Sum-rate maximization in active RIS-assisted multi-antenna WPCN

In this paper, we propose an active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) enabled hybrid relaying scheme for a multi-antenna wireless powered communication network (WPCN), where the active RIS is employed to assist both wireless energy transfer (WET) from the power station (PS) to energy-constrai...

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Published in:China communications 2024-06, Vol.21 (6), p.23-39
Main Authors: Jie, Jiang, Bin, Lyu, Pengcheng, Chen, Zhen, Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
active reconfigurable intelligent surface
Array signal processing
beamforming
Communication networks
Optimization
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces
Resource management
sum-rate maximization
Vectors
Wireless communication
wireless powered communication network
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Summary:In this paper, we propose an active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) enabled hybrid relaying scheme for a multi-antenna wireless powered communication network (WPCN), where the active RIS is employed to assist both wireless energy transfer (WET) from the power station (PS) to energy-constrained users and wireless information transmission (WIT) from users to the receiving station (RS). For further performance enhancement, we propose to employ both transmit beamforming at the PS and receive beamforming at the RS. We formulate a sum-rate maximization problem by jointly optimizing the RIS phase shifts and amplitude reflection coefficients for both the WET and the WIT, transmit and receive beamforming vectors, and network resource allocation. To solve this non-convex problem, we propose an efficient alternating optimization algorithm with the linear minimum mean squared error criterion, semidefinite relaxation (SDR) and successive convex approximation techniques. Specifically, the tightness of applying the SDR is proved. Simulation results demonstrate that our proposed scheme with 10 reflecting elements (REs) and 4 antennas can achieve 17.78% and 415.48% performance gains compared to the single-antenna scheme with 10 REs and passive RIS scheme with 100 REs, respectively.
ISSN:1673-5447
DOI:10.23919/JCC.ja.2022-0320