Is RIS-Aided Massive MIMO Promising with ZF Detectors and Imperfect CSI?

Zhi K, Pan C, Zhou G, Ren H, Elkashlan M, Schober R (2022)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2022

Journal

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Pages Range: 1-1

DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2022.3196097

Abstract

This paper provides a theoretical framework for understanding the performance of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) with zero-forcing (ZF) detectors under imperfect channel state information (CSI). We first introduce a low-overhead minimum mean square error (MMSE) channel estimator, and then derive and analyze closed-form expressions for the uplink achievable rate. Our analytical results demonstrate that: 1) regardless of the RIS phase shift design, the rate of all users scales at least on the order of O(log2 (MN)), where M and N are the numbers of antennas and reflecting elements, respectively; 2) by aligning the RIS phase shifts to one user, the rate of this user can at most scale on the order of O (log2 (MN2)); 3) either M or the transmit power can be reduced inversely proportional to N, while maintaining a given rate. Furthermore, we propose two low-complexity majorization-minimization (MM)-based algorithms to optimize the sum user rate and the minimum user rate, respectively, where closed-form solutions are obtained in each iteration. Finally, simulation results validate the accuracy of all derived analytical results. Our simulation results also show that the maximum sum rate can be closely approached by simply aligning the RIS phase shifts to an arbitrary user.

Authors with CRIS profile

Robert Schober Lehrstuhl für Digitale Übertragung

Involved external institutions

Queen Mary, University of London GB United Kingdom (GB) Southeast University / 东南大学 CN China (CN)

How to cite

APA:

Zhi, K., Pan, C., Zhou, G., Ren, H., Elkashlan, M., & Schober, R. (2022). Is RIS-Aided Massive MIMO Promising with ZF Detectors and Imperfect CSI? IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 1-1. https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JSAC.2022.3196097

MLA:

Zhi, Kangda, et al. "Is RIS-Aided Massive MIMO Promising with ZF Detectors and Imperfect CSI?" IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (2022): 1-1.

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