Title
Double-RIS Communication with DF Relaying for Coverage Extension: Is One Relay Enough?
Abstract
In this work, we investigate the decode-and-forward (DF) relay-aided double reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted networks, where the signal is subject to reflections from two RISs before reaching the destination. Different relay-aided network architectures are considered for maximum achievable rate under a total power constraint. Phase optimization for the double-RIS channels is tackled via the alternating optimization and majorization-minimization (MM) schemes. Moreover, closed-form solutions are obtained for each case. Numerical results indicate that the deployment of two relays, one near each RIS, achieves higher rates at low and medium signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) compared to placing a single relay between the two RISs; while at high SNRs, the latter approach achieves higher rates only if the inter-relay interference for the former case is considerably high.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/ICC45855.2022.9839181
ICC 2022 - IEEE International Conference on Communications
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Reconfigurable Intelligent surface,decode-and-forward,multihop relaying
Conference
1550-3607
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5386-8348-4
0
0.34
References 
Authors
12
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zaid Abdullah100.68
Steven Kisseleff211.36
Konstantinos Ntontin300.68
Wallace A. Martins414.07
Symeon Chatzinotas51849192.76
Björn E. Ottersten66418575.28