A Digital Twin for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted Wireless Communication

09/01/2020
by   Baoling Sheen, et al.
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Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) has emerged as one of the key technologies for 6G in recent years, which comprise a large number of low-cost passive elements that can smartly interact with the impinging electromagnetic waves for performance enhancement. However, optimally configuring massive number of RIS elements remains a challenge. In this paper, we present a novel digital-twin framework for RIS-assisted wireless networks which we name it Environment-Twin (Env-Twin). The goal of the Env-Twin framework is to enable automation of optimal control at various granularities. In this paper, we present one example of the Env-Twin models to learn the mapping function between the RIS configuration with measured attributes for the receiver location, and the corresponding achievable rate in an RIS-assisted wireless network without involving explicit channel estimation or beam training overhead. Once learned, our Env-Twin model can be used to predict optimal RIS configuration for any new receiver locations in the same wireless network. We leveraged deep learning (DL) techniques to build our model and studied its performance and robustness. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed Env-Twin model can recommend near-optimal RIS configurations for test receiver locations which achieved close to an upper bound performance that assumes perfect channel knowledge. Our Env-Twin model was trained using less than 2 the total receiver locations. This promising result represents great potential of the proposed Env-Twin framework for developing a practical RIS solution where the panel can automatically configure itself without requesting channel state information (CSI) from the wireless network infrastructure.

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