Surrogate-Enhanced Fractional Programming for MIMO Device-to-Device Interference Networks
Abstract
Interference management in multi-stream multi-input multi-output (MIMO) device-to-device (D2D) networks often leads to weighted sum-rate maximization with sum-log-determinant involving matrix-valued signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratios (SINRs). The state-of-the-art paradigms, including weighted minimum mean-square error (WMMSE) and fractional programming (FP), have achieved tremendous success in link scheduling, power control, and beamforming problems. Recently, an upgraded FP approach, named surrogate-enhanced FP (SEFP) in a scalar form, has attained improved performance in joint uplink scheduling and power control in coordinated multicell SISO networks. The proposed SEFP improves the surrogate construction of the classical Lagrangian dual transform plus quadratic transform for logarithmic fractional objectives with a novel reciprocal-inverse transform (RIT), yet its extension to the matrix form for MIMO settings does not seem straightforward because the matrix ratio and the auxiliary matrix generally do not commute. In this paper, by leveraging mathematical tools from Hermitian functional calculus, we extend RIT to matrix ratios by lifting the scalar RIT along the eigendirections of an auxiliary matrix and recasting the resulting directional construction in an operator form. Following, we develop a matrix SEFP framework for weighted sum-log-determinant maximization. Further, we establish a unified view of SEFP and the recently proposed XMMSE method, specify when the two algorithms attribute to identical minorization-maximization (MM) surrogates and variable update trajectories, and prove XMMSE can be considered as a special case of SEFP under the algorithmic family perspective. Inspired by the unified view, we develop SEFPLinQ for the joint scheduling and beamforming optimization in flexible-association MIMO D2D networks. Numerical results demonstrate consistent performance gains.
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BibTeX
@misc{jiao2026surrogateenhanced,
title = {{Surrogate-Enhanced Fractional Programming for MIMO Device-to-Device Interference Networks}},
author = {Zihan Jiao and Xinping Yi and Shi Jin and Giuseppe Caire},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.36586},
eprint = {2609.36586},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.36586},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Surrogate-Enhanced Fractional Programming for MIMO Device-to-Device Interference Networks
AU - Zihan Jiao
AU - Xinping Yi
AU - Shi Jin
AU - Giuseppe Caire
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/30
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.36586
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.36586
AB - Interference management in multi-stream multi-input multi-output (MIMO) device-to-device (D2D) networks often leads to weighted sum-rate maximization with sum-log-determinant involving matrix-valued signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratios (SINRs). The state-of-the-art paradigms, including weighted minimum mean-square error (WMMSE) and fractional programming (FP), have achieved tremendous success in link scheduling, power control, and beamforming problems. Recently, an upgraded FP approach, named surrogate-enhanced FP (SEFP) in a scalar form, has attained improved performance in joint uplink scheduling and power control in coordinated multicell SISO networks. The proposed SEFP improves the surrogate construction of the classical Lagrangian dual transform plus quadratic transform for logarithmic fractional objectives with a novel reciprocal-inverse transform (RIT), yet its extension to the matrix form for MIMO settings does not seem straightforward because the matrix ratio and the auxiliary matrix generally do not commute. In this paper, by leveraging mathematical tools from Hermitian functional calculus, we extend RIT to matrix ratios by lifting the scalar RIT along the eigendirections of an auxiliary matrix and recasting the resulting directional construction in an operator form. Following, we develop a matrix SEFP framework for weighted sum-log-determinant maximization. Further, we establish a unified view of SEFP and the recently proposed XMMSE method, specify when the two algorithms attribute to identical minorization-maximization (MM) surrogates and variable update trajectories, and prove XMMSE can be considered as a special case of SEFP under the algorithmic family perspective. Inspired by the unified view, we develop SEFPLinQ for the joint scheduling and beamforming optimization in flexible-association MIMO D2D networks. Numerical results demonstrate consistent performance gains.
ER -