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Cell-Free MIMO Systems Powered by Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces
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- Authors
- Taegyun Noh, Junil Choi
- Issue Date
- 2022-05
- Citation
- IEEE Communications Letters, v.26, no.5, pp.1076-1080
- ISSN
- 1089-7798
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Language
- English
- Type
- Journal Article
- Abstract
- Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) are considered as the prospective multiple antenna technologies for beyond the fifth-generation (5G) networks. Cell-free MIMO systems powered by IRSs, combining both technologies, can further improve the performance of cell-free MIMO systems at low cost and energy consumption. Prior works focused on instantaneous performance metrics and relied on alternating optimization algorithms, which impose huge computational complexity and signaling overhead. To address these challenges, we propose a novel two-step algorithm that provides the long-term passive beamformers at the IRSs using statistical channel state information (S-CSI) and short-term active precoders and long-term power allocation at the access points (APs) to maximize the minimum achievable rate. Simulation results verify that the proposed scheme outperforms benchmark schemes and brings a significant performance gain to the cell-free MIMO systems powered by IRSs.
- KSP Keywords
- Access point, Achievable rate, Antenna technologies, Channel State Information(CSI), Computational complexity, Fifth Generation(5G), Low-cost, MIMO system, Multiple input multiple output(MIMO), Optimization algorithm, Performance gain