Zhaoying Mo;Yiyang Ni;Yaxuan Liu;Haitao Zhao;Longze Li;Yan Cai
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Abstract
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has made significant contributions to enhancing wireless coverage via the effective management of scattering radio environment. This letter centers on an active RIS-assisted communication system over Nakagami-m fading channels where the discrete phase shifter is taken into consideration. We first obtain the approximate expression of ergodic achievable rate. Analyzing the expression shows that 4-bit quantization can achieve over 99% of the performance of continuous phase shifts. We also make a comparison between active RIS and passive RIS. Our theoretical analysis illustrates that passive RIS outperforms active RIS for large numbers of RlS elements. The numerical results are consistent with our analysis results. Finally, we propose a low-complexity power allocation scheme to improve the system rate effectively.
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The IEEE Communications Letters publishes short papers in a rapid publication cycle on advances in the state-of-the-art of communication over different media and channels including wire, underground, waveguide, optical fiber, and storage channels. Both theoretical contributions (including new techniques, concepts, and analyses) and practical contributions (including system experiments and prototypes, and new applications) are encouraged. This journal focuses on the physical layer and the link layer of communication systems.