Accelerated Recovery with RIS: Designing Wireless Resilience in Mission-Critical Environments
For mission-critical wireless networks in 6G and beyond, this framework provides a new way to quantify and enhance resilience, addressing a gap in existing key performance indicators.
This work proposes a novel framework that quantifies wireless network resilience by augmenting the gradient of the system's rate function, and integrates Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) to enhance adaptability. Numerical results show improved resilience under adverse conditions and proactive preparation for future disruptions.
As 6G and beyond redefine connectivity, wireless networks become the foundation of critical operations, making resilience more essential than ever. With this shift, wireless systems cannot only take on vital services previously handled by wired infrastructures but also enable novel innovative applications that would not be possible with wired systems. As a result, there is a pressing demand for strategies that can adapt to dynamic channel conditions, interference, and unforeseen disruptions, ensuring seamless and reliable performance in an increasingly complex environment. Despite considerable research, existing resilience assessments lack comprehensive key performance indicators (KPIs), especially those quantifying its adaptability, which are vital for identifying a system's capacity to rapidly adapt and reallocate resources. In this work, we bridge this gap by proposing a novel framework that explicitly quantifies the adaption performance by augmenting the gradient of the system's rate function. To further enhance the network resilience, we integrate Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) into our framework due to their capability to dynamically reshape the propagation environment while providing alternative channel paths. Numerical results show that gradient augmentation enhances resilience by improving adaptability under adverse conditions while proactively preparing for future disruptions.