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用于上行链路传输的紧凑型用户特定可重构智能表面

Compact User-Specific Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Uplink Transmission

Kunzan Liu, Zijian Zhang, Linglong Dai, Lajos Hanzo

摘要:

基站采用的大规模天线阵列是下一代通信技术的重要组成部分。然而,由于尺寸、成本和功耗的限制,在用户侧使用大规模天线阵列通常被认为是不现实的。受新兴的可重构智能表面(RIS)技术的启发,我们首先提出了用户侧RIS(US-RIS)的概念,以便于在用户侧采用大规模的天线阵列,在成本和能源效率的方式。与属于基站侧RIS(BSS-RIS)家族的RIS的现有使用相比,US-RIS概念通过定义首次促进了RIS在用户侧的使用。这是通过构思多层结构以实现紧凑的外形尺寸来实现的。此外,我们的理论结果表明,在现有的单层结构,其中只有从RIS反射的信号的相位可以调整,信号的幅度穿透多层US-RIS也可以部分控制,这带来了一个新的自由度(DoF)的波束形成器的设计,可以有利地利用性能增强。此外,基于所提出的多层US-RIS,我们制定的信号噪声比(SNR)最大化问题的US-RIS辅助通信。由于这种多层结构引入的问题的非凸性,我们提出了一种多层发射波束形成器的设计依赖于迭代算法,通过交替更新每个变量来寻找最优解。最后,我们的仿真结果验证了所提出的多层US-RIS的优越性,作为一个紧凑的实现在用户侧的大规模天线阵列的上行链路传输。

英文摘要:

Large-scale antenna arrays employed by the base station (BS) constitute an essential next-generation communications technique. However, due to the constraints of size, cost, and power consumption, it is usually considered unrealistic to use a large-scale antenna array at the user side. Inspired by the emerging technique of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), we firstly propose the concept of user-side RIS (US-RIS) for facilitating the employment of a large-scale antenna array at the user side in a cost- and energy-efficient way. In contrast to the existing employments of RIS, which belong to the family of base-station-side RISs (BSS-RISs), the US-RIS concept by definition facilitates the employment of RIS at the user side for the first time. This is achieved by conceiving a multi-layer structure to realize a compact form-factor. Furthermore, our theoretical results demonstrate that, in contrast to the existing single-layer structure, where only the phase of the signal reflected from RIS can be adjusted, the amplitude of the signal penetrating multi-layer US-RIS can also be partially controlled, which brings about a new degree of freedom (DoF) for beamformer design that can be beneficially exploited for performance enhancement. In addition, based on the proposed multi-layer US-RIS, we formulate the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) maximization problem of US-RIS-aided communications. Due to the non-convexity of the problem introduced by this multi-layer structure, we propose a multi-layer transmit beamformer design relying on an iterative algorithm for finding the optimal solution by alternately updating each variable. Finally, our simulation results verify the superiority of the proposed multi-layer US-RIS as a compact realization of a large-scale antenna array at the user side for uplink transmission.

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