Channel state information(CSI)is essen-tial to unlock the potential of reconfigurable intelli-gent surfaces(RISs)in wireless communication sys-tems.Since massive RIS elements are typically imple-mented without baseban...Channel state information(CSI)is essen-tial to unlock the potential of reconfigurable intelli-gent surfaces(RISs)in wireless communication sys-tems.Since massive RIS elements are typically imple-mented without baseband signal processing capabili-ties,limited CSI feedback is necessary when design-ing the reflection/refraction coefficients of the RIS.In this article,the unique RIS-assisted channel features,such as the RIS position-dependent channel fluctua-tion,the ultra-high dimensional sub-channel matrix,and the structured sparsity,are distilled from recent advances in limited feedback and used as guidelines for designing feedback schemes.We begin by il-lustrating the use cases and the corresponding chal-lenges associated with RIS feedback.We then discuss how to leverage techniques such as channel customiza-tion,structured-sparsity,autoencoders,and others to reduce feedback overhead and complexity when de-vising feedback schemes.Finally,we identify poten-tial research directions by considering the unresolved challenges,the new RIS architecture,and the integra-tion with multi-modal information and artificial intel-ligence.展开更多
基金supported in part by the Key Technologies Research and Development Program of Jiangsu(Prospective and Key Technologies for Industry)under Grant BE2023022 and BE2023022-1in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)under Grant 62401137,62401640,and 62231009+3 种基金in part by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province under Grant BK20241281in part by the China National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents under Grant BX20230065 and 2024M750421in part by the Jiangsu Excellent Postdoctoral Program under Grant 2023ZB476in part by the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation under Grant 2023A1515110732.
文摘Channel state information(CSI)is essen-tial to unlock the potential of reconfigurable intelli-gent surfaces(RISs)in wireless communication sys-tems.Since massive RIS elements are typically imple-mented without baseband signal processing capabili-ties,limited CSI feedback is necessary when design-ing the reflection/refraction coefficients of the RIS.In this article,the unique RIS-assisted channel features,such as the RIS position-dependent channel fluctua-tion,the ultra-high dimensional sub-channel matrix,and the structured sparsity,are distilled from recent advances in limited feedback and used as guidelines for designing feedback schemes.We begin by il-lustrating the use cases and the corresponding chal-lenges associated with RIS feedback.We then discuss how to leverage techniques such as channel customiza-tion,structured-sparsity,autoencoders,and others to reduce feedback overhead and complexity when de-vising feedback schemes.Finally,we identify poten-tial research directions by considering the unresolved challenges,the new RIS architecture,and the integra-tion with multi-modal information and artificial intel-ligence.
