Method for reflective index modulation based on intelligent reflecting surface

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12413268-B2
Application number	US-202418634170-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 12, 2024
Priority date	Apr 21, 2023
Publication date	Sep 9, 2025
Grant date	Sep 9, 2025

Abstract

A method for reflective index modulation based on intelligent reflecting surface, in which an IRS control unit is added into wireless communication system, and the data to be transmitted in a transmission is divided into two parts: a reflective domain data d r and a phase-amplitude domain data d c , the reflective domain data d r is transmitted through a wired connection to the IRS control unit to activate or deactivate each group of reflecting elements, the phase-amplitude domain data d c is modulated through traditional phase-amplitude domain modulation and transmitted to the IRS, the reflected signals contain the information of the reflective domain data d r , through the demodulating the baseband symbol y m,j , an estimated phase-amplitude modulation index m and an estimated reflective index j are obtained to recover the phase-amplitude domain data d c and the value of the reflective domain data d r respectively.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for reflective index modulation based on intelligent reflecting surface (hereinafter referred by IRS) is provided, comprising the following steps:
(1) creating an IRS-assisted wireless communication system, wherein the IRS-assisted wireless communication system comprises a transmitter, a receiver, an IRS and an IRS control unit, the transmitter is equipped with N t antennas, the receiver is equipped with a single antenna due to the limitation of its hardware size, the IRS comprises N s reflecting elements, and the N s reflecting elements are divided into L groups, L≤log 2 N s , each group has N s /L reflecting elements, each reflecting element can modify the phase of received wireless signal and can be switched between active state and inactive state by the IRS control unit:
(2) transmitting data through reflective index modulation:
2.1) dividing the data to be transmitted in a transmission into two parts: a reflective domain data d r and a phase-amplitude domain data d c , then transmitting the reflective domain data d r to the IRS control unit through a wired connection by the transmitter;
2.2) performing a reflective domain modulation by the IRS control unit: converting the received reflective domain data d r into a reflective index j, where 1≤j≤L and j corresponds to the value of the reflective domain data d r , then denoting the j-th IRS activating pattern as an indicator a j =[a j,1 , a j,2 , . . . , a j,L ], where a j,l =1, when 1≤l≤j, a j,l =0, when j<l≤L, then activating or deactivating each group of reflecting elements according to the value of a j,l : if a j,l =1, then activating the l-th group of reflecting elements to turn them into active state, if a j,l =0, then deactivating the l-th group of reflecting elements to turn them into inactive state;
2.3) performing a phase-amplitude domain modulation for the phase-amplitude domain data d c by the transmitter to obtain a modulated baseband symbol b m , where m is a phase-amplitude modulation index and corresponds to the value of the phase-amplitude domain data d c , then upconverting the modulated baseband symbol b m into a wireless signal and transmitting the wireless signal to the IRS through the N t antennas of the transmitter;
2.4) receiving the wireless signals sent from the N t antennas, modifying the phase of the received wireless signals and reflecting their received wireless signals to the receiver by the active reflecting elements of the IRS respectively;
2.5) receiving the wireless signals reflected by the active reflecting elements of the IRS through the receiver, converting the received wireless signals to baseband to obtain a received baseband symbol y m,j ;
2.6) demodulating the baseband symbol y m,j in phase-amplitude domain and reflective domain: finding a trial index m′ in the set of [1, 2, . . . , M] and a trial index j′ in the set of [1, 2, . . . , L] to make |y m,j −g j′ b m′ | 2 minimal and taking the trial index m′ as an estimated phase-amplitude modulation index m and the trial index j′ as is an estimated reflective index j , where the demodulation process is expressed as:

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2.7) recovering the value of the reflective domain data d r according to the estimated reflective index j and the value of the phase-amplitude domain data d c according to the estimated phase-amplitude modulation index m to recover the transmitted data.

2. A method for reflective index modulation based on intelligent reflecting surface according to claim 1 , wherein the phase shifts of reflecting elements are optimized according to following steps:
3.1) letting u H =diag(Φ)=(u 1 , u 2 , . . . , u N s ) and u H u=U, where u l =β l e jθl , l=1, 2, . . . , N s , diag(Φ) represents turning the IRS phase shifter matrix Φ into a vector;
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Assignees

• Univ Electronic Sci & Tech China

Inventors

• Yang Kun
• Zhao Yizhe
• Zhang Long
• Hu Jie

Classifications

• H04L27/36

  Modulator circuits; Transmitter circuits · CPC title

• Y02D30/70

  in wireless communication networks · CPC title

• H04W72/535

  based on resource usage policies · CPC title

• H04B7/04013 Primary

  Intelligent reflective surfaces · CPC title

• H04W72/0453 Primary

  Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA · CPC title