Abstract
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is deemed as a potential technology for future communications due to its adaptive enhancement for the propagation environment. To achieve the passive beamforming gain of IRS, accurate channel state information (CSI) is essential but practically challenging since its massive passive reflecting elements have no transmitting/receiving capability. This paper presents a new channel estimation problem formulation for IRS-assisted orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, where the channel sparsity is exploited in the time-domain. Considering the surfaces are physically close to each other, we further utilize the common sparsity among the different sub-surfaces and automatically cluster them into several groups by introducing a Dirichlet process (DP)-based clustering model. Then, a DP-based variational Bayesian inference (VBI) framework is proposed to jointly estimate the channel and cluster the sub-surfaces, which is expected to significantly improve the channel estimation performance. Moreover, a novel decoupling trick is combined into the VBI framework to efficiently handle the coupling effect brought by the reflection coefficients, as well as facilitate the Bayesian inference. Simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed channel estimation scheme and show its significant performance improvement over various benchmark schemes.
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