학술논문

Sum-Rate Maximization for Fluid Antenna Enabled Multiuser Communications
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Communications Letters IEEE Commun. Lett. Communications Letters, IEEE. 28(5):1206-1210 May, 2024
Subject
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Antennas
Transmitting antennas
Array signal processing
Radio frequency
Optimization
Downlink
Vectors
Antenna position
fluid antenna (FA)
multiuser communications
sum-rate maximization
Language
ISSN
1089-7798
1558-2558
2373-7891
Abstract
A novel multiuser communication system with fluid antennas (FAs) is proposed, where the antenna position optimization is exploited to enhance the downlink sum-rate. The joint optimization of the transmit beamforming vector and transmit FA positions is studied for a multiuser multiple-input single-input system. An efficient algorithm is proposed to tackle the formulated non-convex problem via capitalizing on fractional programming, alternating optimization, and gradient descent methods. To strike a better performance-complexity trade-off, a zero-forcing beamforming-based design is also proposed as an alternative. Numerical investigations are presented to verify the efficiency of the proposed algorithms and their superior performance compared with the benchmark relying on conventional fixed-position antennas (FPAs).