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This paper investigates the passive beamforming and information transfer (PBIT) technique for the multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with the aid of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), where the RIS enhances the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Wenjing Yan , Xiaojun Yuan , Zhen-Qing He , Xiaoyan Kuai

In this paper, we consider a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multiple-input multiple-output communication system with multiple antennas at both the base station (BS) and the user. We plan to maximize the achievable rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yaqiong Zhao , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Kezhi Wang , Xinquan Ye , Chau Yuen , Xiaohu You

In this paper, we investigate high-altitude platform station (HAPS) wireless networks for simultaneous non-orthogonal unicast and multicast transmissions. Specifically, stacked intelligent metasurface (SIM)-based wave-domain beamforming is…

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To develop a low-complexity multicast beamforming method for millimeter wave communications, we first propose a channel gain estimation method in this article. We use the beam sweeping to find the best codeword and its two neighboring…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-15 Zhaohui Li , Chenhao Qi , Geoffrey Ye Li

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have drawn considerable attention recently due to their controllable scattering elements that are able to direct electromagnetic waves into desirable directions. Although RISs share some…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Mohanad Obeed , Anas Chaaban

In this paper, we consider a joint unicast and multi-group multicast cell-free distributed massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system, while accounting for co-pilot assignment strategy based channel estimation, pilot contamination…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Jiamin Li , Qijun Pan , Zhenggang Wu , Pengcheng Zhu , Dongming Wang , Xiaohu You

This article investigates the integration of movable antennas (MAs) into multicast communication systems. By discretizing the motion of the MAs, a novel MA-assisted multicast transmission architecture is formulated. An alternating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-16 Zhenqiao Cheng , Nanxi Li , Jianchi Zhu , Chongjun Ouyang , Xingqi Zhang

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs), comprising large numbers of low-cost and almost passive metamaterials with tunable reflection properties, have been recently proposed as an enabling technology for programmable wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Aris L. Moustakas , George C. Alexandropoulos , Mérouane Debbah

We investigate transmission optimization for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted multi-antenna systems from the physical-layer security perspective. The design goal is to maximize the system secrecy rate subject to the source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Hong Shen , Wei Xu , Shulei Gong , Zhenyao He , Chunming Zhao

This article addresses the design of multigroup multicast communications in the pinching-antenna system (PASS). A PASS-enabled multigroup transmission framework is proposed to maximize multicast rates under a couple of transmission…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Shan Shan , Chongjun Ouyang , Yong Li , Yuanwei Liu

Distributed phased Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (phased-MIMO) radar systems have attracted wide attention in target detection and tracking. However, the phase-shifting circuits in phased subarrays contribute to high power consumption and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-18 Qian Li , Ziang Yang , Dou Li , Hongliang Zhang

In this paper, we investigate how metasurfaces can be deployed to deliver high data rates in a millimeter-wave (mmWave) indoor dense space with many blocking objects. These surfaces can either be static metasurfaces (SMSs) that reflect with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Zhenyu Li , Ozan Alp Topal , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Cicek Cavdar

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an emerging technology that is able to reconfigure the wireless channel via tunable passive signal reflection and thereby enhance the spectral and energy efficiency of wireless networks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Ming-Min Zhao , An Liu , Yubo Wan , Rui Zhang

The pinching-antenna system (PASS) reconstructs wireless channels through pinching beamforming, i.e., optimizing the activated locations of pinching antennas (PAs) along the waveguide. The aim of this article is to investigate the joint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Mingjun Sun , Chongjun Ouyang , Shaochuan Wu , Yuanwei Liu

Movable antennas (MAs) are a promising paradigm to enhance the spatial degrees of freedom of conventional multi-antenna systems by flexibly adapting the positions of the antenna elements within a given transmit area. In this paper, we model…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Yifei Wu , Dongfang Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Wolfgang Gerstacker , Robert Schober

This work studies a low-complexity design for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multiuser multiple-input multiple-output systems. The base station (BS) applies receive antenna selection to connect a subset of its antennas to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-29 Chongjun Ouyang , Ali Bereyhi , Saba Asaad , Ralf R. Müller , Hongwen Yang

In millimeter wave (mmWave) systems, the advanced lens antenna array can effectively reduce the radio frequency chains cost. However, the mmWave signal is still vulnerable to blocking obstacles and suffers from severe path loss. To address…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-03 Yazheng Wang , Hancheng Lu , Dan Zhao , Huan Sun

The limited radio-frequency spectrum is a fundamental factor in the design of wireless communication systems. The ever increasing number of wireless devices and systems has led to a crowded spectrum and increased the demand for versatile…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-21 Sajjad Taravati , George V. Eleftheriades

This letter investigates the joint active and passive beamforming optimization for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided multiuser multiple-input multiple-output systems with the objective of maximizing the weighted sum-rate. We show…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Xingyu Zhao , Tian Lin , Yu Zhu

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications provide access to spectra with bandwidths and in abundance. However, the high susceptibility of mmWave to blockage imposes crucial challenges, especially to low-latency services. In this paper, a…

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