Traffic Aware Power Saving Communication Assisted By Double-Faced Active RIS

Despite its high energy and hardware efficiency, some defects of the reconfigurable intelligence surface (RIS) technology have come to be realized, including the severe fading loss and restricted-to-half-space coverage. This paper proposes a novel double-faced-active (DFA)-RIS structure to overcome these defects. Besides, we utilize this novel DFA-RIS to improve power saving of the communication system. Unlike traditional power saving literature, we aim at fulfilling queueing stability and long-term power minimization in a downlink system assisted by the DFA-RIS, with a realistic data arriving process taken into consideration. Enlightened by Lyapunov control theory, we propose an online optimization strategy that adaptively adjusts DFA-RIS configuration. Each online problem can be efficiently solved by leveraging alternative directional method of multipliers (ADMM) method. Numerical results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed Lyapunov-guided strategy and DFA-RIS’ superiority over the classical passive RIS.