Effectiveness of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces to Enhance Connectivity in UAV Networks
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Abstract
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have drawn considerable attention due to their ability to introduce controllable phase-shifts onto impinging electromagnetic waves and impose link redundancy. Meanwhile, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to make future 6G networks more connected, but they are prone to several failures, which cause network disintegration. To harness the benefits of both, we study their integration to improve connectivity of multi-RIS-assisted UAV networks. We first propose to define the criticality of nodes, which reflects the importance of some nodes over other nodes. We then employ the algebraic connectivity metric, which is adjusted by the reflected links of the RISs and their criticality weights, to formulate the problem of maximizing the network connectivity. Such problem is a computationally expensive combinatorial optimization. Using a relaxation method where the discrete scheduling constraint of the problem is relaxed to be continuous, we propose two efficient solutions, namely semi-definite programming (SDP) optimization and Laplacian matrix perturbation, which both solve the problem in polynomial time. We rigorously derive the lower and upper bounds of the algebraic connectivity obtained from the perturbation solution. Simulation results compare the performance of the proposed solutions with different schemes, including without RISs, unoptimized link scheduling and phase shifts, greedy search, and optimal. The results show that the proposed schemes achieve considerably improved performance with low computational complexity compared to other schemes.
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