Holographic Airy Beamforming: Curved Trajectory Optimization for Blockage-Resilient Terahertz Communications

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Main Authors: Hu, Xinyuan, Di, Boya, Song, Lingyang
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Published: 2026
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author Hu, Xinyuan
Di, Boya
Song, Lingyang
author_facet Hu, Xinyuan
Di, Boya
Song, Lingyang
contents Terahertz communication offers vast bandwidth for high-speed transmission in the 6G networks but faces severe blockage challenges in the near-field region due to large antenna arrays. To overcome the limitation that near-field focused beams are susceptible to obstacles, wavefront engineering is leveraged to generate an Airy beam that propagates along a parabolic trajectory to circumvent blockages. In this paper, we consider the reconfigurable holographic surface (RHS) as a potential solution for such precise wavefront engineering owing to its compact radiation element spacing being much smaller than half-wavelength. We reveal that the adjustable effective aperture of the RHS allows the parabolic offset to be located within the antenna aperture, which enhances the freedom in designing Airy beam trajectories. An analog beamforming method, named the holographic Airy beamforming scheme based on amplitude control, is then proposed to generate the curved beam that propagates along the desired trajectory. To maximize the received power of a blocked user, we develop a geometry-based trajectory optimization algorithm. Simulation results validate that, compared to traditional phase-controlled arrays with analog beamforming, the RHS can leverage its adjustable effective aperture to improve the received power of the blocked user by over 10 dB.
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spellingShingle Holographic Airy Beamforming: Curved Trajectory Optimization for Blockage-Resilient Terahertz Communications
Hu, Xinyuan
Di, Boya
Song, Lingyang
Signal Processing
Terahertz communication offers vast bandwidth for high-speed transmission in the 6G networks but faces severe blockage challenges in the near-field region due to large antenna arrays. To overcome the limitation that near-field focused beams are susceptible to obstacles, wavefront engineering is leveraged to generate an Airy beam that propagates along a parabolic trajectory to circumvent blockages. In this paper, we consider the reconfigurable holographic surface (RHS) as a potential solution for such precise wavefront engineering owing to its compact radiation element spacing being much smaller than half-wavelength. We reveal that the adjustable effective aperture of the RHS allows the parabolic offset to be located within the antenna aperture, which enhances the freedom in designing Airy beam trajectories. An analog beamforming method, named the holographic Airy beamforming scheme based on amplitude control, is then proposed to generate the curved beam that propagates along the desired trajectory. To maximize the received power of a blocked user, we develop a geometry-based trajectory optimization algorithm. Simulation results validate that, compared to traditional phase-controlled arrays with analog beamforming, the RHS can leverage its adjustable effective aperture to improve the received power of the blocked user by over 10 dB.
title Holographic Airy Beamforming: Curved Trajectory Optimization for Blockage-Resilient Terahertz Communications
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16057