Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Management for 5G Coverage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current 5G wireless communication systems face challenges in achieving sustainable network performance improvements due to higher throughput and coverage demands, which are often met with increased energy consumption and complex signal processing, making them unsustainable for further evolution.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) management system that includes a processor and transceiver to manage and configure a network environment by adjusting radio propagation environments, enabling coefficient tuning procedures to optimize network performance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If wider bandwidth and higher energy consumption are used to achieve higher throughput and larger coverage, then network performance is improved, but energy consumption and signal processing complexity increase making it unsustainable
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) as an intermediary component between the base station and user equipment. The RIS consists of multiple programmable reflecting elements that can dynamically adjust the phase and amplitude of reflected signals. This intermediary surface enables the network to achieve higher throughput and coverage by intelligently manipulating radio wave propagation, thereby avoiding the need to increase bandwidth and energy consumption at the base station and user equipment.
2Area of stationary object
If wider bandwidth and higher energy consumption are used to achieve larger coverage, then network coverage is improved, but energy consumption and signal processing complexity increase making it unsustainable
Solution Approach 1:
The reconfigurable intelligent surface acts as a mediator that extends network coverage by reflecting and redirecting radio signals to areas with poor coverage. The RIS can be deployed in strategic locations to bounce signals around obstacles and into shadowed regions, thereby expanding coverage area without requiring the base station to increase transmission power or bandwidth, thus avoiding increased signal processing complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs dynamic reconfiguration of the intelligent surface's reflecting elements in real-time based on channel conditions and user requirements. The phase and amplitude coefficients of each reflecting element can be dynamically adjusted to optimize signal propagation patterns, enabling the system to adaptively extend coverage areas without increasing overall system complexity through static high-power transmissions.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances network performance by controlling scattering, reflection, and refraction of radio waves, reducing the need for complex signal processing and energy consumption, while improving signal quality and coverage.
Implementation Method 1
controlling scattering, reflection, and refraction of radio waves
Implementation Method 2
controlling scattering, reflection, and refraction of radio waves
Implementation Method 3
controlling scattering, reflection, and refraction of radio waves
Data Source
AI summary
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and apparatus for network performance improvement. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a network management entity may transmit, to a managed node, a request for attribution information of the managed node, wherein the network management entity manages the managed node: receive, from the managed node, the requested attribution information of the managed node: transmit, to a BS of a RAN, a registration request to register in the RAN, wherein the managed node is configured to adjust a radio propagation environment of the RAN; and receive, from the BS, an acknowledgement message in response to the registration request.