Disclosure of Invention
The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a multi-layer intelligent super-surface device and a beam forming method.
The present invention provides a multi-layer intelligent subsurface device for modulating an incoming wireless signal and radiating simultaneously by reflection and transmission to both a reflective end user and a transmissive end user, having the features of comprising: and the wireless signals sent by the base station are communicated with the transmitting end user after being transmitted for multiple times through all the intelligent super surfaces, and the formed wave beams of the reflecting end user and the transmitting end user are independently controlled by controlling the states of different scattering units.
The invention also provides a beam forming method of the downlink multi-user communication system assisted by the multi-layer intelligent super-surface device, which has the characteristics that the method comprises the following steps:
Step 1, modeling a downlink multi-user communication system assisted by a multi-layer intelligent super-surface device, and modeling an optimization problem with maximum multi-user and rate;
Step 2, converting the optimization problem of maximum multi-user and velocity into the minimization of weighted mean square error, alternately optimizing a receiving end coefficient matrix and an auxiliary weight coefficient matrix, a digital beam forming design of a base station end and the analog beam forming of intelligent super surfaces of different layers aiming at the minimization of weighted mean square error, finally obtaining the digital beam forming of the base station end and the analog beam forming of the intelligent super surfaces of different layers,
The downlink multi-user communication system assisted by the multi-layer intelligent super-surface device comprises a base station provided with a plurality of antennas, the multi-layer intelligent super-surface device for receiving wireless signals of the base station and simultaneously reflecting and transmitting, and a plurality of users, including a reflecting end user and a transmitting end user, wherein the optimization of the analog beam forming is performed based on a coordinate iteration descent algorithm.
The beam forming method of the downlink multi-user communication system assisted by the multi-layer intelligent super-surface device provided by the invention can also be characterized in that the step 1 comprises the following substeps:
Step 1-1, the coefficient matrix expression form of the intelligent super surface of the single layer is as follows:
Step 1-2, obtaining an equivalent coefficient matrix expression form of the multi-layer intelligent super surface based on the coefficient matrix of the single-layer intelligent super surface, wherein the equivalent coefficient matrix expression form is as follows:
Step 1-3, the mathematical expression form of the base station transmitting signal is as follows:
x=Vs (3);
step 1-4, the mathematical expression of the received signal of the user is as follows:
step 1-5, the mathematical form of the user side rate is as follows:
step 1-6, modeling the mathematical form of the multi-user and rate-maximised optimisation problem as follows:
subject to Tr(VVH)≤Pb
In equation (1), M represents the number of scattering units in the intelligent subsurface of the monolayer, and ε μ represents the intensity coefficients of the reflected and transmitted signals of the intelligent subsurface of the monolayer. When μ=r, reflection, transmission, e t+∈r=1,φm, phase shift of the incident signal by the mth scattering element,
In the formula (2),The diagonal coefficient matrixes corresponding to the first intelligent super-surface layer and the second intelligent super-surface layer respectively, the E μ,ξμ is the intensity coefficient of the reflected and transmitted signals of the first intelligent super-surface layer and the second intelligent super-surface layer respectively,For a channel matrix between two layers of intelligent subsurface,
In the formula (3),Representing the pre-coding matrix and,Indicating information symbols transmitted to each user, N indicating the number of base station antennas, K indicating the number of users,
In equation (4), when k=1,..k r, μ (K) =r, when k=k r+1,...,Kr+Kt, μ (K) =t,The channel coefficient vectors from the base station to the multi-layer intelligent subsurface device and from the multi-layer intelligent subsurface device to the kth user are respectively represented, nk represents Gaussian noise of the kth user, the average value of the Gaussian noise is 0, and the variance of the Gaussian noise is sigma 2.
In the formula (5) of the present invention,Representing the total power of equivalent noise and interference at the kth user,
In the formula (6), the first constraint condition indicates that the total transmission power of the base station must not be greater than P b, and the second constraint condition and the third constraint condition indicate constant mode constraint of a scattering unit in the multi-layer intelligent super-surface device, the scattering unit only changes the phase of an incident signal and does not change the amplitude of the incident signal.
The beam forming method of the downlink multi-user communication system assisted by the multi-layer intelligent super-surface device provided by the invention can also be characterized in that the step 2 comprises the following substeps:
step 2-1, converting the maximum optimization problem of the multiuser sum rate into an equivalent minimum weighted mean square error problem by using the relation between the mean square error and the sum rate, wherein the mathematical form of the minimum weighted mean square error problem is as follows:
subject to Tr(VVH)≤Pb
in the formula (7) of the present invention, Representing the magnitude of the MSE value, w k represents the receiver coefficient of the kth user terminal, ψ k is an auxiliary weighting coefficient for establishing the equivalence between the MSE and the rate, and the closed solutions are respectively: And is k=ek -1, wherein,
Further, a receiving end coefficient matrix ψ=diag (ψ 1,...,ψK) is defined, an auxiliary weight coefficient matrix w=diag (W 1,...,wK),E=diag(e1,...,eK) is substituted into a closed-form solution of ψ, W, and then the mathematical form of minimizing the weighted mean square error problem is converted into:
subject to Tr(VVH)≤Pb
step 2-2, optimizing beam forming at a base station end, optimizing digital precoding V by fixing phi and theta, and under the power constraint according to a KKT condition, solving a closed solution of the V optimal solution as follows:
step 2-3, optimizing the intelligent super surface of the first layer, and defining the phase shift coefficient matrix phi of the intelligent super surface of the first layer by fixing other variables Phi=diag (phi), and applying identities Tr (C HACB)=cH(A⊙BT) C and Tr (AC) =a T C, the objective function is reduced to:
f=φHPφ-qHφ-φHq (11)
to extract out The contribution to f, the objective function is further transformed into:
Obtaining Is the optimal solution of (a): Wherein the method comprises the steps of Each element is optimized alternately through a coordinate iteration descent algorithm, and a local optimal solution of phi is obtained;
step 2-4, optimizing the intelligent super surface of the second layer, and optimizing a phase shift coefficient matrix Θ of the intelligent super surface of the second layer by fixing other variables to split H into two parts related to a reflection user and a transmission user: Wherein, the After ignoring the constant independent of Θ, the objective function f is reduced to:
f=θHP′θ-q′Hθ-θHq′ (13)
in the formula (13) of the present invention, θ=diag(Θ), Obtaining a local optimal solution of theta through a coordinate iteration descent algorithm;
Step 2-5, alternately optimizing the receiving end coefficient matrix W, the auxiliary weight coefficient matrix psi, the digital pre-coding matrix V of the base station, the phase shift coefficient matrix phi of the intelligent super-surface of the first layer and the phase shift coefficient matrix theta of the intelligent super-surface of the second layer, outputting digital beam forming at the base station end and analog beam forming of the intelligent super-surface of different layers if the termination requirement is met, repeating the steps 2-2 to 2-4 if the termination requirement is not met,
In the formula (10) of the present invention,
Effects and effects of the invention
According to the multilayer intelligent super-surface device, incident wireless signals are modulated, radiation is emitted to a reflecting end user and a transmitting end user through reflection and transmission, and each intelligent super-surface can adjust the phase of the wireless signals through the scattering unit, so that beam forming of the reflecting end and the transmitting end can be independently controlled. In addition, according to the beam forming method of the downlink multi-user communication system assisted by the multi-layer intelligent super-surface device, the original problems of maximization and spectrum efficiency optimization in a complex form are equivalently converted into the problems of minimizing weighted mean square error, then the receiving end coefficient matrix and the auxiliary weight coefficient matrix, the digital beam forming design of the base station end and the analog beam forming of the intelligent super-surface of different layers are alternately optimized according to the converted problems, and finally the digital beam forming of the base station end and the analog beam forming of the intelligent super-surface of different layers are obtained.
Detailed Description
In order to make the technical means and effects of the present invention easy to understand, the present invention will be specifically described with reference to the following examples and the accompanying drawings.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the architecture of a multi-layer intelligent subsurface device in an embodiment of the invention.
As shown in FIG. 1, the multi-layer intelligent subsurface device of the present embodiment is used for modulating an incident wireless signal and radiating to a reflecting end user and a transmitting end user simultaneously through reflection and transmission, and comprises two or more layers of intelligent subsurface.
A dual-layer multi-layer intelligent subsurface device (BIOS) is used in this embodiment, having a dual-layer intelligent subsurface, including a first layer intelligent subsurface (IOS 1) and a second layer intelligent subsurface (IOS 2).
Each layer of intelligent super surface consists of a plurality of scattering units and a digital control module connected with the scattering units,
The wireless signal sent by the base station is communicated with the reflecting end user through the reflection of the first layer of intelligent super surface, the wireless signal sent by the base station is communicated with the transmitting end user after being transmitted for a plurality of times through all intelligent super surfaces,
The shaped beams of the reflective end-user and the transmissive end-user are independently controlled by controlling the states of the different scattering elements.
In this embodiment, each scattering element may phase shift the incoming wireless signal and transmit at both the transmissive and reflective ends. The distance between the two layers of intelligent super surfaces is very short and the two layers of intelligent super surfaces are fixed when leaving the factory, so that a communication channel between the two layers of intelligent super surfaces only has a direct path and no scattering path. For the reflecting end, the user signal is only reflected by the first layer of intelligent super-surface, and for the transmitting end, the user signal is transmitted through the two layers of intelligent super-surfaces, so that the PIN junction on-off condition of all scattering units on the two layers of intelligent super-surfaces is properly set, and the independent design of beam forming of the transmitting end and the reflecting end can be realized.
Fig. 2 is a flow chart of a beam forming method of a downlink multi-user communication system with the assistance of a multi-layer intelligent subsurface device in an embodiment of the invention.
As shown in fig. 2, a beam forming method of a downlink multi-user communication system assisted by a multi-layer intelligent super-surface device in this embodiment includes the following steps:
step 1, modeling a downlink multi-user communication system assisted by a multi-layer intelligent super-surface device, and modeling an optimization problem with maximum multi-user and rate.
Step 1 comprises the following sub-steps:
Step 1-1, for a single-layer intelligent subsurface, it can be expressed as a pair of corner matrices in a communication system. For a smart subsurface having M scattering elements, the coefficient matrix for a single layer smart subsurface is expressed as follows:
For the double-layer multi-layer intelligent super-surface device, as the signal received by the reflecting end user is reflected only by the first layer intelligent super-surface, and the signal received by the transmitting end user is modulated by the transmission of the two layers intelligent super-surfaces, the equivalent coefficient matrix expression form of the multi-layer intelligent super-surface is obtained based on the coefficient matrix of the single-layer intelligent super-surface as follows:
In this embodiment, N antennas are deployed at a base station in a downlink multi-user communication system under the assistance of a multi-layer intelligent super-surface device (BIOS), and the total number of users is K, which includes K r reflective end users and K t transmissive end users, respectively. In this embodiment, number 1,..k r is assigned to the reflective user, and number K r+1,...,Kr+Kt is assigned to the transmissive user.
Step 1-3, from the perspective of equivalent baseband representation, the mathematical expression form of the base station transmitting signal is as follows:
x=Vs (3);
step 1-4, the mathematical expression of the received signal of the user is as follows:
in steps 1-5, the direct channel between the user and the base station is negligible due to severe blocking. Thus, the mathematical form of the reception rate of the kth user is as follows:
Step 1-6, modeling the mathematical form of the optimal problem of multi-user and maximum rate as the magnitude of the receiving rate, the coefficient matrix phi, theta of the multi-layer intelligent super-surface device and the precoding matrix V of the base station end is as follows:
subject to Tr(VVH)≤Pb
In equation (1), M represents the number of scattering units in the intelligent subsurface of the monolayer, and ε μ represents the intensity coefficients of the reflected and transmitted signals of the intelligent subsurface of the monolayer. When μ=r, reflection and transmission, when μ=t, the sum of the energies of the transmitted and reflected signals is equal to the incident signal (ignoring the energy loss of the scattering element), since the smart supersurface is a passive element, which is to satisfy the constraint of energy conservation, i.e. e t+∈r=1,φm represents the phase shift of the incident signal by the mth scattering element, assuming in this embodiment that the phase shift of the transmitted and reflected signals by the scattering element is the same
In the formula (2),The diagonal coefficient matrixes corresponding to the first intelligent super-surface layer and the second intelligent super-surface layer respectively, the E μ·ξμ is the intensity coefficient of the reflected and transmitted signals of the first intelligent super-surface layer and the second intelligent super-surface layer respectively,For a channel matrix between two layers of intelligent subsurface, the multi-layer intelligent subsurface device is different for the transmissive side and reflective side beamforming matrices, which can enable separate control of transmissive side and reflective side beamforming.
In the formula (3),Representing the pre-coding matrix and,Indicating information symbols transmitted to each user, N indicating the number of base station antennas, K indicating the number of users,
In equation (4), when k=1,..k r, μ (K) =r, when k=k r+1,...,Kr+Kt, μ (K) =t,The channel coefficient vectors from the base station to the multi-layer intelligent subsurface device and from the multi-layer intelligent subsurface device to the kth user are respectively represented, n k represents Gaussian noise of the kth user, the average value of the Gaussian noise is 0, and the variance of the Gaussian noise is sigma 2.
In the formula (5) of the present invention,Representing the total power of equivalent noise and interference at the kth user,
In the formula (6), the first constraint condition indicates that the total transmission power of the base station must not be greater than P b, and the second constraint condition and the third constraint condition indicate constant mode constraint of a scattering unit in the multi-layer intelligent super-surface device, the scattering unit only changes the phase of an incident signal and does not change the amplitude of the incident signal.
And 2, because the optimization problem is highly non-convex and comprises coupling of multiple optimization variables, the method has great difficulty in directly solving the original problem, converts the optimization problem with maximum multi-user and velocity into a minimum weighted mean square error problem, and alternately optimizes a receiving end coefficient matrix and an auxiliary weight coefficient matrix, a digital beam forming design of a base station end and analog beam forming of intelligent super surfaces of different layers aiming at the minimum weighted mean square error problem, and finally obtains digital beam forming of the base station end and analog beam forming of the intelligent super surfaces of different layers.
The optimization of the analog beamforming is based on a coordinate iterative descent algorithm.
Step 2 comprises the following sub-steps:
step 2-1, converting the maximum optimization problem of the multiuser sum rate into an equivalent minimum weighted mean square error problem by using the relation between the mean square error and the sum rate, wherein the mathematical form of the minimum weighted mean square error problem is as follows:
subject to Tr(VVH)≤Pb
in the formula (7) of the present invention, Representing the magnitude of the MSE value, w k represents the receiver coefficient of the kth user terminal, ψ k is an auxiliary weighting coefficient for establishing the equivalence between the MSE and the rate, and the closed solutions are respectively: and is k=ek -1, wherein,
Further, a receiving end coefficient matrix ψ=diag (ψ 1,..,ψK) is defined, an auxiliary weight coefficient matrix w=diag (W 1,...,wK),E=diag(e1,...,eK) is substituted into a closed-form solution of ψ, W, and then the mathematical form of minimizing the weighted mean square error problem is converted into:
subjectto Tr(VVH)≤Pb
step 2-2, optimizing beam forming at a base station end, optimizing digital precoding V by fixing phi and theta, and under the power constraint according to a KKT condition, solving a closed solution of the V optimal solution as follows:
and 2-3, optimizing the intelligent super surface of the first layer, and optimizing a phase shift coefficient matrix phi of the intelligent super surface of the first layer by fixing other variables. Because the elements thereof meet the constant modulus constraint, the problem is still not convex, so that the global optimal solution is difficult to obtain. However, since the constraint is decoupled for different matrix elements, a coordinate iterative descent algorithm can be used to solve for the local optimal solution. Definition of the definition Phi=diag (phi), and applying identities Tr (C HACB)=cH(A⊙BT) C and Tr (AC) =a T C (a, B is any matrix, C is any diagonal matrix, a=diag (a), c=diag (C)), the objective function is reduced to:
f=φHPφ-qHφ-φHq (11)
to extract out The contribution to f, the objective function is further transformed into:
Obtaining Is the optimal solution of (a): Wherein the method comprises the steps of Each element is optimized alternately through a coordinate iteration descent algorithm, and a local optimal solution of phi is obtained;
step 2-4, optimizing the intelligent super-surface of the second layer, and optimizing the phase shift coefficient matrix Θ of the intelligent super-surface of the second layer by fixing other variables, wherein only the speed of the transmitting end user is related to the intelligent super-surface of the second layer, and splitting H into two parts related to the reflecting user and the transmitting user: Wherein, the After ignoring the constant independent of Θ, the objective function f is reduced to:
f=θHP′θ-q′Hθ-θHq′ (13)
in the formula (13) of the present invention, θ=diag(Θ), Obtaining a local optimal solution of theta through a coordinate iteration descent algorithm;
Step 2-5, alternately optimizing the receiving end coefficient matrix W, the auxiliary weight coefficient matrix psi, the digital pre-coding matrix V of the base station, the phase shift coefficient matrix phi of the intelligent super-surface of the first layer and the phase shift coefficient matrix theta of the intelligent super-surface of the second layer, outputting digital beam forming at the base station end and analog beam forming of the intelligent super-surface of different layers if the termination requirement is met, repeating the steps 2-2 to 2-4 if the termination requirement is not met,
In the formula (10) of the present invention,
In this embodiment, the beam forming method of the downlink multi-user communication system under the assistance of the multi-layer intelligent omni-directional surface can be simply derived according to the beam forming method of the downlink multi-user communication system under the assistance of the multi-layer intelligent omni-directional surface.
In this embodiment, beam forming on both sides of a single-layer smart subsurface (IOS) and a double-layer smart subsurface (BIOS) is analyzed, and fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of beam forming of a single-layer smart subsurface in an embodiment of the present invention.
As shown in fig. 3, for a single-layer smart subsurface, the beamforming on both sides is highly correlated, since each scattering element is coupled for the phase shift of the transmitted and reflected signals. In particular, a typical smart subsurface model is one in which the phase shift of the scattering element to the reflected and transmitted signals is uniform, and in which the beams on both sides of the smart subsurface will be identical. When users are randomly distributed on both sides of the intelligent subsurface, this is likely to result in some beams not pointing to any user, resulting in a large energy loss.
FIG. 4 is a beam forming schematic of a dual-layer smart subsurface in an embodiment of the invention.
As shown in fig. 4, for a dual-layer intelligent subsurface, since the signal received by the reflective end user is reflected by the first layer of intelligent subsurface, and the signal received by the transmissive end user is transmitted through the two layers of intelligent subsurface, the dual-layer intelligent subsurface can implement different beam forming on both sides, reducing energy loss.
Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of a downlink multi-user communication system with the assistance of a multi-layer intelligent subsurface device in an embodiment of the invention.
As shown in FIG. 5, the two intelligent super-surfaces are both uniform square planar arrays, and the number of scattering units is M. The first layer of intelligent supersurface (IOS 1) has a transmission (∈ r) and a reflection intensity coefficient (∈ t) of 0.5, and the second layer of intelligent supersurface (IOS 2) is set to total transmission (ζ r=0,ξt =1). The base station end is configured with a uniform linear antenna array of 8 antennas, and the user end is a single antenna node. The cell spacing of all antenna arrays and scattering cell arrays is half wavelength, and there is no gap between the cells. The heights of the base station and the double-layer multi-layer intelligent super-surface device (BIOS) are 5m, and the interval between the base station and the double-layer multi-layer intelligent super-surface device is 20m. The interval between the two-layer intelligent super-surface of the multi-layer intelligent super-surface device is 0.015m. The users are randomly distributed in the range of 3 m-10 m away from the multi-layer intelligent super-surface device, wherein the height of the users is 1.5 m. The gaussian noise variance σ 2 = -80dBm at the user end.
Base station to multi-layer intelligent subsurface device channel (G) and multi-layer intelligent subsurface device to user channelAll adopt rice channel model. For a channel (F) between two layers of intelligent super surfaces, because the distance between the two layers of intelligent super surfaces is extremely small, a near-field channel model dominated by a direct path is adopted for the channel between each scattering unit. In addition, in numerical simulations, it is assumed that the base station to user direct path is negligible due to strong blocking.
To compare the performance of different intelligent subsurface, the present embodiment performs numerical simulations on a dual-layer multi-layer intelligent subsurface device (BIOS), intelligent reflector IRS, and single-layer intelligent subsurface (IOS). The positions and the number of scattering units of the intelligent reflection surface IRS are the same as those of the first layer IOS in the BIOS. IRSs can only reflect signals and therefore cannot serve transmitting end users. The transmission and reflection intensities of the single layer IOS were set to 0.5, as follows:
When the number of the scattering units on the intelligent super surface is fixed When the number of transmitted users (K t) is 3 and the number of reflected users (K r) is 2, the relation between the transmitting power and the user and the speed in the three systems is obtained through numerical simulation. Fig. 6 is a graph showing the relationship between the transmission power and the user and the rate in the case of fixing the number of scattering units, the number of transmitted users, and the number of reflected users on the intelligent super surface in the embodiment of the present invention.
As shown in FIG. 6, for three systems, both user and rate increase with increasing transmit power, while BIOS and IOS systems offer significant performance advantages over IRS systems. This is because the BIOS and IOS can serve users on both sides at the same time, while the IRS can only serve reflector users. Further, since the BIOS can implement different beamforming on both sides, its performance is more advantageous than IOS.
When the fixed emission rate (P b =30 dBm), the number of transmission users (K t) and the number of reflection users (K r) are 3 and 2, the number of scattering units of the intelligent super surface in the three systems is obtained through numerical simulationRelationship to user and rate. Fig. 7 is a relationship between the number of scattering units and the user and the rate of the intelligent super-surface in the case of a fixed emission rate, a number of transmitted users, and a number of reflected users in an embodiment of the present invention.
As shown in fig. 7, as the scattering elements of the smart subsurface increase, the beamforming gain will increase, resulting in an increase in both the user and rate of the three systems. At the same time, BIOS performance is significantly advantageous over IOS and IRS.
When the transmission rate is fixed (P b =20 dBm), the total number of users (K=5), and the number of scattering units on the intelligent super surfaceUnder the condition, the relation between the transmission user number (K t) in the three systems and the user and the speed is obtained through numerical simulation. Fig. 8 is a graph of the relationship between the number of transmitted users and the user and rate for the case of a fixed transmission rate, the total number of users and the number of scattering units on the intelligent supersurface in an embodiment of the invention.
As shown in fig. 8, for IRS systems, since they can only serve reflective end users, their performance will drop monotonically to 0 as more users are distributed on the transmissive end. For the IOS system, since the transmission and reflection intensity coefficients are both 0.5, the capacities of users on both sides of the IOS service are completely consistent, so that the performance of the IOS system hardly changes with the change of the number of transmitted users. For BIOS systems, BIOS can control beamforming on both sides almost independently due to the presence of the second layer IOS, thus providing better performance over the other two systems. Since the first layer IOS has a transmission and reflection coefficient of 0.5, the power allocated to the reflection and transmission ends is almost uniform, and thus, the user and the speed of the BIOS system reach the maximum when the user is uniformly distributed on both sides of the BIOS (K t =2 or 3). In addition, when the number of transmissive end users is large (K t =4 or 5), the users and rates of the BIOS system still have significant advantages over IOS because for transmissive end users, their signals can be transmitted through the two-layer IOS with better beamforming quality than for reflective ends.
In summary, in the embodiment, the multi-layer intelligent super surface device (BIOS) of the present invention is used for assistance in a multi-user multiple-input single-output scenario, so that better performance compared with the IOS and IRS systems is achieved, and when users are uniformly distributed on both sides of the BIOS, the performance gap is maximized.
Effects and effects of the examples
According to the multilayer intelligent super-surface device, incident wireless signals are modulated, radiation is emitted to a reflecting end user and a transmitting end user through reflection and transmission, and each intelligent super-surface can adjust the phase of the wireless signals through the scattering unit, so that beam forming of the reflecting end and the transmitting end can be independently controlled. In addition, according to the beam forming method of the downlink multi-user communication system assisted by the multi-layer intelligent super-surface device, firstly, the problems of maximization and spectrum efficiency optimization in the prior complex form are equivalently converted into the problems of minimizing weighted mean square error, then, aiming at the converted problems, a receiving end coefficient matrix and an auxiliary weight coefficient matrix, a base station end digital beam forming design and the analog beam forming of intelligent super-surfaces of different layers are alternately optimized, and finally, the base station end digital beam forming and the analog beam forming of the intelligent super-surfaces of different layers are obtained.
The above embodiments are preferred examples of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention.