Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces With Reflection Pattern Modulation: Beamforming Design and Performance Analysis
Shaoe Lina, Beixiong Zhengb, George C. Alexandropoulosc, Miaowen Wena d, Marco Di Renzoe, Fangjiong Chena
- aSchool of Electronic and Information Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
- bNational University of Singapore, Singapore
- cNational and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
- dNational Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
- eCNRS, CentraleSupélec, Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Abstract
Recent research on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) suggests that RISs can perform passive beamforming and information transfer (PBIT) simultaneously via smart reflections. In this paper, we propose an RIS-enhanced multiple-input single-output system with reflection pattern modulation (RPM) to achieve PBIT, where the joint active and passive beamforming is carefully designed by taking into account the communication outage probability. We formulate an optimization problem to maximize the average received signal power by jointly optimizing the active beamforming at the access point (AP) and passive beamforming at the RIS under the assumption that the RIS's state information is statistically known by the AP, and propose a high-quality suboptimal solution based on the alternating optimization technique. Moreover, a closed-form expression for the asymptotic outage probability of the proposed scheme in Rician fading is derived. The achievable rate of the proposed scheme is also investigated under the assumption that the transmitted symbols are drawn from a finite constellation. Simulation results validate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme and reveal the effect of various system parameters on the achievable rate. It is shown that the proposed scheme outperforms, in terms of achievable rate, the conventional RIS-assisted system without information transfer.
TL;DRIt is shown that the proposed RIS-enhanced multiple-input single-output system with reflection pattern modulation to achieve PBIT outperforms, in terms of achievable rate, the conventional RIS-assisted system without information transfer. (Semantic Scholar)