Attentional Copula-Aided Turbo Fluid Antenna Massive Access

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Authors: Noor Waqar, Kai‐Kit Wong, Chan-Byoung Chae, Ross Murch
Cited by: 2
References: 25

Abstract

Fluid antenna multiple access (FAMA) has recently emerged as a user-centric approach to massive connectivity. By exposing many reconfigurable “ports” on an antenna aperture, they exploit local spatial fading fluctuations at each user terminal (UT) to mitigate multiuser interference (MUI) without the need for precoding. While bothturboandfastFAMA promise ultra-massive access, its practicality is limited by the need to observe, at symbol rate, the complete set of per-port channel gains and received signals. This letter addresses this bottleneck with a novelplug-and-play attentional-copula extrapolatorthat reconstructs thejointper-symbol field of channel gains and received signals from a small subset of ports. The module couples monotone normalizing-flow marginals with a Transformer-based copula to capture both intra-port (channel-signal) and inter-port (spatial) dependencies, yielding drop-in estimates for existing turbo FAMA pipelines without retraining. Simulation results reveal that even with an extremely small port subset, the normalized mean-square error (NMSE) rapidly converges and the symbol error rate (SER) after turbo FAMA remains within a few percent of the full-channel state information (CSI) oracle across aperture sizes. By replacing exhaustive sampling with accurate learned extrapolation, the proposed scheme preserves turbo FAMA’s scalability whileunlocking practical, low-overhead deployment—a viable pathway to extreme massive access.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Antenna Design and Analysis Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks Wireless Body Area Networks

Publication details

Journal / source
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Volume
15
Pages
1951–1955
Publication date
1 January 2026
Language
EN