UAV-Enabled Passive 6D Movable Antennas: Joint Deployment and Beamforming Optimization

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Main Authors: Liu, Changhao, Mei, Weidong, Wang, Peilan, Meng, Yinuo, Ning, Boyu, Chen, Zhi
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author Liu, Changhao
Mei, Weidong
Wang, Peilan
Meng, Yinuo
Ning, Boyu
Chen, Zhi
author_facet Liu, Changhao
Mei, Weidong
Wang, Peilan
Meng, Yinuo
Ning, Boyu
Chen, Zhi
contents Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is composed of numerous passive reflecting elements and can be mounted on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to achieve six-dimensional (6D) movement by adjusting the UAV's three-dimensional (3D) location and 3D orientation simultaneously. Hence, in this paper, we investigate a new UAV-enabled passive 6D movable antenna (6DMA) architecture by mounting an IRS on a UAV and address the associated joint deployment and beamforming optimization problem. In particular, we consider a passive 6DMA-aided multicast system with a multi-antenna base station (BS) and multiple remote users, aiming to jointly optimize the IRS's location and 3D orientation, as well as its passive beamforming to maximize the minimum received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) among all users under the practical angle-dependent signal reflection model. However, this optimization problem is challenging to be optimally solved due to the intricate relationship between the users' SNRs and the IRS's location and orientation. To tackle this challenge, we first focus on a simplified case with a single user, showing that one-dimensional (1D) orientation suffices to achieve the optimal performance. Next, we show that for any given IRS's location, the optimal 1D orientation can be derived in closed form, based on which several useful insights are drawn. To solve the max-min SNR problem in the general multi-user case, we propose an alternating optimization (AO) algorithm by alternately optimizing the IRS's beamforming and location/orientation via successive convex approximation (SCA) and hybrid coarse- and fine-grained search, respectively. To avoid undesirable local sub-optimal solutions, a Gibbs sampling (GS) method is proposed to generate new IRS locations and orientations for exploration in each AO iteration. Numerical results validate our theoretical analyses.
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spellingShingle UAV-Enabled Passive 6D Movable Antennas: Joint Deployment and Beamforming Optimization
Liu, Changhao
Mei, Weidong
Wang, Peilan
Meng, Yinuo
Ning, Boyu
Chen, Zhi
Signal Processing
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is composed of numerous passive reflecting elements and can be mounted on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to achieve six-dimensional (6D) movement by adjusting the UAV's three-dimensional (3D) location and 3D orientation simultaneously. Hence, in this paper, we investigate a new UAV-enabled passive 6D movable antenna (6DMA) architecture by mounting an IRS on a UAV and address the associated joint deployment and beamforming optimization problem. In particular, we consider a passive 6DMA-aided multicast system with a multi-antenna base station (BS) and multiple remote users, aiming to jointly optimize the IRS's location and 3D orientation, as well as its passive beamforming to maximize the minimum received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) among all users under the practical angle-dependent signal reflection model. However, this optimization problem is challenging to be optimally solved due to the intricate relationship between the users' SNRs and the IRS's location and orientation. To tackle this challenge, we first focus on a simplified case with a single user, showing that one-dimensional (1D) orientation suffices to achieve the optimal performance. Next, we show that for any given IRS's location, the optimal 1D orientation can be derived in closed form, based on which several useful insights are drawn. To solve the max-min SNR problem in the general multi-user case, we propose an alternating optimization (AO) algorithm by alternately optimizing the IRS's beamforming and location/orientation via successive convex approximation (SCA) and hybrid coarse- and fine-grained search, respectively. To avoid undesirable local sub-optimal solutions, a Gibbs sampling (GS) method is proposed to generate new IRS locations and orientations for exploration in each AO iteration. Numerical results validate our theoretical analyses.
title UAV-Enabled Passive 6D Movable Antennas: Joint Deployment and Beamforming Optimization
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.11150