3D beamforming in reconfigurable intelligent surfaces-assisted wireless communication networks
Paper in proceeding, 2020

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) or Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRS) are metasurfaces that can be deployed in various places in wireless environments to make these environments controllable and reconfigurable. In this paper, we investigate the problem of using 3D beamforming in RIS-empowered wireless networks and propose a new scheme that provides more degrees of freedom in designing and deploying the RIS-based networks. In the proposed scheme, a base station (BS) equipped with a full dimensional array of antennas optimizes its radiation pattern in the three dimensional space to maximize the received signal to noise ratio at a target user. We also study the effect of angle of incidence of the received signal by the RIS on its reflecting properties and find a relation between this angle and the BS antenna array's tilt and elevation angles. The user receives the signal from a reflected path from the RIS as well as from a direct path from the BS which both depend on the BS antenna array's tilt and elevation angles. These angles and also the RIS element's phase shifts are jointly numerically optimized. Our simulation results show that using RIS-assisted 3D beamforming with optimized phase shifts and radiation angles can considerably improve the performance of wireless networks.

3D MIMO

Passive beamforming

Tilt angle optimization

Smart radio environment

Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRS)

FD MIMO

Vertical beamforming

3D Beamforming (3DBF)

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS)

Author

S. Mohammad Razavizadeh

Iran University of Science and Technology

Tommy Svensson

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

WSA 2020 - 24th International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas

24th International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas, WSA 2020
Hamburg, Germany,

Subject Categories

Telecommunications

Communication Systems

Signal Processing

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