Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2023

Unlocking Metasurface Practicality for B5G Networks: AI-assisted RIS Planning

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The advent of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) brings along significant improvements for wireless technology on the verge of beyond-fifth-generation networks (B5G). The proven flexibility in influencing the propagation environment opens up the possibility of programmatically altering the wireless channel to the advantage of network designers, enabling the exploitation of higher-frequency bands for superior throughput overcoming the challenging electromagnetic (EM) propagation properties at these frequency bands. However, RISs are not magic bullets. Their employment comes with significant complexity, requiring ad-hoc deployments and management operations to come to fruition. In this paper, we tackle the open problem of bringing RISs to the field, focusing on areas with little or no coverage. In fact, we present a first-of-its-kind deep reinforcement learning (DRL) solution, dubbed as D-RISA, which trains a DRL agent and, in turn, obtains an optimal RIS deployment. We validate our framework in the indoor scenario of the Rennes railway station in France, assessing the performance of our algorithm against state-of-the-art (SOA) approaches. Our benchmarks showcase better coverage, i.e., 10-dB increase in minimum signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), at lower computational time (up to - 25 %) while improving scalability towards denser network deployments.

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hal-04738925 , version 1 (18-10-2024)

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Guillermo Encinas-Lago, Antonio Albanese, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Marco Di Renzo, Xavier Costa-Pérez. Unlocking Metasurface Practicality for B5G Networks: AI-assisted RIS Planning. GLOBECOM 2023 - 2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference, Dec 2023, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ⟨hal-04738925⟩
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