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Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are emerging as key enablers of reliable industrial automation in the millimeter-wave (mmWave) band, particularly in environments with frequent line-of-sight (LoS) blockage. While prior works have…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Hamed Radpour , Markus Hofer , Thomas Zemen

Recently, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), a planar metasurface consisting of a large number of low-cost reflecting elements, has received much attention due to its ability to improve both the spectrum and energy efficiencies by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Jiao Wu , Seungnyun Kim , Byonghyo Shim

We consider a multiuser multiple-input single-output interference channel where the receivers are characterized by both quality-of-service (QoS) and radio-frequency (RF) energy harvesting (EH) constraints. We consider the power splitting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-11 Stelios Timotheou , Ioannis Krikidis , Gan Zheng , Björn Ottersten

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have received much attention recently and are envisioned to promote 6G communication networks. In this paper, for wireless communications aided by IRS units, we formulate optimization problems for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Jun Zhao

With new frequency bands opening up, emerging wireless IoT devices are capitalizing on an increasingly divergent range of frequencies. However, existing coverage provisioning practice is often tied to specific standards and frequencies.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Ruichun Ma , R. Ivan Zelaya , Wenjun Hu

Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) is a promising technology for future wireless networks, enabling simultaneous communication and sensing using shared resources. This paper investigates the performance of full-duplex (FD)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-21 Ahsan Nazar , Zhambyl Shaikhanov , Sennur Ulukus

Wireless power transfer (WPT) is a promising service for the Internet of Things, providing a cost-effective and sustainable solution to deploy so-called energy-neutral devices on a massive scale. The power received at the device side from a…

The concept of reconfiguring wireless propagation environments using intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS)s has recently emerged, where an IRS comprises of a large number of passive reflecting elements that can smartly reflect the impinging…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem , Hibatallah Alwazani , Abla Kammoun , Anas Chaaban , Merouane Debbah , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technology for 6G networks owing to its superior ability to enhance the capacity and coverage of wireless communications by smartly creating a favorable propagation environment. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-27 Rang Liu , Ming Li , Yang Liu , Qingqing Wu , Qian Liu

This paper considers an antenna structure where a (non-large) array of radiating elements is placed at short distance in front of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), herein nicknamed reconfigurable intelligent base station (RIBS).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Giovanni Interdonato , Francesca Di Murro , Carmen D'Andrea , Giovanni Di Gennaro , Stefano Buzzi

This paper proposes a novel relay-aided intelligent reconfigurable surface (IRS) architecture for future wireless communication systems. The proposed architecture, which consists of two side-by-side intelligent surfaces connected via a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Xiaoyan Ying , Umut Demirhan , Ahmed Alkhateeb

In this letter, we consider a large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system where the receiver should harvest energy from the transmitter by wireless power transfer to support its wireless information transmission. The energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Xiaoming Chen , Xiumin Wang , Xianfu Chen

The disruptive reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology is steadily gaining relevance as a key element in future 6G networks. However, a one-size-fits-all RIS hardware design is yet to be defined due to many practical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Fabio Maresca , Antonio Albanese , Placido Mursia , Vincenzo Sciancalepore , Xavier Costa-Pérez

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are recently attracting a wide interest due to their capability of tuning wireless propagation environments in order to increase the system performance of wireless networks. In this paper, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Stefano Buzzi , Carmen D'Andrea , Alessio Zappone , Maria Fresia , Yong-Ping Zhang , Shulan Feng

The future 6G of wireless communication networks will have to meet multiple requirements in increasingly demanding levels, either individually or in combinations in small groups. This trend has spurred recent research activities on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-22 George C. Alexandropoulos , Geoffroy Lerosey , Merouane Debbah , Mathias Fink

Geometric environment information aids future distributed radio infrastructures in providing services, such as ultra-reliable communication, positioning, and wireless power transfer (WPT). An a priori known environment model cannot always…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-10 Benjamin J. B. Deutschmann , Maximilian Graber , Thomas Wilding , Klaus Witrisal

Wireless optical communications (WOC) has carriers up to several hundred terahertz, which offers several advantages, such as ultrawide bandwidth and no electromagnetic interference. Conventional WOC that uses light transmitters such as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-28 Mingliang Xiong , Qingwen Liu , Gang Wang , Georgios B. Giannakis , Chuan Huang

Perfect channel state information (CSI) is challenging to obtain due to the limited signal processing capability at the intelligent reflection surface (IRS). In this paper, we study the worst-case robust beamforming design for an IRS-aided…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Gui Zhou , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang , Marco Di Renzo , Arumugam Nallanathan

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) have emerged as a transformative technology in wireless communications, offering unprecedented control over signal propagation. This study focuses on passive beyond diagonal reconfigurable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-10 Ainna Yue Moreno-Locubiche , Josep Vidal

Reconfigurable holographic surfaces (RHSs) constitute a promising technique of supporting energy-efficient communications. In this paper, we formulate the energy efficiency maximization problem of the switch-controlled RHS-aided beamforming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Qingchao Li , Mohammed El-Hajjar , Yanshi Sun , Ibrahim Hemadeh , Arman Shojaeifard , Lajos Hanzo