Reconfigurable intelligent surface for 5G NR uplink coverage enhancement
Tapio, Visa; Shojaeifard, Arman; Hemadeh, Ibrahim; Mourad, Alain; Juntti, Markku (2021-12-10)
V. Tapio, A. Shojaeifard, I. Hemadeh, A. Mourad and M. Juntti, "Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for 5G NR Uplink Coverage Enhancement," 2021 IEEE 94th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Fall), 2021, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/VTC2021-Fall52928.2021.9625081
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Abstract
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have the ability to steer the electromagnetic (EM) waves to a desired direction. This enables the improvement of the wireless link performance by allowing the illumination of receivers otherwise shadowed by buildings or hills. In this paper, a standards-compliant link-level simulator is developed to study the performance improvement offered by a RIS in 5G New Radio (NR) uplink operating at sub-6 GHz bands. At these frequencies the direct channel between the user and base station is rarely completely blocked, but given the stringent power restrictions of devices, the RIS is utilized for enhancing the coverage performance in the uplink direction. In the studied cases, the transmitter (TX) is close to the RIS and a line-of-sight (LoS) path between the TX and RIS is assumed. The channel between the TX and receiver (RX) is modeled as a non-line-of-sight (NLoS) channel with 5G NR clustered delay line A (CDL-A) profile. Both LoS and NLoS channels between the RIS and RX are considered. Under state-of-the-art system settings, the RIS is shown to increase the symbol error rate link performance by 6 dB. When the performance is measured with coded bit error rate, the performance gain in simulated cases is 1 dB. The coverage enhancement is measured with the throughput as a function of the distance between the TX and RX. The distance at which the maximum possible throughput can be achieved is increased about 5%. The coverage can be further extended if a lower than the maximum throughput is accepted.
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