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Joint Design of Hybrid Beamforming and Phase Shifts for IRS-Assisted Multi-User mmWave Systems
1School of Physics and Electronic Information, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241002, China.
Abstract:
This paper presents a joint design approach for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted multi-user millimeter-wave (mmWave) systems. Our goal is to maximize the sum-rate of all users by optimizing the hybrid beamforming at the base station and the low-resolution phase shifters (e.g., 1 bit) at the IRS. To address this, we first adopt a zero-force (ZF) technique to design fully-digital (FD) beamforming and develop a cross-entropy optimization (CEO) framework-based iterative algorithm to calculate IRS phase shifts. Specifically, in this framework, the probability distributions of IRS elements are updated by minimizing the CE, which can generate a solution close to the optimal one with a sufficiently high probability. Then, based on the obtained FD beamforming, an alternating minimization method is applied to acquire hybrid beamforming. Simulation results show that our proposed joint design scheme can achieve enhanced performance compared to the existing schemes while maintaining a lower computational complexity.
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