Dual Fluid Antenna-Assisted UAV MU-MIMO Networks

Abstract

Fluid Antennas (FAs)-assisted Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) networks leverage the FA position adaptivity and flexible beamforming to overcome the limitations of Fixed-Positioned Antennas (FPAs) in dynamic UAV channels and Multi-User (MU) interference. This letter investigates a dual FA-assisted UAV network for MU-Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) downlink communications, aiming to maximize the average achievable rate through the joint optimization of UAV trajectory, the transmit/receive FA positions, and beamforming. The formulated problem is highly coupled and non-convex. Accordingly, an efficient Alternating Optimization (AO)-based algorithm is developed for decomposed subproblems, yielding a suboptimal solution. Numerical results demonstrate significant performance gains of 120% and 110% over conventional FPA-based and existing FA-based baselines, respectively.