Greedy and Transformer-Based Multi-Port Selection for Slow Fluid Antenna Multiple Access
Organizations: Department of Computer Engineering, University of A Coruña, CITIC, A Coruña, Spain · Defense University Center at the Spanish Naval Academy, Marín, Spain · Dept. Signal Theory, Networking and Communications, Research Centre for Information and Communication Technologies (CITIC-UGR), University of Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain
Abstract
We address the port-selection problem in fluid antenna multiple access (FAMA) systems with multi-port fluid antenna (FA) receivers. Existing methods either achieve near-optimal spectral efficiency (SE) at prohibitive computational cost or sacrifice significant performance for lower complexity. We propose two complementary strategies: (i) GFwd+S, a greedy forward-selection method with swap refinement that consistently outperforms state-of-the-art reference schemes in terms of SE, and (ii) a Transformer-based neural network trained via imitation learning followed by a Reinforce policy-gradient stage, which approaches GFwd+S performance at lower computational cost.
Figures & tables
| Parameter | Value | Parameter | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | (model dim.) | 192 | |
| 8 | (heads) | 6 | |
| 10 | (layers) | 5 | |
| 384 | |||
| Correlation | Jakes [ 12 ] | Dropout | 0.05 |
| Method | Complexity | Time (ms) |
|---|---|---|
| Slow-FAMA [ 4 ] | 0.28 | |
| DC [ 6 ] | 0.42 | |
| CUMA [ 5 ] | 0.15 | |
| GFwd (prop.) | 90.90 | |
| GFwd+S (prop.) | 385.13 | |
| GEPort [ 6 ] | 232.04 |
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