TY - GEN
T1 - Understanding the Gain of Deploying IRSs in Large-Scale Heterogeneous Cellular Networks
AU - Cheng, Hu
AU - Sun, Hongguang
AU - Zhang, Linyi
AU - Li, Jiahui
AU - Wang, Xijun
AU - Quek, Tony Q.S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 IEEE.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - As the superior improvement on wireless network coverage, spectrum efficiency and energy efficiency, Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has received more and more attention. In this work, we consider a large-scale IRS-assisted heterogeneous cellular network (HCN) consisting of K (K≥ 2) tiers of base stations (BSs) and one tier of passive IRSs. With tools from stochastic geometry, we analyze the coverage probability and network spatial throughput of the downlink IRS-assisted K-tier HCN. Compared with the conventional HCN, we observe the significant gain achieved by IRSs in coverage probability and network spatial throughput. The proposed analytical framework can be used to understand the limit of gain achieved by IRSs in HCN.
AB - As the superior improvement on wireless network coverage, spectrum efficiency and energy efficiency, Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has received more and more attention. In this work, we consider a large-scale IRS-assisted heterogeneous cellular network (HCN) consisting of K (K≥ 2) tiers of base stations (BSs) and one tier of passive IRSs. With tools from stochastic geometry, we analyze the coverage probability and network spatial throughput of the downlink IRS-assisted K-tier HCN. Compared with the conventional HCN, we observe the significant gain achieved by IRSs in coverage probability and network spatial throughput. The proposed analytical framework can be used to understand the limit of gain achieved by IRSs in HCN.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICC45041.2023.10278881
DO - 10.1109/ICC45041.2023.10278881
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85178259860
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Communications
SP - 5787
EP - 5792
BT - ICC 2023 - IEEE International Conference on Communications
A2 - Zorzi, Michele
A2 - Tao, Meixia
A2 - Saad, Walid
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2023
Y2 - 28 May 2023 through 1 June 2023
ER -