Channel Uncertainty-Aware Robust Beamforming for RIS-Assisted RSMA Communication With Movable Antennas

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Hauptverfasser: Asif, Muhammad, Ihsan, Asim, Wang, Zhongliang, Ahmed, Manzoor, Li, Xingwang, Nallanathan, Arumugam, Chatzinotas, Symeon
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author Asif, Muhammad
Ihsan, Asim
Wang, Zhongliang
Ahmed, Manzoor
Li, Xingwang
Nallanathan, Arumugam
Chatzinotas, Symeon
author_facet Asif, Muhammad
Ihsan, Asim
Wang, Zhongliang
Ahmed, Manzoor
Li, Xingwang
Nallanathan, Arumugam
Chatzinotas, Symeon
contents This work investigates a robust resource allocation framework for a downlink multi-user communication system integrating movable antennas (MAs) and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) under the rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) transmission protocol. Unlike conventional fixed-position antenna architectures, the considered MAs-enabled system introduces spatially adaptive channel variations in which antenna positions directly influence the effective channel responses. Consequently, under imperfect channel state information (CSI), the impact of CSI uncertainty propagates not only through active and passive beamforming design, but also through the antenna position optimization process, leading to a highly coupled robust optimization problem. To address this challenge, we formulate a system sum-rate maximization problem by jointly optimizing the transmit precoding vectors, RIS reflection matrix, common-rate allocation, and MAs positions, subject to quality-of-service (QoS), power-budget, common-rate decoding, and mutual coupling constraints. The resulting non-convex problem is efficiently handled through an iterative robust optimization framework, where the original problem is successively decomposed into active beamforming, RIS reflection matrix, and MAs position optimization subproblems, and tractable convex surrogate functions are constructed to enable iterative optimization. Moreover, system robustness is ensured by incorporating a bounded CSI uncertainty model that explicitly captures channel estimation errors and guarantees reliable communication performance under worst-case channel conditions. Finally, extensive simulation results demonstrate that the proposed framework achieves significant performance gains and enhanced robustness compared with benchmark schemes, while also exhibiting fast and stable convergence behavior under practical imperfect CSI conditions.
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spellingShingle Channel Uncertainty-Aware Robust Beamforming for RIS-Assisted RSMA Communication With Movable Antennas
Asif, Muhammad
Ihsan, Asim
Wang, Zhongliang
Ahmed, Manzoor
Li, Xingwang
Nallanathan, Arumugam
Chatzinotas, Symeon
Signal Processing
This work investigates a robust resource allocation framework for a downlink multi-user communication system integrating movable antennas (MAs) and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) under the rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) transmission protocol. Unlike conventional fixed-position antenna architectures, the considered MAs-enabled system introduces spatially adaptive channel variations in which antenna positions directly influence the effective channel responses. Consequently, under imperfect channel state information (CSI), the impact of CSI uncertainty propagates not only through active and passive beamforming design, but also through the antenna position optimization process, leading to a highly coupled robust optimization problem. To address this challenge, we formulate a system sum-rate maximization problem by jointly optimizing the transmit precoding vectors, RIS reflection matrix, common-rate allocation, and MAs positions, subject to quality-of-service (QoS), power-budget, common-rate decoding, and mutual coupling constraints. The resulting non-convex problem is efficiently handled through an iterative robust optimization framework, where the original problem is successively decomposed into active beamforming, RIS reflection matrix, and MAs position optimization subproblems, and tractable convex surrogate functions are constructed to enable iterative optimization. Moreover, system robustness is ensured by incorporating a bounded CSI uncertainty model that explicitly captures channel estimation errors and guarantees reliable communication performance under worst-case channel conditions. Finally, extensive simulation results demonstrate that the proposed framework achieves significant performance gains and enhanced robustness compared with benchmark schemes, while also exhibiting fast and stable convergence behavior under practical imperfect CSI conditions.
title Channel Uncertainty-Aware Robust Beamforming for RIS-Assisted RSMA Communication With Movable Antennas
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09419