According to the 6G vision, the evolution of wireless communication systems will soon lead to the possibility of supporting Tbps communications, as well as satisfying, individually or jointly, a plethora of other very stringent quality requirements related to latency, bitrate, and reliability. The achievement of these goals will naturally raise many research issues within radio communications. In this context, a promising 6G wireless communications enabler is the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) hardware architecture, which has already been recognized as a game-changing way to turn any naturally passive wireless communication setting into an active one. This paper investigates RIS-aided multicast 6G communications by first modeling the system delay as a first-come-first-served (FCFS) M/D/1 queue and analyzing the behavior under different blockage conditions. Then the study of multi-beam operation scenarios, covering multicast and RIS-aided multicast communications, is conducted by leveraging an M/D/c queue model. Achieved results show that large-size RISs outperform even slightly obstructed direct BS-to-user paths. In contrast, RISs of smaller sizes require the design of sophisticated power control and sharing mechanisms to achieve better performance.

Modeling Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces-aided Directional Communications for Multicast Services / Chukhno, Olga; Chukhno, Nadezhda; Pizzi, Sara; Molinaro, Antonella; Iera, Antonio; Araniti, Giuseppe. - (2022). (Intervento presentato al convegno GLOBECOM 2022 - 2022 IEEE Global Communications Conference tenutosi a Rio de Janeiro, Brazil nel 04-08 December 2022) [10.1109/GLOBECOM48099.2022.10000930].

Modeling Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces-aided Directional Communications for Multicast Services

Sara Pizzi
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Antonella Molinaro;Giuseppe Araniti
2022-01-01

Abstract

According to the 6G vision, the evolution of wireless communication systems will soon lead to the possibility of supporting Tbps communications, as well as satisfying, individually or jointly, a plethora of other very stringent quality requirements related to latency, bitrate, and reliability. The achievement of these goals will naturally raise many research issues within radio communications. In this context, a promising 6G wireless communications enabler is the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) hardware architecture, which has already been recognized as a game-changing way to turn any naturally passive wireless communication setting into an active one. This paper investigates RIS-aided multicast 6G communications by first modeling the system delay as a first-come-first-served (FCFS) M/D/1 queue and analyzing the behavior under different blockage conditions. Then the study of multi-beam operation scenarios, covering multicast and RIS-aided multicast communications, is conducted by leveraging an M/D/c queue model. Achieved results show that large-size RISs outperform even slightly obstructed direct BS-to-user paths. In contrast, RISs of smaller sizes require the design of sophisticated power control and sharing mechanisms to achieve better performance.
2022
6G mobile communication, Wireless communication, Surface waves, Power control, Multicast communication, Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, Mathematical models
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