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In this paper,we investigate a novel wireless powered mobile edge computing (MEC) system assisted by pinching antennas (PAs), where devices first harvest energy from a base station and then offload computation-intensive tasks to an MEC…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-19 Peng Liu , Meng Hua , Guangji Chen , Xinyi Wang , Zesong Fei

A segmented waveguide-enabled pinching-antenna system (SWAN)-assisted integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) framework is proposed. Unlike conventional pinching antenna systems (PASS), which use a single long waveguide, SWAN divides…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Hao Jiang , Chongjun Ouyang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan , Zhiguo Ding , Robert Schober

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

As a novel member of flexible antennas, the pinching antenna (PA) is realized by integrating small dielectric particles on a waveguide, offering unique regulatory capabilities on constructing line-of-sight (LoS) links and enhancing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-29 Haolian Chi , Kunrui Cao , Zhou Su , Lei Zhou , Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis , Yuanwei Liu , George K. Karagiannidis

In this paper, a novel pinching-antenna assisted index modulation (PA-IM) scheme is proposed for improving the spectral efficiency without increasing the hardware complexity, where the information bits are conveyed not only by the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-13 Shuaixin Yang , Yijia Li , Yue Xiao , Yong Liang Guan , Xianfu Lei , Zhiguo Ding

The passive electronically scanned array (PESA) is widely used due to its simple structure and low cost. {Its antenna weights have unit modulus and thus, only the weights phases can be controlled. PESA has limited degrees of freedom for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-18 Zhaoyi Xu , Athina P. Petropulu

Pinching antenna systems have attracted much attention recently owing to its capability to maintain reliable line-of-sight (LoS) communication in high-frequency bands. By guiding signals through a waveguide and emitting them via a movable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Hao Feng , Ming Zeng , Xingwang Li , Wenwu Xie , Nian Xia , Octavia A. Dobre

The integration of pinching antenna systems with non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has emerged as a promising technique for future 6G applications. This paper is the first to investigate power minimization for NOMA-assisted pinching…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yaru Fu , Fuchao He , Zheng Shi , Haijun Zhang

In this letter, a pinching antennas (PAs) assisted rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) system with multiple waveguides is investigated to maximize sum rate. A two-step algorithm is proposed to determine PA activation scheme and optimize…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-13 Peiyu Wang , Hong Wang , Rongfang Song

Dynamic metasurface antennas (DMA) provide low-power beamforming through reconfigurable radiative slots. Each slot has a tunable component that consumes low power compared to typical analog components like phase shifters. This makes DMAs a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-10 Joseph M. Carlson , Nitish V. Deshpande , Miguel Rodrigo Castellanos , Robert W. Heath

Large antenna arrays can steer narrow beams towards a target area, and thus improve the communications capacity of wireless channels and the fidelity of radio sensing. Hardware that is capable of continuously-variable phase shifts is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Minsung Kim , Annalise Stockley , Keith Briggs , Kyle Jamieson

The pinching-antenna system is a novel flexible-antenna technology, which has the capabilities not only to combat large-scale path loss, but also to reconfigure the antenna array in a flexible manner. The key idea of pinching antennas is to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Xinke Xie , Yang Lu , Zhiguo Ding

A multiuser uplink transmission framework based on the segmented waveguide-enabled pinching-antenna system (SWAN) is proposed under two operating protocols: segment selection (SS) and segment aggregation (SA). For each protocol, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-24 Songnan Gu , Hao Jiang , Chongjun Ouyang , Yuanwei Liu , Dong In Kim

A multiple-waveguide pinching-antenna (PA)-based multi-user communication system is investigated. With a given number of PAs, two deployment strategies are considered, namely the centralized PA deployment, where all PAs are switched between…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-27 Mengyu Qian , Xidong Mu , Li You , Michail Matthaiou

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is considered to be a promising technology for future wireless systems due to its ability to provide communication and sensing services using shared hardware and spectrum resources. Moreover, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Nemanja Stefan Perović , Keshav Singh , Chih-Peng Li

In the literature of pinching-antenna systems, in-waveguide attenuation is often neglected to simplify system design and enable more tractable analysis. However, its effect on overall system performance has received limited attention in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Yanqing Xu , Zhiguo Ding , Octavia A. Dobre , Tsung-Hui Chang

This paper exploits the dynamic features of wireless propagation environments as the basis for a new multiple access technique, termed environment division multiple access (EDMA). In particular, with the proposed pinching-antenna-assisted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Zhiguo Ding , Robert Schober , H. V. Poor

Antenna array architectures based on programmable metasurfaces are emerging as a promising solution for scalable implementations of the eXtremely Large Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (XL-MIMO) systems paradigm, envisioned for 6-th…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Panagiotis Gavriilidis , George C. Alexandropoulos

Pinching antenna (PA) systems provide a new spatial degree of freedom by flexible activation of pinching positions. However, the resulting effective channel strongly depends on the activated pinching positions, rendering conventional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Yiwei Tao , Yao Ge , Dong Li , Miaowen Wen , Merouane Debbah

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are able to provide passive beamforming gain via low-cost reflecting elements and hence improve wireless link quality. This work considers two-way passive beamforming design in RIS-aided frequency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Bei Guo , Chenhao Sun , Meixia Tao