A Reinforcement Learning Approach for RIS-aided Fair Communications

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06344v2
• Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 07:31:47 GMT
• Title: A Reinforcement Learning Approach for RIS-aided Fair Communications
• Authors: Alex Pierron, Michel Barbeau, Luca De Cicco, Jose Rubio-Hernan, Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro,
• Abstract summary: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are composed of physical elements that can dynamically alter electromagnetic wave properties to enhance beamforming.<n>We propose a novel method that aims at obtaining an efficient and fair duplex RIS-RL system for multiple legitimate UE units.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are composed of physical elements that can dynamically alter electromagnetic wave properties to enhance beamforming and leading to improvements in areas with low coverage properties. They have the potential to be combined with Reinforcement Learning (RL) techniques to achieve network performance and energy efficiency via optimization techniques. In addition to performance and energy improvements, it is also crucial to consider the concept of fair communications. RISs must ensure that User Equipment (UE) units receive their signals with adequate strength, without other UE being deprived of service due to insufficient power. In this paper, we address such a problem. We explore the fairness properties of previous work and propose a novel method that aims at obtaining an efficient and fair duplex RIS-RL system for multiple legitimate UE units. We report and discuss our experimental work and simulation results. We also release our code and datasets to foster further research in the topic.

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