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Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has gained significant attention as a potential next-generation multiple access technique. However, its implementation with finite-alphabet inputs faces challenges. Particularly, due to inter-user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Mojtaba Vaezi , Xinliang Zhang

Pinching antenna (PA) systems have recently emerged as a promising architecture for reconfigurable wireless communications by enabling flexible antenna placement along a dielectric waveguide. However, existing works typically assume perfect…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Hao Feng , Ebrahim Bedeer , Ming Zeng , Xingwang Li , Wanming Hao , Dingzhu Wen

With great flexibility to adjust antenna positions, pinching antennas (PAs) are promising for alleviating large-scale attenuation in wireless networks. In this work, we investigate the antenna positioning and beamforming (AP-BF) design in a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-08 Lei Li , Yanqing Xu , Tenghao Cai , Tsung-Hui Chang

Recently, the pinching antenna system (PASS) has attracted considerable attention due to their advantages in flexible deployment and reduction of signal propagation loss. In this work, a multiple waveguide PASS assisted integrated sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Haochen Li , Ruikang Zhong , Jiayi Lei , Yuanwei Liu

Rotatable antenna (RA) is a promising technology that exploits new spatial degree-of-freedom (DoF) to improve wireless communication and sensing performance. In this letter, we investigate an RA-enabled secure communication system where…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-01 Liang Dai , Beixiong Zheng , Qingjie Wu , Changsheng You , Robert Schober , Rui Zhang

5G communication systems and beyond are envisioned to support an extremely diverse set of use cases with different performance requirements. These different requirements necessitate the use of different numerologies for increased…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-27 Stephen McWade , Mark F. Flanagan , Lei Zhang , Arman Farhang

In this letter, a pinching antenna (PA)-aided scheme for establishing a secure integrated sensing and communication system (ISAC) is investigated. The underlying system comprises a dual-functional radar communication (DFRC) base station…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Elmehdi Illi , Marwa Qaraqe , Ali Ghrayeb

In this paper, we investigate the performance of physical-layer security of a pinching-antenna system on a lossless dielectric waveguide. In particular, the system uses a single pinching-antenna to convey confidential information from a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Osamah S. Badarneh , Hugerles S. Silva , Yazan H. Al Badarneh

Pinching antennas, realized through position-adjustable radiating elements along dielectric waveguides, have emerged as a promising flexible-antenna technology thanks to their ability to dynamically reshape large-scale channel conditions.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Yanqing Xu , Yang Lu , Zhiguo Ding , Tsung-Hui Chang

Pinching-antenna systems (PASS) improve wireless links by configuring the locations of activated pinching antennas along dielectric waveguides, namely pinching beamforming. In this paper, a novel adjustable power radiation model is proposed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Xiaoxia Xu , Xidong Mu , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

This paper advocates a pair of strategies in non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) communications, where multiple UAVs play as new aerial communications platforms for serving terrestrial NOMA users. A new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Tianwei Hou , Yuanwei Liu , Zhengyu Song , Xin Sun , Yue Chen

In this paper, we consider the power allocation (PA) problem in cognitive radio networks (CRNs) employing nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technique. Specifically, we aim to maximize the number of admitted secondary users (SUs) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Ming Zeng , Georgios I. Tsiropoulos , Animesh Yadav , Octavia A. Dobre , Mohamed H. Ahmed

Pinching antennas have been recently proposed as a promising flexible-antenna technology, which can be implemented by attaching low-cost pinching elements to dielectric waveguides. This work explores the potential of employing pinching…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Ali Bereyhi , Saba Asaad , Chongjun Ouyang , Zhiguo Ding , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, we studied a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) network consisting of one source and two legitimate users (LUs), so-called near and far users according to their distances to the source, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Duc-Dung Tran , Ha-Vu Tran , Dac-Binh Ha , Georges Kaddoum

In non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) downlink, multiple data flows are superimposed in the power domain and user decoding is based on successive interference cancellation. NOMA's performance highly depends on the power split among the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-10 Stelios Timotheou , Ioannis Krikidis

As the latest member of the multiple access family, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has been recently proposed for 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) and envisioned to be an essential component of 5th generation (5G) mobile networks. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Zhiguo Ding , Yuanwei Liu , Jinho Choi , Qi Sun , Maged Elkashlan , Chih-Lin I , H. Vincent Poor

Backscatter communication (BackCom), which allows a backscatter node (BN) to communicate with the reader by modulating and reflecting the incident continuous wave from the reader, is considered as a promising solution to power the future…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Jing Guo , Xiangyun Zhou , Salman Durrani , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technique has sparked a growing research interest due to its ability to enhance the overall spectral efficiency of wireless systems. In this paper, we investigate the pairwise error probability (PEP)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-12 Lina Bariah , Arafat Al-Dweik , Sami Muhaidat

In this paper, we present a physical-layer security scheme that exploits artificial noise (AN) to secure the downlink legitimate communications and transfer energy to nodes operating under non-cooperative non-orthogonal multiple-access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Ahmed Badawy , Ahmed El Shafie

This work proposes a novel location-based multi-group multicast framework which is termed as non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) assisted multi-region geocast. This novel spectrum sharing framework exploits the NOMA technology to realize…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Yi Zhang , Hui-Ming Wang , Zhiguo Ding , Moon Ho Lee