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Beamforming Designs and Performance Evaluations for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Enhanced Wireless Communication System with Hardware Impairments
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can effectively control the wavefront of
the impinging signals, and has emerged as a promising way to improve the energy
and spectrum efficiency of wireless communication systems. Most existing
studies were conducted with an assumption that the hardware operations are
perfect without any impairment. However, both physical transceiver and IRS
suffer from non-negligible hardware impairments in practice, which will bring
some major challenges, e.g., increasing the difficulty and complexity of the
beamforming designs, and degrading the system performance. In this paper, by
taking hardware impairments into consideration, we make the transmit and
reflect beamforming designs and evaluate the system performance. First, we
utilize the linear minimum mean square error estimator to make the channel
estimations, and analyze the factors that affect estimation accuracy. Then, we
derive the optimal transmit beamforming vector, and propose a gradient descent
method-based algorithm to obtain a sub-optimal reflect beamforming solution.
Next, we analyze the asymptotic channel capacities by considering two types of
asymptotics with respect to the transmit power and the numbers of antennas and
reflecting elements. Finally, we analyze the power scaling law and the energy
efficiency. By comparing the performance of our proposed algorithm with the
upper bound on the performance of global optimal reflect beamforming solution,
the simulation results demonstrate that our proposed algorithm can offer an
outstanding performance with low computational complexity. The simulation
results also show that there is no need to cost a lot on expensive antennas to
achieve both high spectral efficiency and energy efficiency when the
communication system is assisted by an IRS and suffer from hardware
impairments.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2004.09804,
arXiv:2004.0976
A Tutorial
Funding Information: This work is funded by FCT/MCTES through national funds and when applicable co-funded EU funds under the projects UIDB/EEA/50008/2020 and 2022.03897.PTDC. Funding Information: We acknowledge the support of FCT/MCTES, as described above in funding. We also acknowledge the support of Autonoma TechLab for providing an interesting environment to carry out this research. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 by the authors.This is a tutorial on current techniques that use a huge number of antennas in intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS), large intelligent surfaces (LIS), and radio stripes (RS), highlighting the similarities, differences, advantages, and drawbacks. A comparison between IRS, LIS, and RS is performed in terms of the implementation and capabilities, in the form of a tutorial. We begin by introducing the IRS, LIS, and RS as promising technologies for 6 G wireless technology. Then, we will look at how the three notions are applied in wireless networks. We discuss various performance indicators and methodologies for characterizing and improving the performance of IRS, LIS, and RS-assisted wireless networks. We cover rate maximization, power consumption reduction, and cost implementation concerns in order to take advantage of the performance increase. Furthermore, we extend the discussion to some cases of emerging use. In the description of the three concepts, IRS-assisted communication was introduced as a passive system, considering the capacity/data rate, with power optimization being an advantage, while channel estimation was a challenge. LIS is an active component that goes beyond massive MIMO; a recent study found that channel estimation issues in IRS had improved. In comparison to IRS, capacity enhancement is a highlight, and user interference showed a trend of decreasing. However, power consumption due to utilizing power amplifiers has restrictions. The third technique for increasing coverage is cell-free massive MIMO with RS, with easy deployment in communication network structures. It is demonstrated to have suitable energy efficiency and power consumption. Finally, for future work, we further propose expanding the conversation to include some cases of new uses, such as complexity reduction; design and simulation with LDPC code could be a solution to decreasing complexity.publishersversionpublishe
Performance of RIS-Aided Nearfield Localization under Beams Approximation from Real Hardware Characterization
The technology of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) has been showing
promising potential in a variety of applications relying on Beyond-5G networks.
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) can indeed provide fine channel
flexibility to improve communication quality of service (QoS) or restore
localization capabilities in challenging operating conditions, while
conventional approaches fail (e.g., due to insufficient infrastructure, severe
radio obstructions). In this paper, we tackle a general low-complexity approach
for optimizing the precoders that control such reflective surfaces under
hardware constraints. More specifically, it allows the approximation of any
desired beam pattern using a pre-characterized look-up table of feasible
complex reflection coefficients for each RIS element. The proposed method is
first evaluated in terms of beam fidelity for several examples of RIS hardware
prototypes. Then, by means of a theoretical bounds analysis, we examine the
impact of RIS beams approximation on the performance of near-field downlink
positioning in non-line-of-sight conditions, while considering several RIS
phase profiles (incl. directional, random and localization-optimal designs).
Simulation results in a canonical scenario illustrate how the introduced RIS
profile optimization scheme can reliably produce the desired RIS beams under
realistic hardware limitations. They also highlight its sensitivity to both the
underlying hardware characteristics and the required beam kinds in relation to
the specificity of RIS-aided localization applications.Comment: 27 pages, 8 figures, journa
Max-Min SINR Analysis of STAR-RIS Assisted Massive MIMO Systems with Hardware Impairments
peer reviewedReconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has
emerged as a cost-effective solution to improve wireless
communication performance through just passive reflection.
Recently, the concept of simultaneously transmitting and
reflecting RIS (STAR-RIS) has appeared but the study of
minimum signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) and
the impact of hardware impairments (HWIs) remain open.
In addition to previous works on STAR-RIS, we consider a
massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) base station
(BS) serving multiple user equipments (UEs) at both sides of
the RIS. Specifically, in this work, focusing on the downlink
of a single cell, we derive the minimum SINR obtained by the
optimal linear precoder (OLP) with HWIs in closed form. The
OLP maximises the minimum SINR subject to a given power
constraint for any given passive beamforming matrix (PBM).
Next, we obtain deterministic equivalents (DEs) for the OLP
and the minimum SINR, which are then used to optimise the
PBM. Notably, based on the DEs and statistical channel state
information (CSI), we optimise simultaneously the amplitude
and phase shift by using a projected gradient ascent algorithm
(PGAM) for both energy splitting (ES) and mode switching
(MS) STAR-RIS operation protocols with reduced feedback,
which is quite crucial for STAR-RIS systems that include the
double number or variables compared to reflecting only RIS.
Simulations verify the analytical results, shed light on the
impact of HWIs, and demonstrate the better performance of
STAR-RIS compared to conventional RIS. Also, a benchmark
full instantaneous CSI (I-CSI) based design is provided and
shown to result in higher SINR but lower net achievable
sum-rate than the statistical CSI based design because of large
overhead associated with the acquisition of full I-CSI acquisition.
Thus, not only do we evaluate the impact of HWIs but we also
propose a statistical CSI based design that provides higher net
sum-rate with low overhead and complexity
Intelligent Reflecting Surface-assisted MU-MISOSystems with Imperfect Hardware: ChannelEstimation and Beamforming Design
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), consisting of low-cost passive elements, is a promising technology for improvingthe spectral and energy efficiency of the fifth-generation (5G)and beyond networks. It is also noteworthy that an IRS canshape the reflected signal propagation. Most works in IRS-assisted systems have ignored the impact of the inevitable residualhardware impairments (HWIs) at both the transceiver hardwareand the IRS while any relevant works have addressed only simplescenarios, e.g., with single-antenna network nodes and/or withouttaking the randomness of phase noise at the IRS into account.In this work, we aim at filling up this gap by considering ageneral IRS-assisted multi-user (MU) multiple-input single-output(MISO) system with imperfect channel state information (CSI)and correlated Rayleigh fading. In parallel, we present a generalcomputationally efficient methodology for IRS reflect beamforming(RB) optimization. Specifically, we introduce an advantageouschannel estimation (CE) method for such systems accounting forthe HWIs. Moreover, we derive the uplink achievable spectralefficiency (SE) with maximal-ratio combining (MRC) receiver,displaying three significant advantages being: 1) its closed-formexpression, 2) its dependence only on large-scale statistics, and3) its low training overhead. Notably, by exploiting the first twobenefits, we achieve to perform optimization with respect to thethat can take place only at every several coherence intervals,and thus, reduces significantly the computational cost comparedto other methods which require frequent phase optimization.Among the insightful observations, we highlight that uncorrelatedRayleigh fading does not allow optimization of the SE, whichmakes the application of an IRS ineffective. Also, in the case thatthe phase drifts, describing the distortion of the phases in theRBM, are uniformly distributed, the presence of an IRS providesno advantage. The analytical results outperform previous worksand are verified by Monte-Carlo (MC) simulations
Cooperative Beamforming Design for Multiple RIS-Assisted Communication Systems
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) provides a promising way to build
programmable wireless transmission environments. Owing to the massive number of
controllable reflecting elements on the surface, RIS is capable of providing
considerable passive beamforming gains. At present, most related works mainly
consider the modeling, design, performance analysis and optimization of
single-RIS-assisted systems. Although there are a few of works that investigate
multiple RISs individually serving their associated users, the cooperation
among multiple RISs is not well considered as yet. To fill the gap, this paper
studies a cooperative beamforming design for multi-RIS-assisted communication
systems, where multiple RISs are deployed to assist the downlink communications
from a base station to its users. To do so, we first model the general channel
from the base station to the users for arbitrary number of reflection links.
Then, we formulate an optimization problem to maximize the sum rate of all
users. Analysis shows that the formulated problem is difficult to solve due to
its non-convexity and the interactions among the decision variables. To solve
it effectively, we first decouple the problem into three disjoint subproblems.
Then, by introducing appropriate auxiliary variables, we derive the closed-form
expressions for the decision variables and propose a low-complexity cooperative
beamforming algorithm. Simulation results have verified the effectiveness of
the proposed algorithm through comparison with various baseline methods.
Furthermore, these results also unveil that, for the sum rate maximization,
distributing the reflecting elements among multiple RISs is superior to
deploying them at one single RIS
Towards versatile access networks (Chapter 3)
Compared to its previous generations, the 5th generation (5G) cellular network features an additional type of densification, i.e., a large number of active antennas per access point (AP) can be deployed. This technique is known as massive multipleinput multiple-output (mMIMO) [1]. Meanwhile, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) evolution, e.g., in channel state information (CSI) enhancement, and also on the study of a larger number of orthogonal demodulation reference signal (DMRS) ports for MU-MIMO, was one of the Release 18 of 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP Rel-18) work item. This release (3GPP Rel-18) package approval, in the fourth quarter of 2021, marked the start of the 5G Advanced evolution in 3GPP. The other items in 3GPP Rel-18 are to study and add functionality in the areas of network energy savings, coverage, mobility support, multicast broadcast services, and positionin
Towards 6G-Enabled Internet of Things with IRS-Empowered Backscatter-Assisted WPCNs
Wireless powered communication networks (WPCNs) are expected to play a key role in the forthcoming 6G systems. However, they have not yet found their way to large-scale practical implementations due to their inherent shortcomings such as the low efficiency of energy transfer and information transmission. In this thesis, we aim to study the integration of WPCNs with other novel technologies of backscatter communication and intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) to enhance the performance and improve the efficiency of these networks so as to prepare them for being seamlessly fitted into the 6G ecosystem. We first study the incorporation of backscatter communication into conventional WPCNs and investigate the performance of backscatter-assisted WPCNs (BS-WPCNs). We then study the inclusion of IRS into the WPCN environment, where an IRS is used for improving the performance of energy transfer and information transmission in WPCNs. After that, the simultaneous integration of backscatter communication and IRS technologies into WPCNs is investigated, where the analyses show the significant performance gains that can be achieved by this integration
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