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arxiv: 2509.24433 · v2 · submitted 2025-09-29 · 💻 cs.IT · eess.SP· math.IT

Energy-Efficient Movable Antennas: Mechanical Power Modeling and Performance Optimization

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Modeling mechanical power in movable antenna systems enables higher energy efficiency than fixed-position antennas via joint optimization.

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This paper models the mechanical power consumed by stepper motors that move antennas at a base station. It incorporates this model into an energy efficiency maximization problem that also optimizes antenna positions and transmit signals to multiple users. The authors show how to relax movement collision rules by reordering the antennas, then solve the problem with layered algorithms that alternate between beamforming and position updates. Results indicate that the movable setup uses less total energy than fixed antennas once everything is optimized. Readers should care because it removes a major objection to using movable antennas in future wireless networks.

Core claim

We develop a fundamental power consumption model for stepper motor-driven multi-MA systems based on electric motor theory. We formulate an EE maximization problem to jointly optimize the MAs' positions, moving speeds, and the BS's transmit precoding matrix subject to collision-avoidance constraints. We reveal that the collision-avoidance constraints can always be relaxed without loss of optimality by properly renumbering the MA indices. For the relaxed problem, we develop a two-layer optimization framework for the single-user case and an alternating optimization algorithm for the multi-user case. Numerical results demonstrate that despite the additional mechanical power consumption, the 0.3

What carries the argument

The power consumption model for stepper motor-driven movable antennas based on electric motor theory, which is used to formulate and solve the energy efficiency maximization problem with relaxed collision constraints.

If this is right

  • The EE has a monotonicity property with respect to moving speeds in single-user scenarios.
  • Optimal precoding can be found efficiently for fixed MA positions using the Dinkelbach algorithm.
  • The alternating optimization algorithm converges to good solutions for multi-user EE maximization.
  • Movable antennas can provide energy efficiency gains when mechanical costs are properly modeled and optimized.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The renumbering relaxation technique could be applied to other optimization problems involving interchangeable agents or objects with movement constraints.
  • Improving motor efficiency would further amplify the advantages of movable antennas in energy-constrained environments.
  • The framework might be extended to dynamic scenarios where user positions change over time.

Load-bearing premise

The collision-avoidance constraints can always be relaxed without loss of optimality by properly renumbering the MA indices.

What would settle it

A counterexample where renumbering MA indices results in an optimal solution that collides in the original setup, or numerical results where the proposed method's energy efficiency is consistently lower than fixed-position antennas.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2509.24433 by Boyu Ning, Weidong Mei, Xin Wei, Xuan Huang, Zhi Chen.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Stepper motor-driven MA system with multiple users. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Illustration of multi-MA movements with N = 2. collisions in moving the MAs from their current positions to the destination positions, as illustrated in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: (a) Pull-out torque; (b) Output power versus the angu [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: EE performance versus the normalized size of transmi [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Optimized positions of the MAs by different schemes. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: EE performance versus the number of antennas. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: EE performance versus the maximum transmit power. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: EE performance versus the number of antennas. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_13.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Movable antennas (MAs) offer additional spatial degrees of freedom (DoFs) to enhance communication performance through local antenna movement. However, to achieve accurate and fast antenna movement, MA drivers entail non-negligible mechanical power consumption, rendering energy efficiency (EE) optimization more critical compared to conventional fixed-position antenna (FPA) systems. To address this issue, we develop a fundamental power consumption model for stepper motor-driven multi-MA systems based on electric motor theory. Based on this model, we formulate an EE maximization problem from a multi-MA base station (BS) to multiple single-FPA users. We aim to jointly optimize the MAs' positions, moving speeds, and the BS's transmit precoding matrix subject to collision-avoidance constraints during the multi-MA movements. However, this problem is difficult to solve. To tackle this challenge, we first reveal that the collision-avoidance constraints can always be relaxed without loss of optimality by properly renumbering the MA indices. For the resulting relaxed problem, we first consider a simplified single-user setup and uncover a hidden monotonicity of the EE performance with respect to the MAs' moving speeds. To solve the remaining optimization problem, we develop a two-layer optimization framework. In the inner layer, the Dinkelbach algorithm is employed to derive the optimal beamforming solution for any given MA positions. In the outer layer, a sequential update algorithm is proposed to iteratively refine the MA positions based on the optimal values obtained from the inner layer. Next, we proceed to the general multi-user case and propose an alternating optimization (AO) algorithm. Numerical results demonstrate that despite the additional mechanical power consumption, the proposed algorithms can outperform both conventional FPA systems and other existing EE maximization benchmarks

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Referee Report

1 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper develops a mechanical power consumption model for stepper motor-driven movable antennas (MAs) based on electric motor theory. It formulates an energy-efficiency (EE) maximization problem for a multi-MA base station serving multiple single-antenna users, jointly optimizing MA positions, moving speeds, and the BS transmit precoding matrix subject to collision-avoidance constraints. The authors claim that collision-avoidance constraints can always be relaxed without loss of optimality by renumbering MA indices; they then derive a two-layer framework (Dinkelbach inner beamforming + sequential outer position updates) for the single-user case and an alternating-optimization algorithm for the multi-user case. Numerical results are said to show that the proposed schemes outperform both conventional fixed-position antenna (FPA) systems and existing EE benchmarks despite the added mechanical power.

Significance. If the power model and the claimed relaxation are valid, the work supplies a concrete, hardware-motivated framework for EE optimization in MA systems that accounts for real mechanical costs—an important step toward assessing whether the spatial DoFs of MAs remain advantageous once actuator energy is included. The explicit stepper-motor derivation and the monotonicity observation in the single-user case are constructive contributions that could be reused in follow-on studies.

major comments (1)
  1. [Optimization formulation / abstract] Optimization formulation section (and abstract): the claim that collision-avoidance constraints can always be relaxed without loss of optimality by renumbering MA indices assumes that total mechanical power is invariant to permutation of target assignments. Because the derived power model depends on each MA’s individual speed, travel distance, and trajectory from its fixed initial position, reassigning which MA moves to which final location generally changes the per-motor energy terms and therefore the summed mechanical power. This assumption is load-bearing for the validity of the relaxed problem that enables the subsequent Dinkelbach and AO algorithms.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Numerical results] Numerical-results section: the abstract states that the proposed algorithms outperform FPA and other EE benchmarks, yet no error bars, Monte-Carlo repetition count, or explicit validation that the stepper-motor model matches measured hardware data are mentioned. Adding these details would strengthen confidence in the reported gains.
  2. [System model] Notation: the distinction between the mechanical power consumed during movement and the steady-state power after positioning is not always explicit when the EE objective is written; a short clarifying sentence or equation label would help readers track which term is active in each phase of the optimization.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We sincerely thank the referee for the careful and constructive review of our manuscript. The major comment raises an important point about the validity of relaxing the collision-avoidance constraints. We address it in detail below and will revise the manuscript to strengthen the exposition.

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  1. Referee: Optimization formulation section (and abstract): the claim that collision-avoidance constraints can always be relaxed without loss of optimality by renumbering MA indices assumes that total mechanical power is invariant to permutation of target assignments. Because the derived power model depends on each MA’s individual speed, travel distance, and trajectory from its fixed initial position, reassigning which MA moves to which final location generally changes the per-motor energy terms and therefore the summed mechanical power. This assumption is load-bearing for the validity of the relaxed problem that enables the subsequent Dinkelbach and AO algorithms.

    Authors: We thank the referee for this observation. We agree that the total mechanical power is generally not invariant to arbitrary permutations of target assignments, since each MA has a distinct initial position and the power model depends on individual travel distances and speeds. However, the claimed relaxation remains valid without loss of optimality. The communication rate depends only on the set of final positions (the MAs being identical), not on the specific assignment of MAs to positions. For any candidate set of final positions, the mechanical power is minimized by the assignment that minimizes aggregate travel cost. On a line, this minimum is achieved by the order-preserving (non-crossing) matching between sorted initial positions and sorted final positions. This matching automatically satisfies the collision-avoidance constraints. Any crossing permutation yields strictly larger total mechanical power and thus weakly lower energy efficiency. Therefore, the globally optimal energy-efficiency solution can always be attained within the relaxed problem by appropriately renumbering (i.e., sorting) the MA indices. We will add a concise justification of this argument, including the observation that the optimal matching is order-preserving, to the optimization formulation section. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; standard optimization on derived power model

full rationale

The paper first derives a mechanical power model from stepper-motor electric theory, then formulates the EE maximization problem with collision-avoidance constraints. It states that these constraints can be relaxed without loss of optimality via MA index renumbering, presented as an internal revelation rather than a self-citation or fitted input. The solution proceeds with the Dinkelbach algorithm for beamforming (inner layer) and sequential/AO updates for positions (outer layer), both standard methods applied to the newly derived model. Numerical outperformance claims rest on solving this optimization, not on any quantity that reduces by construction to the paper's own fitted parameters or prior self-citations. The derivation chain remains self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the accuracy of the stepper-motor power model taken from electric motor theory and on the claim that renumbering always permits constraint relaxation; no free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are explicitly introduced beyond standard optimization assumptions.

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