Near-Field THz Bending Beamforming: A Convex Optimization Perspective

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Hauptverfasser: Liu, Aoran, Mei, Weidong, Wang, Peilan, Wang, Dong, Wu, Ya Fei, Chen, Zhi, Ning, Boyu
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author Liu, Aoran
Mei, Weidong
Wang, Peilan
Wang, Dong
Wu, Ya Fei
Chen, Zhi
Ning, Boyu
author_facet Liu, Aoran
Mei, Weidong
Wang, Peilan
Wang, Dong
Wu, Ya Fei
Chen, Zhi
Ning, Boyu
contents Terahertz (THz) communication systems suffer severe blockage issues, which may significantly degrade the communication coverage and quality. Bending beams, capable of adjusting their propagation direction to bypass obstacles, have recently emerged as a promising solution to resolve this issue by engineering the propagation trajectory of the beam. However, traditional bending beam generation methods rely heavily on the specific geometric properties of the propagation trajectory and can only achieve sub-optimal performance. In this paper, we propose a new and general bending beamforming method by adopting the convex optimization techniques. In particular, we formulate the bending beamforming design as a max-min optimization problem, aiming to optimize the analog or digital transmit beamforming vector to maximize the minimum received signal power among all positions along the bending beam trajectory. However, the resulting problem is non-convex and difficult to be solved optimally. To tackle this difficulty, we apply the successive convex approximation (SCA) technique to obtain a high-quality suboptimal solution. Numerical results show that our proposed bending beamforming method outperforms the traditional method and shows robustness to the obstacle in the environment.
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spellingShingle Near-Field THz Bending Beamforming: A Convex Optimization Perspective
Liu, Aoran
Mei, Weidong
Wang, Peilan
Wang, Dong
Wu, Ya Fei
Chen, Zhi
Ning, Boyu
Signal Processing
Terahertz (THz) communication systems suffer severe blockage issues, which may significantly degrade the communication coverage and quality. Bending beams, capable of adjusting their propagation direction to bypass obstacles, have recently emerged as a promising solution to resolve this issue by engineering the propagation trajectory of the beam. However, traditional bending beam generation methods rely heavily on the specific geometric properties of the propagation trajectory and can only achieve sub-optimal performance. In this paper, we propose a new and general bending beamforming method by adopting the convex optimization techniques. In particular, we formulate the bending beamforming design as a max-min optimization problem, aiming to optimize the analog or digital transmit beamforming vector to maximize the minimum received signal power among all positions along the bending beam trajectory. However, the resulting problem is non-convex and difficult to be solved optimally. To tackle this difficulty, we apply the successive convex approximation (SCA) technique to obtain a high-quality suboptimal solution. Numerical results show that our proposed bending beamforming method outperforms the traditional method and shows robustness to the obstacle in the environment.
title Near-Field THz Bending Beamforming: A Convex Optimization Perspective
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20274