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UAV Rotatable Antenna under Rotation Delay

Yinmei Xie·Chiya Zhang·Chunlong He·Weizheng Zhang·Wei Wang
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Rotatable antennas (RAs) can improve wireless link performance by adjusting their boresight directions. However, existing RA studies generally assume instantaneous antenna reconfiguration, whereas mechanical rotation incurs non-negligible delay in practical deployment. To address this issue, we develop a rotation-delay-aware communication model for finite communication slots, where mechanical rotation directly reduces the time available for data transmission. This model reveals a fundamental tradeoff between the communication gain achieved through RA reorientation and the associated transmission-time loss. Accordingly, we formulate a rotation-delay-aware joint design of RA orientations and transmit beamforming to maximize the minimum effective transmission rate. For the single-user system, under a sufficient condition for strict concavity, the global optimum falls into one of three regimes: no rotation, partial rotation, and full rotation. A closed-form approximation is derived using a second-order expansion. For the multi-user system, we separate rotation-budget selection from fixed-budget max-min signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) optimization. An analytic-gradient zero-forcing (AG-ZF) algorithm is then developed for low-complexity joint RA orientation and rotation-budget optimization. The results show that explicitly accounting for mechanical rotation delay is essential for finite-slot RA-enabled UAV communications, and that the proposed designs effectively balance reconfiguration gain and transmission-time loss while achieving favorable effective-rate performance with low computational complexity.

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Yinmei Xie, Chiya Zhang, Chunlong He, Weizheng Zhang, Wei Wang. 2026-10-16. UAV Rotatable Antenna under Rotation Delay. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.22777

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