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We study a coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission where two base stations (BSs), each supported by a pinching antenna system (PASS), are deployed to jointly serve communication users under spatial division multiple access (SDMA)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Ali Amhaz , Shreya Khisa , Mohamed Elhattab , Chadi Assi , Sanaa Sharafeddine

The emerging pinching antenna (PA) technology has high flexibility to reconfigure wireless channels and combat line-of-sight blockage, thus holding transformative potential for indoor immersive applications in 6G. This paper investigates…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yulei Wang , Yalin Liu , Yaru Fu , Zhiguo Ding

Pinching antenna systems (PASS) have been proposed as a revolutionary flexible antenna technology which facilitates line-of-sight links via numerous low-cost pinching antennas with adjustable activation positions over waveguides. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-24 Luyuan Zhang , Xidong Mu , An Liu , Yuanwei Liu

As a practical physical implementation of pinching-antenna systems, leaky coaxial cable (LCX) enables distributed radiation in more general wireless environments, particularly for lower-frequency applications. In this paper, a leaky-coaxial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Kaidi Wang , Daniel K. C. So , Zhiguo Ding , George K. Karagiannidis

Densifying networks and deploying more antennas at each access point are two principal ways to boost the capacity of wireless networks. However, the complicated distributions of the signal power and the accumulated interference power,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Xianghao Yu , Chang Li , Jun Zhang , Martin Haenggi , Khaled B. Letaief

The movable antenna (MA) technology has attracted increasing attention in wireless communications due to its capability for flexibly adjusting the positions of multiple antennas in a local region to reconfigure channel conditions. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Nianzu Li , Weidong Mei , Boyu Ning , Peiran Wu

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

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

A segmented waveguide-enabled pinching-antenna system (SWAN)-assisted integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) framework is proposed. Unlike conventional pinching antenna systems (PASS), which use a single long waveguide, SWAN divides…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Hao Jiang , Chongjun Ouyang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan , Zhiguo Ding , Robert Schober

Implantable wireless bioelectronic devices enable communication and/or power transfer through RF wireless connections with external nodes. These devices encounter notable design challenges due to the lossy nature of the host body, which…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-07-03 Mingxiang Gao , Sujith Raman , Zvonimir Sipus , Anja K. Skrivervik

Pinching Antennas (PAs) represent a revolutionary flexible antenna technology that leverages dielectric waveguides and electromagnetic coupling to mitigate large-scale path loss. This letter is the first to explore channel estimation for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Jian Xiao , Ji Wang , Yuanwei Liu

The joint transmit and pinching beamforming design for spectral efficiency (SE) and energy efficiency (EE) tradeoff in pinching-antenna systems (PASS) is proposed, under practical channel and energy consumption models. In the single-user…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Zihao Zhou , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu

The position-fluid antenna (PFA) architecture has become one of the appealing technologies to support ubiquitous connectivity demand in next-generation wireless systems. Specifically, allowing the antenna to adjust its physical position to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Heyin Shen , Chong Han , Hao Liu , Tao Yang

The full potential of pinching-antenna systems (PAS) can be unblocked if pinching antennas can be accurately activated at positions tailored for the serving users', which means that acquiring accurate channel state information (CSI) at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Gui Zhou , Vasilis Papanikolaou , Zhiguo Ding , Robert Schober

Pinching-antenna systems (PASs) have recently emerged as a flexible, cost-effective route to large-scale antenna deployments envisioned for integrated sensing and communications (ISAC). This paper establishes the fundamental sensing limits…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-05 Dimitrios Bozanis , Vasilis K. Papanikolaou , Sotiris A. Tegos , George K. Karagiannidis

This paper investigates a movable antenna (MA)-enabled wireless-powered communication network (WPCN), where multiple wireless devices (WDs) first harvest energy from the downlink (DL) signal broadcast by a hybrid access point (HAP) and then…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-15 Ying Gao , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen

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

The wireless power transfer efficiency to implanted bioelectronic devices is constrained by several frequency-dependent physical mechanisms. Recent works have developed several mathematical formulations to understand these mechanisms and…

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

Pinching-antenna systems (PASS) represent a promising customizable wireless access mechanism in high-frequency bands, enabled by dielectric waveguides and movable dielectric particles, called pinching antennas (PAs). In this work, we study…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Muhammad Fainan Hanif , Yuanwei Liu