Fast Transition-Aware Reconfiguration of Liquid Crystal-based RISs
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| author | Delbari, Mohamadreza Neuder, Robin Jiménez-Sáez, Alejandro Asadi, Arash Jamali, Vahid |
| author_facet | Delbari, Mohamadreza Neuder, Robin Jiménez-Sáez, Alejandro Asadi, Arash Jamali, Vahid |
| contents | Liquid crystal (LC) technology offers a cost-effective, scalable, energy-efficient, and continuous phase tunable realization of extremely large reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). However, LC response time to achieve a desired differential phase is significantly higher compared to competing silicon-based technologies (RF switches, PIN diodes, etc). The slow response time can be the performance bottleneck for applications where frequent reconfiguration of the RIS (e.g., to serve different users) is needed. In this paper, we develop an RIS phase-shift design that is aware of the transition behavior and aims to minimize the time to switch among multiple RIS configurations each serving a mobile user in a time-division multiple-access (TDMA) protocol. Our simulation results confirm that the proposed algorithm significantly reduces the time required for the users to achieve a threshold signal quality. This leads to a considerable improvement in the achievable throughput for applications, where the length of the TDMA time intervals is comparable with the RIS reconfiguration time. |
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| spellingShingle | Fast Transition-Aware Reconfiguration of Liquid Crystal-based RISs Delbari, Mohamadreza Neuder, Robin Jiménez-Sáez, Alejandro Asadi, Arash Jamali, Vahid Signal Processing Liquid crystal (LC) technology offers a cost-effective, scalable, energy-efficient, and continuous phase tunable realization of extremely large reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). However, LC response time to achieve a desired differential phase is significantly higher compared to competing silicon-based technologies (RF switches, PIN diodes, etc). The slow response time can be the performance bottleneck for applications where frequent reconfiguration of the RIS (e.g., to serve different users) is needed. In this paper, we develop an RIS phase-shift design that is aware of the transition behavior and aims to minimize the time to switch among multiple RIS configurations each serving a mobile user in a time-division multiple-access (TDMA) protocol. Our simulation results confirm that the proposed algorithm significantly reduces the time required for the users to achieve a threshold signal quality. This leads to a considerable improvement in the achievable throughput for applications, where the length of the TDMA time intervals is comparable with the RIS reconfiguration time. |
| title | Fast Transition-Aware Reconfiguration of Liquid Crystal-based RISs |
| topic | Signal Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05469 |