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A generalized framework for the novel center-fed pinching antenna system (C-PASS) is proposed. Within this framework, closed-form expressions for the degree of freedom (DoF) and power scaling law of the proposed C-PASS are first derived.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Xu Gan , Yuanwei Liu

In this letter, we consider a new type of flexible-antenna system, termed pinching-antenna, where multiple low-cost pinching antennas, realized by activating small dielectric particles on a dielectric waveguide, are jointly used to serve a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Yanqing Xu , Zhiguo Ding , George K. Karagiannidis

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is considered to be a promising technology for future wireless systems due to its ability to provide communication and sensing services using shared hardware and spectrum resources. Moreover, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Nemanja Stefan Perović , Keshav Singh , Chih-Peng Li

A joint communication and computation (JCC) framework using segmented pinching antenna system (PASS) is proposed, where both the communication bit streams and computation data are simultaneously transmitted via uplink communications. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Deqiao Gan , Xiaoxia Xu , Xiaohu Ge , Yuanwei Liu

This paper addresses the problem of exploiting interference among simultaneous multiuser transmissions in the downlink of multiple-antenna systems. Using symbol-level precoding, a new approach towards addressing the multiuser interference…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Maha Alodeh , Symeon Chatzinotas , Bjorn Ottersten

Flexible-antenna systems have recently received significant research interest due to their capability to reconfigure wireless channels intelligently. This paper focuses on a new type of flexible-antenna technology, termed pinching antennas,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Zhiguo Ding , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor

Federated learning (FL) in wireless networks is limited by straggler delays from unpredictable channel conditions. In this paper, we investigate the pinching-antenna system (PASS), which dynamically 'pinches' the radiator along a dielectric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yushen Lin , Zihan Chen , Zhiguo Ding

This paper presents the first bit error rate (BER) analysis of a pinching-antenna (PA)-based non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) communication system. The PA is assumed to be able to be placed anywhere along the waveguide and serves two…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 Mahmoud AlaaEldin , Amy S. Inwood , Xidong Mu , Michail Matthaiou

We investigate the performance of multi-user multiple-antenna downlink systems in which a BS serves multiple users via a shared wireless medium. In order to fully exploit the spatial diversity while minimizing the passive energy consumed by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Thang X. Vu , Symeon Chatzinotas , Van-Dinh Nguyen , Dinh Thai Hoang , Diep N. Nguyen , Marco Di Renzo , Bjorn Ottersten

In this letter, a pinching antennas (PAs) assisted rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) system with multiple waveguides is investigated to maximize sum rate. A two-step algorithm is proposed to determine PA activation scheme and optimize…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-13 Peiyu Wang , Hong Wang , Rongfang Song

Unlike conventional systems using a fixed-location antenna, the channel capacity of the pinching-antenna system (PASS) is determined by the activated positions of pinching antennas. This article characterizes the capacity region of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Chongjun Ouyang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiguo Ding

This paper addresses the challenge of co-channel interference and intentional jamming in low-altitude air-ground communications. Since conventional fixed-position antenna (FPA) systems lack spatial adaptability to dynamically balance signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Yifan Guo , Junshan Luo , Fanggang Wang , Haiyang Ding , Shilian Wang , Zhenhai Xu

The pinching-antenna architecture has emerged as a promising solution for reconfiguring wireless propagation environments and enhancing system performance. While prior research has primarily focused on sum-rate maximization or transmit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Ming Zeng , Xingwang Li , Ji Wang , Gaojian Huang , Octavia A. Dobre , Zhiguo Ding

Fluid antennas (FAs) and movable antennas (MAs) have drawn increasing attention in wireless communications recently due to their ability to create favorable channel conditions via local antenna movement within a confined region. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-26 Xin Wei , Weidong Mei , Dong Wang , Boyu Ning , Zhi Chen

Flexible-antenna systems, such as fluid antennas and movable antennas, have been recognized as key enabling technologies for sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks, as they can intelligently reconfigure the effective channel gains of the…

A novel fully-connected (FC) tri-hybrid beamforming (THB) architecture is proposed for pinching antenna systems (PASS). In contrast to conventional sub-connected (SC) PASS, the proposed FC architecture employs a tunable phase-shifter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-19 Cheng-Jie Zhao , Zhaolin Wang , Hyundong Shin , Yuanwei Liu

This paper develops a gradient-based meta-learning framework for real-time control of waveguided pinching-antenna systems under user-location uncertainty and physical-layer security (PLS) constraints. A probabilistic system model is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-05 Khalid T. Musri , Akram Y. Sarhan , Osamah A. Abdullah , Hayder Al-Hraishawi

Straggler synchronization is a dominant wall-clock bottleneck in synchronous wireless federated learning (FL). Under non-IID data, however, aggressively sampling only fast clients may significantly slow convergence due to statistical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yushen Lin , Zhiguo Ding

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

This paper focuses on precoding design in multi-antenna systems with improper Gaussian interference (IGI), characterized by correlated real and imaginary parts. We first study block level precoding (BLP) and symbol level precoding (SLP)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-12 Lu Liu , Rang Liu , Ly V. Nguyen , A. Lee Swindlehurst