Enregistré dans:
Détails bibliographiques
Auteurs principaux: Li, Jiaxuan, Mei, Weidong, Liu, Changhao, Chen, Zhi, Ning, Boyu, Zhang, Rui
Format: Preprint
Publié: 2026
Sujets:
Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03407
Tags: Ajouter un tag
Pas de tags, Soyez le premier à ajouter un tag!
_version_ 1866913093388337152
author Li, Jiaxuan
Mei, Weidong
Liu, Changhao
Chen, Zhi
Ning, Boyu
Zhang, Rui
author_facet Li, Jiaxuan
Mei, Weidong
Liu, Changhao
Chen, Zhi
Ning, Boyu
Zhang, Rui
contents Movable antennas (MAs) have attracted significant attention in wireless communications due to their ability to reconfigure channel conditions by flexibly adjusting the antenna positions within a confined region. However, MA movement generally incurs a non-negligible delay, which may significantly limit the data transmission time at optimized positions. To tackle this challenge, this paper investigates a new joint communication and trajectory optimization problem, where each MA transmits while moving along an optimized trajectory to prolong the effective data transmission time. Focusing on a single-MA system, our goal is to maximize the average data rate by optimizing the MA's positions over time, subject to its maximum velocity constraints. However, this continuous-time antenna position optimization problem is highly non-convex and challenging to solve. To tackle this challenge, we first consider a special case with two channel paths and derive the optimal MA trajectory in closed form. For other general cases, we ingeniously reformulate the average rate maximization problem into a fixed-hop shortest path problem in graph theory by sampling the antenna movement region into a multitude of discrete points, and solve it optimally. Simulation results demonstrate that our proposed algorithm can significantly improve the data rate compared to other baseline schemes.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2605_03407
institution arXiv
publishDate 2026
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Joint Communication and Trajectory Design for Movable Antenna Systems
Li, Jiaxuan
Mei, Weidong
Liu, Changhao
Chen, Zhi
Ning, Boyu
Zhang, Rui
Signal Processing
Movable antennas (MAs) have attracted significant attention in wireless communications due to their ability to reconfigure channel conditions by flexibly adjusting the antenna positions within a confined region. However, MA movement generally incurs a non-negligible delay, which may significantly limit the data transmission time at optimized positions. To tackle this challenge, this paper investigates a new joint communication and trajectory optimization problem, where each MA transmits while moving along an optimized trajectory to prolong the effective data transmission time. Focusing on a single-MA system, our goal is to maximize the average data rate by optimizing the MA's positions over time, subject to its maximum velocity constraints. However, this continuous-time antenna position optimization problem is highly non-convex and challenging to solve. To tackle this challenge, we first consider a special case with two channel paths and derive the optimal MA trajectory in closed form. For other general cases, we ingeniously reformulate the average rate maximization problem into a fixed-hop shortest path problem in graph theory by sampling the antenna movement region into a multitude of discrete points, and solve it optimally. Simulation results demonstrate that our proposed algorithm can significantly improve the data rate compared to other baseline schemes.
title Joint Communication and Trajectory Design for Movable Antenna Systems
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03407