Antenna Coding Design for Pixel Antenna Empowered Rate-Splitting Multiple Access

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Autori principali: Huang, Haobo, Mao, Yijie, Li, Hongyu, Shen, Shanpu
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Pubblicazione: 2026
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author Huang, Haobo
Mao, Yijie
Li, Hongyu
Shen, Shanpu
author_facet Huang, Haobo
Mao, Yijie
Li, Hongyu
Shen, Shanpu
contents This work explores the integration of pixel antennas and rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) to enhance spectral efficiency in multi-user multiple-input single-output (MU-MISO) systems. Pixel antennas offer controllable antenna characteristics via antenna coding from the analog domain, whereas RSMA provides efficient interference management from the digital domain. We propose a novel pixel antenna empowered RSMA transmission framework where each user employs a pixel antenna. Under imperfect channel state information at the transmitter, we formulate a joint precoding and antenna coding design problem to maximize the ergodic sum-rate. An alternating optimization algorithm based on the weighted minimum mean square error (WMMSE) approach and the successive exhaustive Boolean optimization (SEBO) is first developed to solve the problem. We then propose an efficient online antenna coder selection algorithm relying on an offline-designed codebook to reduce computational complexity. Numerical results show that the proposed pixel antenna empowered RSMA significantly improves spectral efficiency compared to both RSMA with fixed antennas and space-division multiple access (SDMA) employing the same pixel antenna configuration. Moreover, compared to SDMA, RSMA maintains the same performance with a simpler pixel antenna configuration or a smaller codebook size.
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spellingShingle Antenna Coding Design for Pixel Antenna Empowered Rate-Splitting Multiple Access
Huang, Haobo
Mao, Yijie
Li, Hongyu
Shen, Shanpu
Signal Processing
This work explores the integration of pixel antennas and rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) to enhance spectral efficiency in multi-user multiple-input single-output (MU-MISO) systems. Pixel antennas offer controllable antenna characteristics via antenna coding from the analog domain, whereas RSMA provides efficient interference management from the digital domain. We propose a novel pixel antenna empowered RSMA transmission framework where each user employs a pixel antenna. Under imperfect channel state information at the transmitter, we formulate a joint precoding and antenna coding design problem to maximize the ergodic sum-rate. An alternating optimization algorithm based on the weighted minimum mean square error (WMMSE) approach and the successive exhaustive Boolean optimization (SEBO) is first developed to solve the problem. We then propose an efficient online antenna coder selection algorithm relying on an offline-designed codebook to reduce computational complexity. Numerical results show that the proposed pixel antenna empowered RSMA significantly improves spectral efficiency compared to both RSMA with fixed antennas and space-division multiple access (SDMA) employing the same pixel antenna configuration. Moreover, compared to SDMA, RSMA maintains the same performance with a simpler pixel antenna configuration or a smaller codebook size.
title Antenna Coding Design for Pixel Antenna Empowered Rate-Splitting Multiple Access
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01267