Resource Control in Active IRS-Aided 6G IoT Networks with Use Case in Smart Indoor Communication

Abstract

The IoT ecosystem involves connected smart devices that support massive amount of data for processing and further analysis. The proliferating massive IoT network demands network connectivity, robust communication links and computational resources which puts huge load on the network. To overcome the communication overhead in the IoT landscape while offering optimal fault tolerance is the main challenge. This paper presents an intelligent solution for improving the communication efficiency of IoT network using active IRS technology. An active IRS aided communication framework is proposed which offers enhanced network connectivity by enabling controlled reflection amplitude. An algorithm is proposed which associates optimal active IRS to each AP-node link such that signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) is maximized. It is observed that the proposed association scheme in active IRS system offers an improvement of 19.04% in achievable rate over random association at AP transmit power [Formula: see text] of 20[Formula: see text]dBm and IRS amplification power [Formula: see text] of 4[Formula: see text]dBm. Furthermore, the system outage probability is carried out with change in [Formula: see text] and amplification gain [Formula: see text]. The mean channel power is also evaluated for different IRS densities and AP densities under different IRS reflecting elements [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]. In the end, the performance comparison with passive IRS system and system with no IRS assistance is carried out. A use case scenario of active IRS-aided system in smart indoor communication is also discussed.