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Hybrid digital analog (HDA) beamforming has attracted considerable attention in practical implementation of millimeter wave (mmWave) multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems due to its low power consumption with respect to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Xiaoshen Song , Thomas Kühne , Giuseppe Caire

Sub-terahertz (sub-THz) multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems unlock immense bandwidth for 6G wireless communications. However, practical deployment of wireless systems in sub-THz bands faces critical challenges such…

A generalized framework for the novel center-fed pinching antenna system (C-PASS) is proposed. Within this framework, closed-form expressions for the degree of freedom (DoF) and power scaling law of the proposed C-PASS are first derived.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Xu Gan , Yuanwei Liu

Switch-based hybrid network is a promising implementation for beamforming in large-scale millimetre wave (mmWave) antenna arrays. By fully exploiting the sparse nature of the mmWave channel, such hybrid beamforming reduces complexity and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-02 Hamed Nosrati , Elias Aboutanios , Xiangrong Wang , David Smith

Hybrid beamforming is known to be a cost-effective and wide-spread solution for a system with large-scale antenna arrays. This work studies the optimization of the analog and digital components of the hybrid beamforming solution for remote…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Jaein Kim , Seok-Hwan Park , Osvaldo Simeone , Inkyu Lee , Shlomo Shamai

The pinching-antenna system (PASS), recently proposed as a flexible-antenna technology, has been regarded as a promising solution for several challenges in next-generation wireless networks. It provides large-scale antenna reconfiguration,…

This article investigates secure multicast communications in pinching-antenna systems (PASS), where pinching beamforming is enabled by adaptively adjusting pinching antenna (PAs) positions along waveguides to improve multicast security.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Shan Shan , Chongjun Ouyang , Yong Li , Yuanwei Liu

This paper considers hybrid beamforming (HB) for downlink multiuser massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems with frequency selective channels. For this system, first we determine the required number of radio frequency (RF)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Tadilo Endeshaw Bogale , Long Bao Le , Afshin Haghighat , Luc Vandendorpe

This paper develops energy-efficient hybrid beamforming designs for mmWave multi-user systems where analog precoding is realized by switches and phase shifters such that radio frequency (RF) chain to transmit antenna connections can be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-16 Vu Nguyen Ha , Duy H. N. Nguyen , Jean-Francois Frigon

Recently, full duplex (FD) has been studied in 5G LTE millimeter wave (mmWave) cellular communications for New Radio in 3GPP releases 15-17. FD allows bidirectional transmission over the same resources and has the potential to reduce…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-08 Elyes Balti , Brian L. Evans

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

Full duplex (FD) is an auspicious wireless technology that holds the potential to double data rates through simultaneous transmission and reception. This paper proposes two innovative designs of hybrid beamforming (HYBF) for a multicell…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Chandan Kumar Sheemar , Symeon Chatzinotas , Dirk Slock , Eva Lagunas , Jorge Querol

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

This paper investigates the energy-efficient hybrid beamforming design for a multi-functional integrated sensing, communications, and powering (ISCAP) system. In this system, a base station (BS) with a hybrid analog-digital (HAD)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Zeyu Hao , Yuan Fang , Xianghao Yu , Jie Xu , Ling Qiu , Lexi Xu , Shuguang Cui

Switch-based hybrid beamforming (SW-HBF) architectures are promising for realizing massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications systems because of their low cost and low power consumption. In this paper, we study the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Mengyuan Ma , Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Markku Juntti

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

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

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

Modern wireless communication networks, particularly cellular networks utilize multiple antennas to improve the capacity and signal coverage. In these systems, typically an active transceiver is connected to each antenna. However, this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Vijay Venkateswaran , Florian Pivit , Lei Guan

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) in millimeter wave is a key enabler for next-generation networks, which leverages large bandwidth and extensive antenna arrays, benefiting both communication and sensing functionalities. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-18 Tianhao Mao , Jie Yang , Le Liang , Shi Jin