Spatial Domain Suppression of Co-Channel Interference: A Reflection
Amplifiers Surface (RAS) Approach
Abstract
This paper adopts a novel reflection amplifiers surface (RAS) to
suppress the co-channel interference in the spatial domain. The RAS can
reflect and amplify the electromagnetic wave with phase shifts by
designing the reflection coefficients, which enables it more flexibly
reconfigure the wireless propagation environment, and even suppress
interference channel gain. In this paper, a transmitter and an
interferer send the desired signal and interference to the receiver,
respectively, and a RAS is placed to suppress the unknown interference.
First, we design the reflection coefficients for optimizing the
interference suppression ratio, and prove that when the number of
reflection amplifiers is greater than the number of antennas at the
interferer, the interference can be perfectly suppressed. Next, a
capacity maximization problem is formulated to design the optimal
reflection coefficients, and an iterative algorithm based on fractional
programming and the convex-concave procedure is proposed to obtain the
solution for this problem. Moreover, the closed-form expression of the
maximal capacity is obtained in the strong interference power case. In
addition, this paper shows the upper and lower boundaries of the maximal
capacity and discusses what kind of the channel conditions achieve the
upper and lower boundaries. Lastly, the above results are generalized to
the multiple interferer scenario.