RIS-aided Multi-hop Backhauling for 5G/6G UAV-assisted Access Points

Authors

  • Salim Janji Institute of Radiocommunications, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland
  • Pawel Sroka Institute of Radiocommunications, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0553-7088

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26636/jtit.2023.171523

Keywords:

backhaul link, multi-hop, RIS, UAV

Abstract

Drones are considered to be an important part of future 6G telecommunication systems. Thanks to their quick deployment potential, they provide additional connectivity options in the form of a flying hotspot. However, in such use cases, they typically require a wireless backhaul link to facilitate their proper operation, which might be a challenging task in dense urban environments. One of the potential methods that may be relied upon to connect such nodes is the integrated access and backhaul (IAB) approach, where part of the spectrum allocated to users accessing the base station is used for wireless backhauling. Thus, in this work, we consider the problem of establishing a multi-hop wireless backhaul link following the IAB concept, with the aid of drone relay stations (DRSs) and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). We formulate the problem of coverage improvement with a fixed number of relays, assuming certain throughput requirements for the backhaul link. The simulations show that the use of RISs offers a coverage improvement in such a scenario or a reduction in the number of nodes involved in ensuring the required backhaul performance.

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S. Janji and P. Sroka, “RIS-aided Multi-hop Backhauling for 5G/6G UAV-assisted Access Points”, JTIT, vol. 92, no. 2, pp. 63–69, Jun. 2023, doi: 10.26636/jtit.2023.171523.

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