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Reciprocal Beyond Diagonal Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface: Distributed Scattering Matrix Design and MIMO Beamforming via Fractional Programming and Manifold Optimization

Iv\'an Alexander Morales Sandoval , Marko Fidanovski , Hyeon Seok Rou , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu , Emil Bj\"ornson This is my paper

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keywords BD-RISreciprocal scattering matrixMIMO beamformingfractional programmingcell-free massive MIMOsum-rate maximizationdistributed beamformingreconfigurable intelligent surface
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Fractional programming designs MIMO beamforming weights for reciprocal BD-RIS that decompose into independent power-constrained sub-beamformers.

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The paper establishes a fractional programming method for optimizing MIMO beamforming in beyond-diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surface aided cell-free massive MIMO systems. It uses the equivalent channel from a reciprocal BD-RIS parameterized by existing scattering matrix designs to produce beamforming weights. These weights decompose into multiple sum-rate maximization sub-beamformers each with its own power constraint. A sympathetic reader would care because this enables effective exploitation of the engineered channel in distributed scenarios, leading to better performance than standard approaches.

Core claim

The proposed fractional programming approach, based on the equivalent channel incorporating a reciprocal BD-RIS parameterized by existing scattering matrix design methods, yields optimized MIMO BF weights that decompose the transmit beamformer into multiple sum-rate maximization sub-beamformers, each satisfying an independent power-constraint, allowing optimal handling of distributed MIMO-BF scenarios and outperforming existing BD-RIS-aided schemes when combined with RBD-RIS scattering matrices.

What carries the argument

Fractional programming framework applied to the equivalent channel of the reciprocal BD-RIS, which produces MIMO beamforming weights that decompose into independent sum-rate maximization sub-beamformers for distributed power constraints.

If this is right

  • The proposed SRM-MIMO-BF framework is independent of the specific scattering matrix design.
  • The approach extends the BD-RIS-aided system model to the CF-mMIMO setting with a corresponding beamforming matrix.
  • Simulation results show outperformance over SotA schemes employing existing MIMO-BF techniques.
  • Distributed MIMO-BF scenarios can be optimally handled due to the decomposition into independent power-constrained sub-beamformers.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • Tailored beamforming can unlock additional gains from advanced RIS designs in large-scale networks.
  • Joint optimization of scattering matrices and beamformers might yield improvements beyond the sequential design approach.
  • The method could apply to other types of reconfigurable surfaces in wireless systems.

Load-bearing premise

That parameterizing a reciprocal BD-RIS with existing scattering matrix designs forms an equivalent channel that can be directly used in a fractional programming framework to produce MIMO beamforming weights decomposable into independent power-constrained sum-rate maximization sub-beamformers.

What would settle it

Running the proposed method against existing MIMO-BF techniques in the same BD-RIS setup and finding no sum-rate improvement in simulations would challenge the claim.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.16006 by Emil Bj\"ornson, Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu, Hyeon Seok Rou, Iv\'an Alexander Morales Sandoval, Marko Fidanovski.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Illustration of the system model, where L APs with Na TX antennas each serve K users with M RX antennas each through multiple R-element RBD-RISs with a direct line-of￾sight (LoS) link between the APs and the users.3 The equivalent channel linking the l-th AP to the k-th user, including both the direct LoS and BD-RIS-aided path can be defined as El,k = Hl,k + HRX,kΘHTX,l, such that El,k ∈ CM×Na . Straightfo… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Convergence of Algorithm 1 vs. number of iterations [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: CDF of sum-rate performance of the proposed vs. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: CDF of per-user rate performance of the proposed [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Comparison of the sum-rate performance between [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Comparison of the sum-rate performance between [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Sum-rate performance of the proposed BF matrix [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Comparison of the sum-rate performance using [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_7.png] view at source ↗
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We consider the optimization of beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surface (BD-RIS)-aided multi-user (MU) cell-free (CF)-massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) systems, where the propagation environment design achieved scattering matrix optimization is complemented by developing an efficient base station (BS) beamforming (BF) scheme that effectively exploits the latter ``engineered'' channel. In particular, we describe a fractional programming (FP) method, which based on the equivalent channel incorporating a reciprocal BD-RIS (RBD-RIS) parameterized by existing scattering matrix design methods, yielding the correspondingly optimized multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) BF weights. The proposed approach decomposes the transmit (TX) beamformer into multiple sum-rate maximization (SRM) sub-beamformers, each satisfying an independent power-constraint, such that distributed MIMO-BF scenarios can be optimally handled. Although the proposed SRM-MIMO-BF framework is independent of the specific scattering matrix design, extending the BD-RIS-aided system model to the CF-mMIMO setting requires the design of a corresponding beamforming matrix. In this context, this work investigates the impact of beamforming in reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided systems. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method for designing the MIMO-BF weights, when combined with the previously developed design of reciprocal BD-RIS (RBD-RIS) scattering matrices, outperforms existing BD-RIS-aided state-of-the-art (SotA) schemes employing existing MIMO-BF techniques, indicating that the whole contribution is more than the sum of the parts.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper considers the optimization of beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surface (BD-RIS)-aided multi-user cell-free massive MIMO systems. It develops a fractional programming (FP) method for MIMO beamforming weights based on an equivalent channel that incorporates a reciprocal BD-RIS (RBD-RIS) parameterized by existing scattering matrix design methods. The approach decomposes the transmit beamformer into multiple sum-rate maximization sub-beamformers with independent power constraints for distributed scenarios. Simulations are presented to show that combining this beamforming method with previously developed RBD-RIS scattering matrix designs outperforms existing BD-RIS-aided state-of-the-art schemes using conventional MIMO beamforming techniques.

Significance. If validated, the results would indicate that the proposed beamforming optimization provides meaningful gains when paired with reciprocal BD-RIS designs in cell-free mMIMO settings. The decomposition property is particularly valuable for distributed implementations. The framework's claimed independence from the specific scattering matrix design is a notable strength, as it allows modular use with various RBD-RIS parameterizations. Credit is due for addressing the combined optimization of environment and beamforming in this context.

major comments (2)
  1. [Simulation results] Simulation results section: The central performance claim of outperformance over SotA schemes rests on the reported simulations, but the manuscript provides no details on channel models, system parameters (number of antennas, RIS elements, users), Monte Carlo runs, or statistical measures such as error bars. This makes it difficult to assess the robustness of the gains and is load-bearing for the headline result.
  2. [FP method] FP framework and decomposition (around the equivalent channel parameterization): While the updates and reduction to independent per-sub-beamformer SRM problems under separate power constraints are derived, a more explicit convergence analysis or optimality guarantee when the RBD-RIS scattering matrix is held fixed from prior designs would strengthen the theoretical support for the distributed CF-mMIMO case.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract is dense and could more explicitly separate the new beamforming contribution from the reliance on previously developed scattering matrix designs to clarify the incremental novelty.
  2. [Notation and system model] Notation consistency: Ensure uniform usage of BD-RIS versus RBD-RIS and define all acronyms at first use in the main text.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the positive assessment of our work and the constructive comments, which help improve the clarity and rigor of the manuscript. We address each major comment point by point below.

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  1. Referee: [Simulation results] Simulation results section: The central performance claim of outperformance over SotA schemes rests on the reported simulations, but the manuscript provides no details on channel models, system parameters (number of antennas, RIS elements, users), Monte Carlo runs, or statistical measures such as error bars. This makes it difficult to assess the robustness of the gains and is load-bearing for the headline result.

    Authors: We agree that additional details on the simulation setup are necessary to ensure reproducibility and to allow readers to properly evaluate the robustness of the reported gains. In the revised version, we will expand the Simulation Results section with a new subsection that explicitly specifies the channel models (including path-loss exponents and fading distributions), all system parameters (e.g., number of BS antennas M, RIS elements N, users K, and cell-free BS count), the number of Monte Carlo realizations, and statistical measures such as error bars or standard deviations on the plotted curves. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [FP method] FP framework and decomposition (around the equivalent channel parameterization): While the updates and reduction to independent per-sub-beamformer SRM problems under separate power constraints are derived, a more explicit convergence analysis or optimality guarantee when the RBD-RIS scattering matrix is held fixed from prior designs would strengthen the theoretical support for the distributed CF-mMIMO case.

    Authors: We appreciate this observation. Because the RBD-RIS scattering matrix is obtained from prior designs and then held fixed, the equivalent channel seen by the beamformer is constant during the FP iterations. The quadratic transform underlying our FP approach therefore inherits the standard convergence guarantees to a stationary point of the sum-rate maximization problem under per-sub-beamformer power constraints. The decomposition into independent SRM sub-problems follows directly from the separability of the power constraints and does not alter these guarantees. Nevertheless, to make this explicit, we will add a short convergence subsection in the revised manuscript that recalls the relevant FP properties and notes their applicability to the fixed-scattering-matrix, distributed CF-mMIMO setting. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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Minor self-citation for evaluation but core FP derivation and decomposition are independent

full rationale

The paper states that the SRM-MIMO-BF framework is independent of the specific scattering matrix design and derives the fractional programming updates plus the decomposition into independent power-constrained SRM sub-beamformers directly from the equivalent channel. Performance results combine the new BF weights with a previously developed RBD-RIS parameterization, but this is presented as an application rather than a definitional reduction; the mathematical steps stand alone and do not reduce to the prior design by construction. Self-citation appears in the combined claim but is not load-bearing for the central derivation, which remains self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

The abstract invokes standard wireless assumptions such as the existence of an equivalent channel after RIS parameterization and the validity of power constraints per sub-beamformer, but introduces no explicit new free parameters or invented entities.

axioms (2)
  • domain assumption An equivalent channel can be formed by parameterizing a reciprocal BD-RIS using existing scattering matrix design methods.
    Directly stated as the basis for applying the FP method to yield optimized MIMO BF weights.
  • domain assumption The decomposition of the transmit beamformer into multiple SRM sub-beamformers each satisfying an independent power constraint optimally handles distributed MIMO-BF scenarios.
    Invoked to justify the proposed SRM-MIMO-BF framework for cell-free settings.

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    We describe a fractional programming (FP) method, which based on the equivalent channel incorporating a reciprocal BD-RIS (RBD-RIS) parameterized by existing scattering matrix design methods, yielding the correspondingly optimized multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) BF weights. The proposed approach decomposes the transmit (TX) beamformer into multiple sum-rate maximization (SRM) sub-beamformers

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    a novel method to design reciprocal BD-RIS (RBD-RIS) scattering matrices was proposed, whereby the challenging problem of maximizing the system’s sum-rate while incorporating a reciprocal structure that enforces both unitary and symmetry constraints was addressed under a manifold optimization framework

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