Papers for

satellite communication designers

Papers whose findings have a practical use for this group, as judged from the abstract. Open a paper to read what it means in practice.

X-PASS improves wireless coverage with radial waveguide antennas

Design and Analysis of Pinching-Antenna Systems With Radially Deployed Waveguides (X-PASS)

Abstract: Pinching-antenna systems (PASS) reconfigure the wireless channel by positioning dielectric antennas along a waveguide. A single waveguide, however, confines its antennas to one line, so that good coverage of an area has relied on several waveguides or waveguide segments with separate feeds. This paper proposes X-PASS, in which a hub feeds radially deployed waveguide arms, one pinching antenna on each, and drives them by arm selection, aggregation or multiplexing. It models the hub with its insertion losses, derives a unified signal-to-noise ratio expression for these three operating modes, and derives in closed form a radius inside which aggregation outperforms selection. Numerical results validate the analysis and compare the coverage of X-PASS with that of the other layouts at equal transmit power.

Mon 2 NovInformation Theory
The gist
Wireless signals can be tricky to send reliably across an area using antennas placed on a single line. The authors propose a new system called X-PASS that arranges antennas along waveguides extending out like spokes from a central hub. This setup combines signals in ways that improve overall coverage and signal quality. The paper models the losses in the hub and compares how different ways of handling the signals affect performance, showing when combining signals helps the most.
Open → 2611.02687v1

Beamfocusing outperforms airy beams for overcoming antenna blockage

Beamfocusing Versus Airy Beams: Does Antenna Blockage Require Beam Bending?

Abstract: Airy beams are often proposed in array beamforming to bend beams around obstacles. We prove that, for a single-antenna receiver, conventional beamfocusing maximizes the received power regardless of how many antennas are blocked and, in expectation, even with phase errors in the channel state information. This also holds for multi-antenna receivers under a phase-separability condition that is satisfied in rank-one channels. Numerical results confirm that unmodified beamfocusing is optimal for physically small receivers (i.e., those that fit within the beamwidth) when an obstacle is present. For physically larger receivers, the optimal precoding deviates from beamfocusing to better illuminate the receiver's unobstructed parts, but will not become Airy beams. While Airy beams can be configured to perform well, their ability to follow a bent trajectory in front of an obstacle does not maximize the received power behind it.

Tue 20 OctInformation Theory
The gist
Sometimes signals sent by antennas get blocked by obstacles, which can make it hard for devices to receive them well. Some people thought that special signals called Airy beams, which can bend around obstacles, might help fix this. But the authors show that just focusing the signal straight at the receiver works best for single-antenna devices, even if parts of the antenna are blocked or the signal has errors. For larger receivers with many antennas, changing the beam can help but it still doesn’t need to bend like an Airy beam.
Open → 2610.28557v1

Antenna orientation diversity enhances 3D MIMO array signal capacity

Orientation Diversity Provably Increases the Angular-Domain Rank of 3D MIMO Arrays

Abstract: Movable and rotatable-antenna systems treat element placement as a design resource, but the supporting theory is largely position-only. We prove that element orientation is an effective spatial resource in its own right, complementary to position. For collinear or coplanar arrays, the angular-domain rank is capped by the number of projection-ambiguity classes of the scattering directions, for every common element orientation and pattern. Orientation-diverse elements with sufficiently rich analytic patterns restore the maximal rank min(N,L) for almost every orientation draw. A closed-form correlation expression, strictly monotone in orientation spread under isotropic scattering, quantifies the gain within the scalar-pattern model, and Monte Carlo simulations corroborate the exact-rank and capacity behavior.

Fri 16 OctInformation Theory
The gist
Signal systems with antennas can improve communication by changing not just where antennas are placed but also how they are oriented. The authors show that varying antenna orientations increases the number of independent signal paths available, which helps wireless systems send and receive more data. Their theory proves that using antennas with diverse directions restores full signal richness almost every time. They provide formulas and simulations that confirm these advantages.
Open → 2610.24228v1

Channel rank boosts identification capacity in MIMO communication

Gaussian Identification in MIMO Channels

Abstract: We study the identification capacity of discrete-time Gaussian multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels under per-antenna, per-symbol peak-amplitude constraints. We establish upper and lower bounds on the identification capacity that scale linearly with the channel rank $r.$ The number of reliably identifiable messages can grow super-exponentially with blocklength $n,$ following $M_n(R)=2^{(n\log n)R},$ where $R$ is an achievable rate. The channel rank provides a spatial-multiplexing advantage, enabling higher achievable rates and, consequently, stronger super-exponential codebook growth. These results characterize the rank-dependent gain in achievable identification performance.

Fri 16 OctInformation Theory
The gist
This paper looks at how many messages can be reliably told apart in wireless communication systems that use multiple antennas at both ends (MIMO). The authors show that the number of identifiable messages can grow much faster than usual with the length of the transmission, especially when the channel has more independent paths, called rank. This means systems with higher channel rank can handle more complex message sets with strong peak limits on antenna signals. Their results explain how the channel's spatial properties give an advantage for distinguishing messages.
Open → 2610.22931v1