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Download fileA 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. ChambersThis 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.
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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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