eprintid: 10205321 rev_number: 7 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/20/53/21 datestamp: 2025-02-27 09:58:06 lastmod: 2025-02-27 09:58:06 status_changed: 2025-02-27 09:58:06 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Hong, Hanjiang creators_name: Wong, Kai-Kit creators_name: Tong, Kin-Fai creators_name: Shin, Hyundong creators_name: Zhang, Yangyang title: Coded Fluid Antenna Multiple Access Over Fast Fading Channels ispublished: inpress divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: F46 keywords: Fluid antenna, multiple access, coded modulation, iterative decoding, interference mitigation note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: Enabled by the emerging fluid antenna system (FAS) technology, fast fluid antenna multiple access (FAMA) provides a massive connectivity scheme which is able to serve on the same physical channel hundreds of users, without the need of precoding nor interference cancellation at each user. This is, however, only possible if we know the antenna position (i.e., port) in which the ratio of the instantaneous signal energy to the sum-interference plus noise signal energy is maximized on a per-symbol basis. In this letter, we address how fast FAMA can be approached using practical channel codes. This technique is referred to as coded FAMA. An iterative decoding receiver with a novel soft-decision port detector and the correlated demapper is proposed. Also, the average mutual information (AMI) for the coded FAMA system is derived to indicate the system’s achievable transmission rate. Our results reveal that the spectral efficiency of the coded FAMA system can well approach the AMI with the proposed iterative decoding receiver. Moreover, it is illustrated that under rich scattering fast fading channels, the proposed coded FAMA system can support 120 users on the same channel to achieve a network spectral efficiency of 75bps/Hz, without precoding. date: 2025-02-11 date_type: published publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) official_url: https://doi.org/10.1109/lwc.2025.3540668 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2364360 doi: 10.1109/LWC.2025.3540668 lyricists_name: Tong, Kin-Fai lyricists_name: Wong, Kai-Kit lyricists_id: KFTON30 lyricists_id: KWONG98 actors_name: Wong, Kai-Kit actors_id: KWONG98 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: IEEE Wireless Communications Letters issn: 2162-2337 citation: Hong, Hanjiang; Wong, Kai-Kit; Tong, Kin-Fai; Shin, Hyundong; Zhang, Yangyang; (2025) Coded Fluid Antenna Multiple Access Over Fast Fading Channels. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters 10.1109/LWC.2025.3540668 <https://doi.org/10.1109/LWC.2025.3540668>. (In press). Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10205321/1/WCL2024-1236-RSv3.pdf