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This paper studies a multi-target multi-user integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system where a multi-antenna base station (BS) communicates with multiple single-antenna users in the downlink and senses the unknown and random angle…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jiayi Yao , Shuowen Zhang

This paper focuses on the design of transmission methods and reflection optimization for a wireless system assisted by a single or multiple reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). The existing techniques are either too complex to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

Dynamic Metasurface Antennas (DMAs) constitute a promising solution for extremely large antenna arrays, requiring lower power consumption and reduced hardware cost as compared to conventional phased arrays. In this paper, we consider a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-06 Konstantinos D. Katsanos , Panagiotis Gavriilidis , George C. Alexandropoulos

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technology to enhance the spectral and energy efficiency in a wireless communication system. The design of the phase shifts of an RIS in every channel coherence interval demands a huge…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-15 Sadaf Syed , Dominik Semmler , Donia Ben Amor , Michael Joham , Wolfgang Utschick

We consider the optimization of beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surface (BD-RIS)-aided multi-user (MU) cell-free (CF)-massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) systems, where the propagation environment design achieved…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-18 Iván Alexander Morales Sandoval , Marko Fidanovski , Hyeon Seok Rou , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu , Emil Björnson

The main challenges in designing downlink coordinated multicast beamforming in massive multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) cellular networks are the complex computational solutions and significant fronthaul overhead for centralized…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-20 Shiqi Yin , Min Dong

In this work, we tackle the problem of beampattern design for a transmit system employing a large reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to redirect radio frequency signals emitted by a few active antennas (sources). We begin by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Ciro D'Elia , Emanuele Grossi , Luca Venturino

We consider the optimization of a smart radio environment where meta-surfaces are employed to improve the performance of multiuser wireless networks working at sub-THz frequencies. Motivated by the extreme sparsity of the THz channel we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Alberto Tarable , Francesco Malandrino , Laura Dossi , Roberto Nebuloni , Giuseppe Virone , Alessandro Nordio

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has drawn considerable attention from the research society recently, which creates favorable propagation conditions by controlling the phase shifts of the reflected waves at the surface, thereby…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Boya Di , Hongliang Zhang , Lingyang Song , Yonghui Li , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently been emerging as an enabler for smart radio environment in which passive antenna arrays can be used to actively tailor/control the radio propagation. With multiple IRSs being launched to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-09 Tu V. Nguyen , Diep N. Nguyen

This paper proposes a novel location information aided multiple intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) systems. Assuming imperfect user location information, the effective angles from the IRS to the users are estimated, which is then used to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Xiaoling Hu , Caijun Zhong , Yu Zhang , Xiaoming Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang

We propose a comprehensive field-based semianalytical method for designing fabrication-ready multifunctional periodic metasurfaces (MSs). Harnessing recent work on multielement metagratings based on capacitively-loaded strips, we have…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 Vinay K. Killamsetty , Ariel Epstein

Multicasting is an efficient technique for simultaneously transmitting common messages from the base station (BS) to multiple mobile users (MUs). Multicast scheduling over multiple channels, which aims to jointly minimize the energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Ran Li , Chuan Huang , Xiaoqi Qin , Shengpei Jiang

In this paper, we consider an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided single-user system where an IRS with discrete phase shifts is deployed to assist the uplink communication. A practical transmission protocol is proposed to execute…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Changsheng You , Beixiong Zheng , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) that enables the control of wireless propagation environment has recently emerged as a promising cost-effective technology for boosting the spectrum and energy efficiency in future wireless communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Samith Abeywickrama , Rui Zhang , Qingqing Wu , Chau Yuen

Multiple transmitting antennas can considerably increase the downlink spectral efficiency by beamforming to multiple users at the same time. However, multiuser beamforming requires channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Xu Du , John Tadrous , Ashutosh Sabharwal

To meet the growing demand for high data rates, cellular systems are expected to evolve towards higher carrier frequencies and larger antenna arrays, but conventional phased arrays face challenges in supporting such a prospection due to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-06 Zicheng Lin , Shuhao Zeng , Aryan Kaushik , Hongliang Zhang

This paper studies energy-efficient coordinated beamforming in multi-cell multi-user multigroup multicast multiple-input single-output systems. We aim at maximizing the network energy efficiency by taking into account the fact that some of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Oskari Tervo , Le-Nam Tran , Harri Pennanen , Symeon Chatzinotas , Markku Juntti , Björn Ottersten

Using RF signals for wireless sensing has gained increasing attention. However, due to the unwanted multi-path fading in uncontrollable radio environments, the accuracy of RF sensing is limited. Instead of passively adapting to the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-26 Jingzhi Hu , Hongliang Zhang , Kaigui Bian , Marco Di Renzo , Zhu Han , Lingyang Song

Dynamic metasurface antennas (DMAs) beamform through low-powered components that enable reconfiguration of each radiating element. Previous research on a single-user multiple-input-single-output (MISO) system with a dynamic metasurface…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Nitish Vikas Deshpande , Joseph Carlson , Miguel R. Castellanos , Robert W. Heath