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Coupling-Aware RHS Beamforming for Wideband Multi-User Sum Rate Maximization

Information Theory 2026-03-10 v1 math.IT

Abstract

Wideband multi-user transmission assisted by reconfigurable holographic surfaces (RHSs) is fundamentally limited by mutual coupling effect among densely packed sub-wavelength radiation elements. This paper develops a coupling-aware wideband RHS model and an efficient joint beamforming framework to maximize the multi-user sum rate under practical feeder power and RHS excitation power constraints. We establish an electromagnetic equivalent model based on magnetic-dipole elements and a physically interpretable coupling decomposition into free space near field coupling and guided surface wave coupling. For optimization, we employ a weighted minimum mean square error (WMMSE)-based block coordinate method with a closed-form digital precoder update and introduce a Jacobian-aided coupling consistent hologram update that preserves coupling sensitivity via a first-order surrogate while keeping the hologram subproblem convex and efficiently solvable by projected first-order methods. Meep experiments verify the correctness of the proposed coupling model, and the simulations for a 28~GHz, 1~GHz-bandwidth RHS downlink prove the effectiveness of Jacobian-aided WMMSE-based method.

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@article{arxiv.2603.08051,
  title  = {Coupling-Aware RHS Beamforming for Wideband Multi-User Sum Rate Maximization},
  author = {Liangshun Wu and Wen Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.08051},
  year   = {2026}
}
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