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Efficient Joint Precoding Design for Wideband Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Assisted Cell-Free Network

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Pith's one-line read The paper claims that weighted sum-rate in wideband IRS-assisted cell-free networks can be maximized by a CADMM-APG-FRCG algorithm that outperforms the PDS baseline with about one-third the computational complexity.

desk verdict Plausible algorithm, but the PDS comparison is not apples-to-apples and Lorentzian feasibility is never enforced; the reported gains are not established. read the letter →

arxiv 2412.05623 v1 pith:ITRWHKRN submitted 2024-12-07 eess.SP

Yajun Wang , Jinghan Jiang , Xin Du , Zhuxian Lian , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen This is my paper · ORCID
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The reading

The paper aims to show that maximizing weighted sum-rate in wideband IRS-assisted cell-free networks, where each IRS element has a Lorentzian frequency-selective reflection, can be handled by an alternating algorithm that avoids the heavy iterative dual updates of existing methods. The authors decouple the non-convex problem with fractional programming, solve active base-station beamforming via consensus ADMM with closed-form per-base-station updates, and solve passive IRS reflection via accelerated projected gradient plus a conjugate-gradient fit of the Lorentzian parameters. Their simulations report that the resulting CADMM-APG-FRCG algorithm consistently outperforms the primal-dual subgradient (PDS) baseline, reaching about 62.8% higher weighted sum-rate at convergence while using roughly 31% of PDS's computational complexity. If it holds, this gives practical cell-free networks a way to get higher capacity from IRSs without paying PDS's computational cost.

What carries the argument

The key machinery is a decoupling-and-closed-form-update chain. The Lagrangian dual transform introduces auxiliary variables η to pull the logarithm out of the SINR ratio, and the multidimensional complex quadratic transform introduces δ and ρ to convert the fractional objective into a quadratic form, separating W from Φ. The active subproblem is then a QCQP solved by consensus ADMM: a linearized update for W, per-base-station projections of the form $V = \sqrt{P_{\max}} e^{j\angle(\cdot)}$, and dual-variable updates, all in closed form. The passive subproblem is solved by APG with a projection of $\varphi$ onto the unit disk, followed by FRCG, a conjugate-gradient method that fits the Lorentzian parameters $(\phi,\psi,\kappa)$ to the current reflection vector.

What would settle it

Take the optimized $(\phi,\psi,\kappa)$ returned by Algorithm 3 and evaluate $|\varphi_{i,r,m}|$ via (4) across all subcarriers and elements; if any value exceeds 1, constraint (9d) is violated and the reported WSR is not achievable by a passive IRS. The paper's own initialization ($\phi=1$, $\psi=3\times10^9$, $\kappa=6\times10^7$) gives $|\varphi|=\phi\psi/\kappa=50$ at resonance, so checking whether the final parameters keep $|\varphi|\le 1$ over the whole band is decisive.

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Core claim

The paper's central claim is that the non-convex weighted sum-rate problem P(0), which jointly optimizes active beamforming W and passive reflection Φ under a Lorentzian frequency-selective response, can be solved by the CADMM-APG-FRCG algorithm, which the authors describe as optimally solving W and Φ in P(0). The decoupling is done by the Lagrangian dual transform and the multidimensional complex quadratic transform; the active subproblem becomes a QCQP that is decomposed into single-constraint QCQP-1 subproblems with closed-form solutions, and the passive subproblem is handled by projected gradient updates for the reflection coefficients and a conjugate-gradient fit for the Lorentzian parameters. The reported result is a weighted sum-rate about 62.8% higher than PDS at convergence, with about 31.44% of PDS's computational complexity.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that the Lorentzian reflection formula (4) can be realized by passive IRS elements while keeping $|\varphi|\le 1$ on every subcarrier; the optimization only penalizes how far the chosen reflection vector is from that formula, so if no parameter set satisfies the bound across the band, the optimized solution is physically unrealizable.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • If the central claim holds, the proposed CADMM-APG-FRCG algorithm gives a lower-complexity alternative to PDS for wideband IRS cell-free networks, with the reported complexity ratio of 31.44% making it attractive for dense deployments.
  • The closed-form per-base-station updates in the active subproblem can be computed in parallel, so the algorithm scales more gracefully with the number of base stations than PDS.
  • Because the passive subproblem explicitly fits a Lorentzian frequency response, the performance gains carry over to wideband OFDM systems where an ideal phase-shifter model would be inaccurate.
  • Under imperfect CSI, the algorithm's WSR degradation (about 14% at $\omega=0.2$) is comparable to PDS while maintaining a roughly 66.6% higher WSR, so the advantage persists in non-ideal channel estimation.
  • Energy efficiency peaks at finite BS and IRS counts (the paper reports a maximum at $N_b=7$, $N_c=10$), meaning the method can inform deployment sizing rather than assuming more IRS elements always helps.

Reading between the lines

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

  • A decisive physical check the paper leaves implicit: the Lorentzian fitting in P(7) does not constrain $b(\phi,\psi,\kappa)$ to lie within the unit disk, so one should verify that the final parameters yield $|\varphi|\le 1$ over all subcarriers before accepting the WSR numbers; the initialization already violates the bound at resonance.
  • The 62.8%-over-PDS comparison may be partly explained by PDS converging to a suboptimal point rather than the new method reaching a global optimum; a stronger test would be to compare against a global-optimality bound or exhaustive search on a small instance.
  • The complexity ratio 31.44% is computed from one simulation setting's iteration counts; a useful extension would be to map the crossover problem sizes where the new method's advantage erodes.
  • As bandwidth shrinks toward narrowband, the Lorentzian model should reduce to a phase-shifter model; testing the algorithm in that limit would connect the wideband results to the existing narrowband literature.
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Referee Report

3 major / 7 minor

Summary. The paper studies joint active and passive precoding for weighted sum-rate (WSR) maximization in a wideband IRS-assisted cell-free MIMO-OFDM network, where each IRS element is modeled by a Lorentzian frequency response. The proposed CADMM-APG-FRCG algorithm uses Lagrangian dual transform and multidimensional complex quadratic transform to decouple the problem, CADMM with linearized updates for the active beamforming subproblem, and APG with FRCG for the passive Lorentzian parameter subproblem. Simulations compare the proposed algorithm with a primal-dual subgradient (PDS) baseline and report consistent WSR gains plus about 31% of the baseline computational complexity. The paper claims that the algorithm optimally solves the active and passive variables in P(0).

Significance. If the claims were valid, the paper would make a useful contribution: it addresses a realistic frequency-selective IRS model, provides a low-complexity algorithmic pipeline, and gives a concrete complexity comparison. The paper is clearly organized and includes pseudocode for all three algorithms, a full complexity table, and extensive numerical experiments, which are commendable. However, the central numerical claims are not established: the optimized Lorentzian reflection coefficients are not certified to satisfy the passive constraint, and the PDS baseline is not solving the same wideband problem. These issues affect the main conclusion that the proposed algorithm outperforms existing methods, so the contribution cannot be accepted in its current form.

major comments (3)
  1. [§IV-A and P(7), Eqs. (48)–(53)] The passive beamforming update does not enforce the physical feasibility constraint (9d) on the Lorentzian reflection coefficient. With the simulation initialization ϕ=1, ψ=3×10^9, κ=6×10^7 (Section IV-A), Eq. (4) gives |b|=ψ/κ=50 at the resonance frequency f_m=ψ, already violating (9d). P(7) replaces the equality constraint (48a) by a soft penalty, and the APG projection (52) is applied only to the auxiliary variable φ; the FRCG update (53) minimizes ||φ−b||² without any constraint on b. A converged point can therefore have |φ_{i,r,m}|≤1 while b(ϕ,ψ,κ) violates (9d), or can leave a nonzero penalty, in which case no feasible point of P(6) is recovered. Since the WSR values in Figs. 2–6 are computed from φ, the reported gains may correspond to reflection coefficients that a passive IRS cannot realize. The statement in Section IV-B that the algorithm "optimally solves W and Φ in P(0)" is therefore unsupported; a feasibility certificate for b (or an explicit projection onto the set {b: |b_{i,r,m}|≤1}) is required.
  2. [§IV-B, Figs. 2–6, Remark 2] The comparison with the PDS baseline is not apples-to-apples. The abstract and Section II state that PDS uses an ideal reflection matrix, and Remark 2 explicitly says that PDS cannot address passive precoding in wideband systems. Thus the PDS baseline is restricted to a narrowband/frequency-flat unit-modulus model, while the proposed method optimizes per-tone Lorentzian coefficients. Under these unequal feasible sets, the consistent WSR advantage claimed in Section IV-B may reflect the larger number of optimization variables or the relaxed soft-constraint formulation rather than the CADMM-APG-FRCG updates. A valid baseline should solve the same P(0) with constraints (9c)–(9d), for example an SCA or alternating optimization method over the Lorentzian parameters (ϕ,ψ,κ) with a feasibility guarantee. Without such a baseline, the paper's central claim of algorithmic superiority over PDS is not established.
  3. [§III-D, Eqs. (49)–(53), §IV-B] The optimality and convergence claims are not supported by the presented material. The passive subproblem P(7) is nonconvex, and APG with the extrapolation (50)–(51) and a constant step size ω=1/8 (Section IV-A) has no convergence proof for this problem; FRCG applied to the unconstrained, nonconvex P(8) also lacks a guarantee. Moreover, the W-subproblem P(3) is described as "generally known to be NP-hard" (Section III-C), yet the text later says CADMM "optimally solves" the QCQP; since the objective and constraints in P(3) are convex quadratic, the NP-hard statement is misleading, and in any case no convergence or optimality theorem for Algorithm 1 or 3 is stated. The authors should either provide formal convergence and stationarity results, or replace claims of solving P(0) optimally with statements about the heuristic performance of the proposed iterations.
minor comments (7)
  1. [§II-B, Eq. (10)] The definition Φ = diag(Φ_1, · · ·, Φ_2, · · ·, Φ_M) contains an obvious typo; it should read diag(Φ_1, · · ·, Φ_M).
  2. [§III-B, Algorithm 3] The line "Update η by (15)" should refer to Eq. (14), where the closed-form optimal η is given.
  3. [Throughout] The name "Flecher-Reeves" should be spelled "Fletcher-Reeves."
  4. [§IV-A] The quality factor Qn is used without a definition in the parameter list; its relation to ψ and κ should be stated explicitly.
  5. [§III-C, Eq. (25)] The displayed expression is not an equality ("then WH DW = ..."); it is a first-order approximation plus a proximal term and should be written with ≈.
  6. [Table II] The table heading uses "CADMM-APG" while the algorithm is called "CADMM-APG-FRCG"; the notation should be made consistent.
  7. [§I and References] Reference [38] is described in the Introduction as a narrowband work, but its title refers to a wideband framework; please clarify whether PDS is restricted to frequency-flat reflection or to narrowband signaling.

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No significant circularity: the algorithm derivation is self-contained, with Lorentzian parameters as optimization variables rather than fitted inputs.

full rationale

The paper's derivation chain is self-contained rather than circular. The WSR-maximization problem P(0) is transformed via Lagrangian dual transform and multidimensional complex quadratic transform, both cited to external fractional-programming references [64], [65]. The active-beamforming subproblem is solved with consensus ADMM, cited to the external CADMM literature [66], and the passive-beamforming subproblem uses APG and FRCG, cited to external optimization references [67], [68]. No parameter is fitted to the WSR values that are later reported as predictions; the Lorentzian parameters ϕ, ψ, and κ are optimization variables updated by the algorithm, not constants calibrated to reproduce a target weighted sum-rate. The comparison baseline PDS is taken from the external reference [38], not from the authors' own prior work, and the complexity ratio in Table II is computed from the paper's own stated iteration counts rather than from a fitted model. Several cited references share authors with the present paper, but none is load-bearing in the sense of invoking a uniqueness theorem or an ansatz that itself contains the conclusion; the update equations (17), (27), (35), (41), (49)-(52), and (53) are derived in the text from the stated objective and constraints. The claim that CADMM-APG-FRCG 'optimally solves W and Φ in P(0)' may overstate what the penalty-based P(7) guarantees, and the Lorentzian realizability under |φ|≤1 is a legitimate feasibility concern, but that is an internal correctness or modeling-validity issue, not circular reasoning: the reported WSR is not equivalent by construction to any fitted input or to a self-citation chain. Hence no circular step is present.

Assumptions & free parameters 5 free parameters · 3 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The optimization variables (W, phi, psi, kappa, phi as reflection coefficients) are the problem variables, not free parameters. The listed free parameters are hand-chosen step sizes, penalty weights, and initial values on which the algorithm's convergence and final WSR depend. The key domain axioms are perfect CSI, the Lorentzian model, and unproven convergence of the fixed-step heuristics. No new physical entities are introduced.

free parameters (5)
  • APG step size omega = 1/8
    Set constant in all iterations (Section III-D3, footnote 1) without a Lipschitz-based step-size rule; convergence depends on this choice.
  • CADMM linearization penalty beta = W^H D W / W^H W
    Chosen by hand in Section IV-A to majorize the quadratic term in equation (25); no proof that the first-order expansion is a global upper bound.
  • Penalty weight mu = formula garbled in text, appears as 12 N_b^2 / (phi^H Q phi)
    Chosen by hand to balance the Lorentzian equality constraint in P(7); the printed expression is ambiguous and hard to replicate.
  • CADMM penalty alpha = N_b
    Set equal to the number of base stations in Section IV-A; affects the consensus convergence rate.
  • Initial Lorentzian parameters phi, psi, kappa = 1, 3x10^9, 6x10^7
    Initial values for all IRS elements in Section IV-A; they yield |phi|=50 at resonance, violating the passive unit-modulus constraint, and the final WSR may depend on this initialization.
assumptions (3)
  • domain assumption Perfect CSI is available at all base stations, IRSs, and users.
    Section II-B assumes CSI can be accurately acquired via [23], [24]; no channel estimation error is considered except in the robustness test of Fig. 4.
  • domain assumption The IRS reflection coefficient follows the Lorentzian model of equation (4) as a function of frequency.
    Equation (4) in Section II-A treats a polarizability-style formula as a reflection coefficient and does not justify realizability with |phi| <= 1.
  • ad hoc to paper The linearized CADMM update (27) and APG with constant step size omega converge to a stationary point of the corresponding subproblems.
    No convergence analysis is provided; constant step size and hand-chosen beta, mu are assumed sufficient for the alternating optimization to reach a good solution.

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In this paper, we propose an efficient joint precoding design method to maximize the weighted sum-rate in wideband intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted cell-free networks by jointly optimizing the active beamforming of base stations and the passive beamforming of IRS. Due to employing wideband transmissions, the frequency selectivity of IRSs has to been taken into account, whose response usually follows a Lorentzian-like profile. To address the high-dimensional non-convex optimization problem, we employ a fractional programming approach to decouple the non-convex problem into subproblems for alternating optimization between active and passive beamforming. The active beamforming subproblem is addressed using the consensus alternating direction method of multipliers (CADMM) algorithm, while the passive beamforming subproblem is tackled using the accelerated projection gradient (APG) method and Flecher-Reeves conjugate gradient method (FRCG). Simulation results demonstrate that our proposed approach achieves significant improvements in weighted sum-rate under various performance metrics compared to primal-dual subgradient (PDS) with ideal reflection matrix. This study provides valuable insights for computational complexity reduction and network capacity enhancement.

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Figure 1. The downlink channels in the IRS-aided cell-free net [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Weighted sum-rate against the distance L. 5 10 15 20 25 30 0 5 10 15 20 25 Optimized phase shift CADMM-APG-FRCG Without RIS CADMM-APG-FRCG Random phase shift CADMM-APG-FRCG Without direct link CADMM-APG-FRCG Optimized phase shift PDS Without RIS PDS Random phase shift PDS Without direct link PDS 62.8% [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Weighted sum-rate against the BS transmit power [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Weighted sum-rate against the number of RIS elements [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_6.png]

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