Pinching-Antenna-Aided Localization and Tracking: A Bayesian PerspectiveShow others and affiliations
2026 (English)In: 2026 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops, ICC Workshops 2026 - Proceedings, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2026Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Pinching-Antenna Systems (PASS) have attracted considerable attention, since they are capable of beneficially reconfiguring the wireless environment by establishing powerful line-of-sight paths. In this paper, a Bayesian localization and tracking framework is developed for uplink PASS, which explicitly exploits propagation delay information enabled by orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). The delay-dispersed received signals are modeled in the frequency domain, and a Bayesian localization tracking algorithm is proposed by jointly leveraging variational inference and belief propagation to extract path delays, infer user locations, and exploit the temporal correlation across consecutive time slots. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed PASS-based tracking scheme achieves a user tracking performance comparable to that of a conventional multi-base-station system, while requiring significantly fewer RF chains. Moreover, it consistently outperforms conventional baselines when the number of RF chains is aligned.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2026.
Keywords [en]
Pinching antenna system, belief propagation, localization, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), user tracking
National Category
Signal Processing Telecommunications Communication Systems
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-386991DOI: 10.1109/ICCWorkshops63917.2026.11586285Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105045567361OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-386991DiVA, id: diva2:2091862
Conference
2026 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops, ICC Workshops 2026, Glasgow, United Kingdom, May 24-28 2026
Note
Part of ISBN 979-8-3315-7624-0
QC 20260813
2026-08-132026-08-132026-08-13Bibliographically approved