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The revolutionary technology of \emph{Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces (SIM)} has been recently shown to be capable of carrying out advanced signal processing directly in the native electromagnetic (EM) wave domain. An SIM is fabricated by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Jiancheng An , Chao Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , George C. Alexandropoulos , Chongwen Huang , Chau Yuen , Lajos Hanzo

Channel estimation is one of the key issues in practical massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Compared with conventional estimation algorithms, deep learning (DL) based ones have exhibited great potential in terms of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jiabao Gao , Mu Hu , Caijun Zhong , Geoffrey Ye Li , Zhaoyang Zhang

To achieve the more significant passive beamforming gain in the double-intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided system over the conventional single-IRS counterpart, channel state information (CSI) is indispensable in practice but also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Beixiong Zheng , Changsheng You , Rui Zhang

We consider multi-antenna wireless systems aided by large intelligent surfaces (LIS). LIS presents a new physical layer technology for improving coverage and energy efficiency by intelligently controlling the propagation environment. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Neel Kanth Kundu , Matthew R. McKay

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) have recently emerged as a key enabler for realizing electromagnetic wave-domain signal processing in next-generation wireless networks. However, practical SIM implementations often suffer from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Xing Jia , Hao Liu , Haoxian Niu , Jinbao Li , Xiangyu Ding , Lu Gan

Channel estimation in reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication systems is challenging as pilots cannot be decoded at or transmitted from a RIS with only passive elements. We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-22 Battu Deepak , R. S. Prasobh Sankar , Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) facilitate computation by cascaded programmable layers so that part of the signal processing can be performed in the wave domain during signal propagation, rather than solely after reception. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-09 Mengbing Liu , Chau Yuen , Dusit Niyato , Bruno Clerckx , Lajos Hanzo

Reconfigurable intelligent surface is a potential technology component of future wireless networks due to its capability of shaping the wireless environment. The promising MIMO systems in terms of extended coverage and enhanced capacity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Paulo R. B. Gomes , Gilderlan T. de Araújo , Bruno Sokal , André L. F. de Almeida , Behrooz Makki , Gábor Fodor

Although reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technology for shaping the propagation environment, it consists of a single-layer structure within inherent limitations regarding the number of beam steering patterns. Based…

Next-generation wireless networks are expected to utilize the limited radio frequency (RF) resources more efficiently with the aid of intelligent transceivers. To this end, we propose a promising transceiver architecture relying on stacked…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Jiancheng An , Chau Yuen , Chao Xu , Hongbin Li , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Marco Di Renzo , Mérouane Debbah , Lajos Hanzo

This paper tackles the challenge of wideband MIMO channel estimation within indoor millimeter-wave scenarios. Our proposed approach exploits the integrated sensing and communication paradigm, where sensing information aids in channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-27 Silvia Mura , Marouan Mizmizi , Umberto Spagnolini , Athina Petropulu

For downlink massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) operating in time-division duplex protocol, users can decode the signals effectively by only utilizing the channel statistics as long as channel hardening holds. However, in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Tung T. Vu , Trinh Van Chien , Canh T. Dinh , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

In this paper, we investigate a cascaded channel estimation method for a millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system aided by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) with the BS equipped with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Ruizhe Wang , Hong Ren , Cunhua Pan , Shi Jin , Petar Popovski , Jiangzhou Wang

Stacked intelligent metasurface (SIM) is an emerging design that consists of multiple layers of metasurfaces. A SIM enables holographic multiple-input multiple-output (HMIMO) precoding in the wave domain, which results in the reduction of…

Channel estimation is fundamental to wireless communications, yet it becomes increasingly challenging in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems where base stations employ hundreds of antennas. Traditional least-squares…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Pinjun Zheng , Md. Jahangir Hossain , Anas Chaaban

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) consist of many passive elements of metamaterials whose impedance can be controllable to change the characteristics of wireless signals impinging on them. Channel estimation is a critical task when…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) have recently gained attention as a paradigm for wave-domain signal processing with reduced reliance on costly radio-frequency (RF) chains. However, conventional SIMs rely on uniform inter-layer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Hong Niu , Jiancheng An , Chau Yuen

Stacked intelligent metasurface (SIM), which consists of multiple layers of intelligent metasurfaces, is emerging as a promising solution for future wireless communication systems. In this timely context, we focus on broadcast…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Nemanja Stefan Perović , Eduard E. Bahingayi , Le-Nam Tran

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIM) have recently emerged as a promising technology, which can realize transmit precoding in the wave domain. In this paper, we investigate a SIM-aided integrated sensing and communications system, in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Haoxian Niu , Jiancheng An , Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Lu Gan , Symeon Chatzinotas , Mérouane Debbah

In this paper, we propose a three-stage unified channel estimation strategy for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multi-user (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) millimeter wave (mmWave) systems with the existence of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Taihao Zhang , Zhendong Peng , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Jiangzhou Wang