IRS-Assisted Millimeter Wave Communications: Joint Power Allocation and Beamforming Design

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) technology offers more feasible propagation paths for millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication systems to overcome blockage than existing technologies. In this paper, we consider a downlink wireless system with the IRS and formulate a joint power allocation and beamforming design problem to maximize the weighted sum-rate, which is a multi-variable optimization problem. To solve the problem, we propose a novel alternating manifold optimization based beamforming algorithm. Simulation results show that our proposed optimization algorithm outperforms existing algorithms significantly in improving the weighted sum-rate of the wireless communication system.

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