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NP-Completeness of Multicast Beamforming in Wireless Communication

Computational Complexity 2025-08-19 v1

Abstract

In this work, the classical problem of multi-cast beamforming in wireless communication is reconsidered. An existing work has shown that the multi-cast beamforming problem is NP-hard. In this project, we show that the corresponding decision problem for real channel matrices and beamformers is NP-complete. Finally, we carry out simulations to reveal the computational complexity of solving the NP-complete beamforming problem in various setting using SAT/SMT solvers.

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@article{arxiv.2508.12241,
  title  = {NP-Completeness of Multicast Beamforming in Wireless Communication},
  author = {Sagar Shrestha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.12241},
  year   = {2025}
}