A Data-Driven Adaptive Impedance Matching Method Robust to Parasitic Effects

Adaptive impedance matching between antennas and radio frequency front-end (RFFE) power modules is essential for mobile communication systems. To address the matching performance degradation caused by parasitic effects in practical tunable matching networks (TMNs), this paper proposes a data-driven adaptive impedance matching method that avoids physical adjustment. First, we propose the residual enhanced circuit behavior modeling network (RECBM-Net), a deep learning model that maps TMN operating states to their scattering parameters (S-parameters). Then, we formulate the matching process based on the trained surrogate model as a mathematical optimization problem. We employ two classic numerical methods with different online computational overhead, namely simulated annealing particle swarm optimization (SAPSO) and adaptive moment estimation with automatic differentiation (AD-Adam), to search for the matching solution. To further reduce the online inference overhead caused by repeated forward propagation through RECBM-Net, we train an inverse mapping solver network (IMS-Net) to directly predict the optimal solution. Simulation results show that RECBM-Net accurately predicts S-parameters, achieving a mean absolute error of 6.98 × 10<sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">−5</sup>. Across 9000 mismatched scenarios, the compliance rate after tuning increases from 0.97% with the analytical solution of the ideal L-network to 95.92% with SAPSO, 93.42% with AD-Adam, and 95% with IMS-Net. While AD-Adam significantly reduces computational overhead, lowering the average number of RECBM-Net inferences from 2097 with SAPSO to 285, it sacrifices some accuracy. IMS-Net requires only a single inference to obtain the matching solution, resulting in minimal online overhead while maintaining excellent matching accuracy.

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IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
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2025-09-29
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https://doi.org/10.1109/tap.2025.3613492
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Canadian Policy and Governance
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A Data-Driven Adaptive Impedance Matching Method Robust to Parasitic Effects

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Canadian Policy and Governance
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A Data-Driven Adaptive Impedance Matching Method Robust to Parasitic Effects

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Abstract

Adaptive impedance matching between antennas and radio frequency front-end (RFFE) power modules is essential for mobile communication systems. To address the matching performance degradation caused by parasitic effects in practical tunable matching networks (TMNs), this paper proposes a data-driven adaptive impedance matching method that avoids physical adjustment. First, we propose the residual enhanced circuit behavior modeling network (RECBM-Net), a deep learning model that maps TMN operating states to their scattering parameters (S-parameters). Then, we formulate the matching process based on the trained surrogate model as a mathematical optimization problem. We employ two classic numerical methods with different online computational overhead, namely simulated annealing particle swarm optimization (SAPSO) and adaptive moment estimation with automatic differentiation (AD-Adam), to search for the matching solution. To further reduce the online inference overhead caused by repeated forward propagation through RECBM-Net, we train an inverse mapping solver network (IMS-Net) to directly predict the optimal solution. Simulation results show that RECBM-Net accurately predicts S-parameters, achieving a mean absolute error of 6.98 × 10<sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">−5</sup>. Across 9000 mismatched scenarios, the compliance rate after tuning increases from 0.97% with the analytical solution of the ideal L-network to 95.92% with SAPSO, 93.42% with AD-Adam, and 95% with IMS-Net. While AD-Adam significantly reduces computational overhead, lowering the average number of RECBM-Net inferences from 2097 with SAPSO to 285, it sacrifices some accuracy. IMS-Net requires only a single inference to obtain the matching solution, resulting in minimal online overhead while maintaining excellent matching accuracy.

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and PropagationVol. 73(12)
University of Science and Technology of China (CN)
Openalex Percentile: Top 39%
Canadian Policy and Governance
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