학술논문

Computation-Efficient Reflection Coefficient Design for Graphene-Based RIS in Wireless Communications
Document Type
Periodical
Author
Source
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol. Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on. 73(3):3663-3677 Mar, 2024
Subject
Transportation
Aerospace
Reflection coefficient
Wireless communication
Optimization
Reflection
Computational modeling
Couplings
Benchmark testing
6G
amplitude-dependent phase
graphene-based unit cells
reflection coefficient
reflection coefficient optimization
reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)
Language
ISSN
0018-9545
1939-9359
Abstract
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has recently been in the spotlight as a key enabler for the sixth generation (6G) of wireless communication system. The essence of RIS-assisted wireless communications is to decide how to reconfigure RIS (or control reflection coefficients of unit cells) according to the given wireless environments. In particular, since an RIS is usually composed of multiple unit cells, and the amplitude and phase of a signal reflected by each unit cell are coupled, finding jointly optimal reflection coefficients regarding such aspects requires rich computational resources. In the past, most of the preceding studies builds their reflection coefficient models under less realistic assumptions to address such a challenge. To overcome, this study models a practical and tractable reflection coefficient and proposes a computation-efficient method of near-optimal reflection coefficient design of graphene-based RIS unit cells. The method basically leverages a greedy algorithm, thereby obtaining an near-optimal reflection coefficient without multiple computing iterations. To further gain practicality, we propose a quantized reflection coefficient designing method, and show that 1-bit quantization achieves significant performance, which is close to that without quantization. Our numerical results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm by comparing with several benchmark schemes that require rich computational resources.