Distributed Coordinated Beamforming for RIS-Aided Dynamic TDD Systems

Abstract:
We consider the joint design of the active and passive beamforming for a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided dynamic time-division-duplexing (DTDD) wireless network. An alternating optimization (AO) method is proposed. To reduce the high signaling overhead involved in the centralized solution for the active beamforming design, a distributed coordinated beamforming based on the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is proposed. The Semidefinite Programming (SDP) technique is adopted for the design of the passive reflection matrix of the RIS. Our design objective is to maximize the minimum signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) of the downlink users while satisfying the total power constraint of the downlink base stations and guaranteeing that the maximum interference seen by the uplink users due to the transmission of the downlink cells is below a pre-defined level. Our numerical results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm converges to the centralized solution in a reasonable number of iterations.