Joint Segment Activation and Antenna Placement for Uplink SWAN Systems

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Main Authors: Gu, Songnan, Cheng, Zhenqiao, Jiang, Hao, Ouyang, Chongjun, Liu, Yuanwei, Nallanathan, Arumugam
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author Gu, Songnan
Cheng, Zhenqiao
Jiang, Hao
Ouyang, Chongjun
Liu, Yuanwei
Nallanathan, Arumugam
author_facet Gu, Songnan
Cheng, Zhenqiao
Jiang, Hao
Ouyang, Chongjun
Liu, Yuanwei
Nallanathan, Arumugam
contents This article analyzes the achievable sum-rate of multiuser uplink segmented waveguide-enabled pinching-antenna systems (SWANs). To unveil system-design insights, an upper bound on the achievable sum-rate is derived, based on which the existence of an optimal segment activation level is theoretically established. Motivated by this result, hybrid segment selection and aggregation (HSS/A) schemes are proposed to jointly optimize segment activation and pinching-antenna (PA) placement. Correspondingly, low-complexity greedy algorithms are developed for the considered optimization problem. Numerical results validate the theoretical analysis and demonstrate that the proposed HSS/A schemes outperform conventional full-segment aggregation.
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spellingShingle Joint Segment Activation and Antenna Placement for Uplink SWAN Systems
Gu, Songnan
Cheng, Zhenqiao
Jiang, Hao
Ouyang, Chongjun
Liu, Yuanwei
Nallanathan, Arumugam
Signal Processing
This article analyzes the achievable sum-rate of multiuser uplink segmented waveguide-enabled pinching-antenna systems (SWANs). To unveil system-design insights, an upper bound on the achievable sum-rate is derived, based on which the existence of an optimal segment activation level is theoretically established. Motivated by this result, hybrid segment selection and aggregation (HSS/A) schemes are proposed to jointly optimize segment activation and pinching-antenna (PA) placement. Correspondingly, low-complexity greedy algorithms are developed for the considered optimization problem. Numerical results validate the theoretical analysis and demonstrate that the proposed HSS/A schemes outperform conventional full-segment aggregation.
title Joint Segment Activation and Antenna Placement for Uplink SWAN Systems
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13580