UAV-enabled IRS

RIS’s Phase Shift Design

When we optimize the RIS’s Phase Shift using the BCD/alternating method in a joint optimization problem, there are two mainly approaches to design the optimal RIS’s Phase Shift.

• SDP
• Closed solution
  Here we give two papers for reference, they both refer to the “triangle inequality” and the “condition of the equality”.
  [1] Liu Y , Duo B , Wu Q , et al. Two-Way Reflecting Communication with UAV-Borne Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces[J]. 2021.
  [2] Duo B , Liu Y , Wu Q , et al. Full-Dimensional Rate Enhancement for UAV-Enabled Communications via Intelligent Omni-Surface[J]. 2021.
  [3] Li S , Duo B , Yuan X , et al. Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted UAV Communication: Joint Trajectory Design and Passive Beamforming[J]. 2019.
  [4] Xiu Y , Sun W , Wu J , et al. Sum-Rate Maximization in Distributed Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces-Aided mmWave Communications[J]. 2021.

UAV Trajectory Optimization

Usually, anthors tend to use the variable substitution and SCA method to deal with the nonconvex SNR/throughput constraint. Maybe we can obtain some insights or processing techniques in the above two reference papers and the papers in this subsection.
[1] X Mu, Liu Y , Guo L , et al. Intelligent Reflecting Surface Enhanced Multi-UAV NOMA Networks[J]. 2021.
[2] Li S , Duo B , Yuan X , et al. Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Assisted UAV Communication: Joint Trajectory Design and Passive Beamforming[J]. 2019.

Algorithm Complexity

[1] X Mu, Liu Y , Guo L , et al. Intelligent Reflecting Surface Enhanced Multi-UAV NOMA Networks[J]. 2021.

IRS Codes

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