Hybrid Beamforming for RIS-Assisted Multiuser Fluid Antenna Systems

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Autori principali: Chen, Jiangong, Xiao, Yue, Peng, Zhendong, Zhu, Jing, Lei, Xia, Masouros, Christos, Wong, Kai-Kit
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author Chen, Jiangong
Xiao, Yue
Peng, Zhendong
Zhu, Jing
Lei, Xia
Masouros, Christos
Wong, Kai-Kit
author_facet Chen, Jiangong
Xiao, Yue
Peng, Zhendong
Zhu, Jing
Lei, Xia
Masouros, Christos
Wong, Kai-Kit
contents Recent advances in reconfigurable antennas have led to the new concept of the fluid antenna system (FAS) for shape and position flexibility, as another degree of freedom for wireless communication enhancement. This paper explores the integration of a transmit FAS array for hybrid beamforming (HBF) into a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted communication architecture for multiuser communications in the downlink, corresponding to the downlink RIS-assisted multiuser multiple-input single-output (MISO) FAS model (Tx RIS-assisted-MISO-FAS). By considering Rician channel fading, we formulate a sum-rate maximization optimization problem to alternately optimize the HBF matrix, the RIS phase-shift matrix, and the FAS position. Due to the strong coupling of multiple optimization variables, the multi-fractional summation in the sum-rate expression, the modulus-1 limitation of analog phase shifters and RIS, and the antenna position variables appearing in the exponent, this problem is highly non-convex, which is addressed through the block coordinate descent (BCD) framework in conjunction with semidefinite relaxation (SDR) and majorization-minimization (MM) methods. To reduce the computational complexity, we then propose a low-complexity grating-lobe (GL)-based telescopic-FAS (TFA) with multiple delicately deployed RISs under the sub-connected HBF architecture and the line-of-sight (LoS)-dominant channel condition, to allow closed-form solutions for the HBF and TFA position. Our simulation results illustrate that the former optimization scheme significantly enhances the achievable rate of the proposed system, while the GL-based TFA scheme also provides a considerable gain over conventional fixed-position antenna (FPA) systems, requiring statistical channel state information (CSI) only and with low computational complexity.
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spellingShingle Hybrid Beamforming for RIS-Assisted Multiuser Fluid Antenna Systems
Chen, Jiangong
Xiao, Yue
Peng, Zhendong
Zhu, Jing
Lei, Xia
Masouros, Christos
Wong, Kai-Kit
Signal Processing
Recent advances in reconfigurable antennas have led to the new concept of the fluid antenna system (FAS) for shape and position flexibility, as another degree of freedom for wireless communication enhancement. This paper explores the integration of a transmit FAS array for hybrid beamforming (HBF) into a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted communication architecture for multiuser communications in the downlink, corresponding to the downlink RIS-assisted multiuser multiple-input single-output (MISO) FAS model (Tx RIS-assisted-MISO-FAS). By considering Rician channel fading, we formulate a sum-rate maximization optimization problem to alternately optimize the HBF matrix, the RIS phase-shift matrix, and the FAS position. Due to the strong coupling of multiple optimization variables, the multi-fractional summation in the sum-rate expression, the modulus-1 limitation of analog phase shifters and RIS, and the antenna position variables appearing in the exponent, this problem is highly non-convex, which is addressed through the block coordinate descent (BCD) framework in conjunction with semidefinite relaxation (SDR) and majorization-minimization (MM) methods. To reduce the computational complexity, we then propose a low-complexity grating-lobe (GL)-based telescopic-FAS (TFA) with multiple delicately deployed RISs under the sub-connected HBF architecture and the line-of-sight (LoS)-dominant channel condition, to allow closed-form solutions for the HBF and TFA position. Our simulation results illustrate that the former optimization scheme significantly enhances the achievable rate of the proposed system, while the GL-based TFA scheme also provides a considerable gain over conventional fixed-position antenna (FPA) systems, requiring statistical channel state information (CSI) only and with low computational complexity.
title Hybrid Beamforming for RIS-Assisted Multiuser Fluid Antenna Systems
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09178