Performance Analysis of Cascaded Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Networks

• Published in: IEEE wireless communications letters Vol. 11; no. 9; pp. 1855 - 1859
• Main Authors: Tyrovolas, Dimitrios, Tegos, Sotiris A., Dimitriadou-Panidou, Emmanouela C., Diamantoulakis, Panagiotis D., Liaskos, Christos K., Karagiannidis, George K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 01.09.2022; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: average symbol error probability; Capacity planning; Data transmission; ergodic capacity; Estimation; Fading channels; outage probability; performance analysis; Phase estimation; Quality of service; Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces; Symbols; Wireless networks
• ISSN: 2162-2337; 2162-2345
• DOI: 10.1109/LWC.2022.3184635

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have been presented as a solution to realize the concept of smart radio environments, wherein uninterrupted coverage and extremely high quality of service can be ensured. In this letter, assuming that multiple RIS are deployed in the propagation environment, the performance of a cascaded RIS network affected by imperfect phase estimation is evaluated. Specifically, we derive closed-form expressions for the outage probability, the ergodic capacity and the average symbol error probability that can be utilized to evaluate the coverage of the proposed network, as well as the average capacity and the data transmission accuracy. Finally, we validate the derived expressions through simulations and show that by choosing the number of the participating RIS correctly, a cascaded RIS network can outperform a single RIS-aided system and extend the network's coverage efficiently.