A Random Access Protocol for RIS-Aided Wireless Communications
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| author | Croisfelt, Victor Saggese, Fabio Leyva-Mayorga, Israel Kotaba, Radoslaw Gradoni, Gabriele Popovski, Petar |
| author_facet | Croisfelt, Victor Saggese, Fabio Leyva-Mayorga, Israel Kotaba, Radoslaw Gradoni, Gabriele Popovski, Petar |
| contents | Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are arrays of passive elements that can control the reflection of the incident electromagnetic waves. While RIS are particularly useful to avoid blockages, the protocol aspects for their implementation have been largely overlooked. In this paper, we devise a random access protocol for a RIS-assisted wireless communication setting. Rather than tailoring RIS reflections to meet the positions of users equipment (UEs), our protocol relies on a finite set of RIS configurations designed to cover the area of interest. The protocol is comprised of a downlink training phase followed by an uplink access phase. During these phases, a base station (BS) controls the RIS to sweep over its configurations. The UEs then receive training signals to measure the channel quality with the different RIS configurations and refine their access policies. Numerical results show that our protocol increases the average number of successful access attempts; however, at the expense of increased access delay due to the realization of a training period. Promising results are further observed in scenarios with a high access load. |
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| spellingShingle | A Random Access Protocol for RIS-Aided Wireless Communications Croisfelt, Victor Saggese, Fabio Leyva-Mayorga, Israel Kotaba, Radoslaw Gradoni, Gabriele Popovski, Petar Information Theory Signal Processing Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are arrays of passive elements that can control the reflection of the incident electromagnetic waves. While RIS are particularly useful to avoid blockages, the protocol aspects for their implementation have been largely overlooked. In this paper, we devise a random access protocol for a RIS-assisted wireless communication setting. Rather than tailoring RIS reflections to meet the positions of users equipment (UEs), our protocol relies on a finite set of RIS configurations designed to cover the area of interest. The protocol is comprised of a downlink training phase followed by an uplink access phase. During these phases, a base station (BS) controls the RIS to sweep over its configurations. The UEs then receive training signals to measure the channel quality with the different RIS configurations and refine their access policies. Numerical results show that our protocol increases the average number of successful access attempts; however, at the expense of increased access delay due to the realization of a training period. Promising results are further observed in scenarios with a high access load. |
| title | A Random Access Protocol for RIS-Aided Wireless Communications |
| topic | Information Theory Signal Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.03377 |