Asymmetric Modulation Design for Fluid-Antenna SWIPT Systems

Abstract: In this work, we propose the design of modulation schemes that improve the rate-energy region of fluid antenna-assisted simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) systems. By considering the nonlinear characteristics of practical energy harvesting circuits, we formulate a dual-objective rate-energy (RE) region optimization problem to jointly maximize the discrete-input mutual information (DIMI) and harvested current. The problem is solved using the epsilon-constraint method and optimized constellations are designed for various energy harvesting thresholds. We then evaluate the performance of the optimized constellations under three different fluid antenna (FA) port selection strategies: (i) Best Port, (ii) Fixed Port, and (iii) Random Port. Our simulation results demonstrate significant performance gains of optimized constellations over conventional constellations in both information rate and energy harvesting.