arXiv · 2608.18458
Joint Beamforming and Phase Shifts Design for RIS-Enabled RSMA-ISAC Systems
Abstract
This paper investigates the sensing-centric design of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-enabled rate-splitting multiple access-integrated sensing and communication (RSMA-ISAC) systems. Specifically, we propose a new beam-gain approximation method to enhance the sensing beam gain while satisfying communication quality-of-service (QoS) constraints.Since the joint optimization of the beamforming vectors and RIS phase shifts is highly coupled and non-convex, existing methods typically rely on generic optimization solvers involving substantial computational complexity. To address this issue, we propose an efficient constraints-separation-based alternating optimization algorithm (CS-AO). Our proposed algorithm effectively decouples the optimization variables and yields closed-form solutions for all subproblems, thereby significantly reducing the computational burden. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm achieves sensing beam-gain performance comparable to successive convex approximation (SCA) and semidefinite relaxation (SDR) benchmarks, while achieving more than 120-fold and 50-fold runtime reductions. In addition, compared with conventional space-division multiple access (SDMA) schemes, the proposed design exhibits substantial sensing beam gain.
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Xuejun Cheng, Qian Zhang, Yuhui Jiao, Yufei Zhao, Zheng Dong, Ju Liu. 2026-08-19. Joint Beamforming and Phase Shifts Design for RIS-Enabled RSMA-ISAC Systems. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18458
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