Subpacketization-Beamformer Interaction in Multi-Antenna Coded Caching

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We study the joint effect of beamformer structure and subpacketization value on the achievable rate of cache-enabled multi-antenna communications at low-SNR.

• A mathematical approach with low-SNR approximations is used, to show that using simplistic beamformer structures, increasing subpacketization degrades the achievable rate; in contrast to what has been shown in the literature for more complex, optimized beamformer structures.
• The results suggest that for improving the low-SNR rate, subpacketization and beamformer complexity should be jointly increased.