Intelligent Omni-Surface: Ubiquitous Wireless Transmission by Reflective-Transmissive Metasurface
arXiv:2011.00765
Abstract
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), which is capable to adjust propagation conditions by controlling phase shifts of the reflected waves that impinge on the surface, has been widely analyzed for enhancing the performance of wireless systems. However, the reflective properties of widely studied IRSs restrict the service coverage to only one side of the surface. In this paper, to extend the wireless coverage of communication systems, we introduce the concept of intelligent omni-surface (IOS)-assisted communication. More precisely, IOS is an important instance of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) that is capable to provide service coverage to the mobile users (MUs) in a reflective and a transmissive manner. We consider a downlink IOS-assisted communication system, where a multi-antenna small base station (SBS) and an IOS perform beamforming jointly, to improve the received power of multiple MUs on both sides of the IOS, through different reflective/transmissive channels. To maximize the sum-rate, we formulate a joint IOS phase shift design and SBS beamforming optimization problem, and propose an iterative algorithm to solve the resulting non-convex program efficiently. Both theoretical analysis and simulation results show that an IOS significantly extends the service coverage of the SBS when compared to an IRS.
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