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We investigate the performance of the pinching-antenna systems (PASS) for semantic communication (SC) in both single-waveguide and multi-waveguide scenarios, under the constraints of bit-user quality of service (QoS) and bit-to-semantic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Ishtiaque Ahmed , Haris Parvaiz , Leila Musavian

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has emerged as a cost-effective and energy-efficient technique for 6G. By adjusting the phase shifts of passive reflecting elements, RIS is capable of suppressing the interference and combining the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Jinglian He , Yijie Mao , Yong Zhou , Ting Wang , Yuanming Shi

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

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) represent a promising candidate for sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks, as the RIS technology provides a new solution to control the propagation channel in order to improve the efficiency of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Mohamad H. Dinan , Nemanja Stefan Perovic , Mark F. Flanagan

A dual-scale deployment (DSD) framework is proposed for pinching antenna systems (PASS), under which four protocols are provided. 1) For the coarse-scale deployment, the pinching antenna (PA) is transferred over a large-scale range at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Xu Gan , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu

The Access Traffic Steering, Switching, and Splitting (ATSSS) defined in the latest 3GPP Release 19 enables traffic flow over the multiple access paths to achieve the lower-latency End-to-end (E2E) delivery for 6G time-sensitive services.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Liu Cao , Zisheng Gong , Ziyue Xiao , Zhaoyu Liu , Houtianfu Wang , Lyutianyang Zhang

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are an emerging technology for future wireless communication. The vast majority of recent research on RIS has focused on system level optimizations. However, developing straightforward and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-24 Shanpu Shen , Bruno Clerckx , Ross Murch

In this paper, we propose a novel network architecture for integrating terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) to establish connection between terrestrial ground stations which are unconnected due to blockage. We propose a new…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-17 Arman Azizi , Arman Farhang

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have been recently considered as one of the emerging technologies for future communication systems by leveraging the tuning capabilities of their reflecting elements. In this paper, we investigate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-27 Dick Carrillo Melgarejo , Charalampos Kalalas , Arthur Sousa de Sena , Pedro H. J. Nardelli

In this paper, we investigate a movable antenna (MA)-aided integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is employed to enhance wireless communication and sensing performance in dead…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-12 Haisu Wu , Hong Ren , Cunhua Pan , Yang Zhang

This paper investigates a pinching-antenna (PA)-enabled cognitive radio network, where both the primary transmitter (PT) and secondary transmitter (ST) are equipped with a single waveguide and multiple PAs to facilitate simultaneous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Zeyang Sun , Xidong Mu , Shuai Han , Sai Xu , Michail Matthaiou

This work studies a low-complexity design for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multiuser multiple-input multiple-output systems. The base station (BS) applies receive antenna selection to connect a subset of its antennas to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-29 Chongjun Ouyang , Ali Bereyhi , Saba Asaad , Ralf R. Müller , Hongwen Yang

This paper investigates energy efficiency (EE) optimization for an uplink multiuser system assisted by a movable-element reconfigurable intelligent surface (ME-RIS) and a base station equipped with movable antennas (MA-BS). We jointly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Ayda Nodel Hokmabadi , Mohamed Elhattab , Chadi Assi

Large-scale antenna arrays employed by the base station (BS) constitute an essential next-generation communications technique. However, due to the constraints of size, cost, and power consumption, it is usually considered unrealistic to use…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Kunzan Liu , Zijian Zhang , Linglong Dai , Lajos Hanzo

This study presents an advanced wireless system that embeds target recognition within reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided communication systems, powered by cuttingedge deep learning innovations. Such a system faces the challenge…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Yixuan Huang , Jie Yang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shuqiang Xia , Xiao Li , Shi Jin

In this paper, we investigate a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided multi-pair communication system, in which multi-pair users exchange information via an RIS. We derive an approximate expression of the achievable rate by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Zhangjie Peng , Tianshu Li , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Wei Xu , Marco Di Renzo

A pinching antennas (PAs)-aided integrated sensing and multicast communication framework is proposed. In this framework, the communication performance is measured by the multicast rate considering max-min fairness. Moreover, the sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Shan Shan , Chongjun Ouyang , Xiaohang Yang , Yong Li , Zhiqin Wang , Yuanwei Liu

A novel concept of waveguide division multiple access (WDMA) is proposed for multi-user pinching-antenna systems (PASS). The key principle of WDMA is to allocate each user with a dedicated waveguide, which is regarded as a new type of radio…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Jingjing Zhao , Xidong Mu , Kaiquan Cai , Yanbo Zhu , Yuanwei Liu

By activating blocked users and altering successive interference cancellation (SIC) sequences, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) become promising for enhancing non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) systems. This work investigates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Chao Zhang , Wenqiang Yi , Yuanwei Liu , Zhijin Qin , Kok Keong Chai

Programmable wireless environments (PWEs) have emerged as a key paradigm for next-generation communication networks, aiming to transform wireless propagation from an uncontrollable phenomenon into a reconfigurable process that can adapt to…