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FullPASS: Geometry Optimization for Full-Duplex Pinching-Antenna Systems

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Pith's one-line read A full-duplex pinching-antenna transceiver can pick its active elements so that self-interference stays below a hard limit while desired-link rates land within 0.95% of the best discrete selection.

desk verdict First full-duplex PASS formulation with a sound two-stage solver; the load-bearing caveat is that the passive SI-suppression claim rests on an unvalidated free-space model. read the letter →

arxiv 2607.19546 v1 pith:7KMXPY2A submitted 2026-07-21 cs.IT math.IT

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keywords in-bandfull-duplexpinching-antennasystemself-interferencesuppressionantennaactivationselectionwaveguidepropagationsecond-orderconeprogramminglocalsearchspectralefficiency
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The pith

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The reading

FullPASS is a proposed in-band full-duplex architecture: two parallel dielectric waveguides carry candidate pinching elements, and the transceiver switches individual elements on or off to communicate with one full-duplex user on the same time-frequency resource. The paper's central claim is that element selection is itself a self-interference-management mechanism: one set of binary on/off decisions simultaneously shapes the downlink channel, the uplink channel, and the cross-waveguide transmit-to-receive coupling, so the transceiver can meet a prescribed self-interference limit and still keep desired-link spectral efficiency almost as high as exhaustive search allows. The paper formulates this as a nonconvex combinatorial problem and solves it with a two-stage method—a phase-anchored convex relaxation with deterministic rounding, then local add/remove/swap search under the full propagation model. In simulation the method comes within 0.95% of exhaustive search on 13x13 and 15x15 grids, runs more than ten times faster than exhaustive search at 15x15, scales to 60 candidates per waveguide, and about doubles the bidirectional spectral efficiency of a same-hardware half-duplex baseline. The wider claim is that passive geometry, not extra cancellation hardware, can carry the first line of full-duplex isolation in waveguide-based antenna systems.

What carries the argument

The central object is the joint binary activation vector pair (a_TX, a_RX), with effective weights y_i = a_i tau^{cumulative upstream activations}. The load-bearing identity is the bilinear SI form H_SI = delta_RX delta_TX y_RX^T G_SI y_TX, which turns the SI-leakage constraint into a second-order-cone constraint once one side is fixed. Stage 1 solves phase-anchored second-order-cone relaxations over a finite grid of reference phases (maximizing the rotated real part approximates maximizing the channel magnitude), then deterministically rounds the relaxed vector to binary trial patterns; Stage 2 runs alternating best-improvement local search over add, remove, and swap moves under the full pr

What would settle it

Choose any activation pattern the algorithm selects for a scenario, then measure the actual SI power at the receiver input of a two-waveguide prototype (or in a full-wave electromagnetic simulation) and compare it to the predicted P_TX|H_SI|^2. If, across a meaningful fraction of random scenarios, the measured leakage exceeds the prescribed limit by more than the calibrated guard margin, the central claim that geometry-based selection alone keeps SI within budget is falsified.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The discovery is that the coupling between the transmit and receive waveguides can be treated as a bilinear function of the binary activation vectors: the aggregate self-interference channel is the coherent double sum H_SI = delta_RX delta_TX y_RX^T G_SI y_TX, where y_TX and y_RX are the effective weights, each active element scaled by the pass-through loss of upstream active elements. Because this form is bilinear in the activation variables, fixing one side makes the other side's self-interference constraint second-order-conic, which is exactly the structure the algorithm exploits. The paper argues, and simulates, that the finite set of phase-anchored convex subproblems plus local search r

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that the transmit-to-receive coupling is exactly the analytic line-of-sight double sum of free-space spherical waves with fixed per-element coupling and no mutual coupling, radiation-pattern distortion, or leaky-wave leakage—plus perfect channel knowledge; if a real waveguide deviates from that sum, the selected activation patterns may not deliver the claimed SI suppression.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • If the model holds, a full-duplex waveguide transceiver can enforce a hard self-interference budget by geometry alone—no per-element phase shifters or dedicated isolation hardware are required to get within 0.95% of the exhaustive-selection rate.
  • On a 15x15 candidate grid the method is more than an order of magnitude faster than exhaustive search on average, and average runtime stays below one second up to 60 candidates per waveguide, so the selection can be re-run as the user moves.
  • Against a same-hardware half-duplex TDD reference with independently optimized per-direction selections, the proposed full-duplex selection delivers roughly a 91–97% increase in average bidirectional spectral efficiency.
  • The parameter sweeps imply a concrete design tradeoff: stronger SI suppression and higher in-waveguide attenuation each shrink the set of favorable transmit–receive geometries; per-element coupling helps only up to a saturation point.
  • The two-stage approach recovers about three-quarters of the optimality gap that standalone local search leaves, so the convex initialization is what buys most of the near-optimality.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • A hardware-in-the-loop variant is the natural next step: measure the actual SI coupling matrix on a prototype, plug it into the same optimization, and re-calibrate the guard margin from measured mismatch; the algorithm's structure would not change, only the channel table.
  • The same geometric-SI-suppression logic applies to any reconfigurable-aperture system whose receive elements can be placed far from transmit elements; the question is whether the aperture span is large enough to reproduce the isolation margins demonstrated here.
  • The method's treatment of SI as a hard constraint rather than an additive noise term suggests a system-level design knob: relax the leakage budget to the level that downstream analog and digital cancellation can handle, and let element selection maximize the desired-link rate for that budget.
  • Because the SI channel is nearly static for a fixed activation pattern, run-time re-estimation of the coupling matrix after each selection change could replace analytic coefficients in a deployment, sidestepping the model's main approximation.
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Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 4 minor

Summary. The paper proposes FullPASS, an in-band full-duplex pinching-antenna architecture with two parallel waveguides. It derives a geometry-based line-of-sight channel model for the downlink, uplink, and transmit-to-receive self-interference paths, including free-space propagation, waveguide phase/attenuation, and activation-dependent pass-through loss. It formulates joint binary transmit/receive pinching-element selection that maximizes the bidirectional sum spectral efficiency subject to a self-interference leakage constraint, then solves the nonconvex combinatorial problem with a two-stage method: phase-anchored SOCP relaxations with deterministic rounding under a simplified model, followed by alternating best-improvement local search under the full model. Simulations report an average sum spectral efficiency within 0.95% of exhaustive search on 13x13 and 15x15 grids, a more than one order-of-magnitude runtime reduction at 15x15, scalability to N=60, and a substantial full-duplex gain over a same-hardware HD-TDD reference.

Significance. The paper is a well-structured model-based algorithmic contribution. If the reported results are taken as claims about the adopted channel model, the two-stage algorithm is non-trivial, clearly explained, and evaluated against an exact finite-grid exhaustive benchmark, which is a notable strength. The computational complexity analysis is useful, and the parameter sweeps expose the main trade-offs. The central limitation is that the claimed passive self-interference suppression relies on a coherent free-space SI model (Eqs. (12)-(15)) that neglects mutual coupling, radiation patterns, and hardware-specific effects, and the paper explicitly defers full-wave validation to future work. This limits the external validity of the architecture-level full-duplex gain claim (Fig. 5), although it does not undermine the internal consistency of the optimization study.

major comments (3)
  1. [Sec. II-C, Eqs. (12)-(15)] The central architecture-level claim of passive SI suppression rests on the coherent double-sum SI model in Eq. (15), which neglects mutual coupling, radiation patterns, leaky-wave crosstalk, and hardware-specific scattering. The paper itself acknowledges at Sec. II-C that full-wave modeling is needed for these effects and is left for future work. Because suppression is achieved by selecting activation patterns whose coherent SI sum lies below a hard threshold, small phase errors from neglected coupling can turn predicted nulls into peaks and invalidate the SI constraint in Eq. (27) in a physical deployment. I request either (i) a full-wave or measured validation on a representative small-scale dual-waveguide configuration, or (ii) a robustness study in which the entries of G_SI in Eq. (12) are perturbed by random phase/gain errors and the selected activation patterns are re-evaluated; a
  2. [Sec. IV-B, Eq. (35)] The guard margin Delta_guard is calibrated on uniformly random nonempty activation patterns, but it is then applied to trial patterns produced by the SOCP+rounding pipeline, which are not representative of the random calibration set. The distribution of Delta_SI for optimized patterns can differ, especially at strong per-PE coupling as Sec. V-G shows. The final practical feasibility check guarantees constraint satisfaction, but an under- or over-conservative guard biases Stage 1 trial generation and can affect the claimed 0.95% gap to exhaustive search. Please either calibrate the margin on patterns generated by the same Stage-1 procedure, or sweep the mismatch target epsilon and show that the quality gap is stable. The paper should also state whether the 50,000 calibration patterns are independent of the 150 evaluation scenarios.
  3. [Sec. V-C, Figs. 3-5] The central near-optimality claim is supported by averages over 150 scenarios, but the 15x15 case does not report the numerical means corresponding to the 0.95% gap, and no confidence intervals or standard errors are given for any of the averages. On the 13x13 grid the gap is about 0.31 bit/s/Hz, which is small relative to the scale of the curves; the reader cannot tell whether the gap is statistically significant. Please report means with standard errors or quantiles, and give the exact 13x13 and 15x15 mean values in the text.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Sec. IV-B] Eqs. (32)-(35) mix dBm and linear power notation. Please state explicitly that Delta_guard is in dB and define F^{-1} as the empirical quantile function. Also clarify the relationship between P^pr_SI,max in watts and the dBm value in Table II.
  2. [Sec. V-B] The 'common seed' used to initialize both standalone ABLS and Stage 2 is not described. Please specify how this feasible activation is generated.
  3. [Table II] The effective noise-plus-interference power is given as -103.01 dBm, but the receiver noise figure is 4 dB. Please state the assumed bandwidth or measurement reference so the value can be reproduced.
  4. [Sec. V-D] Fig. 4 shows exhaustive search only up to N=15, which is clear, but the main text should explicitly state that the 0.95% near-optimality guarantee is validated only for N=13 and N=15; for larger N the method is not benchmarked against the finite-grid optimum.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the paper's near-optimality claims are benchmarked against exhaustive search on the same problem, the only fitted quantity (guard margin) affects heuristic trial generation rather than the final objective, and the load-bearing channel-model ingredients are cited from independent prior work.

full rationale

The derivation chain runs: geometry-based channel model (Eqs. 8-15), binary selection problem (Eq. 27), simplified-model SOCP initialization with deterministic rounding, practical-model ABLS refinement, and finally comparison with exhaustive search on the same practical model. The central claim — within 0.95% of exhaustive search — is an optimization-gap statement evaluated under the paper's own model, not a quantity derived from fitted data or from self-citation. The only calibrated parameter, Delta_guard in Eq. (35), is an offline-determined guard on the mismatch between simplified and practical SI predictions; it is used only to generate candidate trial patterns, and every final activation is independently checked against the hard practical constraint P_TX|H_SI|^2 <= P^pr_SI,max. Thus the fitted guard does not define the reported spectral efficiency or the feasibility of final solutions. The channel model is explicitly adopted from prior works [9] and [38], which are not authored by the present paper's authors, so no self-citation is load-bearing; nor is any uniqueness theorem or ansatz smuggled in via self-citation. The paper does contain a clear limitation statement in Sec. II-C that full-wave electromagnetic modeling, mutual coupling, radiation patterns, and hardware-specific scattering are left for future work; this is a correctness/external-validity caveat about the SI model, not a circularity in the optimization or in the benchmark comparison. No equation in the paper reduces by construction to its own inputs, and no fitted parameter is renamed as a prediction. Accordingly, the appropriate finding is no significant circularity.

Assumptions & free parameters 6 free parameters · 7 assumptions · 0 invented entities

No new physical entities are introduced; FullPASS is a system architecture and problem formulation, not a new particle, force, or dimension. The free parameters are algorithmic hyperparameters and the empirically calibrated guard margin, all of which influence the reported spectral-efficiency gap. The axioms are the analytic propagation-model assumptions inherited from prior PASS work plus the SI-model simplification.

free parameters (6)
  • Guard margin Delta_guard = 0.43 dB for epsilon=0.05
    Calibrated offline from 50,000 random activation patterns (Eq. (35), Sec. IV-B); controls the simplified-model SI threshold and influences which trial patterns Stage 1 proposes, hence the final SE gap.
  • Phase-grid size Q_phi = 16
    Chosen by hand (Table II); density of phase anchors in the SOCP relaxation, trading approximation accuracy against compute.
  • Guard mismatch target epsilon = 0.05
    Chosen by hand; sets the empirical quantile used to compute Delta_guard.
  • Max accepted ABLS moves per block I_local = 20
    Chosen by hand (Table II); limits the local-search depth per block and affects runtime and solution quality.
  • Deterministic rounding threshold = 0.5
    Chosen by hand (Eq. (49)); generates the threshold-rounded trial pattern in addition to top-k patterns.
  • Improvement tolerance epsilon_imp = 1e-12
    Numerical stopping tolerance in Algorithm 1; not physically meaningful.
assumptions (7)
  • domain assumption Lossless local power conservation at each activated PE: delta^2 + tau^2 = 1 (Eq. (4))
    Imported from the proportional-power PASS model [9]; no experimental validation in this paper.
  • domain assumption Proportional-power coupling: each active PE extracts a fixed fraction of the remaining guided power, giving cumulative pass-through loss (Eq. (5))
    Assumed cascaded power-flow model from [9]; upstream-active-element interactions are otherwise ignored.
  • domain assumption Attenuation-aware analytic channel decomposition: free-space spherical spreading, guided phase k0 n_e d, and continuous dB/m attenuation (Eqs. (8), (10), (12))
    Adopted from [38]; no full-wave or measurement validation.
  • domain assumption SI is a coherent double sum of pairwise free-space couplings between active TX and RX PEs (Eqs. (15), (21))
    New extension in this paper; ignores mutual coupling, radiation patterns, and leaky-wave coupling, as acknowledged in Sec. II-C.
  • domain assumption Perfect CSI at the FullPASS transceiver
    Stated in Sec. II-C; desired-link CSI uncertainty is left for future work.
  • domain assumption Terminal-side SI is independently controlled and unaffected by the FullPASS PE selection
    Stated in Sec. II-A; isolates the FullPASS-side SI problem but sidesteps terminal-side full-duplex coupling.
  • domain assumption Line-of-sight propagation with co-located user TX/RX ports
    Geometry model uses a point user at (Eq. (6)); multipath and time-varying SI are neglected.

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This paper proposes FullPASS, an in-band full-duplex architecture for pinching-antenna systems (PASSs) based on two parallel waveguides. The FullPASS transceiver simultaneously communicates with a single full-duplex user terminal over the same time-frequency resource: the transmit waveguide delivers the downlink signal, while the receive waveguide collects the uplink signal. Candidate pinching elements are placed along both waveguides, and the FullPASS transceiver jointly selects the active transmit and receive elements. We derive a geometry-based channel model for the downlink, uplink, and transmit-to-receive self-interference paths, including free-space propagation, in-waveguide propagation phase and attenuation, and the attenuation caused by upstream activated elements along each waveguide. The joint activation problem is formulated as a binary optimization that maximizes the bidirectional sum spectral efficiency while keeping the self-interference leakage at the FullPASS receiver below a prescribed threshold. To solve the resulting nonconvex combinatorial problem, we develop a two-stage algorithm. The first stage uses phase-anchored second-order-cone relaxations and deterministic rounding to generate binary trial activation patterns under a simplified propagation model. The second stage applies alternating best-improvement local search with add, remove, and swap operations evaluated under the full propagation model. Simulations show that the proposed method achieves an average sum spectral efficiency within 0.95% of exhaustive search on both the 13-by-13 and 15-by-15 candidate grids. On the 15-by-15 grid, it reduces the average runtime by more than one order of magnitude relative to exhaustive search and remains applicable to substantially larger candidate sets.

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Figure 1. Dual-waveguide FullPASS system model with candidate and activated [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Illustration of cascaded power flow and cumulative pass-through loss [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Scenario-wise runtime–spectral-efficiency comparison. Exhaustive search is included as a finite-grid benchmark. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Candidate-density and scalability evaluation under the practical-model SI-leakage constraint. Left: achieved desired-link sum spectral efficiency versus [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Average bidirectional spectral efficiency versus the number of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Average desired-link sum spectral efficiency versus the FullPASS [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_6.png]
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Average desired-link sum spectral efficiency versus the guided-wave [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_8.png]

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