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This paper explores a joint optimization of transmit power allocation and radiation coefficients in a downlink Pinching Antenna SyStem (PASS) employing Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA). By leveraging the PASS-enabled flexible channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-10 Nikoloz Vashakidze , Chadi Assi , Mohamed Elhattab , Ali Ghrayeb , Maurice J. Khabbaz

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

This paper considers a multiuser multiple-input single-output (MISO) downlink system with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer. In particular, we focus on secure communication in the presence of passive eavesdroppers and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Ernest S. Lo , Robert Schober

Pinching-antenna systems (PASS) have recently emerged as a promising technology for improving wireless communications by establishing or strengthening reliable line-of-sight (LoS) links by adjusting the positions of pinching antennas (PAs).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Haoyun Li , Zhonghao Lyu , Yulan Gao , Ming Xiao , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, we investigate the design of artificial-noise-aided secure multi-antenna transmission in slow fading channels. The primary design concerns include the transmit power allocation and the rate parameters of the wiretap code. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Xi Zhang , Xiangyun Zhou , Matthew R. McKay

Unlike conventional fixed-antenna architectures, rotatable antenna (RA) has shown great potential in enhancing wireless communication performance by exploiting additional spatial degrees of freedom (DoFs) in a cost-effective manner. In this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Qi Dai , Beixiong Zheng , Yanhua Tan , Weidong Mei , Shiqi Gong , Jie Tang , Chengwen Xing

The pinching-antenna systems (PASS), which activate small dielectric particles along a dielectric waveguide, has recently emerged as a promising paradigm for flexible antenna deployment in next-generation wireless communication networks.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Han Zhang , Bingxin Zhang , Yizhe Zhao , Kun Yang , Guopeng Zhang

The evolution toward the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks has flexible reconfigurable antenna architectures capable of adapting their radiation characteristics to the surrounding environment. At the center-stage, while waveguide…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Kaidi Wang , Zhiguo Ding , Lajos Hanzo

We present an optimized secure multi-antenna transmission approach based on artificial-noise-aided beamforming, with limited feedback from a desired single-antenna receiver. To deal with beamformer quantization errors as well as unknown…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-22 Xi Zhang , Matthew R. McKay , Xiangyun Zhou , Robert W. Heath

This paper leverages fluid antenna (FA) and rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) to enhance the physical layer security (PLS) of an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. We consider a practical multi-user multi-input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Cixiao Zhang , Yin Xu , Size Peng , Xinghao Guo , Xiaowu Ou , Hanjiang Hong , Dazhi He , Wenjun Zhang

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

The Pinching-Antenna SyStem (PASS) reconstructs wireless channels through \emph{pinching beamforming}, wherein the activated positions of pinching antennas along dielectric waveguides are optimized to shape the radiation pattern. The aim of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-16 Chongjun Ouyang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiguo Ding

The fundamental challenge of the millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequency band is the sensitivity of the radio channel to blockages, which gives rise to unstable connectivity and impacts the reliability of a system. To this end, multi-point…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-16 Dileep Kumar , Jarkko Kaleva , Antti Tölli

In this paper, we construct a framework of the movable antenna (MA) aided covert communication shielded by the general noise uncertainty for the first time. According to the analysis performance on the derived closed-form expressions of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Yida Wang , Guojie Hu , Xiaoling Hu , Xingbo Lu , Yuzhen Huang

This letter studies the practical design of secure transmissions without knowing eavesdropper's channel state information (ECSI). An ECSI-irrelevant metric is introduced to quantize the intrinsic anti-eavesdropping ability (AEA) that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Tong-Xing Zheng , Hui-Ming Wang , Hao Deng

The integration of pinching antenna systems with non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has emerged as a promising technique for future 6G applications. This paper is the first to investigate power minimization for NOMA-assisted pinching…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yaru Fu , Fuchao He , Zheng Shi , Haijun Zhang

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

As the main issue in pinching-antenna system design, antenna location optimization is key to realizing channel reconfigurability and system flexibility. Most existing works in this area adopt sophisticated optimization and learning tools to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Zhiguo Ding , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, we propose a novel blockage-aware hierarchical beamforming framework for movable antenna (MA) systems operating at millimeter-wave (mm-Wave) frequencies. While existing works on MA systems have demonstrated performance gains…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 Yan Zhang , Indrakshi Dey , Nicola Marchetti

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