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Pinching antennas is a novel flexible-antenna technology, which can be realized by employing small dielectric particles on a waveguide. The aim of this letter is to characterize the array gain achieved by pinching-antenna systems (PASS). A…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Chongjun Ouyang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiguo Ding

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

Pinching-antenna systems have recently emerged as a promising solution for enhancing coverage in high-frequency wireless communications by guiding signals through dielectric waveguides and radiating them via position-adjustable antennas.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Hao Feng , Ming Zeng , Ebrahim Bedeer , Xingwang Li , Octavia A. Dobre , Zhiguo Ding

We study joint spectrum allocation and user association in heterogeneous cellular networks with multiple tiers of base stations. A stochastic geometric approach is applied as the basis to derive the average downlink user data rate in a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Wei Bao , Ben Liang

This paper studies a novel movable antenna (MA)-enhanced multiuser multiple-input multiple-output downlink system designed to improve wireless communication performance. We aim to maximize the average achievable sum rate through…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Xintai Chen , Biqian Feng , Yongpeng Wu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

Movable antenna (MA) systems have recently attracted significant attention in the field of wireless communications owing to their exceptional capability to proactively reconfigure wireless channels via flexible antenna movements. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Nianzu Li , Peiran Wu , Lipeng Zhu , Weidong Mei , Boyu Ning , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

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 antennas have emerged as a promising technology for reconfiguring wireless propagation environments, particularly in high-frequency communication systems operating in the millimeter-wave and terahertz bands. By enabling dynamic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Ming Zeng , Ji Wang , Octavia A. Dobre , Zhiguo Ding , George K. Karagiannidis , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor

The pinching-antenna system (PASS) reconfigures wireless links through pinching beamforming, in which the activated locations of pinching antennas (PAs) along dielectric waveguides are optimized. This article investigates the application of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Shan Shan , Chongjun Ouyang , Yong Li , 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

This letter investigates multi-mode pinching antenna systems (PASS), where signals of multiple orthogonal modes can be transmitted within a dielectric waveguide and radiated by pinching antennas (PAs). This enables mode-domain multiplexing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Xiaoxia Xu , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

A dual-scale deployment (DSD) framework is proposed for pinching antenna systems (PASS), under which four protocols are provided. 1) For the coarse-scale deployment, the pinching antenna (PA) is transferred over a large-scale range at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Xu Gan , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu

Rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) is regarded as a crucial and powerful physical layer (PHY) paradigm for next-generation communication systems. Particularly, users employ successive interference cancellation (SIC) to decode part of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Cixiao Zhang , Size Peng , Yin Xu , Qingqing Wu , Xiaowu Ou , Xinghao Guo , Dazhi He , Wenjun Zhang

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

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) is a promising solution to build a programmable wireless environment via steering the incident signal in fully customizable ways with reconfigurable passive elements. In this paper, we consider a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Huayan Guo , Ying-Chang Liang , Jie Chen , Erik G. Larsson

Densification of access points (APs) in wireless local area networks (WLANs) increases the interference and the contention domains of each AP due to multiple overlapped basic service sets (BSSs). Consequently, high interference from…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-08-19 Phillip B. Oni , Steven D. Blostein

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

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-04 Yiming Xu , Dongfang Xu , Xianghao Yu , Shenghui Song , Zhiguo Ding , Robert Schober

Pinching-antenna systems (PASS) have recently attracted considerable attention owing to their capability of flexibly reconfiguring large-scale wireless channels. Motivated by this potential, we investigate the issue of joint localization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-11 Min Liu , Yue Xiao , Shuaixin Yang , Gang Wu , Xianfu Lei , Wei Xiang

Radio stripes (RSs) is an emerging technology in beyond 5G and 6G wireless networks to support the deployment of cell-free architectures. In this paper, we investigate the potential use of RSs to enable joint positioning and synchronization…