Characterizing Multi-Cell Pinching-Antenna Transmission: Revealing the Other Side of the Coin
Abstract
Using pinching antennas to enhance a user's connection to its own base station (BS) is intuitive and has been well investigated in the literature. This letter focuses on a less intuitive advantage of pinching antennas from the interference-suppression perspective. In particular, using pinching antennas ensures that all BSs serve their users with low transmit power, i.e., BSs can ``whisper", rather than ``shout", to their users. As a result, by experiencing less interference, a user's data rate can still be improved with pinching antennas, even if its link quality to its own BS remains unchanged. A stochastic geometric study is carried out in the letter, where BSs employ fractional power control. Analytical and numerical results are presented to reveal the significant impact of this interference-suppression capability offered by pinching antennas.
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BibTeX
@misc{ding2026characterizing,
title = {{Characterizing Multi-Cell Pinching-Antenna Transmission: Revealing the Other Side of the Coin}},
author = {Zhiguo Ding},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.09585},
eprint = {2609.09585},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.09585},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Characterizing Multi-Cell Pinching-Antenna Transmission: Revealing the Other Side of the Coin
AU - Zhiguo Ding
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/09
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.09585
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.09585
AB - Using pinching antennas to enhance a user's connection to its own base station (BS) is intuitive and has been well investigated in the literature. This letter focuses on a less intuitive advantage of pinching antennas from the interference-suppression perspective. In particular, using pinching antennas ensures that all BSs serve their users with low transmit power, i.e., BSs can ``whisper", rather than ``shout", to their users. As a result, by experiencing less interference, a user's data rate can still be improved with pinching antennas, even if its link quality to its own BS remains unchanged. A stochastic geometric study is carried out in the letter, where BSs employ fractional power control. Analytical and numerical results are presented to reveal the significant impact of this interference-suppression capability offered by pinching antennas.
ER -