Max-Min Fairness in Stacked Intelligent Metasurface-Aided Rate Splitting Networks
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| author | Quran, Abdullah Naser, Shimaa Tariq, Maryam Alhussein, Omar Muhaidat, Sami |
| author_facet | Quran, Abdullah Naser, Shimaa Tariq, Maryam Alhussein, Omar Muhaidat, Sami |
| contents | This paper investigates a downlink multiuser multiple-input single-output system that integrates rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) with a stacked intelligent metasurface (SIM) to enable wave-domain beamforming. Unlike conventional digital beamforming, the proposed system leverages the programmable phase shifts of the SIM to perform beamforming entirely in the wave domain. In contrast to existing literature, this work introduces a fairness-centric SIM-RSMA design that shifts the emphasis from maximizing sum-rate to ensuring fair allocation of resources. In particular, we formulate a max-min rate optimization problem that jointly optimizes transmit power coefficients at the base station and SIM phase shifts. Given the non-convex nature of this problem, we develop an alternating optimization framework, where the power allocation is optimized through successive convex approximation and SIM beamforming is optimized using the Riemannian conjugate gradient method. Simulation results indicate that combining SIM with RSMA yields superior max-min performance compared to its integration with space division multiple access or non-orthogonal multiple access. |
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| spellingShingle | Max-Min Fairness in Stacked Intelligent Metasurface-Aided Rate Splitting Networks Quran, Abdullah Naser, Shimaa Tariq, Maryam Alhussein, Omar Muhaidat, Sami Systems and Control This paper investigates a downlink multiuser multiple-input single-output system that integrates rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) with a stacked intelligent metasurface (SIM) to enable wave-domain beamforming. Unlike conventional digital beamforming, the proposed system leverages the programmable phase shifts of the SIM to perform beamforming entirely in the wave domain. In contrast to existing literature, this work introduces a fairness-centric SIM-RSMA design that shifts the emphasis from maximizing sum-rate to ensuring fair allocation of resources. In particular, we formulate a max-min rate optimization problem that jointly optimizes transmit power coefficients at the base station and SIM phase shifts. Given the non-convex nature of this problem, we develop an alternating optimization framework, where the power allocation is optimized through successive convex approximation and SIM beamforming is optimized using the Riemannian conjugate gradient method. Simulation results indicate that combining SIM with RSMA yields superior max-min performance compared to its integration with space division multiple access or non-orthogonal multiple access. |
| title | Max-Min Fairness in Stacked Intelligent Metasurface-Aided Rate Splitting Networks |
| topic | Systems and Control |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08521 |