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智能反射面辅助无线网络:从单反射到多反射的设计与优化

Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Wireless Networks: From Single-Reflection to Multi-Reflection Design and Optimization

Weidong Mei, Beixiong Zheng, Changsheng You, Rui Zhang

摘要:

智能反射面(IRS)是无线通信网络中一种很有前途的技术。通过动态调谐大量无源元件的反射幅度/相移,IRS实现了灵活的无线信道控制和配置,从而显著提高了无线信号传输速率和可靠性。尽管有大量关于设计和优化各种IRS辅助的无线系统的文献,但现有工作主要集中在仅通过一个或多个IRS来增强具有单个信号反射的无线链路,这可能不足以在一些恶劣的传播条件(例如,具有密集堵塞物/障碍物的室内环境)。这个问题可以通过采用两个或更多个IRS来协助每个无线链路并联合利用它们的单个以及多个信号反射来解决。然而,所得到的双/多IRS辅助的无线系统面临更复杂的设计问题,以及新的实际挑战的实现相比,传统的单IRS对应,在IRS反射优化,信道获取,以及IRS部署和关联/选择。因此,一个新的范例,设计多IRS合作被动波束形成和联合主动/被动波束路由要求创新的设计方法和优化方法。在本文中,我们给出了多IRS辅助无线网络的教程概述,重点是解决由于多IRS信号反射和路由的新挑战。并指出了今后值得研究和探索的重要方向。

英文摘要:

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a promising technique for wireless communication networks. By dynamically tuning the reflection amplitudes/phase shifts of a large number of passive elements, IRS enables flexible wireless channel control and configuration, and thereby enhances the wireless signal transmission rate and reliability significantly. Despite the vast literature on designing and optimizing assorted IRS-aided wireless systems, prior works have mainly focused on enhancing wireless links with single signal reflection only by one or multiple IRSs, which may be insufficient to boost the wireless link capacity under some harsh propagation conditions (e.g., indoor environment with dense blockages/obstructions). This issue can be tackled by employing two or more IRSs to assist each wireless link and jointly exploiting their single as well as multiple signal reflections over them. However, the resultant double-/multi-IRS aided wireless systems face more complex design issues as well as new practical challenges for implementation as compared to the conventional single-IRS counterpart, in terms of IRS reflection optimization, channel acquisition, as well as IRS deployment and association/selection. As such, a new paradigm for designing multi-IRS cooperative passive beamforming and joint active/passive beam routing arises which calls for innovative design approaches and optimization methods. In this paper, we give a tutorial overview of multi-IRS aided wireless networks, with an emphasis on addressing the new challenges due to multi-IRS signal reflection and routing. Moreover, we point out important directions worthy of research and investigation in the future.

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