Performance Analysis of RIS-aided MISO Systems with EMI and Channel Aging

TL;DR

This paper analyzes the spectral efficiency of RIS-aided MISO systems considering EMI and channel aging, revealing how RIS design choices impact performance under realistic interference and fading conditions.

Contribution

It provides a closed-form spectral efficiency expression for RIS-aided MISO systems with EMI and channel aging, highlighting the effects of LoS component weighting and RIS size.

Findings

Amplifying LoS component boosts spectral efficiency.

EMI negatively impacts system performance.

Increasing RIS elements size improves spectral efficiency.

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multiple-input single-output (MISO) system in the presence of electromagnetic interference (EMI) and channel aging with a Rician fading channel model between the base station (BS) and user equipment (UE). Specifically, we derive the closed-form expression for downlink spectral efficiency (SE) with maximum ratio transmission (MRT) precoding. The Monte-Carlo simulation supports the theoretical results, demonstrating that amplifying the weight of the line-of-sight (LoS) component in Rician fading channels can boost SE, while EMI has a detrimental impact. Furthermore, continuously increasing the number of RIS elements is not an optimal choice when EMI exists. Nonetheless, RIS can be deployed to compensate for SE degradation caused by channel aging effects. Finally, enlarging the RIS elements size can significantly improve system performance.