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Benefiting from the rapid development of metamaterials and metasurfaces, the holographic multiple-input and multiple-output surface (HMIMOS) has been regarded as a promising solution for future wireless networks recently. By densely packing…

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The envisioned sixth-generation (6G) of wireless networks will involve an intelligent integration of communications and computing, thereby meeting the urgent demands of diverse applications. To realize the concept of the smart radio…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Bo Yang , Xuelin Cao , Jindan Xu , Chongwen Huang , George C. Alexandropoulos , Linglong Dai , M'erouane Debbah , H. Vincent Poor , Chau Yuen

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have received considerable attention from the wireless communications research community recently. In particular, as low-cost passive devices, IRSs enable the control of the wireless propagation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Xianghao Yu , Dongfang Xu , Robert Schober

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is envisioned to be a new and revolutionizing technology for achieving spectrum and energy efficient wireless communication networks cost-effectively in the future. Specifically, an IRS consists of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

Radio frequency (RF) wireless energy transfer (WET) is a key technology that may allow seamlessly powering future massive low-energy Internet of Things (IoT) networks. To enable efficient massive WET, channel state information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Onel L. A. López , Hirley Alves , Samuel Montejo-Sánchez , Richard D. Souza , Matti Latva-aho

In a practical massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) system, the number of antennas at a base station (BS) is constrained by the space and cost factors, which limits the throughput gain promised by theoretical analysis. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Zhaorui Wang , Liang Liu , Shuguang Cui

Integrating radio-sensing functionalities into future cell-free (CF) wireless networks promises efficient resource utilization and facilitates the seamless roll-out of applications such as public safety and smart infrastructure. While the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-20 Leonardo Leyva , Daniel Castanheira , Adão Silva , Atílio Gameiro

This work gives a blind beamforming strategy for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), aiming to boost the received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) by coordinating phase shifts across reflective elements in the absence of channel information.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Shuyi Ren , Kaiming Shen , Yaowen Zhang , Xin Li , Xin Chen , Zhi-Quan Luo

Wireless communication systems have almost exclusively operated in the far-field of antennas and antenna arrays, which is conventionally characterized by having propagation distances beyond the Fraunhofer distance. This is natural since the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Emil Björnson , Özlem Tugfe Demir , Luca Sanguinetti

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a proposing technology in 6G to enhance the performance of wireless networks by smartly reconfiguring the propagation environment with a large number of passive reflecting elements. However, current…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Jinglian He , Kaiqiang Yu , Yuanming Shi

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently received significant attention in wireless networks owing to its ability to smartly control the wireless propagation through passive reflection. Although prior works have employed the IRS to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Guangji Chen , Qingqing Wu

Radio maps (RMs) provide a spatially continuous description of wireless propagation, enabling cross-layer optimization and unifying communication and sensing for integrated sensing and communications (ISAC). However, constructing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-15 Qiming Zhang , Xiucheng Wang , Nan Cheng , Zhisheng Yin , Xiang Li

This paper presents a sophisticated reconfigurable metasurface architecture that introduces an advanced concept of flexible full-array space-time wavefront manipulation with enhanced dynamic capabilities. The practical 2-bit phase-shifting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-30 Yufei Zhao , Yuan Feng , Afkar Mohamed Ismail , Ziyue Wang , Yong Liang Guan , Yongxin Guo , Chau Yuen

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces can be successfully used to control the radio environment. Simple control of the reflection angle of the signal from the surface allows maximization or minimization of the received power in specific…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Łukasz Kułacz , Adrian Kliks

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have a revolutionary capability to customize the radio propagation environment for wireless networks. To fully exploit the advantages of RISs in wireless systems, the phases of the reflecting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Zongze Li , Shuai Wang , Qingfeng Lin , Yang Li , Miaowen Wen , Yik-Chung Wu , H. Vincent Poor

Keeping the batteries on the shelf: this is the holy grail for low-cost Internet of Things (IoT) nodes. In this paper we study the potential of radio frequency (RF)-based wireless power transfer implementing coherent beamforming with many…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-25 Jarne Van Mulders , Bert Cox , Benjamin J. B. Deutschmann , Gilles Callebaut , Lieven de Strycker , Liesbet Van der Perre

To meet the growing demand for data traffic, spectrum-rich optical wireless communication (OWC) has emerged as a key technological driver for the development of 6G. The resonant beam communication (RBC) system, which employs spatially…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-16 Wen Fang , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Xusheng Zhu , Qiong Wu , Nan Cheng

Typical reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) implementations include metasurfaces with almost passive unit elements capable of reflecting their incident waves in controllable ways, enhancing wireless communications in a cost-effective…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-17 Songjie Yang , Zihang Wan , Boyu Ning , Weidong Mei , Jiancheng An , Yonina C. Eldar , Chau Yuen

The development of metasurfaces has unlocked various use cases in wireless communication networks to improve performance by manipulating the propagation environment. Intelligent omni-surface (IOS), an innovative technique in this category,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Hongliang Zhang , Boya Di

This work exploits commodity, ultra-low cost, commercial radio frequency identification tags (RFID) as the elements of a reconfigurable surface. Such batteryless tags are powered and controlled by a software-defined (SDR) reader, with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Iosif Vardakis , Georgios Kotridis , Spyridon Peppas , Konstantinos Skyvalakis , Georgios Vougioukas , Aggelos Bletsas