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Algorithm-Unrolling-Based Distributed Optimization for RIS-Assisted Cell-Free Networks

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Wangyang Xu
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Jiancheng An *
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Hongbin Li
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Lu Gan
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Chau Yuen
DOI:10.1109/JIOT.2023.3288072delete
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Abstract

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The user-centric cell-free network has emerged as an appealing technology to improve the wireless communication's capacity of the Internet of Things (IoT) networks thanks to its ability to eliminate intercell interference effectively. However, the cell-free network inevitably brings in higher hardware cost and backhaul overhead as a larger number of base stations (BSs) are deployed. Additionally, severe channel fading in high-frequency bands constitutes another crucial issue that limits the practical application of the cell-free network. In order to address the above challenges, we amalgamate the cell-free system with another emerging technology, namely reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), which can provide high spectrum and energy efficiency with low hardware cost by reshaping the wireless propagation environment intelligently. To this end, we formulate a weighted sum-rate (WSR) maximization problem for RIS-assisted cell-free systems by jointly optimizing the BS precoding matrix and the RIS reflection coefficient vector. Subsequently, we transform the complicated WSR problem to a tractable optimization problem and propose a distributed cooperative alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMMs) to fully utilize parallel computing resources. Inspired by the model-based algorithm unrolling concept, we unroll our solver to a learning-based deep distributed ADMM (D2-ADMM) network framework. To improve the efficiency of the D2-ADMM in distributed BSs, we develop a monodirectional information exchange strategy with a small signaling overhead. In addition to benefiting from domain knowledge, D2-ADMM adaptively learns hyperparameters and nonconvex solvers of the intractable RIS design problem through data-driven end-to-end training. Finally, numerical results demonstrate that the proposed D2-ADMM achieves around 210% improvement in capacity compared with the distributed noncooperative algorithm and almost 96% compared with the centralized algorithm.
Keywords:
Precoding
Internet of Things
Optimization
Neural networks
Massive MIMO
Wireless communication
Iterative methods
Cell-free system
Internet of Things (IoT)
reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)
distributed cooperative design
algorithm unrolling

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IEEE Internet of Things Journal cover
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
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7.8W

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singapore university of technology & design
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Stevens Institute of Technology
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