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Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is envisioned to be one of the most beneficial technologies for next generation wireless networks due to its enhanced performance compared to other conventional radio access techniques. Although the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Rukhsana Ruby , Shuxin Zhong , Hailiang Yang , Kaishun Wu

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

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

Movable antenna (MA) has gained increasing attention in the field of wireless communications due to its exceptional capability to proactively reconfigure wireless channels via localized antenna movements. In this paper, we investigate the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-16 Nianzu Li , Peiran Wu , Lipeng Zhu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

User pairing in Non-Orthogonal Multiple-Access (NOMA) uplink based on channel state information is investigated considering some predefined power allocation schemes. The base station divides the set of users into disjunct pairs and assigns…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Mohammad A. Sedaghat , Ralf R. Müller

Pinching antennas (PAs), a new type of reconfigurable and flexible antenna structures, have recently attracted significant research interest due to their ability to create line-of-sight links and mitigate large-scale path loss. Owing to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-26 Peng Liu , Zesong Fei , Meng Hua , Guangji Chen , Xinyi Wang , Ruiqi Liu

This paper studies a novel movable antenna (MA)-enhanced multiuser multiple-input multiple-output downlink system designed to improve wireless communication performance. We aim to maximize the average achievable sum rate through…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Xintai Chen , Biqian Feng , Yongpeng Wu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

This paper investigates the performance of a pinching-antenna (PA) system with a signal waveguide and multiple pinching antennas to serve users distributed across multiple rooms. The performance of the system is evaluated through a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Yanyu Cheng , Hao Li , Zhen Wang , Zhiguo Ding

This work investigates the joint learning of pinching antenna (PA) positions and transmit beamforming for PA-aided integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) in the low-altitude wireless networks. By freely deploying antenna positions…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Jia Guo , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

Pinching antennas is a novel flexible-antenna technology, which can be realized by employing small dielectric particles on a waveguide. The aim of this letter is to characterize the array gain achieved by pinching-antenna systems (PASS). A…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Chongjun Ouyang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiguo Ding

Future wireless networks are expected to support increasingly high data rates and user densities, motivating advanced multi-antenna architectures capable of adapting to dynamic propagation environments. Movable antenna (MA) arrays have…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-25 Amna Irshad , Emil Björnson , Alva Kosasih , Vitaly Petrov

In this work, we consider a sparse code multiple access uplink system, where $J$ users simultaneously transmit data over $K$ subcarriers, such that $J > K$, with a constraint on the power transmitted by each user. To jointly optimize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Joao V. C. Evangelista , Zeeshan Sattar , Georges Kaddoum , Anas Chaaban

The pinching-antenna systems (PASS), which dynamically activate and relocate the pinching-antennas (PAs) along the dielectric waveguide, offer unprecedented potential for integrated positioning and communication. The multi-waveguide-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Yaoyu Zhang , Xin Sun , Jun Wang , Tianwei Hou , Anna Li , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

As an emerging flexible antenna technology for wireless communications, pinching-antenna systems, offer distinct advantages in terms of cost efficiency and deployment flexibility. This paper investigates joint transmission strategies of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Enzhi Zhou , Jingjing Cui , Ziyue Liu , Zhiguo Ding , Pingzhi Fan

This paper aims to design multiple access (MA) schemes to improve the max-min fairness (MMF) for pinching antennas (PAs)-based multigroup multicast communications, where PA placement and resource allocation are jointly optimized.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Shan Shan , Chongjun Ouyang , Yong Li , Yuanwei Liu

Spatial modulation (SM)-sparse code multiple access (SCMA) systems provide high spectral efficiency (SE) at the expense of using a high number of transmit antennas. To overcome this drawback, this letter proposes a novel SM-SCM A system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-16 Ibrahim Al-Nahhal , Octavia A. Dobre , Ertugrul Basar , Salama Ikki

This paper considers a lens antenna array-assisted millimeter wave (mmWave) multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) system. The base station's beam selection matrix and user terminals' phase-only beamformers are jointly designed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Chongjun Ouyang , Hao Xu , Xujie Zang , Hongwen Yang

The emerging pinching antenna (PA) technology enables flexible antenna positioning for creating line-of-sight (LoS) links, thus offering substantial potential to facilitate ambient signal-based backscatter communication (BSC). This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-15 Yulei Wang , Yalin Liu , Yaru Fu , Yuanwei Liu

Wireless powered sensor networks (WPSNs) have emerged as a key development towards the future self-sustainable Internet of Things (IoT) networks. To achieve a good balance between self-sustainability and reliability, partially WPSNs with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Shiqi Gong , Shaodan Ma , Chengwen Xing , Guanghua Yang

This letter proposes a novel user localization and channel estimation framework for pinching-antenna systems (PASS), where pinching antennas are grouped into subarrays on each waveguide to cooperatively estimate user/scatterer locations,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Xiaoxia Xu , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Hong Xing , Arumugam Nallanathan