Dual-Scale Antenna Deployment for Pinching Antenna Systems

Abstract: A dual-scale deployment (DSD) framework for pinching antenna systems (PASS) is proposed. 1) In the first coarse stage, the pinching antenna (PA) is transferred over a large-scale range at the waveguide level. 2) The refinement stage performs small-scale relocation of the PA with high precision. Four PA deployment protocols are provided in the proposed DSD framework. Then, a practical power consumption model is proposed, based on which the theoretical energy efficiency formulas for PASS are derived. The transmit precoding, PA radiation power, and PA deployment are jointly optimized to maximize the energy efficiency under the provided PA deployment protocols. To solve this non-convex, highly coupled problem, a low-complexity penalty-based alternating optimization algorithm is proposed. Simulation results validate the accuracy of theoretical results and the convergence of the proposed algorithm. It is demonstrated that: 1) PASS delivers about 70% higher energy efficiency than the conventional cell-free architecture and nearly twofold improvement relative to MIMO systems; 2) it is essential to specify the DSD resolution and deployment protocol to achieve the maximum energy efficiency for PASS.