TY - GEN
T1 - RIS-Aided mmWave Transmission
T2 - ICC 2021 - IEEE International Conference on Communications
AU - Zhou, Gui
AU - Pan, Cunhua
AU - Ren, Hong
AU - Wang, Kezhi
AU - Chai, Kok Keong
PY - 2021/6/14
Y1 - 2021/6/14
N2 - A fundamental challenge for millimeter wave (mmWave) communications lies in its sensitivity to the presence of blockages, which impact the connectivity of the communication links and ultimately the reliability of the entire network. In this paper, we are exploited to deal with the link outage issue caused by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided mmWave communication system for enhancing the network reliability and connectivity in the presence of random blockages. To enhance the robustness of the beamforming in the presence of random blockages, we formulate a stochastic optimization problem with the aim of minimizing the outage probability. To tackle the proposed optimization problem, we introduce a low-complexity algorithm based on the stochastic majorization-minimization method, which learns sensible blockage patterns without searching for all combinations of potentially blocked links. Numerical results confirm the performance benefits of the proposed algorithm in terms of outage probability and effective data rate.
AB - A fundamental challenge for millimeter wave (mmWave) communications lies in its sensitivity to the presence of blockages, which impact the connectivity of the communication links and ultimately the reliability of the entire network. In this paper, we are exploited to deal with the link outage issue caused by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided mmWave communication system for enhancing the network reliability and connectivity in the presence of random blockages. To enhance the robustness of the beamforming in the presence of random blockages, we formulate a stochastic optimization problem with the aim of minimizing the outage probability. To tackle the proposed optimization problem, we introduce a low-complexity algorithm based on the stochastic majorization-minimization method, which learns sensible blockage patterns without searching for all combinations of potentially blocked links. Numerical results confirm the performance benefits of the proposed algorithm in terms of outage probability and effective data rate.
KW - Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)
KW - millimeter wave communications
KW - stochastic optimization
KW - robust beamforming design
U2 - 10.1109/ICC42927.2021.9500268
DO - 10.1109/ICC42927.2021.9500268
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781728171234
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Communications
SP - 1
EP - 6
BT - ICC 2021 - IEEE International Conference on Communications
PB - IEEE
CY - Piscataway
Y2 - 14 June 2021 through 23 June 2021
ER -