Multi-Waveguide Pinching Antenna Placement Optimization for Rate Maximization

Pinching antenna systems (PASS) have emerged as a technology that enables the large-scale movement of antenna elements, offering significant potential for performance gains in next-generation wireless networks. This paper investigates the problem of maximizing the average per-user data rate by optimizing the antenna placement of a multi-waveguide PASS, subject to a stringent physical minimum spacing constraint. To address this complex challenge, which involves a coupled fractional objective and a non-convex constraint, we employ the fractional programming (FP) framework to transform the non-convex rate maximization problem into a more tractable one, and devise a projected gradient ascent (PGA)-based algorithm to iteratively solve the transformed problem. Simulation results demonstrate that our proposed scheme significantly outperforms various geometric placement baselines, achieving superior per-user data rates by actively mitigating multi-user interference.

Content-Aware RSMA-Enabled Pinching-Antenna Systems for Latency Optimization in 6G Networks

The Pinching Antenna System (PAS) has emerged as a promising technology to dynamically reconfigure wireless propagation environments in 6G networks. By activating radiating elements at arbitrary positions along a dielectric waveguide, PAS can establish strong line-of-sight (LoS) links with users, significantly enhancing channel gain and deployment flexibility, particularly in high-frequency bands susceptible to severe path loss. To further improve multi-user performance, this paper introduces a novel content-aware transmission framework that integrates PAS with rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA). Unlike conventional RSMA, the proposed RSMA scheme enables users requesting the same content to share a unified private stream, thereby mitigating inter-user interference and reducing power fragmentation. We formulate a joint optimization problem aimed at minimizing the average system latency by dynamically adapting both antenna positioning and RSMA parameters according to channel conditions and user requests. A Content-Aware RSMA and Pinching-antenna Joint Optimization (CARP-JO) algorithm is developed, which decomposes the non-convex problem into tractable subproblems solved via bisection search, convex programming, and golden-section search. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed CARP-JO scheme consistently outperforms Traditional RSMA, NOMA, and Fixed-antenna systems across diverse network scenarios in terms of latency, underscoring the effectiveness of co-designing physical-layer reconfigurability with intelligent communication strategies.

Enhancing Mobile Crowdsensing Efficiency: A Coverage-aware Resource Allocation Approach

In this study, we investigate the resource management challenges in next-generation mobile crowdsensing networks with the goal of minimizing task completion latency while ensuring coverage performance, i.e., an essential metric to ensure comprehensive data collection across the monitored area, yet it has been commonly overlooked in existing studies. To this end, we formulate a weighted latency and coverage gap minimization problem via jointly optimizing user selection, subchannel allocation, and sensing task allocation. The formulated minimization problem is a non-convex mixed-integer programming issue. To facilitate the analysis, we decompose the original optimization problem into two subproblems. One focuses on optimizing sensing task and subband allocation under fixed sensing user selection, which is optimally solved by the Hungarian algorithm via problem reformulation. Building upon these findings, we introduce a time-efficient two-sided swapping method to refine the scheduled user set and enhance system performance. Extensive numerical results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed approach compared to various benchmark strategies.