UCL Discovery
UCL home » Library Services » Electronic resources » UCL Discovery

Cell-Free Massive MIMO Symbiotic Radio for IoT: RIS or BD?

Li, F; Sun, Q; Chen, X; Peng, B; Zhang, J; Wong, KK; (2024) Cell-Free Massive MIMO Symbiotic Radio for IoT: RIS or BD? IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 10.1109/TWC.2024.3520205. (In press). Green open access

[thumbnail of Cell-Free_Massive_MIMO_Symbiotic_Radio_for_IoT_RIS_or_BD.pdf]
Preview
Text
Cell-Free_Massive_MIMO_Symbiotic_Radio_for_IoT_RIS_or_BD.pdf - Accepted Version

Download (5MB) | Preview

Abstract

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output symbiotic radio (CF-mMIMO-SR) is a promising technology to address the requirements of high-rate and spectrum-efficient communication for the Internet of Things (IoT). However, in the conventional CF-mMIMO-SR system aided by backscatter devices (BDs), the backscatter link is impacted by double fading without any supplementary compensation, resulting in significantly low spectral efficiency (SE) on the backscatter link. To address this issue, we propose the usage of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) instead of BD for symbol-level reflection on the backscatter link, leading to a novel RIS-aided CF-mMIMO-SR (RIS-CF-SR) system. In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive analysis of the RIS-CF-SR system considering different levels of cooperation among the access points (APs). Specifically, we analyze the uplink SEs of four different implementations with arbitrary linear processing on both the direct and backscatter links. Moreover, we investigate different signal cancellation schemes based on full or local channel state information (CSI) to improve the SE of the backscatter link. Through the simulation results, we find that RISs can significantly improve the SE of the backscatter link due to the large number of reflection elements, whereas additional appropriate signal processing schemes are required for the direct link. More specifically, from Level 1 to Level 3, RIS-CF-SR does not have significant advantage in SE over BD-CF-SR on the direct link. At Level 4, RIS-CF-SR can outperform BD-CF-SR on the direct link with the MMSE combining scheme.

Type: Article
Title: Cell-Free Massive MIMO Symbiotic Radio for IoT: RIS or BD?
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2024.3520205
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1109/twc.2024.3520205
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Cell-free massive MIMO, symbiotic radio, large-scale fading decoding, spectral efficiency, energy efficiency
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10203506
Downloads since deposit
Loading...
0Downloads
Download activity - last month
Loading...
Download activity - last 12 months
Loading...
Downloads by country - last 12 months
1.United States
4
2.United Kingdom
3
3.Malaysia
1
4.Sweden
1
5.Iran, Islamic Republic of
1
6.Greece
1
7.Kenya
1
8.India
1

Archive Staff Only

View Item View Item