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This article addresses the design of multigroup multicast communications in the pinching-antenna system (PASS). A PASS-enabled multigroup transmission framework is proposed to maximize multicast rates under a couple of transmission…

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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

Pinching-antenna system (PASS) is a novel flexible-antenna technology, which employs long-spread waveguides to convey signals with negligible path loss and pinching antennas (PAs) with adjustable positions to radiate signals from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Xidong Mu , Guangyu Zhu , Yuanwei Liu

This study investigates a downlink rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) scenario in which multiple base stations (BSs), employing a coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission scheme, serve users equipped with movable antenna (MA)…

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Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) is a robust multiple access scheme for multi-antenna wireless networks. In this work, we study the performance of RSMA in downlink overloaded networks, where the number of transmit antennas is smaller…

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This paper concerns sub-channel allocation in multi-user wireless networks with a view to increasing the network throughput. It is assumed there are some sub-channels to be equally divided among active links, such that the total sum rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-21 Mohammadreza Darabi , Amin Roustaei

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 Pinching-Antenna SyStem (PASS) reconstructs wireless channels through \emph{pinching beamforming}, wherein the activated positions of pinching antennas along dielectric waveguides are optimized to shape the radiation pattern. The aim of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-16 Chongjun Ouyang , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiguo Ding

This letter introduces a novel wireless powered communication system, referred to as a wireless powered pinching-antenna network (WPPAN), utilizing a single waveguide with pinching antennas to address the double near-far problem inherent in…

Pinching antennas (PAs), a new type of reconfigurable and flexible antenna structures, have recently attracted significant research interest due to their ability to create line-of-sight links and mitigate large-scale path loss. Owing to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-26 Peng Liu , Zesong Fei , Meng Hua , Guangji Chen , Xinyi Wang , Ruiqi Liu

Spatial modulation (SM)-sparse code multiple access (SCMA) systems provide high spectral efficiency (SE) at the expense of using a high number of transmit antennas. To overcome this drawback, this letter proposes a novel SM-SCM A system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-16 Ibrahim Al-Nahhal , Octavia A. Dobre , Ertugrul Basar , Salama Ikki

Pinching antenna systems (PASSs) can dynamically adapt their transmit and receive arrays for sensing and communication in wireless systems. This work explores the potential of PASSs for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Saba Asaad , Chongjun Ouyang , Zhiguo Ding , Ali Bereyhi

In this paper, we consider the problem of joint antenna selection and analog beamformer design in downlink single-group multicast networks. Our objective is to reduce the hardware costs by minimizing the number of required phase shifters at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-23 Tobias Fischer , Ganapati Hegde , Frederic Matter , Marius Pesavento , Marc E. Pfetsch , Andreas M. Tillmann

In this paper, we consider uplink channel estimation for massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems with partially connected hybrid beamforming (PC-HBF) structures. Existing beam design and channel estimation schemes are usually based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Yufan Zhou , Yongbo Xiao , An Liu

Efficient and low-complexity beamforming design is an important element of satellite communication systems with mobile receivers equipped with phased arrays. In this work, we apply the simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-20 Zheng Chen , Håkan Johansson

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

Movable antenna (MA) technology can flexibly reconfigure wireless channels by adjusting antenna positions in a local region, thus owing great potential for enhancing communication performance. This letter investigates MA technology enabled…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Guojie Hu , Qingqing Wu , Donghui Xu , Kui Xu , Jiangbo Si , Yunlong Cai , Naofal Al-Dhahir

In this paper, the problem of sum-rate maximization for an active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted downlink rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) transmission system is studied. In the considered model, the active RIS is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Xinhao Li , Tao Wang , Haonan Tong , Zhaohui Yang , Yijie Mao , Changchuan Yin

Classical antenna selection schemes require instantaneous channel state information (CSI). This leads to high signaling overhead in the system. This work proposes a novel joint receive antenna selection and precoding scheme for multiuser…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-29 Chongjun Ouyang , Ali Bereyhi , Saba Asaad , Ralf R. Müller , Hongwen Yang