Rethinking Passive RIS: Finite Blocklength Reliability Analysis Under Thermal Noise
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| author | Karim, Farjam Kumar, Deepak Dharmawansa, Prathapasinghe Mahmood, Nurul Huda de Sena, Arthur Sousa Latva-aho, Matti |
| author_facet | Karim, Farjam Kumar, Deepak Dharmawansa, Prathapasinghe Mahmood, Nurul Huda de Sena, Arthur Sousa Latva-aho, Matti |
| contents | Short-packet communication alters the fundamental performance limits of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted systems, making conventional analyses based on the infinite blocklength regime insufficient. This work investigates RIS-assisted transmission in the finite blocklength (FBL) regime while explicitly incorporating thermal noise generated by passive RIS elements, an effect commonly neglected in existing models. A unified analytical framework is developed to characterize the block-error rate (BLER), its asymptotic behavior, and the resulting goodput under both uniform and non-uniform RIS reflection coefficients. Our results show that ignoring RIS thermal noise leads to a pronounced overestimation of reliability with the mismatch increasing as the number of reflecting elements grows. Furthermore, increasing the RIS size does not always improve performance, particularly in the low transmit power regime where accumulated noise becomes dominant. Overall, the results highlight fundamental limitations of idealized RIS models and demonstrate the need for incorporating thermal noise for accurate system evaluation. |
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| spellingShingle | Rethinking Passive RIS: Finite Blocklength Reliability Analysis Under Thermal Noise Karim, Farjam Kumar, Deepak Dharmawansa, Prathapasinghe Mahmood, Nurul Huda de Sena, Arthur Sousa Latva-aho, Matti Signal Processing Short-packet communication alters the fundamental performance limits of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted systems, making conventional analyses based on the infinite blocklength regime insufficient. This work investigates RIS-assisted transmission in the finite blocklength (FBL) regime while explicitly incorporating thermal noise generated by passive RIS elements, an effect commonly neglected in existing models. A unified analytical framework is developed to characterize the block-error rate (BLER), its asymptotic behavior, and the resulting goodput under both uniform and non-uniform RIS reflection coefficients. Our results show that ignoring RIS thermal noise leads to a pronounced overestimation of reliability with the mismatch increasing as the number of reflecting elements grows. Furthermore, increasing the RIS size does not always improve performance, particularly in the low transmit power regime where accumulated noise becomes dominant. Overall, the results highlight fundamental limitations of idealized RIS models and demonstrate the need for incorporating thermal noise for accurate system evaluation. |
| title | Rethinking Passive RIS: Finite Blocklength Reliability Analysis Under Thermal Noise |
| topic | Signal Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.21760 |