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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

Pinching antennas systems (PASSs) have recently been proposed as a novel flexible-antenna technology. These systems are implemented by attaching low-cost pinching elements to dielectric waveguides. As the direct link is bypassed through…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Saba Asaad , Ali Bereyhi

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

Millimeter-wave and terahertz communications face a fundamental challenge: overcoming severe path loss without sacrificing spectral efficiency. Pinching antenna systems (PASS) address this by bringing radiators physically close to users,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Dengke Wei , Runxin Zhang , Yulin Shao , Fen Hou , Shaodan Ma

Pinching antenna systems (PASSs) can dynamically adapt their transmit and receive arrays for sensing and communication in wireless systems. This work explores the potential of PASSs for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Saba Asaad , Chongjun Ouyang , Zhiguo Ding , Ali Bereyhi

An integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) design for pinching antenna systems (PASS) is proposed, where the pinching antennas are deployed to establish reliable line-of-sight communication and sensing links. More particularly, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Zheng Zhang , Zhaolin Wang , Xidong Mu , Bingtao He , Jian Chen , Yuanwei Liu

In this paper, we adopt a three-stage based uplink channel estimation protocol with reduced pilot overhead for an reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multi-user (MU) millimeter wave (mmWave) communication system, in which both…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-18 Zhendong Peng , Gui Zhou , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Petar Popovski , Gang Wu

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

This letter introduces a novel pinching-antenna-system (PASS) assisted simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT), where multiple pinching antennas (PAs) are strategically activiated on a waveguide to facilitate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Yixuan Li , Ji Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiguo Ding

Recently, a novel flexible-antenna technology, called pinching antennas, has attracted growing academic interest. By inserting discrete dielectric materials, pinching antennas can be activated at arbitrary points along waveguides, allowing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Weihao Mao , Yang Lu , Yanqing Xu , Bo Ai , Octavia A. Dobre , Dusit Niyato

Pinching-antenna system (PASS) mitigates large-scale path loss by enabling flexible placement of pinching antennas (PAs) along the dielectric waveguide. However, most existing studies assume perfect channel state information (CSI),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Mingjun Sun , Chongjun Ouyang , Shaochuan Wu , Yuanwei Liu

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) enables fast data aggregation for edge intelligence applications. However the performance of AirComp can be severely degraded by channel misalignments. Pinching antenna systems (PASS) have recently emerged…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Zhonghao Lyu , Haoyun Li , Yulan Gao , Ming Xiao , H. Vincent Poor

The Pinching Antenna System (PAS) has emerged as a promising technology to dynamically reconfigure wireless propagation environments in 6G networks. By activating radiating elements at arbitrary positions along a dielectric waveguide, PAS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Yu Hua , Yaru Fu , Yalin Liu , Zheng Shi , Kevin Hung

A reconfigurable pinching-antenna system (PASS) is presented, endowing pinching antennas (PAs) with both amplitude- and phase-controllable radiation beyond conventional implementations. To characterize this feature, a general and physically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zhaolin Wang , Jiaqi Xu , Chongjun Ouyang , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu

The emerging pinching antenna (PA) technology has high flexibility to reconfigure wireless channels and combat line-of-sight blockage, thus holding transformative potential for indoor immersive applications in 6G. This paper investigates…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yulei Wang , Yalin Liu , Yaru Fu , Zhiguo Ding

Pinching-antenna (PA) has recently attracted considerable research attention in wireless systems, realized by attaching small dielectric particles along a waveguide. Building upon which, the segmented waveguide-enabled pinching-antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Yue Geng , Tee Hiang Cheng , Kah Chan Teh , Zhiguo Ding

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

The pinching-antenna system (PASS) reconstructs wireless channels through pinching beamforming, i.e., optimizing the activated locations of pinching antennas (PAs) along the waveguide. The aim of this article is to investigate the joint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Mingjun Sun , Chongjun Ouyang , Shaochuan Wu , Yuanwei Liu

This paper investigates the design of channel estimation and 3D localization algorithms in a challenging scenario, where a sub-connected planar extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) communicates with multi-antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Kangda Zhi , Tianyu Yang , Songyan Xue , Giuseppe Caire

The increasing number of users leads to an increase in pilot overhead, and the limited pilot resources make it challenging to support all users using orthogonal pilots. By fully capturing the inherent physical characteristics of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Kaiyuan Tian , Yani Chi , Yufan Zhou , An Liu