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A hybrid relay and intelligent reflecting surface network and its ergodic performance analysis

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posted on 2020-05-28, 13:35 authored by Zaid Abdullah, Gaojie Chen, Sangarapillai LambotharanSangarapillai Lambotharan, Jonathon A. Chambers
This letter proposes a novel hybrid relay and Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) assisted system for future wireless networks. We demonstrate that for practical scenarios where the amount of radiated power and/or the number of reflecting elements are/is limited, the performance of an IRS-supported system can be significantly enhanced by utilizing a simple Decode-and-Forward (DF) relay. Tight upper bounds for the ergodic capacity are derived for the proposed scheme under different channel environments, and shown to closely match Monte-Carlo simulations.

Funding

Communications Signal Processing Based Solutions for Massive Machine-to-Machine Networks (M3NETs) : EP/R006385/1

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council under Grants EP/R006377/1 and EP/R006385/1.

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School

  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Published in

IEEE Wireless Communications Letters

Volume

9

Issue

10

Pages

1653 - 1657

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Rights holder

© IEEE

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Acceptance date

2020-05-27

Publication date

2020-06-04

Copyright date

2020

ISSN

2162-2337

eISSN

2162-2345

Language

  • en

Depositor

Prof Sangarapillai Lambotharan. Deposit date: 28 May 2020

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