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Six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA) is an innovative and transformative technology to improve wireless network capacity by adjusting the 3D positions and 3D rotations of antennas/surfaces (sub-arrays) based on the channel spatial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Xiaodan Shao , Rui Zhang , Jihong Park , Tony Q. S. Quek , Robert Schober , Xuemin Shen

Fluid antenna systems (FAS) are an emerging technology that promises a significant diversity gain even in the smallest spaces. Motivated by the groundbreaking potentials of liquid antennas, researchers in the wireless communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Malek Khammassi , Abla Kammoun , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Pinching antenna systems (PASS) have the advantages in the perspective of flexible antenna reconfiguration, line-of-sight (LoS) creation, and scalability features. To highlight the ascendancy of PASS, we survey the integration of PASS into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Xinwei Yue , Xinglun Tao , Jingjing Zhao , Xianfu Lei , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiguo Ding

This work investigates the joint learning of pinching antenna (PA) positions and transmit beamforming for PA-aided integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) in the low-altitude wireless networks. By freely deploying antenna positions…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Jia Guo , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

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

Pinching-antenna systems (PASS) have recently attracted significant attention as a promising architecture for flexible and reconfigurable wireless communications. Despite notable advancements, research on energy efficiency (EE) maximization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-29 Yishi Zhang , Aditya Powari , Kaidi Wang , Yaru Fu , Daniel K. C. So

Omni-directional pathloss, which refers to the pathloss when omni-directional antennas are used at the link ends, are essential for system design and evaluation. In the millimeter-wave (mm-Wave) and beyond bands, high gain directional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Mengting Li , Fengchun Zhang , Xiang Zhang , Yejian Lyu , Wei Fan

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

This paper proposes a novel localization framework underpinned by a pinching-antenna (PA) system, in which the target location is estimated using received signal strength (RSS) measurements obtained from downlink signals transmitted by the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Jiajun He , Xidong Mu , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

The practical channel estimation for pinching-antenna networks is investigated, in which an electromagnetic-compliant in-waveguide transmission model is exhibited, incorporating bidirectional power splitting, cumulative power leakage, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Jian Xiao

Pinching antenna systems (PASS) have recently emerged as a promising architecture for high-frequency wireless communications. In this letter, we investigate localization in PASS by jointly exploiting the received signal amplitude and phase…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Hao Feng , Ebrahim Bedeer , Ming Zeng , Xingwang Li , Shimin Gong , Quoc-Viet Pham

Recently, the study on pinching-antenna technique has attracted significant attention. However, most relevant literature focuses on a single-cell scenario, where the effect from the interfering pinching-antennas on waveguides connected to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Yanshi Sun , Zhiguo Ding , George K. Karagiannidis

This article investigates the application of pinching-antenna systems (PASS) in multiuser multiple-input single-output (MISO) communications. Two sum-rate maximization problems are formulated under minimum mean square error (MMSE) decoding,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-24 Jiarui Zhang , Hao Xu , Chongjun Ouyang , Qiuyun Zou , Hongwen Yang

This article investigates the beam training design problems for pinching-antenna systems (PASS), where single-waveguide-single-user (SWSU), single-waveguide-multi-user (SWMU) and multi-waveguide-multi-user (MWMU) scenarios are considered.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Suyu Lv , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiguo Ding

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

Omnidirectional path loss models are vital for radiosystem design in wireless communication systems, as they allow engineers to perform network simulations for systems with arbitrary antenna patterns. At millimeter-wave frequencies, channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-03 Shu Sun , George R. MacCartney , Mathew K. Samimi , Theodore S. Rappaport

Wireless communications in intelligent rail transit face harsh propagation conditions, including severe penetration loss, frequent blockages, and amplified large-scale fading. Existing leaky coaxial cables (LCX) provide wired-to-wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Yiran Guo , Wei Chen , Cong Yu , Bo Ai , Yuanwei Liu , Michail Matthaiou

Most existing studies achieve beamforming by adjusting the positions of pinching antennas (PAs) and typically model PAs as isotropic radiators. However, under the dielectric scatterer model, the PA radiation pattern depends on its geometry.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Haoyang Li , Weidong Liu , Zhensheng Chen , Chaoyun Song , Gaojie Chen

The spectral and energy efficiency (SE-EE) trade-off in pinching-antenna systems (PASS) is investigated in this paper. In particular, two practical operating protocols, namely waveguide multiplexing (WM) and waveguide switching (WS), are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-09 Guangyu Zhu , Xidong Mu , Li Guo , Shibiao Xu , Yuanwei Liu , Naofal Al-Dhahir

This paper investigates the rate-energy trade-off for pinching-antenna systems (PASS)-assisted simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) systems. Both the single information user (IU)/energy user (EU) and multiple IUs/EUs…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Qi Yang , Kai Liu , Jingjing Zhao , Kaiquan Cai , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu