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Abhishek Rajasekaran

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Optimal Multi-RIS Placement: Coverage-Guaranteed Sum Rate Maximization Under Inhomogeneous User Distributions

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) has emerged as a promising next-generation technology that improves the throughput and coverage of a wireless system. The realization of the full potential of RISs in a wireless system is tied to their strategic spatial deployment. While existing literature on RIS placement primarily focuses on maximizing coverage, when multiple RIS placements guarantee the required coverage (happens quite often), these approaches fail to exploit prior user trends to choose the one that is most probable to maximize throughput. Thus, to enable throughput maximization while guaranteeing fairness, we formulate a novel hierarchical problem that maximizes the expected sum rate of the system while guaranteeing a certain probabilistic coverage, with the requisite minimum number of RISs deployed. To solve this multi-layered non-convex problem, firstly, we obtain a set of optimal points where we can deploy RISs to provide the coverage guarantee. Then, the least number of RISs that can guarantee the required coverage is obtained by a greedy minimum partitioning. Finally, a Bayesian optimization based approach is used to compute the optimal RIS placement. Numerical results are provided to show that the proposed framework consistently identifies placements that jointly achieve good coverage and throughput, without impractical assumptions.

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AISAC: Closing the Loop Between AI and Integrated Sensing and Communication for 6G

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) and AI-and-communication (AIAC) are identified as separate usage scenarios in the ITU IMT-2030 vision for sixth-generation (6G) networks. In practice, however, these two directions are already beginning to merge. ISAC gives the network a way to observe the physical world, while AI gives the network a way to learn from those observations and act on them. This article introduces AI-integrated sensing and communication (AISAC) as a closed-loop framework for this merger. In AISAC, AI is not only a tool used to optimize an ISAC system. ISAC is also the physical substrate through which AI receives data, context, and connectivity. The key technical message is that AISAC requires a new physical-layer design principle, in which the ISAC waveform, beam, power, bandwidth, and sensing mode should be configured for learning alignment, not for sensing distortion or communication rate alone. In particular, the sensing configuration that is most accurate from a classical estimation viewpoint need not be the one that is most useful for training or inference. We present the AISAC landscape, explain why imperfect sensing changes the learning problem, develop the closed-loop architecture and its three-way sensing-communication-learning tension, and outline a vehicular edge-intelligence use case together with open problems for theory, implementation, and standardization.

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Optimal RIS Placement in Multi-User MISO Systems with User Randomness

It is well established that the performance of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted systems critically depends on the optimal placement of the RIS. Previous works consider either simple coverage maximization or simultaneous optimization of the placement of the RIS along with the beamforming and reflection coefficients, most of which assume that the location of the RIS, base station (BS), and users are known. However, in practice, only the spatial variation of user density and obstacle configuration are likely to be known prior to deployment of the system. Thus, we formulate a non-convex problem that optimizes the position of the RIS over the expected minimum signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) of the system with user randomness, assuming that the system employs joint beamforming after deployment. To solve this problem, we propose a recursive coarse-to-fine methodology that constructs a set of candidate locations for RIS placement based on the obstacle configuration and evaluates them over multiple instantiations from the user distribution. The search is recursively refined within the optimal region identified in each stage to determine the final optimal region for RIS deployment. Detailed numerical results are presented to corroborate our findings.

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