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Waveguide Division Multiple Access for Pinching-Antenna Systems (PASS)

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arxiv 2502.17781 v1 pith:YVF44BLP submitted 2025-02-25 eess.SP

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A novel concept of waveguide division multiple access (WDMA) is proposed for multi-user pinching-antenna systems (PASS). The key principle of WDMA is to allocate each user with a dedicated waveguide, which is regarded as a new type of radio resources, so as to facilitate multi-user communications. By adjusting the activation positions of pinching antennas (PAs) over each waveguide, the pinching beamforming can be exploited for intended user signal enhancement and inter-user interference mitigation. Considering both ideal continuous and practical discrete PA position activation schemes, a joint power allocation and pinching beamforming optimization problem is formulated for the maximization of the sum rate. An alternating optimization-based algorithm is developed to address the formulated nonconvex problem. For solving the power allocation subproblem, the successive convex approximation method is invoked. For the pinching beamforming design subproblem, a penalty-based gradient ascent algorithm is first developed for the continuous PA activation case. Then, for the discrete PA activation case, a matching theory-based algorithm is proposed to achieve the near-optimal performance but with a low complexity. Numerical results unveil that: 1) For both continuous and discrete activation cases, PASS can achieve a significant performance gain over conventional fixed-position antenna systems; 2) the proposed WDMA can effectively underpin multi-user communications with the near orthogonality in free space achieved by the pinching beamforming; and 3) the performance gap between the discrete and continuous activation cases can be significantly alleviated with practically feasible numbers of PA candidate positions.

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    cs.IT 2026-02 conditional novelty 5.0 of 10

    A single-waveguide pinching-antenna system with multiple center-fed input ports achieves degree-of-freedom min(M,K) and power gain O(P_T M), breaking the rank-one bottleneck of conventional end-fed designs.

  3. Exploiting Pinching-Antenna Systems in Multicast Communications

    eess.SP 2025-05 conditional novelty 5.0 of 10

    Optimizing pinching-antenna positions along dielectric waveguides improves multicast rates, with closed-form results for a single antenna and iterative algorithms for multiple antennas or waveguides.

  4. Analytical Optimization for Antenna Placement in Pinching-Antenna Systems

    cs.IT 2025-07 conditional novelty 4.0 of 10

    For fairness-based OMA, the optimal pinching-antenna location is the mean of users' x-coordinates and does not depend on their distance from the waveguide; for NOMA it moves exponentially toward the user nearest the w...

  5. Sum Rate Maximization for Pinching Antennas Assisted RSMA System With Multiple Waveguides

    eess.SP 2025-06 conditional novelty 4.0 of 10

    The proposed correlation-distance PA activation plus SDP-SCA beamforming outperforms four baselines in simulated overloaded RSMA downlinks with multiple waveguides.

  6. Resource Allocation for Pinching-Antenna Systems: State-of-the-Art, Key Techniques and Open Issues

    cs.IT 2025-06 conditional novelty 3.0 of 10

    A comprehensive survey of resource allocation for pinching-antenna systems, with numerical case studies illustrating gains over fixed-antenna baselines.

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