Simultaneously Transmitting and Reflecting (STAR)-RISs: A Coupled Phase-Shift Model

Yuanwei Liu, Xidong Mu, Robert Schober, H. Vincent Poor

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Abstract

A simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) aided communication system is investigated, where an access point sends information to two users located on each side of the STAR-RIS. Different from current works assuming that the phase-shift coefficients for transmission and reflection can be independently adjusted, which is non-trivial to realize for purely passive STAR-RISs, a coupled transmission and reflection phase-shift model is considered. Based on this model, a power consumption minimization problem is formulated for both non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and orthogonal multiple access (OMA). In particular, the amplitude and phase-shift coefficients for transmission and reflection are jointly optimized, subject to the rate constraints of the users. To solve this non-convex problem, an efficient element-wise alternating optimization algorithm is developed to find a high-quality suboptimal solution, whose complexity scales only linearly with the number of STAR elements. Finally, numerical results are provided for both NOMA and OMA to validate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm by comparing its performance with that of STAR-RISs using the independent phase-shift model and conventional reflecting/transmitting-only RISs.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationICC 2022 - IEEE International Conference on Communications
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages2840-2845
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781538683477
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event2022 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2022 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Duration: May 16 2022May 20 2022

Publication series

NameIEEE International Conference on Communications
Volume2022-May
ISSN (Print)1550-3607

Conference

Conference2022 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2022
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CitySeoul
Period5/16/225/20/22

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Keywords

  • Coefficient design
  • coupled phase-shift model
  • reconfigurable intelligent surfaces
  • simultaneous transmission and reflection

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