Outage constrained transmission design for IRS-aided communications with imperfect cascaded channels

Gui Zhou, Cunhua Pan, Hong Ren, Kezhi Wang, Arumugam Nallanathan

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Abstract

Intelligent reflection surface (IRS) has recently been recognized as a promising technique to enhance the performance of wireless systems due to its ability of reconfiguring the signal propagation environment. However, the perfect channel state information (CSI) is challenging to obtain at the base station (BS) due to the lack of radio frequency (RF) chains at the IRS. Since most of the existing channel estimation methods were developed to acquire the cascaded BS-IRS-user channels, this paper is the first work to study the robust beamforming based on the imperfect cascaded BS-IRS-user channels at the transmitter (CBIUT). Specifically, the transmit power minimization problems are formulated subject to the rate outage probability constraints under the statistical CSI error model, respectively. After approximating the rate outage probability constraints by using the Bernstein-type inequality, the reformulated problems can be efficiently solved. Numerical results show that the negative impact of the CBIUT error on the system performance is greater than that of the direct CSI error.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2020 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2020 - Proceedings
PublisherIEEE
ISBN (Electronic)9781728182988
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2020
Event2020 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2020 - Virtual, Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China
Duration: 7 Dec 202011 Dec 2020

Publication series

Name2020 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2020 - Proceedings
Volume2020-January

Conference

Conference2020 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2020
Country/TerritoryTaiwan, Province of China
CityVirtual, Taipei
Period7/12/2011/12/20

Keywords

  • Cascaded BS-IRS-user channels at the transmitter (CBIUT)
  • Imperfect channel state information (CSI)
  • Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)
  • Large intelligent surface (LIS)
  • Robust design

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