Impact of Channel Aging and Electromagnetic Interference on RIS-Assisted Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems

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Hauptverfasser: Qian, Jun, Zhang, Chi, Murch, Ross, Letaief, Khaled B.
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author Qian, Jun
Zhang, Chi
Murch, Ross
Letaief, Khaled B.
author_facet Qian, Jun
Zhang, Chi
Murch, Ross
Letaief, Khaled B.
contents Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are two potential sixth-generation (6G) technologies. However, channel aging due to user mobility and electromagnetic interference (EMI) impinging on RISs can negatively affect performance. Existing research on RIS-assisted cell-free massive MIMO systems often overlooks these issues. This work focuses on the impact and mitigation of channel aging and EMI on RIS-assisted cell-free massive MIMO systems over spatially correlated channels. To mitigate the degradation caused by these issues, we introduce a novel two-phase channel estimation scheme with large-scale fading coefficient-aided pilot assignment to enhance channel estimation accuracy compared to conventional minimum mean square error estimators. We then develop closed-form expressions for the downlink spectral efficiency (SE) performance and using these, optimize the sum downlink SE with respect to the RIS coefficient matrices. This optimization is accomplished by the projected gradient ascent (GA) algorithm. The results show that our proposed two-phase channel estimation scheme can achieve a nearly 10%-likely SE improvement compared to conventional channel estimation in environments affected by channel aging. A further 10%~15%-likely SE improvement is achieved using the proposed GA algorithm compared to random RIS phases, especially when the number of RISs increases.
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spellingShingle Impact of Channel Aging and Electromagnetic Interference on RIS-Assisted Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems
Qian, Jun
Zhang, Chi
Murch, Ross
Letaief, Khaled B.
Information Theory
Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are two potential sixth-generation (6G) technologies. However, channel aging due to user mobility and electromagnetic interference (EMI) impinging on RISs can negatively affect performance. Existing research on RIS-assisted cell-free massive MIMO systems often overlooks these issues. This work focuses on the impact and mitigation of channel aging and EMI on RIS-assisted cell-free massive MIMO systems over spatially correlated channels. To mitigate the degradation caused by these issues, we introduce a novel two-phase channel estimation scheme with large-scale fading coefficient-aided pilot assignment to enhance channel estimation accuracy compared to conventional minimum mean square error estimators. We then develop closed-form expressions for the downlink spectral efficiency (SE) performance and using these, optimize the sum downlink SE with respect to the RIS coefficient matrices. This optimization is accomplished by the projected gradient ascent (GA) algorithm. The results show that our proposed two-phase channel estimation scheme can achieve a nearly 10%-likely SE improvement compared to conventional channel estimation in environments affected by channel aging. A further 10%~15%-likely SE improvement is achieved using the proposed GA algorithm compared to random RIS phases, especially when the number of RISs increases.
title Impact of Channel Aging and Electromagnetic Interference on RIS-Assisted Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems
topic Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.03785