A low-complexity algorithm for maximizing the weighted sum-rate of intelligent reflecting surface aided wireless communication

Abstract

As 5G communication networks are now putting into commercialization, technologies for 6G communications assisted by intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) are also being explored in order to obtain faster and more reliable data transmissions. This paper studies the weighted sum-rate (WSR) maximization problem of users in an IRS-aided multiuser multiple-input single-output (MISO) downlink communication system. Aiming at the above problem, we propose a low-complexity linear alternating direction multiplier method (LADMM) that can be operated in parallel to solve this problem. The numerical results show that only adjusting the parameters in the proposed algorithm can make the user's WSR have better performance.