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Beamforming with a sufficient number of antennas is one of the most significant technologies for both Multi-user (MU) Multiple-input Multiple-output (MIMO) communication and MIMO radar sensing in Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC)…

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Pinching-antenna systems (PASs) have been proposed as a flexible antenna technology to fulfill the stringent requirements of high data rate and large-scale equipment deployment in future wireless networks. The principle of PA involves…

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Pinching-antenna systems (PASS) have been recently proposed to improve the performance of wireless networks by reconfiguring both the large-scale and small-scale channel conditions. However, existing studies ignore the physical constraints…

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The highly sparse nature of propagation channels and the restricted use of radio frequency (RF) chains at transceivers limit the performance of millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Introducing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Biao He , Hamid Jafarkhani

The pinching-antenna systems (PASS) enable blockage mitigation in urban micro (UMi) networks through flexible antenna placement. However, the joint optimization of antenna positions and beamforming precoding is inherently nonconvex and…

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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 study investigates subarray-level movable antenna (MA) architecture for multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) systems. Unlike conventional systems with fixed-position antennas (FPAs), the proposed scheme harnesses the additional positional degrees…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-22 Shanshan Zhang , Songjie Yang , Wenxuan Zhang , Youzhi Xiong , Siya Yao

In this correspondence, we propose a movable antenna (MA)-aided multi-user hybrid beamforming scheme with a sub-connected structure, where multiple movable sub-arrays can independently change their positions within different local regions.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yichi Zhang , Yuchen Zhang , Lipeng Zhu , Sa Xiao , Wanbin Tang , Yonina C. Eldar , Rui Zhang

Pinching-antennas systems (PASS) offer reconfigurable wireless channels via low-cost dielectric mediums by creating line-of-sight (LoS) communication links. Most of the existing PASS cover mechanisms of equal power pinching antennas for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Ishtiaque Ahmed , Leila Musavian

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…

Optimizing the sum-log-utility for the downlink of multi-frequency band, multiuser, multiantenna networks requires joint solutions to the associated beamforming and user scheduling problems through the use of cloud radio access network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Ahmad Ali Khan , Raviraj Adve , Wei Yu

Hybrid analog and digital (HAD) beamforming has been recently receiving considerable deserved attention for a practical implementation on the large-scale antenna systems. As compared to full digital beamforming, partial-connected HAD…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Mohammed A. Almagboul , Feng Shu , Yaolu Qin , Xiaobo Zhou , Jin Wang , Yuwen Qian , Kingsley Jun Zou

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

A hybrid transmit precoder (TPC) and receive combiner (RC) pair is conceived for millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple input multiple output (MIMO) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. The proposed design considers a practical…

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Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) in millimeter wave is a key enabler for next-generation networks, which leverages large bandwidth and extensive antenna arrays, benefiting both communication and sensing functionalities. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-18 Tianhao Mao , Jie Yang , Le Liang , Shi Jin

In this paper, we study a multi-sine multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless power transfer (WPT) system with the objective to increase the output DC power. We jointly optimize the multi-sine waveform and beamforming accounting for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-24 Shanpu Shen , Bruno Clerckx

A reconfigurable pinching-antenna system (PASS) is presented, endowing pinching antennas (PAs) with both amplitude- and phase-controllable radiation beyond conventional implementations. To characterize this feature, a general and physically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zhaolin Wang , Jiaqi Xu , Chongjun Ouyang , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu

To enable larger apertures in multipleinput multipleoutput MIMO systems the trihybrid MIMO architecture offers a promising lowcost and lowpower solution by introducing reconfigurable antennas as a third layer of precoding on top of…

Recent advances in reconfigurable antennas have led to the new concept of the fluid antenna system (FAS) for shape and position flexibility, as another degree of freedom for wireless communication enhancement. This paper explores the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Jiangong Chen , Yue Xiao , Zhendong Peng , Jing Zhu , Xia Lei , Christos Masouros , Kai-Kit Wong

Beamforming is an indispensable feature for millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless communications in order to compensate for the severe path loss incurred due to high frequency operation. In this paper, we introduce a novel framework to evaluate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Rakesh RT , Debarati Sen , Goutam Das