Yin Zhang , Trung Q. Duong , Tsung-Hui Chang

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

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 this paper, we consider a flexible-antenna architecture, referred to as a pinching-antenna (PA) system, in which multiple PAs realized by activating small dielectric particles along a dielectric waveguide are jointly employed to serve a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Saeed Mohammadzadeh , Kanapathippillai Cumanan , Zhiguo Ding

In this paper, we investigate an uplink communication scenario in which multiple users communicate with an access point (AP) employing non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). A pinching antenna, which can be activated at an arbitrary point…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Ming Zeng , Ji Wang , Xingwang Li , Gongpu Wang , Octavia A. Dobre , Zhiguo Ding

Federated learning (FL) in wireless networks is limited by straggler delays from unpredictable channel conditions. In this paper, we investigate the pinching-antenna system (PASS), which dynamically 'pinches' the radiator along a dielectric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yushen Lin , Zihan Chen , Zhiguo Ding

Pinching antenna (PA) systems have recently gained significant attention. While their physical-layer security (PLS) is being explored, most studies rely on idealized lossless models, ignoring practical waveguide attenuation. In this paper,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-17 Xiaochen Zhang , Haitao Du , Yanyu Cheng , Yushen Lin , Kah Chan Teh

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

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

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

A joint communication and computation (JCC) framework using segmented pinching antenna system (PASS) is proposed, where both the communication bit streams and computation data are simultaneously transmitted via uplink communications. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Deqiao Gan , Xiaoxia Xu , Xiaohu Ge , Yuanwei Liu