The Design of Deploying RIS for Millimetre-Wave Signal in Outdoor Environment

• Main Authors: Wenming Shi, Yang Liu, Zhangyou Peng, Mengnan Xu, Zhonghao Zhang
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hindawi-Wiley 2021-01-01
• Series: Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/6651963

The power coverage of wireless communication is crucial for the quality of communication and cell network evaluation. In this letter, by taking the layout of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) into count, the power coverage area is proposed for a typical outdoor scenario, which has many rectangular buildings. In this approach, via designing the deploying angle, we introduce finding the optimal horizontal and elevation angles of RIS; we adjust RIS so as to get more power coverage. Since the computational complexity of the optimal solution is very high, a low-complexity method is proposed for solving the optimization problem. More specifically, the coverage is showed in the urban environment with RIS assisting. Presenting the numerical results, we can find the power coverage notably improved. It clearly indicates that our experiment is useful to solve the coverage problem for wireless communication.