Adaptive Space Shift Keying for RIS-Aided Communication

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel communication scheme that combines reconfigurable intelligent surface with transmitted adaptive space shift keying (RIS-TASSK), where the number of active antennas is not fixed. In each time slot, the desired candidate antenna or antenna combination will be selected from all available antenna combinations for conveying information bits. Besides, an antenna selection method based on channel gains is proposed for RIS-TASSK to improve the bit error rate (BER) performance and decrease the complexity, respectively. By comparing with the RIS-aided transmitted space shift keying and RIS-aided transmitted generalized space shift keying schemes, the simulation and theoretical results show that the proposed scheme has better BER performance and appropriate complexity.