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Rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) has emerged as a promising technique for efficient interference management in next-generation wireless networks. While most existing studies focus on downlink and single-cell designs, the modeling and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Xinyi Guo , Li You , Qiong Liu , Xiqi Gao , Xiang-Gen Xia

This paper studies a passive localization system, where an extremely large-scale antenna array (ELAA) is deployed at the base station (BS) to locate a user equipment (UE) residing in its near-field (Fresnel) region. We propose a novel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-27 Xiaojun Yuan , Yuqing Zheng , Mingchen Zhang , Boyu Teng , Wenjun Jiang

This paper studies a passive localization system, where an extremely large-scale antenna array (ELAA) is deployed at the base station (BS) to locate a user equipment (UE) residing in its near-field (Fresnel) region. We propose a novel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-27 Xiaojun Yuan , Yuqing Zheng , Mingchen Zhang , Boyu Teng , Wenjun Jiang

We consider the anchor placement problem in localization based on one-way ranging, in which either the sensor or the anchors send the ranging signals. The number of anchors deployed over a geographical area is generally sparse, and we show…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-19 Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri , Geert Leus , Alle-Jan van der Veen

The recently emerged movable antenna (MA) shows great promise in leveraging spatial degrees of freedom to enhance the performance of wireless systems. However, resource allocation in MA-aided systems faces challenges due to the nonconvex…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-05 Yichen Jin , Qingfeng Lin , Yang Li , Hancheng Zhu , Bingyang Cheng , Yik-Chung Wu , Rui Zhang

Localization is a fundamental enabler technology for many applications, like vehicular networks, IoT, and even medicine. While Global Navigation Satellite Systems solutions offer great performance, they are unavailable in scenarios like…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Filipa Valdeira , Cláudia Soares , João Gomes

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

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

In this paper, we propose an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system enabled by movable antennas (MAs), which can dynamically adjust antenna positions to enhance both sensing and communication performance for future wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Lebin Chen , Ming-Min Zhao , Min-Jian Zhao , Rui Zhang

Federated learning (FL) over wireless networks is fundamentally constrained by unreliable communication links, particularly when uplink channels suffer from blockage, fading, or weak line-of-sight (LoS) conditions. Pinching-antenna systems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Saba Asaad , Hina Tabassum , Ping Wang

The efficient placement of signal templates in source-parameter space is a crucial requisite for exhaustive matched-filtering searches of modeled gravitational-wave sources. Unfortunately, the current placement algorithms based on regular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-15 Gian Mario Manca , Michele Vallisneri

Pinching antenna system (PASS) configures the positions of pinching antennas (PAs) along dielectric waveguides to change both large-scale fading and small-scale scattering, which is known as pinching beamforming. A novel non-orthogonal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Deqiao Gan , Xiaoxia Xu , Jiakuo Zuo , Xiaohu Ge , Yuanwei Liu

This letter studies the performance of a low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication system where the locations of the LEO satellites are modeled as a binomial point process (BPP) on a spherical surface. In particular, we study the user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Anna Talgat , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

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

Caching at base stations is a promising technology to satisfy the increasing capacity requirements and reduce the backhaul loads in future wireless networks. Careful design of random caching can fully exploit the file popularity and achieve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Sufeng Kuang , Nan Liu

In this letter, a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) assisted downlink pinching-antenna system is investigated, where multiple pinching antennas can be activated at pre-configured positions along a dielectric waveguide to serve users via…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-19 Kaidi Wang , Zhiguo Ding , Robert Schober

This work studies an ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (uRLLC) downlink system using pinching antennas which are realized by activating small dielectric particles along a dielectric waveguide. Our goal is to maximize the data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Tong Lin , Jianyue Zhu , Wei Huang , Meng Hua , Zhizhong Zhang

Range-based localization is ubiquitous: global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) power mobile phone-based navigation, and autonomous mobile robots can use range measurements from a variety of modalities including sonar, radar, and even…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Ethan Sequeira , Hussein Saad , Stephen Kelly , Matthew Giamou

This paper presents the first bit error rate (BER) analysis of a pinching-antenna (PA)-based non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) communication system. The PA is assumed to be able to be placed anywhere along the waveguide and serves two…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 Mahmoud AlaaEldin , Amy S. Inwood , Xidong Mu , Michail Matthaiou

This paper develops a stochastic geometry-based approach for the modeling and analysis of single- and multi-cluster wireless networks. We first define finite homogeneous Poisson point processes to model the number and locations of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Seyed Mohammad Azimi-Abarghouyi , Behrooz Makki , Martin Haenggi , Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari , Tommy Svensson