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In response to the evolving landscape of wireless communication networks and the escalating demand for unprecedented wireless connectivity performance in the forthcoming 6G era, this paper proposes a new 6G architecture to enhance the wireless network's sum rate performance. Therefore, we introduce an aerial base station (ABS) network with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) while leveraging the multi-users multiple-input single-output (MU-MISO) antenna technology. The motivation behind our proposal stems from the imperative to address critical challenges in contemporary wireless networks and harness emerging technologies for substantial performance gains. We employ deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to jointly optimize the ABS trajectories, the active beamforming weights, and the RIS phase shifts. Simulation results show that this joint optimization effectively improves the system's sum rate while meeting minimum quality of service (QoS) requirements for diverse mobile users.
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REMARKABLE: RIS-Enabled Mobile Beamforming through Kernalized Bandit Learning
Mobile Robots (MRs), typically equipped with single-antenna radios, face many challenges in maintaining reliable connectivity established by multiple wireless access points (APs). These challenges include the absence of direct line-of-sight (LoS), ineffective beam searching due to the time-varying channel, and interference constraints. This paper presents REMARKABLE, an online learning based adaptive beam selection strategy for robot connectivity that trains kernelized bandit model directly in real-world settings of a factory floor. REMARKABLE employs reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) with passive reflective elements to create beamforming toward target robots, eliminating the need for multiple APs. We develop a method to create a beamforming codebook, reducing the search space complexity. We also develop a reconfigurable rotational mechanism to expand RIS coverage by rotating its projection plane. To address non-stationary conditions, we adopt the bandit over bandit idea that employs adaptive restarts, allowing the system to forget outdated observations and safely relearn the optimal interference-constrained beam. We show that our approach achieves a dynamic regret and the violation bound of Õ(T^(3/4)B^(1/4)) where T is the total time, and B is the total variation budget which captures the total changes in the environment without even assuming the knowledge of B. Finally, experimental validation with custom-designed RIS hardware and mobile robots demonstrates 46.8% faster beam selection and 94.2% accuracy, outperforming classical methods across diverse mobility settings.
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- PAR ID:
- 10651736
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- ACM
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- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 101 to 110
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- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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