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Energy Efficient RSMA-Based LEO Satellite Communications Assisted by UAV-Mounted BD-Active RIS: A DRL Approach

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Pith's one-line read A UAV-mounted beyond-diagonal active RIS combined with rate-splitting multiple access can push LEO satellite downlink energy efficiency to about 7-10 Kbits/Joule, and trust-region policy optimization (TRPO) is the best of the three DRL…

desk verdict The double-counted RSMA rate and a constraint that forbids the active amplification make the reported EE numbers untrustworthy. read the letter →

arxiv 2505.04148 v1 pith:MTV7ZK6G submitted 2025-05-07 eess.SP cs.SYeess.SY

Rahman Saadat Yeganeh , Hamid Behroozi This is my paper · ORCID
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The reading

This paper argues that mounting a beyond-diagonal active reconfigurable intelligent surface (a reflecting surface whose elements both amplify signals and couple to their neighbors) on a UAV can raise the energy efficiency of LEO satellite downlinks when combined with rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA), which serves each user with a shared common message plus a private message. The authors jointly optimize UAV position, satellite beamforming, power allocation, and the surface's reflection matrix, and train three deep reinforcement learning (DRL) agents for the task; Trust Region Policy Optimization (TRPO) is reported to reach the highest energy efficiency, around 7-10 Kbits/Joule, and the highest sum rate, with Twin Delayed DDPG (TD3) converging faster and Asynchronous Advantage Actor-Critic (A3C) lagging. If these simulations are right, the practical message is that RSMA plus an actively amplifying group-connected RIS, controlled by a stable policy-gradient method, is a competitive design point for energy-efficient non-terrestrial 6G connectivity, beating NOMA and passive-RIS baselines as the antenna and surface sizes grow.

What carries the argument

The machinery is the joint energy-efficiency maximization problem (19) together with the group-connected BD-ARIS model. The BD-ARIS is a block-diagonal reflection matrix whose $2\times 2$ blocks are symmetric coupling matrices, each element providing both a phase shift and amplification; the power it consumes includes an amplification term and per-element phase-shifter and DC costs, while the UAV's hovering power follows a rotary-wing model. RSMA splits each user's message into a common part decoded by all and a private part, and the objective maximizes the common plus private sum rate normalized by total power. Because this problem is non-convex and high-dimensional, it is recast as a Markov decision process and solved by TRPO, TD3, and A3C; TRPO's trust-region KL constraint is what the paper credits for the stable, high-reward policies.

What would settle it

Run a small exact instance of problem (19) — for example, three users and a two-element RIS group — and compute the maximum output power of the surface while enforcing $\Phi_g \Phi_g^H \preceq I$. If no feasible reflection matrix delivers the output power assumed in the power model (17) and constraint (19e), then the simulated EE exceeds what the modeled hardware can achieve; equivalently, comparing the corrected sum rate with the reported one would show whether the common rate is double-counted.

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Core claim

The paper's central claim is that a LEO satellite downlink serving multiple ground users through a UAV-mounted beyond-diagonal active RIS under RSMA, with all degrees of freedom learned by DRL, achieves its best energy efficiency when the policy is updated by TRPO. Across the simulations, TRPO converges to a reward near 1100 and energy efficiencies in the 7-10 Kbits/Joule range, exceeding TD3 and A3C, and it remains the most reliable scheme as satellite power, RIS transmit power, altitude, user count, and antenna count vary. The authors further claim that the group-connected BD-ARIS (group size two) outperforms both conventional active and passive RIS designs at equal element counts, and that RSMA with TRPO surpasses a NOMA baseline once the satellite uses more than about 64 antennas. These results are presented as evidence that adaptive physical-layer hardware plus learning-based control is a scalable, energy-efficient approach for 6G and massive IoT in non-terrestrial networks.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that optimization problem (19) is a valid and feasible model of an amplifying RSMA-assisted active RIS; if the unit-norm constraint forbids the amplification the power model charges for, or the common rate is double-counted in the objective, the reported EE and sum-rate numbers would not describe the advertised hardware.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Deploying TRPO rather than TD3 or A3C yields the highest energy efficiency and sum rate in the tested RSMA-BD-ARIS settings, particularly at high satellite transmit power and large UAV-to-user distances.
  • UAV altitude is a tuning knob with a floor: sum rates rise as the UAV descends toward 4 km, but above roughly 16 km all three algorithms converge to a throughput floor, so higher deployment buys little.
  • RSMA with TRPO surpasses a NOMA baseline optimized by TRPO once the satellite array exceeds about 64 elements, and the gap widens with further antenna growth.
  • Communication reliability degrades monotonically with channel-estimation error and drops below 75% near $\sigma_X^2 \approx 10^{-1}$, so accurate CSI matters more than the choice of DRL algorithm in that regime.
  • A group-connected BD-ARIS with TRPO yields higher energy efficiency than conventional active or passive RIS at equal element counts, and the advantage grows with the number of RIS elements.

Reading between the lines

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

  • Not stated in the paper: the objective (19a) counts the common rate $R_c$ once directly and again inside each $R_i$ via $\delta_i R_c$, so the reported sum rates are likely an overcount of the physically achievable throughput.
  • Not stated in the paper: the constraint $\Phi_g \Phi_g^H \preceq I$ caps each group's singular values at one, which may rule out the very amplification the power model charges for; if so, the BD-ARIS advantage over passive RIS would come from coupling and phase degrees of freedom, not active gain.
  • Not stated in the paper: because UAV movement between positions is not charged in the power model, the reported EE is optimistic for missions that reposition frequently; including travel energy could lower the optimal altitude and alter the algorithm ranking.
  • Not stated in the paper: benchmarking the three agents against a classical alternating-optimization or small-scale exhaustive baseline would separate the contribution of the RSMA-BD-ARIS architecture from the contribution of the specific DRL optimizer.
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Summary. This manuscript proposes an RSMA-based LEO satellite downlink assisted by a UAV-mounted beyond-diagonal active RIS (BD-ARIS). It formulates an energy-efficiency maximization problem that jointly optimizes satellite beamforming, power allocation, rate-splitting ratios, the BD-ARIS reflection matrix, and the UAV horizontal position, and it solves this problem with three deep reinforcement learning algorithms: TRPO, TD3, and A3C. The simulation study claims that TRPO achieves the best energy efficiency and sum rate, that the proposed BD-ARIS framework outperforms conventional active/passive RIS designs and NOMA baselines, and that TRPO is robust to CSI errors. The paper contains detailed system, channel, and power-consumption models and a fairly complete account of the three DRL algorithms.

Significance. If the results were correct, the paper would offer a useful design study for a current topic at the intersection of non-terrestrial networks, active RIS, RSMA, and DRL. The authors are to be credited for assembling a complex system model, for deriving the Rician fading and power-consumption expressions, and for implementing and comparing three DRL algorithms in a common simulator. However, the central numerical claims rest on an internally inconsistent optimization problem: the objective double-counts the RSMA common rate, the reflection constraint forbids the active amplification the architecture requires, and the listed simulation parameters violate the power-allocation constraint. Because these issues affect the reward function and every reported number in the simulation study, the significance as demonstrated by the paper is presently not established.

major comments (4)
  1. [Section III, Eq. (19a) and Eq. (15)] The objective (19a) adds the common rate Rc to the sum of individual rates Σ_i R_i. However, from (15), R_i = log2(1+γp,i) + δ_i Rc with Σ_i δ_i = 1, so Σ_i R_i = Σ_i log2(1+γp,i) + Rc. Therefore (19a) equals [Σ_i log2(1+γp,i) + 2Rc]/Ptotal, counting the common rate twice. Since the same inflated EE is used as the reward in (22), all EE and sum-rate values in Figs. 2–8 measure this double-counted objective and cannot support the paper's claims about RSMA gains.
  2. [Section II-B and Section III, Eq. (19i)] Constraint (19i) imposes Φg Φg^H ⪯ I, which restricts the singular values of the reflection block to at most 1. For an active RIS with amplification factors βg,1, βg,2 > 1, this constraint is violated; the active-RIS power model in (17) and the term 'signal amplification' throughout the paper require reflection coefficients with magnitude greater than one. The paper never replaces (19i) with an active-RIS output-power constraint such as (19e). Thus the formulated problem is infeasible for exactly the active BD-ARIS configuration the paper claims to optimize.
  3. [Table II and Eq. (19f)] Table II lists ac = 0.3 and ai = 0.35 for I = 3. Then ac + Σ_i ai = 0.3 + 3×0.35 = 1.35 > 1, which violates constraint (19f) and the unit-power assumption in (16). This infeasible parameter set is used to generate all simulation results, so the reported rewards and EE numbers are not from a feasible instance of problem (19).
  4. [Section IV-A3 and Figs. 2–8] The reward (22) is exactly the objective EE of (19a), so the training curves in Fig. 2 simply plot the same quantity that is later reported as the performance metric. With no external optimal or near-optimal benchmark and no comparison to an analytical bound, the conclusion that TRPO is the best algorithm and that the proposed framework outperforms passive/active RIS and NOMA is only a statement about the authors' simulator. Correcting the objective in (19a) and the constraint in (19i) will change these curves, so the algorithmic ranking and the baseline comparisons need to be re-evaluated.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Notation throughout] The power allocation coefficients are denoted ac, ai in Section III and Table II, but αc, αi in (16) and (21), and γi appears in (21) without definition; please unify the notation.
  2. [Table II and Eq. (18)] Table II misassigns the symbols in (18): s is the rotor solidity, ρ is the air density, and δ is the blade profile drag coefficient, but the table lists 'Air density s', 'Profile drag coefficient ρ', and 'Rotor solidity δ'.
  3. [Fig. 4] The y-axis label 'Sum Rate (Kbps/Hz)' is not a standard unit for rate; the text refers to sum rate in bits/s/Hz, so the units should be corrected and made consistent.
  4. [Fig. 6] The caption says 'spectral and energy efficiency' but the figure only plots energy efficiency; either add a spectral-efficiency panel or revise the caption.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the reported EE is the DRL reward by design, and self-citations are not load-bearing; the noted algebraic inconsistencies are correctness risks, not circular reductions.

full rationale

The paper is a model-formulation plus DRL-simulation study rather than a derivation of an external result from first principles. The objective (19a) is exactly the quantity that the DRL reward (22) is designed to maximize, and reporting the optimized value of that same function is standard practice in learning-based system design; the TRPO-versus-TD3-versus-A3C ranking is an empirical property of the authors' simulator, not an identity forced by construction. Self-citations [20], [21], and [31] appear only as related-work background and are not used as load-bearing evidence, uniqueness theorems, or feasibility arguments. The algebraic issue noted by the skeptic — substituting (15) into (19a) makes the numerator sum to Σ log2(1+γp,i) + 2Rc, so the common rate is counted twice — is a serious modeling/correctness risk, as is the tension between the BD-active-RIS amplification claim and constraint (19i), ΦgΦg^H ⩤ I. However, these are internal inconsistencies in the problem formulation, not circular reductions of a conclusion to its own input: no prediction is statistically forced by a fitted parameter, and no load-bearing claim is justified only by a self-citation chain. A separate technical-review pass should address the double-counted common rate and the feasibility of active amplification under (19i).

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

The central claim rests on a simulation whose parameters are partially unspecified and partially contradictory. The free parameters listed above are either chosen ad hoc (power shares), unstated (K-factors, lambda, DRL hyperparameters), or inconsistent (UAV altitude). The axioms include unstated assumptions about beamformer normalization, rate-splitting fraction handling, Doppler neglect, and an active-RIS constraint that forbids amplification. No new physical entities are introduced.

free parameters (5)
  • Power allocation shares ac, ai = ac = 0.3, ai = 0.35 per user (Table II)
    These are set as fixed simulation constants, but they violate constraint (19f) when I=3 (sum = 1.35 > 1), and the DRL action (21) is supposed to optimize them.
  • Rician K-factors K_X = not specified
    The channel model (1) depends on K-factors for each link, but no values are given in Table II or the text; the results depend on these unstated parameters.
  • Reward penalty factor lambda = not specified
    In Eq. (22), lambda scales constraint-violation penalties; it strongly influences training behavior and final EE, but its value is never reported.
  • DRL hyperparameters = not specified
    Learning rates, batch sizes, trust-region threshold delta, exploration noise, and network sizes are not provided for any of the three algorithms, so the comparative convergence and EE results are not reproducible.
  • UAV altitude h_UAV = 10 km in Table II; 4 to 20 km in Fig. 4
    The system model fixes h_UAV and optimizes only x,y, but Section V.C sweeps altitude, contradicting the formulation and making the experiment inconsistent.
assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption Beamforming vectors wc and wi are unit-norm
    Implicitly required for the total transmit power Ps(ac+Σai) in (16) to be correct; never stated in the paper.
  • domain assumption The common-rate fractions delta_i are fixed and sum to 1
    Stated in Section II.C, but delta_i are absent from the optimization variables in (19) and from the DRL action (21); the paper does not specify how they are set.
  • domain assumption Doppler shift on the satellite-UAV link is negligible
    Justified only by the UAV being stationary, but the LEO satellite moves at orbital velocity; no Doppler model or compensation is included.
  • ad hoc to paper The reflection constraint Φ_g Φ_g^H ⪯ I in (19i) is compatible with active amplification
    This constraint limits singular values to ≤ 1, so it forbids the signal amplification that the power model (17) and the term 'Active RIS' claim.
  • domain assumption The Rician fading realizations used for training and testing are drawn from the same distribution with known, stationary statistics
    The DRL state is the channel, but the paper never specifies the K-factors or the generation of training and test channels, so the generalization claims are unsupported.

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This paper proposes an advanced non-terrestrial communication architecture that integrates Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) with a Beyond-Diagonal Active Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (BD-ARIS) mounted on a UAV under the coverage of a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite. The BD-ARIS adopts a group-connected structure to enhance signal amplification and adaptability, while RSMA enables efficient multi-user access by dividing messages into common and private components. The system jointly optimizes satellite beamforming, UAV positioning, power allocation, and rate-splitting ratios to maximize the overall energy efficiency (EE). To solve the resulting non-convex and high-dimensional problem, we employ three state-of-the-art deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithms: Trust Region Policy Optimization (TRPO), Twin Delayed Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (TD3), and Asynchronous Advantage Actor-Critic (A3C). Moreover, realistic models for the power consumption of both the UAV and the BD-ARIS are considered. Simulation results reveal that TRPO consistently achieves the best performance in terms of EE and sum rate, especially under high transmit powers and challenging deployment scenarios. TD3 converges faster and performs competitively in moderate settings, while A3C suffers from instability due to its high variance. Additionally, the robustness of each algorithm under channel state information (CSI) uncertainty is evaluated, confirming TRPO resilience to imperfect observations. Overall, the proposed RSMA-BD-ARIS framework significantly outperforms conventional RIS-assisted designs and provides a scalable, energy-efficient solution for 6G and massive IoT applications in non-terrestrial networks.

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Figure 1. System model of a UAV-mounted BD-ARIS-assisted LEO [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Training reward comparison of TD3, A3C, and TRPO in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Energy efficiency of the RSMA-based system under [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Communication reliability vs. CSI error variance [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Scalability analysis in terms of spectral and energy [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_6.png]
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