Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 20, Issue 1, Pages 2-17Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2020.3022297
Keywords
Intelligent reflecting surface; statistical CSI; two-timescale optimization; channel correlation
Funding
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFB1802303]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [62001417, 91938202]
- Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China [LQ20F010010]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2019QNA5011]
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The paper proposes a new two-timescale (TTS) transmission protocol to maximize the achievable average sum-rate for an IRS-aided multiuser system under the general correlated Rician channel model. The protocol optimizes the passive IRS phase shifts based on the statistical CSI of all links and designs transmit beamforming/precoding vectors at the access point to cater to the I-CSI of the users' effective fading channels with the optimized IRS phase shifts, significantly reducing channel training overhead and passive beamforming design complexity. Simulation results validate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms and evaluate the impact of S-CSI and channel correlation on the system performance.
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has drawn a lot of attention recently as a promising new solution to achieve high spectral and energy efficiency for future wireless networks. By utilizing massive low-cost passive reflecting elements, the wireless propagation environment becomes controllable and thus can be made favorable for improving the communication performance. Prior works on IRS mainly rely on the instantaneous channel state information (I-CSI), which, however, is practically difficult to obtain for IRS-associated links due to its passive operation and large number of reflecting elements. To overcome this difficulty, we propose in this paper a new two-timescale (TTS) transmission protocol to maximize the achievable average sum-rate for an IRS-aided multiuser system under the general correlated Rician channel model. Specifically, the passive IRS phase shifts are first optimized based on the statistical CSI (S-CSI) of all links, which varies much slowly as compared to their I-CSI; while the transmit beamforming/precoding vectors at the access point (AP) are then designed to cater to the I-CSI of the users' effective fading channels with the optimized IRS phase shifts, thus significantly reducing the channel training overhead and passive beamforming design complexity over the existing schemes based on the I-CSI of all channels. Besides, for ease of practical implementation, we consider discrete phase shifts at each reflecting element of the IRS. For the single-user case, an efficient penalty dual decomposition (PDD)-based algorithm is proposed, where the IRS phase shifts are updated in parallel to reduce the computational time. For the multiuser case, we propose a general TTS stochastic successive convex approximation (SSCA) algorithm by constructing a quadratic surrogate of the objective function, which cannot be explicitly expressed in closed-form. Simulation results are presented to validate the effectiveness of our proposed algorithms and evaluate the impact of S-CSI and channel correlation on the system performance.
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