Transmission Channel modeling and analysis of Intelligent Reflecting Surface

Wireless communication has developed rapidly in recent years. The fifth-generation(5G) era has arrived in an all-round way, and 5G technology has achieved a wide range of applications and brought great convenience to our life. With the all-round development of 5G technology, we begin to look forward to the future sixth-generation(6G) technology. In many conferences and reports, we have put the 6G technology research on the agenda. As an effective way to control the wireless environment channel manually, Intelligent Reflecting Surface(IRS)1 has become one of the 6G developable technologies and is getting more and more attention. IRS assisted wireless channel and the change of channel model are important research contents in the future wireless communication. Channel model is divided into large-scale model and small-scale model, among which the research of large-scale model is the most important one in the future technical research. The model of IRS Assisted Wireless Channel is still relatively basic in the current research, so this paper aims to further explore and research. In this paper, based on the model of path loss in free space, we analyze the path model of IRS assisted wireless communication transmission. We divide the path loss model into two scenarios: near field and far field. At the end of the article, we use matlab to simulate the theoretical model numerically, and plot the change of path loss results with different distances. We find that the simulation results are basically consistent with the theoretical model.