Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 69, Issue 12, Pages 8641-8658Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2021.3117599
Keywords
Wireless communication; Analytical models; Signal to noise ratio; Rayleigh channels; Performance analysis; Log-normal distribution; Gamma distribution; Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS); multi-RIS; Gamma distribution; Log-Normal distribution; method of moments; ergodic capacity; outage probability
Funding
- Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan [110-2222-E-224-003]
- U.S. National Science Foundation [CNS-1763627, DGE-1820640]
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This paper studies the statistical characterization and modeling of distributed multi-reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided wireless systems, proposing two purpose-oriented multi-RIS-aided schemes – exhaustive RIS-aided (ERA) and opportunistic RIS-aided (ORA). The findings show that the ERA scheme outperforms the ORA scheme in terms of outage probability (OP) and ergodic capacity (EC), with the reflecting element and location settings of RISs having a significant impact on system performance under independent but not identically distributed (i.n.i.d.) fading channels.
In this paper, we study the statistical characterization and modeling of distributed multi-reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided wireless systems. Specifically, we consider a practical system model where the RISs with different geometric sizes are distributively deployed, and wireless channels associated to different RISs are assumed to be independent but not identically distributed (i.n.i.d.). We propose two purpose-oriented multi-RIS-aided schemes, namely, the exhaustive RIS-aided (ERA) and opportunistic RIS-aided (ORA) schemes. A mathematical framework, which relies on the method of moments, is proposed to statistically characterize the end-to-end (e2e) channels of these schemes. It is shown that either a Gamma distribution or a Log-Normal distribution can be used to approximate the distribution of the magnitude of the e2e channel coefficients in both schemes. With these findings, we evaluate the performance of the two schemes in terms of outage probability (OP) and ergodic capacity (EC), where tight approximate closed-form expressions for the OP and EC are derived. Representative results show that the ERA scheme outperforms the ORA scheme in terms of OP and EC. In addition, under i.n.i.d. fading channels, the reflecting element settings and location settings of RISs have a significant impact on the system performance of both the ERA or ORA schemes.
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