Meta surface Assisted Open radio access networks
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https://doi.org/10.31185/ejuow.Vol12.Iss4.550Keywords:
Open-radio access network (O-RAN); Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS); beamforming; duality theory; user-equipment association; transform of quadratic function.Abstract
The paradigm of the open radio access networks (O-RAN) seeks to carry intelligence and openness (multi-vendors) to the conventional proprietary and closed radio access networks (RAN) schemes and deliver performance enhancement, cost-efficiency, and flexibility, in both the network's operation and deployment. On the other hand, Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) are suggested for future networks due to their effectiveness in terms of cost and energy consumption. However, due to the fast time-varying feature of the dense wireless systems, it becomes difficult to allow optimal user association and beamforming in terms of signalling overheads and processing in RIS assisted RANs with the limited capacity of the fronthaul. Therefore, the objective of this study is to attain a trade-off between the costs (signalling overhead/complexity) and the throughput performance. In other words, the study sets the challenges of the RIS aided O-RAN technology regarding the joint selection of user’s equipment (UEs)/open radio unit (O-RU)-RIS pairs and the designing of beamforming at the O-RU/RIS and open distributed unit (O-DU). From this point, to addressing the designing challenges, this work suggests a simple and potential beamforming strategy in RIS aided O-RAN architecture taking into account the specification of the interfaces between different O-RAN units to split opportunities between the radio and distributing units. In specific, a channel-gain-based selection of UEs/O-RU-RIS pairs joint with duality theory (DT) and transform of quadratic function (TQF) algorithm (namely DT_TQF) is proposed. Firstly, the non-convex optimization problem is relaxed via duality and transform of quadratic functions, and then an iterative approach is carried out for the active and passive beamformers via a simple alternating optimization approach. This approach can achieve flexibility in the environment of a high-traffic transmission while lowering the interference between radio units and the signalling burden required for beamforming tasks. Numerical simulation results justify the effectiveness of the algorithm for different systems' parameter settings and validate the important of installing RIS. For example, for a certain environment, the performance gain is about 52.9 % in comparison to the classic null-steering/random phase shifter scheme.
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