Enabling Indoor Mobile Millimeter-wave Networks Based on Smart Reflect-arrays

By Xin Tan, Zhi Sun, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Josep Miquel Jornet. IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, 2018

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Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Intelligent Reflecting Surface Meets OFDM: Protocol Design and Rate Maximization (2019, background): “Existing works on IRS [5]–[8], [13] mainly assume perfect channel state information (CSI) at the base station (BS)/IRS, based on which the design parameters are optimized to enhance the system performance.”
Smart Radio Environments Empowered by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: How It Works, State of Research, and The Road Ahead (2020, background): “In [285] and [286] the authors report the design of a smart”
Towards Smart and Reconfigurable Environment: Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Wireless Network (2019, methodology): “Motivated by the above, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been recently proposed as a promising new technology for reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment via software-controlled reflection [3]–[6].”
Large Intelligent Surface/Antennas (LISA): Making Reflective Radios Smart (2019, methodology): “Besides, since the line-of-sight (LoS) signal may be blocked by the obstacles in millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication, the LISA with 60 GHz reflective arrays was implemented to establish robust mmWave connections in [37] , where a three-party beamsearching protocol and the optimal array deployment”
Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Aided Wireless Communications: A Tutorial (2020, background): “These critical issues can be efficiently resolved by properly deploying IRSs in mmWave systems to create virtual LoS channels between the BS/AP and users through smart reflections of the IRSs, which can bypass the main obstructors between them, thus achieving both high spectral and energy efficienci”
Beamforming Optimization for Intelligent Reflecting Surface with Discrete Phase Shifts (2018, methodology): “Although [6, 7] considered the use of finite-level phase shifters for IRS, the optimal phase shifts at all elements were obtained by exhaustive search, which, however, is computationally prohibitive for practical IRS with a large number of elements.”
Secrecy Rate Maximization for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Assisted Multi-Antenna Communications (2019, background): “I NTELLIGENT reﬂecting surface (IRS), which consists of a large number of low-cost passive reﬂecting elements with adjustable phase shifts, has recently been advocated as a cost-effective solution to signiﬁcantly enhance the performance of wireless communications [1], [2].”
6G and Beyond: The Future of Wireless Communications Systems (2020, methodology): “Among others, in [54], researchers reported a smart reflectarray-assisted mmWave system compatible with IEEE 802.”
Beamforming Optimization for Wireless Network Aided by Intelligent Reflecting Surface With Discrete Phase Shifts (2019, background): “mirror [9], [10], smart reflect-array [11], and reconfigurable metasurface [12], among others.”
Intelligent Reflecting Surface: A Programmable Wireless Environment for Physical Layer Security (2019, background): “Moreover, since achieving continuous reflecting coefficients on the reflecting elements is costly in practice due to the hardware limitation, the SNR maximization problem and transmitter power minimization problem were studied in [18]–[20] by considering discrete reflecting coefficients on the refle”
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Wireless Communications: Principles, Challenges, and Opportunities (2020, methodology): “Recent works have shown the potential of RISs in pointto-point channels [7], [13], [31]–[42], downlink broadcast channels [43]–[52], uplink multiple access channels [53]–[56],”
Enabling Large Intelligent Surfaces With Compressive Sensing and Deep Learning (2019, methodology): “, using nearly-passive elements such as analog phase shifters [4]–[6].”
Channel Estimation and Low-complexity Beamforming Design for Passive Intelligent Surface Assisted MISO Wireless Energy Transfer (2019, methodology): “indoor implementations of PIS include conventional liquid crystal meta-surfaces fabricated via lithography and nanoprinting methods for multiantenna relaying [8], or employing software defined metamaterials [9] as reflect-arrays for supporting nanonetworks applications [10].”
Toward Smart Wireless Communications via Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces: A Contemporary Survey (2019, methodology): “Reference [81] implements a 60 GHz reconﬁgurable reﬂect-arrays to assist IEEE 802.11ad-based mmWave communications, creating additional reﬂection links when there exist no line-of-sight (LOS) links.”
Double-IRS Assisted Multi-User MIMO: Cooperative Passive Beamforming Design (2020, background): “, bypassing the obstructions [5]), which is fundamentally different from the existing transmission techniques that can only adapt to but have no control over the random wireless channels.”
Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Assisted Multi-User MISO Communication: Channel Estimation and Beamforming Design (2020, background): “Several current research activities focus on developing different converging solutions to implement these IRSs, including fabricating new meta-surfaces and reﬂect arrays, making them re-conﬁgurable, implementing testbeds and generating experimental results [2], [6]–[12].”
Asymptotic Max-Min SINR Analysis of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted MISO Systems (2019, methodology): “The authors in [10] designed a reconfigurable reflect-array and studied its role in establishing robust mmWave connections in indoor scenarios where the direct links are blocked.”