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In this paper, we design and experiment a far-field wireless power transfer (WPT) architecture based on distributed antennas, so-called WPT DAS, that dynamically selects transmit antenna and frequency to increase the output dc power.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-10 Shanpu Shen , Junghoon Kim , Chaoyun Song , Bruno Clerckx

Over the past decades, multiple antenna technologies have appeared in many different forms, most notably as multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), to transform wireless communications for extraordinary diversity and multiplexing gains. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Kai-Kit Wong , Arman Shojaeifard , Kin-Fai Tong , Yangyang Zhang

Pinching antennas (PAs), as an emerging flexible-antenna technology, enables movable PAs deployed along waveguides to customize channel conditions over a large scale. This paper investigates an application of PAs to enable physical-layer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Yang Lu , Xinke Xie , Yanqing Xu , Bo Ai , Octavia A. Dobre , Dusit Niyato

Space-fed large antenna arrays offer superior efficiency, simplicity, and reductions in size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) compared to constrained-feed systems. Historically, horn antennas have been used for space feeding, but they…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-15 Krishan Kumar Tiwari , Thomas Flisgen , Wolfgang Heinrich , Giuseppe Caire

A segmented waveguide-enabled pinching-antenna system (SWAN)-assisted over-the-air computation (AirComp) framework is proposed. Three transmission architectures, namely segment selection (SS), phase-shifter-free segment aggregation (SA),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Songnan Gu , Hao Jiang , Chongjun Ouyang , Dian Fan , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

Multi-antenna cache-aided wireless networks have been known to suffer from a severe feedback bottleneck, where achieving the maximal Degrees-of-Freedom (DoF) performance required feedback from all served users. These costs matched the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Eleftherios Lampiris , Antonio Bazco-Nogueras , Petros Elia

The evolution of wireless communication systems requires flexible, energy-efficient, and cost-effective antenna technologies. Pinching antennas (PAs), which can dynamically control electromagnetic wave propagation through binary activation…

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

Most traditional alarm systems cannot address security threats in a satisfactory manner. To alleviate this problem, we developed a high-confidence cyber-physical alarm system (CPAS), a new kind of alarm systems. This system establishes the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Longhua Ma , Tengkai Yuan , Feng Xia , Ming Xu , Jun Yao , Meng Shao

A segmented waveguide-enabled pinching-antenna system (SWAN)-based tri-hybrid beamforming architecture is proposed for uplink multi-user MIMO communications, which jointly optimizes digital, analog, and pinching beamforming. Both…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Hao Jiang , Chongjun Ouyang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan , Zhiguo Ding , Robert Schober

In this letter, we investigate a novel pinching antenna (PA)-aided wireless powered communication network (WPCN), in which multiple PAs are activated along a waveguide to establish robust line-of-sight links with multiple devices. Both time…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yixuan Li , Hongbo Xu , Ming Zeng , Yuanwei Liu

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

Full-duplex (FD) has emerged as a disruptive communications paradigm for enhancing the achievable spectral efficiency (SE), thanks to the recent major breakthroughs in self-interference (SI) mitigation. The FD versus half-duplex (HD) SE…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Arman Shojaeifard , Kai-Kit Wong , Wei Yu , Gan Zheng , Jie Tang

In this paper, we propose a closely spaced multi-antenna system with \textit{passive} self-interference cancellation (\textit{p}-SIC) of $\approx 90$ dB between the transmitter and receiver antenna for full-duplex application. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-03 Jogesh Chandra Dash , Debdeep Sarkar

Enormous fluid antenna systems (E-FAS), the system concept that utilizes position reconfigurability in the large scale, have emerged as a new architectural paradigm where intelligent surfaces are repurposed from passive smart reflectors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Kai-Kit Wong , Masoud Kaveh , Wee Kiat New , Chan-Byoung Chae , Lajos Hanzo

This paper investigates PASS-enabled downlink covert communication in the presence of distributed surveillance, where multiple wardens perform signal detection and fuse their local binary decisions via majority-voting rule. We consider a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ji He

The effect of Rician-ness on the capacity of multiple antenna systems is investigated under the assumption that channel state information (CSI) is available only at the receiver. The average-power-constrained capacity of such systems is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Sudharman K. Jayaweera , H. Vincent Poor

As next-generation wireless networks emerge, security is becoming a critical performance metric. However, conventional multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems often suffer from severe path loss and are vulnerable to nearby…

Fluid antenna systems (FAS) enable unprecedented spatial diversity within a compact form factor by flexibly switching among high-density antenna ports. To activate this capability, channel state information (CSI) over the ports is required,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zhentian Zhang , Hao Jiang , Kai-Kit Wong , Hyundong Shin , Ross Murch

By leveraging the distributed leakage radiation of leaky coaxial cables (LCXs), the concept of pinching antennas can be generalized from the conventional high-frequency waveguide based architectures to cable based structures in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Kaidi Wang , Zhiguo Ding , Daniel K. C. So