Fluid Antenna-Assisted Dirty Multiple Access Channels over Composite Fading

TL;DR

This paper explores how fluid antennas can enhance multiuser communication over composite fading channels with side information, providing a new approach to improve outage probability and support multiple users with a single antenna.

Contribution

It introduces a novel model connecting Jakes' model to copula theory for fluid antennas in dirty MACs with side information, deriving a closed-form outage probability expression.

Findings

Fluid antennas improve outage probability in multiuser systems.

A single fluid antenna can support many users within few wavelengths.

The model accurately captures spatial correlation in fading channels.

Abstract

This letter investigates the application of the emerging fluid antenna (FA) technology in multiuser communication systems when side information (SI) is available at the transmitters. In particular, we consider a K-user dirty multiple access channel (DMAC) with non-causally known SI at the transmitters, where K users send independent messages to a common receiver with a FA capable of changing its location depending on the channel condition. By connecting Jakes' model to copula theory through Spearman's {\rho} rank correlation coefficient, we accurately describe the spatial correlation between the FA channels, and derive a closed-form expression for the outage probability (OP) under Fisher-Snedecor F fading. Numerical results illustrate how considering FA can improve the performance of multiuser communication systems in terms of the OP and also support a large number of users using only one FA at the common receiver in a few wavelengths of space.