Journal
IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS
Volume 10, Issue 12, Pages 2659-2663Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/LWC.2021.3111044
Keywords
Artificial intelligence; Downlink; Uplink; Wireless communication; Receivers; Radio transmitters; Channel models; Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS); passive IRS; active IRS; IRS deployment
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- MOE Singapore [T2EP50120-0024]
- ARTIC of National University of Singapore [R-261-518-005-720]
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The letter discusses the optimization of active and passive IRS placement in an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided wireless communication system. It shows that, with the same number of reflecting elements, the passive IRS generally outperforms the active IRS.
In this letter, we consider an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided wireless communication system, where an active or passive IRS is employed to assist the communication between an access point and a user. First, we consider the downlink/uplink communication separately and optimize the IRS placement for rate maximization with an active or passive IRS. We show that given the same number of IRS reflecting elements, the active IRS should be deployed closer to the receiver with the IRS's decreasing amplification power; while in contrast, the passive IRS should be deployed near either the transmitter or receiver. Moreover, with optimized IRS placement, the passive IRS is shown to outperform its active counterpart when the number of reflecting elements is sufficiently large and/or the active-IRS amplification power is too small. Next, we optimize the IRS placement for both active and passive IRSs to maximize the weighted sum-rate of uplink and downlink communications. We show that in this case, the passive IRS is more likely to achieve superior rate performance. This is because the optimal active-IRS placement needs to balance the rate performance in the uplink and downlink, while deploying the passive IRS near the transmitter or receiver is optimal regardless of the uplink or downlink.
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