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Hybrid Codebook Design for Localization Using Electromagnetically Reconfigurable Fluid Antenna System

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Alireza Fadakar
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Yuchen Zhang
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H. Q. Chen
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Musa Furkan Keskin
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Henk Wymeersch
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Andreas F. Molisch
DOI:10.1109/jstsp.2026.3673038delete
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Electromagnetically reconfigurable fluid antenna system (ER-FAS) introduces additional degrees of freedom in the electromagnetic (EM) domain by dynamically steering perantenna radiation patterns, thereby enhancing power efficiency in wireless links. Unlike prior works on spatially reconfigurable FAS, which adjust element positions, ER-FAS provides direct control over each element's EM characteristics to realize ondemand beampattern shaping. While existing studies have exploited ER-FAS to boost spectral efficiency, this paper explores its application for downlink localization. We consider a multiple-input single-output (MISO) system in which a multiantenna ER-FAS at the base station serves a singleantenna user equipment (UE). We consider two reconfigurability paradigms: (i) a synthesis model where each antenna generates desired beampatterns from a finite set of EM basis functions, and (ii) a finite-state selection model in which each antenna selects a pattern from a predefined set of patterns. For both paradigms, we formulate the joint baseband (BB) and EM precoder design to minimize the UE position error bound. In the synthesis case we derive low-dimensional closed-form expressions for both the BB and EM precoders. For the finite-state model we obtain closed-form BB structures and propose a low-complexity block-coordinate-descent algorithm for EM pattern selection. Analytical bounds and extensive simulations show that the proposed hybrid designs for ER-FAS substantially improve UE positioning accuracy over traditional non-reconfigurable arrays.
Keywords:
Fluid antenna system
reconfigurable antennas
beamforming
beampattern
radiation pattern
localization

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IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing cover
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
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chalmers university of technology
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university of southern california
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king abdullah university of science and technology
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