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We design a receiver assembling several photomultipliers (PMTs) as an array to increase the field of view (FOV) of the receiver and adapt to multiuser situation over None-line-of-sight (NLOS) ultraviolet (UV) channels. Channel estimation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Yubo Zhang , Yuchen Pan , Chen Gong , Beiyuan Liu , Zhengyuan Xu

Segmented pinching antenna assisted integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems enable flexible spatial resource utilization by allowing different waveguide segments to be dynamically configured for transmission and reception.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Qian Gao , Ruikang Zhong , Yuanwei Liu

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

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 paper considers massive access in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems and proposes an adaptive active user detection and channel estimation scheme based on compressive sensing. By exploiting the sporadic traffic of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Malong Ke , Zhen Gao , Yongpeng Wu , Xiqi Gao , Robert Schober

Flexible-antenna systems have recently received significant research interest due to their capability to reconfigure wireless channels intelligently. This paper focuses on a new type of flexible-antenna technology, termed pinching antennas,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Zhiguo Ding , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor

We propose channel charting (CC), a novel framework in which a multi-antenna network element learns a chart of the radio geometry in its surrounding area. The channel chart captures the local spatial geometry of the area so that points that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Christoph Studer , Saïd Medjkouh , Emre Gönültaş , Tom Goldstein , Olav Tirkkonen

A novel architecture of the center-fed pinching antenna system (C-PASS) is proposed. In contrast to the conventional end-fed PASS, signals are fed from the center input ports and propagate towards both sides of the waveguide. By doing so,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Xu Gan , Yuanwei Liu

A location-aware multi-antenna coded caching scheme is proposed for applications with location-dependent data requests, such as wireless immersive experience, where users are immersed in a three-dimensional virtual world. The wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Hamidreza Bakhshzad Mahmoodi , MohammadJavad Salehi , Antti Tolli

Pinching antenna system (PASS) has recently shown its promising ability to flexibly reconfigure wireless channels via dynamically adjusting the positions of pinching antennas over a dielectric waveguide, termed as pinching beamforming. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Guangji Chen , Qingqing Wu , Kangda Zhi , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu

This paper is concerned with the channel estimation problem in millimetre wave (MMW) wireless systems with large antenna arrays. By exploiting the sparse nature of the MMW channel, we present an efficient estimation algorithm based on a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Matthew Kokshoorn , Peng Wang , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

A pinching-antenna systems (PASS)-enabled unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) delivery framework is proposed, which exploits the capability of PASS to establish a strong line-of-sight link and reduce free-space pathloss.Aiming at minimizing the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Suyu Lv , Meng Li , Qi Li , Yuanwei Liu

Distributed massive multiple-input multiple-output networks utilize a large number of distributed access points (APs) to serve multiple user equipments (UEs), offering significant potential for both communication and localization. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Yibo Wu , Musa Furkan Keskin , Ulf Gustavsson , Gonzalo Seco-Granados , Erik G. Larsson , Henk Wymeersch

This article analyzes the achievable sum-rate of multiuser uplink segmented waveguide-enabled pinching-antenna systems (SWANs). To unveil system-design insights, an upper bound on the achievable sum-rate is derived, based on which the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Songnan Gu , Zhenqiao Cheng , Hao Jiang , Chongjun Ouyang , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

The intrinsic geometric connections between millimeter-wave (mmWave) signals and the propagation environment can be leveraged for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in 5G and beyond networks. However, estimated channel parameters…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-17 Ossi Kaltiokallio , Elizaveta Rastorgueva-Foi , Jukka Talvitie , Yu Ge , Henk Wymeersch , Mikko Valkama

Pinching-antenna systems have emerged as a novel and transformative flexible-antenna architecture for next-generation wireless networks. They offer unprecedented flexibility and spatial reconfigurability by enabling dynamic positioning and…

Channel charting is an emerging self-supervised method that maps channel-state information (CSI) to a low-dimensional latent space (the channel chart) that represents pseudo-positions of user equipments (UEs). While channel charts preserve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Sueda Taner , Victoria Palhares , Christoph Studer

A pinching antenna system (PASS) assisted cell-free communication system is proposed. A sum rate maximization problem under the BS power budget constraint and PA deployment constraint is formulated. To tackle the proposed non-convex…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Haochen Li , Jiayi Lei , Cheng Zeng , Zhaoming Hu , Chao Dong , Yuanwei Liu

Pinching antennas have emerged as a promising technology for reconfiguring wireless propagation environments, particularly in high-frequency communication systems operating in the millimeter-wave and terahertz bands. By enabling dynamic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Ming Zeng , Ji Wang , Octavia A. Dobre , Zhiguo Ding , George K. Karagiannidis , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor

The sparsity of millimeter wave (mmWave) channels in the angular and temporal domains is beneficial to channel estimation, while the associated channel parameters can be utilized for localization. However, line-of-sight (LoS) blockage poses…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Kunlun Li , Jiguang He , Mohammed El-Hajjar , Lie-Liang Yang