Q1. What contributions have the authors mentioned in the paper "Reconfigurable intelligent surface aided massive mimo systems with low-resolution dacs" ?
The authors investigate a reconfigurable intelligent surface ( RIS ) -aided multi-user massive multiple-input multi-output ( MIMO ) system where low-resolution digital-analog converters ( DACs ) are configured at the base station ( BS ) in order to reduce the cost and power consumption. An approximate analytical expression for the downlink achievable rate is derived based on maximum ratio transmission ( MRT ) and additive quantization noise model ( AQNM ), and the rate maximization problem is solved by particle swarm optimization ( PSO ) method under both continuous phase shifts ( CPSs ) and discrete phase shifts ( DPSs ) at the RIS.