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arxiv: 2604.26635 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-29 · 📡 eess.SP

Pinching Antenna-Aided Spatial Multiplexing: Transceiver Design and Performance Analysis

Ruijie Li , Yue Xiao , Shuaixin Yang , Gang Wu , Xianfu Lei , Ming Xiao This is my paper

Pith reviewed 2026-05-07 11:56 UTC · model grok-4.3

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keywords detectormultiplexingpasmperformancepinchingspatialantenna-aidedarchitecture
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PASM combines pinching antennas on waveguides for phase control, a structured VAMP detector, and a BER bound, delivering SNR gains over conventional phase-shifter spatial multiplexing.

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The paper focuses on improving spatial multiplexing in wireless communication systems. Spatial multiplexing is a technique that uses multiple antennas to send different data streams simultaneously to increase data rates. The new idea is to use pinching antennas, which are placed at specific positions along dielectric waveguides. These waveguides allow the phase of the signal to change naturally based on the distance the signal travels, without needing extra power-consuming phase shifters. Each waveguide is connected to one RF chain but can support multiple pinching antennas. The authors create a channel model that includes realistic effects like Rician fading for small-scale variations, correlated shadowing, and path loss over distance. They then design a detector called vector approximate message passing (VAMP) that uses the known structure from the waveguides to better recover the signals. Additionally, they calculate an upper limit on the bit error rate for the optimal maximum likelihood detector. Through computer simulations, they show that this system can achieve better signal quality compared to older methods that use phase shifters, and the VAMP detector offers a good balance between accuracy and how much computing power it needs.

Core claim

our simulation results demonstrate that the proposed PASM architecture achieves substantial signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) gain over the conventional phase-shifter-aided spatial multiplexing (PSSM), while the VAMP detector strikes an attractive trade-off between the system performance and computational complexity

Load-bearing premise

the deterministic phase variation along dielectric waveguides as a zero-power phase-control mechanism, together with the specific Rician fading, correlated shadowing, and path loss channel model

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In this paper, a novel pinching antenna-aided spatial multiplexing (PASM) architecture is conceived, which intrinsically amalgamates the benefits of flexible radiating element placement with radio-frequency (RF) chain transmission. Specifically, we leverage the deterministic phase variation along dielectric waveguides as a zero-power phase-control mechanism, where each waveguide fed by a single RF chain drives multiple pinching antennas (PAs) acquiring position-dependent phase shifts. Then, the PASM propagation environment is characterized by a realistic channel model encompassing Rician small-scale fading, correlated shadowing, and large-scale path loss. Based on this, a low-complexity vector approximate message passing (VAMP) detector is conceived, which exploits a waveguide-structured prior for jointly processing the signals associated with all PAs. Moreover, we derive an analytical upper bound on the bit error rate (BER) for the maximum likelihood (ML) detector to quantify the achievable performance limits. Finally, our simulation results demonstrate that the proposed PASM architecture achieves substantial signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) gain over the conventional phase-shifter-aided spatial multiplexing (PSSM), while the VAMP detector strikes an attractive trade-off between the system performance and computational complexity.

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Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claims rest on standard wireless channel modeling assumptions plus the domain-specific premise of deterministic waveguide phase shifts; no explicit free parameters or invented entities are identifiable from the abstract.

axioms (2)
  • domain assumption deterministic phase variation along dielectric waveguides
    Leveraged as zero-power phase-control mechanism for each waveguide driving multiple PAs.
  • domain assumption Rician small-scale fading, correlated shadowing, and large-scale path loss
    Used to characterize the PASM propagation environment.

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