Digital-to-analog converter free architecture for digital reconfigurable intelligent surface  

作　　者：Miaoran PENG Jinhao KAN Lixia XIAO Guanghua LIU Tao JIANG 

机构地区：[1]Research Center of 6G Mobile Communications,Huazhong University of Science and Technology,Wuhan,430074,China [2]School of Cyber Science and Engineering,Huazhong University of Science and Technology,Wuhan,430074,China [3]School of Electronic Information and Communications,Huazhong University of Science and Technology,Wuhan,430074,China

出　　处：《Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering》2023年第12期1752-1762,共11页信息与电子工程前沿（英文版）

基　　金：Project supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2019YFB1803400)。

摘　　要：This research investigates the digital-to-analog converter(DAC)free architecture for the digital reconfigurable intelligent surface(RIS)system,where the transmission lines are implemented for reflection coefficient(RC)control to reduce power consumption.In the proposed architecture,the radio frequency(RF)switch based phase shifter is considered.By using a single-pole four-throw(SP4T)switch to simultaneously control the RCs of a group of elements,a 2-bit phase shifter is realized for passive beam steering.A novel modulation scheme is developed to explore the cost effectiveness,which approaches the performance of traditional quadrature amplitude modulation(QAM).Specifically,to overcome the limitation of the phase shift bits,joint frequency-shift and phase-rotation operations are applied to the constellation points.The simulation and experimental results demonstrate that the proposed architecture is capable of providing an ideal transmission performance.Moreover,64-and 256-QAM modulation schemes could be implemented by expanding the elements and phase bits.

关 键 词：Reconfigurable intelligent surface Hardware implementation High-order modulation 

分 类 号：TN92[电子电信—通信与信息系统]