Rate optimization for RIS-aided mMTC networks in the finite blocklength regime

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have become a promising candidate for the development of future mobile systems. In the context of massive machine-type communications (mMTC), a RIS can be used to support the transmission from a group of sensors to a collector node. Due to the short data pa...

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Autores: Liesegang Maria, Sergi|||0000-0002-7806-4755, Zappone, Alessio, Muñoz Medina, Olga|||0000-0002-8739-7068, Pascual Iserte, Antonio|||0000-0001-5596-2029
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/385072
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/385072
https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LCOMM.2022.3231717
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Mobile communication systems
Detectors
Massive machine-type communications
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces
Finite blocklength regime
Gradient ascent
Sequential optimization
Semi-definite relaxation
Comunicacions mòbils, Sistemes de
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Processament del senyal
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Sumario:Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have become a promising candidate for the development of future mobile systems. In the context of massive machine-type communications (mMTC), a RIS can be used to support the transmission from a group of sensors to a collector node. Due to the short data packets, we focus on the design of the RIS for maximizing the weighted sum and minimum rates in the finite blocklength regime. Under the assumption of non-orthogonal multiple access, successive interference cancelation is considered as a decoding scheme to mitigate interference. Accordingly, we formulate the optimizations as non-convex problems and propose two suboptimal solutions based on gradient ascent (GA) and sequential optimization (SO) with semi-definite relaxation (SDR). In the GA, we distinguish between Euclidean and Riemannian gradients. For the SO, we derive a concave lower bound for the throughput and maximize it sequentially applying SDR. Numerical results show that the SO can outperform the GA and that strategies relying on the optimization of the classical Shannon capacity might be inadequate for mMTC networks.