Bibliography on Pinching Antennas

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[39] D. Bozanis, V. K. Papanikolaou, S. A. Tegos, and G. K. Karagiannidis, Cramér-Rao Bounds for Integrated Sensing and Communications in Pinching-Antenna Systems, submitted, arXiv:2505.01333
[38] M. Zeng, J. Wang, X. Li, G. Wang, O. A. Dobre, and Z. Ding, Sum Rate Maximization for NOMA-Assisted Uplink Pinching-Antenna Systems, submitted, arXiv:2505.00549
[37] X. Xu, X. Mu, Z. Wang, Y. Liu, and A. Nallanathan , Pinching-Antenna Systems (PASS): Power Radiation Model and Optimal Beamforming Design, submitted, arXiv:2505.00218
[36] J. Zhang, H. Xu, C. Ouyang, Q. Zou, H. Yang, Uplink Sum Rate Maximization for Pinching Antenna-Assisted Multiuser MISO, submitted, arXiv:2504.16577
[35] L. Zhang, X. Mu, A. Liu, Y. Liu, Two-Timescale Joint Transmit and Pinching Beamforming for Pinching-Antenna Systems, submitted, arXiv:2504.16099
[34] Z. Zhou, Z. Yang, G. Chen, Z. Ding, Sum-Rate Maximization for NOMA-Assisted Pinching-Antenna Systems, submitted, arXiv:2504.15006
[33] Y. Xu, Z. Ding, D. Cai, V. W. S. Wong, QoS-Aware NOMA Design for Downlink Pinching-Antenna Systems, submitted, arXiv:2504.13723
[32] P. P. Papanikolaou, D. Bozanis, S. A. Tegos, P. D. Diamantoulakis, G. K. Karagiannidis, Secrecy Rate Maximization with Artificial Noise for Pinching-Antenna Systems, submitted, arXiv:2504.10656
[31] H. Jiang, Z. Wang, Y. Liu, Pinching-Antenna System (PASS) Enhanced Covert Communications, submitted, arXiv:2504.10442
[30] G. Zhou, V. Papanikolaou, Z. Ding, R. Schober, Channel Estimation for mmWave Pinching-Antenna Systems, arXiv:2504.09317
[29] Z. Zhang, Y. Liu, B. He, J. Chen, Integrated Sensing and Communications for Pinching-Antenna Systems (PASS), arXiv:2504.07709
[28] Z. Ding, Pinching-Antenna Assisted ISAC: A CRLB Perspective, IEEE Wireless Lett., submitted, arXiv:2504.05792
[27] Y. Fu, F. He, Z. Shi, H. Zhang, Power Minimization for NOMA-assisted Pinching Antenna Systems With Multiple Waveguides, arXiv:2503.20336
[26] O. S. Badarneh, H. S. Silva, Y. H. Al Badarneh, Physical-Layer Security of Pinching-Antenna Systems, submitted, arXiv:2503.18322,
[25] J. Xiao, J. Wang, Y. Liu, Channel Estimation for Pinching-Antenna Systems (PASS), submitted, arXiv:2503.13268
[24] Y. Qin, Y. Fu, H. Zhang, Joint Antenna Position and Transmit Power Optimization for Pinching Antenna-Assisted ISAC Systems, submitted, arXiv:2503.12872
[23] S. Hu, R. Zhao, Y. Liao, D. W. K. Ng, J. Yuan, Sum-Rate Maximization for Pinching Antenna-assisted NOMA Systems with Multiple Dielectric Waveguides, submitted, arXiv:2503.10060
[22] M. Sun, C. Ouyang, S. Wu, Y. Liu, Physical Layer Security for Pinching-Antenna Systems (PASS), submitted, arXiv:2503.09075
[21] Z. Ding, H. V. Poor, LoS Blockage in Pinching-Antenna Systems: Curse or Blessing?, IEEE Wireless Commun. Lett., submitted, arXiv:2503.08554
[20] A. Bereyhi, C. Ouyang, S. Asaad, Z. Ding, H. V. Poor, MIMO-PASS: Uplink and Downlink Transmission via MIMO Pinching-Antenna Systems, submitted, arXiv:2503.03117
[19] J. Zhao, X. Mu, K. Cai, Y. Zhu, Y, Liu, Waveguide Division Multiple Access for Pinching-Antenna Systems (PASS), arXiv:2502.17781
[18] X. Mu, G. Zhu, Y. Liu, Pinching-Antenna System (PASS)-enabled Multicast Communications, submitted, arXiv:2502.16624
[17] Ximing Xie, Fang Fang, Zhiguo Ding, Xianbin Wang, A Low-Complexity Placement Design of Pinching-Antenna Systems, submitted, arXiv:2502.14250
[16] T. Hou, Y. Liu, A. Nallanathan, On the Performance of Uplink Pinching Antenna Systems (PASS), submitted, arXiv:2502.12365
[15] X. Xu, X. Mu, Y. Liu, A. Nallanathan, Joint Transmit and Pinching Beamforming for Pinching Antenna Systems (PASS): Optimization-Based or Learning-Based?, submitted, arXiv:2502.08637
[14] D. Tyrovolas, S. A. Tegos, P. D. Diamantoulakis, S. Ioannidis, C. K. Liaskos, G. K. Karagiannidis, submitted, Performance Analysis of Pinching-Antenna Systems, arXiv:2502.06701
[13] S. Lv, Y. Liu, Z. Ding, Beam Training for Pinching-Antenna Systems (PASS), submitted, arXiv:2502.05921
[12] Z. Wang, C. Ouyang, X. Mu, Y. Liu, Z. Ding, Modeling and Beamforming Optimization for Pinching-Antenna Systems, submitted, arXiv:2502.05917
[11] X. Xie, Y. Lu, Z. Ding, Graph Neural Network Enabled Pinching Antennas, submitted, arXiv:2502.05447
[10] A. Bereyhi, S. Asaad, C. Ouyang, Z. Ding, H. Vincent Poor, Downlink Beamforming with Pinching-Antenna Assisted MIMO Systems, submitted, arXiv:2502.01590
[9] Jia Guo, Yuanwei Liu, Arumugam Nallanathan, GPASS: Deep Learning for Beamforming in Pinching-Antenna Systems (PASS), submitted, arXiv:2502.01438
[8] Y. Liu, Z. Wang, X. Mu, C. Ouyang, X. Xu, Z. Ding, Pinching-Antenna Systems (PASS): Architecture Designs, Opportunities, and Outlook, submitted, arXiv:2501.18409
[7] Z. Yang, N. Wang, Y. Sun, Z. Ding, R. Schober, G. K. Karagiannidis, V. W. S. Wong, O. A. Dobre, Pinching Antennas: Principles, Applications and Challenges, submitted, arXiv:2501.10753
[6] C. Ouyang, Z. Wang, Yuanwei Liu, Zhiguo Ding, Array Gain for Pinching-Antenna Systems (PASS), submitted, arXiv:2501.05657
[5] K. Wang, Z. Ding, R. Schober Antenna Activation for NOMA Assisted Pinching-Antenna Systems, IEEE Wireless Commun. Lett., to appear in 2025.
[4] S. A. Tegos, P. D. Diamantoulakis, Z. Ding, G. K. Karagiannidis, Minimum Data Rate Maximization for Uplink Pinching-Antenna Systems, IEEE Wireless Commun. Lett., to appear in 2025.
[3] Y. Xu, Z. Ding, G. K. Karagiannidis, Rate Maximization for Downlink Pinching-Antenna Systems, IEEE Commun. Lett., to appear in 2025.
[2] Z. Ding, R. Schober, H. Vincent Poor, Flexible-Antenna Systems: A Pinching-Antenna Perspective, IEEE Trans. Commun., to appear in 2025.
[1] A. Fukuda, H. Yamamoto, H. Okazaki, Y. Suzuki, and K. Kawai, Pinching antenna - using a dielectric waveguide as an antenna, NTT DOCOMO Technical J., vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 5-12, Jan. 2022.

Given the rapid progress in pinching antenna research, we may not be aware of some recent developments. If you have updates to share, please feel free to email us at zhiguo.ding@manchester.ac.uk.

Q&A about Pinching Antennas

One of the most enjoyable parts for those conference/workshop presentations is the Q&A. Here is a list of interesting discussions with our colleagues (a very informal summary).

Q1: What are the key advantages of pinching antennas?
A1: Mainly three: i) create LoS links; ii) flexibility (easy to add or remove antennas); iii) practicality (low-cost deployment).

Q2: Why are pinching antennas important to future communications?
A2: The concept of pinching antennas paves the way for realizing the ultimate goal of wireless communications: Providing fiber-like, user-centric, low-cost connections

Q3: How is a pinching-antenna system different from cloud RAN, distributed MIMO, cell-free MIMO?
A3: All these are essentially based on the same motivation: moving base stations (access points) close to users. Pinching-antenna systems offer the advantages of low cost (pinches are cheaper than RRHs) and flexibility (adding/releasing pinches is simpler than installing RRHs). Furthermore, no backhaul limits nor synchronization issues in pinching-antenna systems. Finally, we note that they are complementary to each other and can be implemented simultaneously in the same network.
Q4: How is a pinching-antenna system different from fluid and movable antennas?
A4: All these are essentially based on the same motivation: treating wireless channels as reconfigurable parameters by changing the locations of antennas. Both fluid and movable antennas are not capable of creating LoS links, which is the key feature of pinching antennas. In addition, adding an additional antenna in those existing antenna systems is not straightforward. Furthermore, pinching antennas can be implemented in a much low-cost manner, given the fact that both dielectric waveguides and pinches are not expensive. We also note that in pinching-antenna systems, antennas are likely to be placed very far from each other (hundreds or thousands of wavelengths), which means that the well-understood spherical channel models can be adopted in pinching-antenna networks (not much concern regarding antenna/channel coupling). Finally, these antenna techniques are complementary to each other and can be used simultaneously in the same network.
Q5: Why not to use the simple plane-wave model? Why to use the spherical-wave model?
A5: In a pinching-antenna system, antenna spacing is decided by user spacing, which means that the aperture of a pinching antenna array can be very large. Hence, the spherical-wave model should be used. Of course, if we are sure that the array aperture is small, the plane-wave model, which is an approximation of the spherical-wave model, can be used. One example is the channel estimation work from Robert's group [30].
Q6: What is the relationship between pinching antennas and near field communications?
A6: Using pinching antennas is an effective way to realize near-field communications. There are two conventional ways to realize NF. One is to use an extremely large MIMO array. As analyzed in the following work (Z. Ding, Resolution of Near-Field Beamforming and Its Impact on NOMA, IEEE WCL 2024), this approach can suffer poor resolution. The other is to use distributed MIMO (or C-RAN), which suffers synchronization issues. In pinching-antenna systems, spherical-wave modes are naturally to be used, and hence NF beamfocusing can be realized in a straightforward manner.
Q7: Will it be feasible to move antennas in real time?
A7: Pinching antennas can be moved, as movable antennas. But a more realistic implementation is to use the activation way shown in [5]. Because pinches are cheap, we can first preconfigure a large number of pinches along a waveguide and then activate one or some of these pinches as needed. Such activation can be done in a remote manner, similar to how the keyboard of a self-playing piano is controlled.
Q8: Why are pinching antennas important to ISAC?
A8: Pinching antennas are important to sensing tasks, particularly to localization. Consider a simple example using 3 anchors to realize trilateration, where a user is located by using the intersection of the 3 concentric circles with the 3 anchors as their centers. If the 3 anchors are very close (i.e., in a small-size array), an intuition is that the localization resolution can be poor. An alternative to avoid this resolution issue is to use distributed MIMO (CoMP), but it can suffer some implementation issues, e.g., synchronization and system overhead. Pinching antennas are naturally deployed in a large area, which is useful to improve sensing accuracy.
Q9: Can pinching antennas be applied to outdoor scenarios? How are pinching antennas related to radio stripes?
A9: For outdoor applications, waveguides can be deployed at the side of a building, road-side infrastructures, etc. In such cases, the applications of pinching antennas become quite similar to radio stripes, which are also novel solutions for realizing large-scale antenna arrays. However, pinching antennas are featured by their flexibility and low-cost nature.
Q10 How are pinching antennas related to visible light communications (VLC)?
A10: Both the two techniques can ensure that transmitters are close to users. VLC uses light signals, whereas pinching antennas are implemented by using RF signals, which makes the latter more compatible with the existing communication systems.

To be continued.