Downlink Beamforming with Pinching-Antenna Assisted MIMO Systems
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| author | Bereyhi, Ali Asaad, Saba Ouyang, Chongjun Ding, Zhiguo Poor, H. Vincent |
| author_facet | Bereyhi, Ali Asaad, Saba Ouyang, Chongjun Ding, Zhiguo Poor, H. Vincent |
| contents | Pinching antennas have been recently proposed as a promising flexible-antenna technology, which can be implemented by attaching low-cost pinching elements to dielectric waveguides. This work explores the potential of employing pinching antenna systems (PASs) for downlink transmission in a multiuser MIMO setting. We consider the problem of hybrid beamforming, where the digital precoder at the access point and the activated locations of the pinching elements are jointly optimized to maximize the achievable weighted sum-rate. Invoking fractional programming, a novel low-complexity algorithm is developed to iteratively update the precoding matrix and the locations of the pinching antennas. We validate the proposed scheme through extensive numerical experiments. Our investigations demonstrate that using PAS the system throughput can be significantly boosted as compared with the conventional fixed-location antenna systems, enlightening the potential of PAS as an enabling candidate for next-generation wireless networks. |
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| spellingShingle | Downlink Beamforming with Pinching-Antenna Assisted MIMO Systems Bereyhi, Ali Asaad, Saba Ouyang, Chongjun Ding, Zhiguo Poor, H. Vincent Information Theory Signal Processing Pinching antennas have been recently proposed as a promising flexible-antenna technology, which can be implemented by attaching low-cost pinching elements to dielectric waveguides. This work explores the potential of employing pinching antenna systems (PASs) for downlink transmission in a multiuser MIMO setting. We consider the problem of hybrid beamforming, where the digital precoder at the access point and the activated locations of the pinching elements are jointly optimized to maximize the achievable weighted sum-rate. Invoking fractional programming, a novel low-complexity algorithm is developed to iteratively update the precoding matrix and the locations of the pinching antennas. We validate the proposed scheme through extensive numerical experiments. Our investigations demonstrate that using PAS the system throughput can be significantly boosted as compared with the conventional fixed-location antenna systems, enlightening the potential of PAS as an enabling candidate for next-generation wireless networks. |
| title | Downlink Beamforming with Pinching-Antenna Assisted MIMO Systems |
| topic | Information Theory Signal Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01590 |