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One of the key goals of next-generation wireless networks is to adapt to changing conditions and meet the growing demand for reliable, high-capacity communications from emerging applications. Overcoming the limitations of conventional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-15 Apostolos A. Tegos , Yue Xiao , Sotiris A. Tegos , George K. Karagiannidis , Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis

This work aims at combining adaptive protocol design, utility maximization and stochastic geometry. We focus on a spatial adaptation of Aloha within the framework of ad hoc networks. We consider quasi-static networks in which mobiles learn…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-03-07 François Baccelli , Chandramani Singh

In this paper, a cooperative localization algorithm is proposed that considers the existence of obstacles in mobilityassisted wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In this scheme, a mobile anchor (MA) node cooperates with static sensor nodes and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Hongyang Chen , Qingjiang Shi , Pei Huang , H. Vincent Poor , Kaoru Sezaki

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

This paper explores a joint optimization of transmit power allocation and radiation coefficients in a downlink Pinching Antenna SyStem (PASS) employing Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA). By leveraging the PASS-enabled flexible channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-10 Nikoloz Vashakidze , Chadi Assi , Mohamed Elhattab , Ali Ghrayeb , Maurice J. Khabbaz

Accurate and reliable localization is crucial for various wireless communication applications. Numerous studies have proposed accurate localization methods using hybrid received signal strength (RSS) and angle of arrival (AOA) measurements.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Weizhong Ding , Shengming Chang , Shudi Bao

We propose a directional pinching-antenna system (DiPASS), a comprehensive framework that transitions PASS modeling from idealized abstraction to physical consistency. DiPASS introduces the first channel model that accurately captures the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Runxin Zhang , Yulin Shao , Yuanwei Liu

In this work, a system scheme is proposed for tracking a radio emitting target moving in two-dimensional space. The localization is based on the use of biased time-of-arrival (TOA) measurements obtained at two asynchronous receivers, each…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-05-14 Siamak Yousefi , Xiao-Wen Chang , Benoit Champagne

Many modern wireless devices with accurate positioning needs also have access to vision sensors, such as a camera, radar, and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR). In scenarios where wireless-based positioning is either inaccurate or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Haozhou Hu , Harpreet S. Dhillon , R. Michael Buehrer

The pinching-antenna systems (PASS) enable blockage mitigation in urban micro (UMi) networks through flexible antenna placement. However, the joint optimization of antenna positions and beamforming precoding is inherently nonconvex and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Qiushi Zhao , Zihan Feng , Ximing Xie , Hao Qin , Yuanwei Liu , Xingqi Zhang

Since decades ago, multi-antenna has become a key enabling technology in the evolution of wireless communication systems. In contrast to conventional multi-antenna systems that contain antennas at fixed positions, position-flexible antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Yiqin Wang , Heyin Shen , Chong Han , Meixia Tao

This letter investigates multi-mode pinching antenna systems (PASS), where signals of multiple orthogonal modes can be transmitted within a dielectric waveguide and radiated by pinching antennas (PAs). This enables mode-domain multiplexing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Xiaoxia Xu , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

This paper investigates a rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) for uplink pinching antenna system (PASS). Our objective is to maximize the uplink sum rate by jointly optimizing a continuous antenna positioning and user's transmission…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-24 Zar Chi Phyo , Shreya Khisa , Chadi Assi , Sanaa Sharafaddine

Movable antenna (MA) is a new technology with great potential to improve communication performance by enabling local movement of antennas for pursuing better channel conditions. In particular, the acquisition of complete channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Zhenyu Xiao , Songqi Cao , Lipeng Zhu , Yanming Liu , Xiang-Gen Xia , Rui Zhang

Unlike conventional systems using a fixed-location antenna, the channel capacity of the pinching-antenna system (PASS) is determined by the activated positions of pinching antennas. This article characterizes the capacity region of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Chongjun Ouyang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiguo Ding

In this letter, we study the channel estimation for wireless communications with movable antenna (MA), which requires to reconstruct the channel response at any location in a given region where the transmitter/receiver is located based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Wenyan Ma , Lipeng Zhu , Rui Zhang

In robotic networks relying on noisy range measurements between agents for cooperative localization, the achievable positioning accuracy strongly strongly depends on the network geometry. This motivates the problem of planning robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Justin Cano , Jerome Le Ny

Existing studies on generalized pinching-antenna systems are predominantly link-level, which optimize system parameters for a given user set with objectives defined by per-user performance metrics. Such designs do not capture network-level…

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

Pinching antenna systems (PASS) present a breakthrough among the flexible-antenna technologies, and distinguish themselves by facilitating large-scale antenna reconfiguration, line-of-sight creation, scalable implementation, and near-field…

Pinching antennas have recently garnered significant attention due to their ability to dynamically reconfigure wireless propagation environments. Despite notable advancements in this area, the exploration of energy efficiency (EE)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Ming Zeng , Ji Wang , Gui Zhou , Fang Fang , Xianbin Wang