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A transmit pinching-antenna system (T-PASS) framework is proposed, in which a single pinched waveguide is employed to jointly serve one wired user equipment (UE) and multiple wireless UEs. The signal radiated by the pinching antennas (PAs)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-05 Deqiao Gan , Chongjun Ouyang , Yuanwei Liu , Xiaohu Ge

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

We study the energy efficiency of pinching-antenna systems (PASSs) by developing a consistent formulation for power distribution in these systems. The per-antenna power distribution in PASSs is not controlled explicitly by a power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Saba Asaad , Chongjun Ouyang , Ali Bereyhi , Zhiguo Ding

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

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

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

Federated learning (FL) over wireless networks is fundamentally constrained by unreliable communication links, particularly when uplink channels suffer from blockage, fading, or weak line-of-sight (LoS) conditions. Pinching-antenna systems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Saba Asaad , Hina Tabassum , Ping Wang

Pinching-antenna systems (PASS) have emerged as a promising flexible-antenna architecture capable of dynamically reconfiguring wireless channels by activating dielectric particles along waveguides. The sum rate maximization problem in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Guangyu Li , Xin Sun , Tianwei Hou , Anna Li , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

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…

This paper conducts a comprehensive performance analysis for pinching-antenna systems (PASS) under both orthogonal multiple access (OMA) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) transmission. Given the cost of waveguides, we consider a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-04 Yanyu Cheng , Chongjun Ouyang , Yuanwei Liu , George K. Karagiannidis

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

We investigate a novel integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system supported by pinching antennas (PAs), which can be dynamically activated along a dielectric waveguide to collect spatially diverse observations. This capability…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Ata Khalili , Brikena Kaziu , Vasilis K. Papanikolaou , Robert Schober

The novel architecture of the center-fed pinching antenna system (C-PASS) is investigated, where the waveguide-fed signal is divided into two propagation directions through controllable power splitting. By doing so, a doubled degree of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Xu Gan , Yuanwei Liu

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

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 paper investigates a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multi-waveguide pinching-antenna (PA) system (PASS) for multi-user downlink information transmission, motivated by the unknown impact of the integration of emerging…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Changpeng He , Yang Lu , Yanqing Xu , Chong-Yung Chi , Bo Ai , Arumugam Nallanathan

A novel fully-connected (FC) tri-hybrid beamforming (THB) architecture is proposed for pinching antenna systems (PASS). In contrast to conventional sub-connected (SC) PASS, the proposed FC architecture employs a tunable phase-shifter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-19 Cheng-Jie Zhao , Zhaolin Wang , Hyundong Shin , Yuanwei Liu

Pinching antenna (PA) systems have recently gained significant attention. While their physical-layer security (PLS) is being explored, most studies rely on idealized lossless models, ignoring practical waveguide attenuation. In this paper,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-17 Xiaochen Zhang , Haitao Du , Yanyu Cheng , Yushen Lin , Kah Chan Teh

A novel pinching antenna system (PASS) enabled wireless power transfer (WPT) framework is proposed, where energy harvesting receivers (EHRs) and information decoding receivers (IDRs) coexist. By activating pinching antennas (PAs) near both…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-17 Deqiao Gan , Xiaoxia Xu , Xiaohu Ge , Yue Liu , Yuanwei Liu

Pinching-antenna systems have recently emerged as a promising solution for enhancing coverage in high-frequency wireless communications by guiding signals through dielectric waveguides and radiating them via position-adjustable antennas.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Hao Feng , Ming Zeng , Ebrahim Bedeer , Xingwang Li , Octavia A. Dobre , Zhiguo Ding
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