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Hybrid Beamforming in Non-Terrestrial Networks: Architectures, Design Challenges, and Opportunities

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Pith's one-line read This survey claims to be the first to review hybrid beamforming for LEO satellites and drones under one five-category framework that makes the two platforms directly comparable.

desk verdict A useful first joint LEO-UAV hybrid beamforming survey whose five-category taxonomy holds up; the undocumented literature search is the one real, fixable flaw. read the letter →

arxiv 2608.08501 v1 pith:RQG5ESKD submitted 2026-08-09 eess.SP

Thuan Van Le , Nguyen Cong Luong , Huy T. Nguyen , Trong-Dai Hoang , Xiaojing Huang , Peiyuan Qin , Tran Thien Thanh , Vo Nguyen Quoc Bao
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The reading

Hybrid analog–digital beamforming (HBF) lets a large antenna array be driven by only a few radio-frequency chains, which makes it a key physical-layer technology for low-Earth-orbit satellites and UAVs, whose payloads and batteries cannot support fully digital arrays. This survey claims to be the first to review HBF for both platform families together, under a single five-category taxonomy that lets LEO satellite and UAV designs be compared category by category. Its central lesson is that the beamforming architecture must be co-designed with the platform: LEO payloads must cope with orbital motion, Doppler, and channel aging they can predict but not change, while UAVs must co-design the beam with altitude, position, and trajectory they control. The payoff for a reader is a shared map of which HBF problems are common to both platforms and which differ, together with an account of what still blocks real deployment.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing structure is the five-category taxonomy applied identically to LEO and UAV systems, built on the shared HBF signal model $x = FBs$, where the constant-modulus analog precoder $F$ maps $N_{\mathrm{RF}}$ radio-frequency chains to $N_t$ antennas and the low-dimensional digital precoder $B$ operates on the reduced effective channel $\tilde{H} = HF$. Two further mechanisms carry the argument. The first is multi-scale temporal decoupling: on an LEO payload, analog beam-steering coefficients need updates only on a seconds scale while digital precoding must be refreshed at millisecond intervals, a split that makes hybrid architectures viable under tight power budgets. The second is the platform-coupling distinction: LEO robustness is against CSI aging, Doppler, and beam squint, whereas UAV robustness is against jitter, trajectory variation, and blockage, which is why the same five categories fill in so differently for the two platforms.

What would settle it

Run a documented systematic search, with named databases, explicit inclusion and exclusion criteria, and a defined date range up to the paper's 2026 submission, for any survey that jointly reviews hybrid beamforming for both LEO satellite and UAV systems; finding one published before this paper refutes the stated gap. Independently, re-derive the paper's central contrast, beam hopping for LEO versus beam tracking for UAV, from the complete retrieved corpus rather than from Tables II–IV; if the literature outside the selection organizes differently, the taxonomy's generality weakens.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The paper asserts that no existing survey jointly reviews hybrid beamforming for LEO satellite and UAV communication systems under a common platform-aware, architecture-aware, and methodology-aware framework, and that this survey fills that gap. It organizes both literatures under one set of five categories, namely system architecture and precoding design, time-varying beam management, network-level design, sensing and reconfigurable surfaces, and security and multiple access, and shows that the categories fill in differently in a revealing way: the dominant time-varying mechanism is traffic-driven beam hopping on an LEO payload but mobility-aware beam tracking on a UAV. The survey's own lesson is that architecture and algorithm must be co-designed with the platform, not selected after it: LEO couples to quantities the payload can predict but cannot alter, such as orbital trajectory, Doppler, beam squint, and channel aging, which favors predicted or statistical CSI and a slow-analog/fast-digital update split, whereas UAV couples to quantities the platform controls, such as altitude, position, and trajectory, making placement a first-class beamforming variable.

Load-bearing premise

The whole synthesis stands on the selected papers in Tables II–IV being a fair sample of the field, yet the paper never says how it searched for, screened, or chose those papers, so a biased selection would make its claimed platform contrasts unreliable.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • LEO and UAV HBF work can now be compared directly: the same five categories organize both literatures, so a choice such as fully-connected versus partially-connected arrays is judged by the same yardstick on a satellite and on a drone.
  • Exploiting the analog/digital update-rate split, with analog steering refreshed on a seconds scale and digital precoding at millisecond intervals, can sharply cut onboard computation on LEO payloads without sacrificing sum rate.
  • CSI quality outweighs CSI quantity: for both platforms, location, ephemeris, sensing, and statistical CSI can outperform delayed instantaneous CSI, redirecting effort from feedback bandwidth toward prediction.
  • Wide-beam and rate-splitting schemes degrade gracefully under beam misalignment and imperfect CSI, making jitter-robust analog beams and RSMA natural robustness layers for NTN HBF.
  • Learning-aided HBF earns its place when anchored to physical structure, such as deterministic orbital motion, beamspace sparsity, or trajectory-driven channel evolution, rather than as a black-box replacement for the radio model.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The framework likely generalizes beyond the two named platforms: the survey itself notes that high-altitude platforms inherit the same mechanisms, and the five categories would map without much distortion onto any mobile large-array link, so the taxonomy's usefulness may outlive its two home platforms.
  • A testable prediction the paper does not make itself: if the taxonomy is as natural as claimed, new NTN beamforming papers outside its selection should slot into the five categories with little forcing.
  • The reported update-rate split, seconds-scale analog versus millisecond-scale digital for LEO, implies a design rule the paper leaves implicit: implementations should budget analog and digital refresh separately rather than merge them into one beam-tracking loop.
  • The survey concedes that most reviewed designs are simulation-only; a natural follow-up it does not propose is hardware-in-the-loop replication of its headline contrast, beam hopping on a real payload front end versus jitter-robust tracking on a real drone array.
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Referee Report

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Summary. This survey reviews hybrid analog-digital beamforming (HBF) for low-Earth-orbit satellite and UAV communication systems, which it treats as the two primary non-terrestrial platform axes. It first presents common HBF foundations (signal model, hardware architectures, channel models, analog and digital precoding, and learning-aided methods), then organizes the LEO and UAV literatures under a single five-category taxonomy: system architecture and precoding design, time-varying beam management, network-level design, sensing and reconfigurable surfaces, and security and multiple access. The central claim is that no existing survey jointly covers both platforms under such a common framework, and that the sharpest platform contrast lies in beam hopping for LEO versus mobility-aware beam tracking for UAVs. The paper concludes with cross-platform lessons and a set of open challenges in hardware-aware, wideband, ISAC, 3D multi-layer, and THz HBF design.

Significance. If the surveyed literature is representative, the paper provides a genuinely useful unified reference: the five-category taxonomy enables category-by-category comparison, and the beam-hopping-versus-beam-tracking contrast is an insightful organizing observation. The paper also makes good use of summary tables and architectural figures to map a large number of references to design objectives and platform couplings, and it explicitly connects simulation-level results to hardware-implementation concerns such as predistortion, calibration, and true-time-delay architectures. However, the value of the synthesis is contingent on the representativeness of the selected references in Tables II-IV, and the manuscript currently provides no methodology for how those references were found, screened, or coded. This is the main correctness risk for a survey whose contribution is the synthesis itself.

major comments (2)
  1. [I-A, I-B, Tables III-IV] The survey's central claim and its main cross-platform conclusions depend on the representativeness of the references in Tables III and IV, but the paper provides no methodology for selecting or screening the literature. The abstract promises a 'systematic review,' yet there is no search strategy, no list of databases, no date range, and no inclusion or exclusion criteria; Section I-A asserts the research gap ('no existing survey jointly reviews...') and Section II-F draws general cross-platform lessons without explaining how the cited set was assembled. Because the sharpest contrast, traffic-driven beam hopping for LEO (Section III-B) versus mobility-aware beam tracking for UAVs (Section IV-B), is derived from the selected works, an undocumented selection process makes it impossible to tell whether this contrast is a property of the field or an artifact of the sample. This is load-bearing for a survey whose contribution is the synthesis. Please add a reproducible methodology subsection describing the search, screening, and coding procedure, and use it to audit Tables III and IV for coverage and balance; also report the number of candidate papers screened and the number and reasons for exclusions.
  2. [I-B and Tables I-IV] The five-category taxonomy is presented as the organizing principle of the survey, but no operational criteria are given for assigning a paper to a category, and no evidence is provided that the five categories are exhaustive for the LEO and UAV HBF literature. For example, 'sensing capability and reconfigurable surfaces' combines ISAC, RIS/RHS, lens, and holographic architectures, while 'security and multiple access' groups at least three distinct problem families; whether these groupings emerged from the literature or were imposed a priori is not justified. This matters because the paper's contribution is the claim of a common framework that permits category-by-category comparison. Please define each category operationally (for instance, in terms of the primary objective or hardware constraint used for coding) and state how borderline or multi-topic papers were assigned.
minor comments (4)
  1. [II-A1, Eq. (3)] The rate expression in Eq. (3) does not explicitly state that b_k denotes the k-th column of B and that the digital precoder dimension requires N_RF >= K; please add this clarification to avoid ambiguity.
  2. [IV-B] The statement that 'beam-coherence time grows with beamwidth and range but shrinks with transverse speed' is supported by a vehicular-channel reference [92]; since the paper is about UAV links, please either add a UAV-specific reference or an explicit argument for why the vehicular result carries over.
  3. [V-A3] The claim of 'approximately 11-ms latency in [127]' should be accompanied by the specific measurement context reported in that paper, including the hardware platform, so that readers can judge whether the number is representative of onboard NTN processors.
  4. [Throughout] The text contains inconsistent spacing artifacts in 'UA V' and 'UA Vs' (for instance, in the abstract and Section IV headers); please harmonize these to 'UAV' in the final version.

Circularity Check

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No circularity: the survey contains no derivation chain whose outputs reduce to its inputs, and its novelty claim is benchmarked against external surveys rather than self-citations.

full rationale

This is a survey paper, so there is no mathematical derivation chain, fitted parameter, or prediction whose output could reduce to its input by construction. The central claim, that no existing survey jointly reviews HBF for LEO satellite and UAV systems under a common platform-aware, architecture-aware, and methodology-aware framework, is supported by a comparison against external surveys in Table I, including terrestrial HBF surveys and satellite/NTN surveys that are not authored by the present authors. None of the load-bearing argument relies on the authors' own prior work: the self-citations that appear (e.g., [15], [16], [46], [78]-[80], [85], [132]) are presented as representative items within the surveyed literature, not as evidence for the paper's novelty or taxonomy. The paper makes no fitted numerical predictions and no empirical claims derived from its own adjustable parameters, so none of the circularity patterns (self-definitional, fitted-input-called-prediction, self-citation-load-bearing, imported uniqueness, ansatz-by-citation, or renaming) is present. The lack of a documented literature-search protocol, if true, is a methodological or correctness concern about the representativeness of Tables II-IV, but it is not circularity: an undocumented selection procedure does not make the survey's synthesis equivalent to its inputs by definition. The five-category taxonomy is an organizing framework imposed on the literature, and the paper does not claim that the taxonomy was derived from the references in the sense of a derivation. Accordingly, the honest finding is no significant circularity, with score 0.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 3 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The survey introduces no free parameters, no invented physical entities, and no new derivations. The assumptions listed are the load-bearing premises behind the survey's synthesis: that the selected references are representative, that the taxonomy is valid, and that the shared signal and channel models justify a joint treatment.

assumptions (3)
  • domain assumption The representative works cited in Tables II-IV accurately reflect the state of the art in NTN HBF.
    The survey selects references without a documented search protocol, so its coverage is an implicit assumption rather than a demonstrated fact.
  • ad hoc to paper The five-category taxonomy (system architecture, beam management, network-level design, sensing/surfaces, security/multiple access) is a valid and exhaustive organization of the LEO and UAV HBF literature.
    The taxonomy is introduced by the authors in Section I-B and used to structure both Sections III and IV, but no external validation or completeness argument is provided.
  • domain assumption The common signal model (Eqs. (1)-(4)) and geometric channel model (Eq. (5)) apply to both LEO and UAV HBF problems.
    Section II states that 'the same algebraic model supports the two distinct literatures'; this is a modeling choice, not proven.

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Hybrid analog-digital beamforming (HBF) has emerged as a key enabling technology for non-terrestrial networks (NTNs), where large antenna arrays are required to compensate for severe propagation loss but fully digital beamforming is often impractical due to radio-frequency (RF) chain cost, power consumption, and payload limitations. Compared with terrestrial networks, NTN platforms such as low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) impose distinctive HBF design challenges, including high mobility, Doppler effects, sparse line-of-sight-dominant channels, stringent on-board energy budgets, and, for UAVs, the additional coupling between beamforming and controllable platform placement or trajectory. This survey provides a systematic review of HBF techniques for NTN systems, with emphasis on LEO satellite and UAV communications. We first introduce common HBF architectures, signal models, channel representations, analog and digital precoder designs, and learning-aided approaches that form the shared technical foundation of existing works. We then survey both platforms under a common set of five categories, which cover system architecture and precoding design, time-varying beam management, network-level cooperation and scheduling, sensing capability and reconfigurable surfaces, and security and multiple access. Their platform-specific content differs most sharply in the second one, since the dominant time-varying mechanism is traffic-driven beam hopping on an LEO payload but mobility-aware beam tracking on a UAV. Finally, we discuss open research challenges and future directions toward scalable, robust, and hardware-efficient HBF in next-generation NTNs.

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Figure 1. Taxonomy of HBF in NTNs adopted in this survey. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Generic hybrid analog–digital beamforming architecture for NTN [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Structural comparison of satellite payload HBF architectures under hardware impairments. a) Fully-Connected HBF structure, mapping every RF [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Functional block diagram of an ISAC-enabled HBF LEO satellite [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Four UAV-relevant HBF hardware architectures: (a) FC architecture: maximum analog flexibility, highest phase-shifter and power cost. (b) PC [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Two mobility-induced impairments in UAV HBF. (a) Platform jitter [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_6.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Cooperative UAV HBF topologies. (a) Multiple UAVs form a distributed virtual array, jointly beamforming toward a ground-user cluster. (b) UAVs [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_7.png]
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Sensing and reconfigurable-surface extensions of UAV HBF. (a) A UAV array splits its beamforming resources between communication beams toward [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_8.png]
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Security and multiple-access mechanisms layered on UAV HBF. (a) The analog stage steers the main beam toward legitimate users while the digital [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_9.png]
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Representative ULA-based HBF architectures for beam-squint mitigation in NTNs. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_10.png]
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Closed-loop workflow for AI-based beam tracking and management [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_11.png]
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Conceptual architecture of a 3D multi-layered NTN for cross-layer HBF design. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_12.png]

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