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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

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-antenna (PA) systems have recently emerged as a promising member of the flexible-antenna family due to their ability to dynamically establish line-of-sight (LoS) links. While most existing studies assume ideal environments without…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Ximing Xie , Fang Fang , Zhiguo Ding , Xianbin Wang

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 sixth generation of wireless networks envisions intelligent and adaptive environments capable of meeting the demands of emerging applications such as immersive extended reality, advanced healthcare, and the metaverse. However, this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Dimitrios Tyrovolas , Sotiris A. Tegos , Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis , Sotiris Ioannidis , Christos K. Liaskos , George K. Karagiannidis

This paper investigates a pinching-antenna (PA)-enabled cognitive radio network, where both the primary transmitter (PT) and secondary transmitter (ST) are equipped with a single waveguide and multiple PAs to facilitate simultaneous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Zeyang Sun , Xidong Mu , Shuai Han , Sai Xu , Michail Matthaiou

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

A segmented waveguide-enabled pinching-antenna system (SWAN) is proposed, in which a segmented waveguide composed of multiple short dielectric waveguide segments is employed to radiate or receive signals through the pinching antennas (PAs)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Chongjun Ouyang , Hao Jiang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiguo Ding

Pinching-antenna system (PASS) mitigates large-scale path loss by enabling flexible placement of pinching antennas (PAs) along the dielectric waveguide. However, most existing studies assume perfect channel state information (CSI),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Mingjun Sun , Chongjun Ouyang , Shaochuan Wu , Yuanwei Liu

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

Pinching-antenna systems (PASSs) are a recent flexible-antenna technology that is realized by attaching simple components, referred to as pinching elements, to dielectric waveguides. This work explores the potential of deploying PASS for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Ali Bereyhi , Chongjun Ouyang , Saba Asaad , Zhiguo Ding , H. Vincent Poor

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

Programmable wireless environments (PWEs) have emerged as a key paradigm for next-generation communication networks, aiming to transform wireless propagation from an uncontrollable phenomenon into a reconfigurable process that can adapt to…

We investigate the performance of the pinching-antenna systems (PASS) for semantic communication (SC) in both single-waveguide and multi-waveguide scenarios, under the constraints of bit-user quality of service (QoS) and bit-to-semantic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Ishtiaque Ahmed , Haris Parvaiz , Leila Musavian

The pinching-antenna system (PASS) reconstructs wireless channels through pinching beamforming, i.e., optimizing the activated locations of pinching antennas (PAs) along the waveguide. The aim of this article is to investigate the joint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Mingjun Sun , Chongjun Ouyang , Shaochuan Wu , Yuanwei Liu

Pinching-antenna systems (PASS) have emerged as a promising technology due to their ability to dynamically reconfigure wireless propagation environments. A novel PASS-based multi-user non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) framework is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-04 Songtao Xue , Jingjing Zhao , Kaiquan Cai , Xidong Mu , Zhenyu Xiao , Yuanwei Liu

The Pinching Antenna System (PAS) has emerged as a promising technology to dynamically reconfigure wireless propagation environments in 6G networks. By activating radiating elements at arbitrary positions along a dielectric waveguide, PAS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Yu Hua , Yaru Fu , Yalin Liu , Zheng Shi , Kevin Hung

As next-generation wireless networks emerge, security is becoming a critical performance metric. However, conventional multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems often suffer from severe path loss and are vulnerable to nearby…

Pinching antenna systems (PAS) have recently emerged as a promising architecture for flexible and reconfigurable wireless communications. However, their performance is fundamentally constrained by in-waveguide attenuation, which is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Ximing Xie , Hao Qin , Fang Fang , Xianbin Wang

A pinching antenna system (PASS) assisted cell-free communication system is proposed. A sum rate maximization problem under the BS power budget constraint and PA deployment constraint is formulated. To tackle the proposed non-convex…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Haochen Li , Jiayi Lei , Cheng Zeng , Zhaoming Hu , Chao Dong , Yuanwei Liu