Joint Movement and Compression Ratio Design for Mobile Embodied AI Networks (MEAN)
Abstract
Mobile embodied AI networks (MEAN) enable embodied agents to perceive, reason, communicate, and act in wireless environments. In such networks, agent mobility can improve channel conditions, while semantic compression can reduce transmission payloads. However, movement consumes energy, and stronger compression incurs additional computational cost. This paper studies joint movement, semantic compression, and transmit power design for an uplink MEAN system. We formulate a max-min energy efficiency (EE) problem by jointly optimizing transmit power, movement distance, and semantic compression ratio under controllable power constraints. The problem is non-convex due to the coupled signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR), mobility-dependent channel gains, and fractional EE objective. To solve it, we propose an alternating optimization (AO)-Dinkelbach algorithm, where the fractional objective is handled by the Dinkelbach transformation, transmit power is updated via successive convex approximation (SCA), and movement distance is updated by coordinate-wise grid search. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme outperforms no-mobility and no-compression baselines, demonstrating the benefit of jointly exploiting mobility control, semantic compression, and power allocation in MEAN.
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BibTeX
@misc{ding2026joint,
title = {{Joint Movement and Compression Ratio Design for Mobile Embodied AI Networks (MEAN)}},
author = {Yahao Ding and Jiaxiang Wang and Zhouxiang Zhao and Zhaohui Yang and Mingzhe Chen and Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.02334},
eprint = {2610.02334},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02334},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Joint Movement and Compression Ratio Design for Mobile Embodied AI Networks (MEAN)
AU - Yahao Ding
AU - Jiaxiang Wang
AU - Zhouxiang Zhao
AU - Zhaohui Yang
AU - Mingzhe Chen
AU - Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/01
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.02334
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02334
AB - Mobile embodied AI networks (MEAN) enable embodied agents to perceive, reason, communicate, and act in wireless environments. In such networks, agent mobility can improve channel conditions, while semantic compression can reduce transmission payloads. However, movement consumes energy, and stronger compression incurs additional computational cost. This paper studies joint movement, semantic compression, and transmit power design for an uplink MEAN system. We formulate a max-min energy efficiency (EE) problem by jointly optimizing transmit power, movement distance, and semantic compression ratio under controllable power constraints. The problem is non-convex due to the coupled signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR), mobility-dependent channel gains, and fractional EE objective. To solve it, we propose an alternating optimization (AO)-Dinkelbach algorithm, where the fractional objective is handled by the Dinkelbach transformation, transmit power is updated via successive convex approximation (SCA), and movement distance is updated by coordinate-wise grid search. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme outperforms no-mobility and no-compression baselines, demonstrating the benefit of jointly exploiting mobility control, semantic compression, and power allocation in MEAN.
ER -