Optically centralized beamforming for reconfigurable intelligent surface-aided mmWave cloud RAN

H Huang, X Wang, C Zhang, S Fu… - 2021 IEEE Wireless …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
H Huang, X Wang, C Zhang, S Fu, D Liu, K Qiu
2021 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2021ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) with massive passive reflecting elements can
greatly improve the wireless propagation environment. Although the RIS is easily introduced
into the existing multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, effectively supporting MIMO
technologies is still a major challenge in millimeter-wave cloud radio access networks
(mmWave C-RANs) with fiber-wireless fronthaul. Herein, an optical true time delay pool-
based hybrid beamforming (OTTDP-HBF) scheme, enabling centralized analog …
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) with massive passive reflecting elements can greatly improve the wireless propagation environment. Although the RIS is easily introduced into the existing multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, effectively supporting MIMO technologies is still a major challenge in millimeter-wave cloud radio access networks (mmWave C-RANs) with fiber-wireless fronthaul. Herein, an optical true time delay pool-based hybrid beamforming (OTTDP-HBF) scheme, enabling centralized analog beamforming control, is proposed for the RIS-aided mmWave C-RAN. In the OTTDP-HBF scheme, the physical implementation and the computational processing of analog beamforming are decoupled from all active antenna units (AAUs) and centrally deployed. For the RIS-aided mmWave CRAN with OTTDP-HBF, we develop a two-stage precoding (TSP) algorithm, where the complex joint optimization problem of hybrid precoding matrices and the phase-shift matrix for the RIS is formulated as an alternating optimization (AO) problem and a sparse reconstruction problem. For an AAU equipped with 8 antennas, a designed example of the proposed OTTDPHBF is presented, where the performance can be significantly improved by introducing the RIS into mmWave C-RANs. Moreover, the obtained results of different schemes show that the proposed TSP algorithm is effective for the RIS-aided mmWave C-RAN with OTTDP-HBF.
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