Pinching-Antenna Systems (PASS) Aided Over-the-air Computation

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Main Authors: Lyu, Zhonghao, Li, Haoyun, Gao, Yulan, Xiao, Ming, Poor, H. Vincent
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Published: 2025
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author Lyu, Zhonghao
Li, Haoyun
Gao, Yulan
Xiao, Ming
Poor, H. Vincent
author_facet Lyu, Zhonghao
Li, Haoyun
Gao, Yulan
Xiao, Ming
Poor, H. Vincent
contents Over-the-air computation (AirComp) enables fast data aggregation for edge intelligence applications. However the performance of AirComp can be severely degraded by channel misalignments. Pinching antenna systems (PASS) have recently emerged as a promising solution for physically reshaping favorable wireless channels to reduce misalignments and thus AirComp errors, via low-cost, fully passive, and highly reconfigurable antenna deployment. Motivated by these benefits, we propose a novel PASS-aided AirComp system that introduces new design degrees of freedom through flexible pinching antenna (PA) placement. To improve performance, we consider a mean squared error (MSE) minimization problem by jointly optimizing the PA position, transmit power, and decoding vector. To solve this highly non-convex problem, we propose an alternating optimization based framework with Gauss-Seidel based PA position updates. Simulation results show that our proposed joint PA position and communication design significantly outperforms various benchmark schemes in AirComp accuracy.
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spellingShingle Pinching-Antenna Systems (PASS) Aided Over-the-air Computation
Lyu, Zhonghao
Li, Haoyun
Gao, Yulan
Xiao, Ming
Poor, H. Vincent
Information Theory
Signal Processing
Over-the-air computation (AirComp) enables fast data aggregation for edge intelligence applications. However the performance of AirComp can be severely degraded by channel misalignments. Pinching antenna systems (PASS) have recently emerged as a promising solution for physically reshaping favorable wireless channels to reduce misalignments and thus AirComp errors, via low-cost, fully passive, and highly reconfigurable antenna deployment. Motivated by these benefits, we propose a novel PASS-aided AirComp system that introduces new design degrees of freedom through flexible pinching antenna (PA) placement. To improve performance, we consider a mean squared error (MSE) minimization problem by jointly optimizing the PA position, transmit power, and decoding vector. To solve this highly non-convex problem, we propose an alternating optimization based framework with Gauss-Seidel based PA position updates. Simulation results show that our proposed joint PA position and communication design significantly outperforms various benchmark schemes in AirComp accuracy.
title Pinching-Antenna Systems (PASS) Aided Over-the-air Computation
topic Information Theory
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.07559