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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is envisioned to play a significant role in future wireless communication systems thanks to its powerful capability of enabling smart and reconfigurable radio environment. In this paper, we study the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

Smart radio environments aided by reconfigurable intelligent reflecting surfaces (RIS) have attracted much research attention recently. We propose a joint optimization strategy for beamforming, RIS phases, and power allocation to maximize…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Athira Subhash , Abla Kammoun , Ahmed Elzanaty , Sheetal Kalyani , Yazan H. Al-Badarneh , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Indoor localization has drawn much attention owing to its potential for supporting location based services. Among various indoor localization techniques, the received signal strength (RSS) based technique is widely researched. However, in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-27 Haobo Zhang , Jingzhi Hu , Hongliang Zhang , Boya Di , Kaigui Bian , Zhu Han , Lingyang Song

In this paper, we investigate an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted cell-free multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication system, where distributed multiple IRSs are dedicated deployed to assist distributed multiple base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Xie Xie , Chen He , Xiaoya Li , Kun Yang , Z. Jane Wang

This paper investigates a novel transmissive reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) transceiver architectureenabled multigroup multicast downlink communication system. Under this setup, an optimization problem is formulated to maximize…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-28 Yuan Guo , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Yanze Zhu , Yang Liu , Zhendong Li , Ying Wang

We consider a multi-user hybrid beamforming system, where the multiplexing gain is limited by the small number of RF chains employed at the base station (BS). To allow greater freedom for maximizing the multiplexing gain, it is better if…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-17 Junghoon Kim , Matthew Andrews

Pinching-antenna systems (PASS) represent an innovative advancement in flexible-antenna technologies, aimed at significantly improving wireless communications by ensuring reliable line-of-sight connections and dynamic antenna array…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-27 Jingjing Zhao , Haowen Song , Xidong Mu , Kaiquan Cai , Yanbo Zhu , Yuanwei Liu

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are an emerging technology for improving spectral efficiency and reducing power consumption in future wireless systems. This paper investigates the joint design of the transmit precoding matrices…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Shumin Wang , Hajar El Hassani , Marco Di Renzo , Marios Poulakis

This paper investigates a multi-intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where multiple IRSs are strategically deployed not only to assist the communication from a multi-antenna base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Guangji Chen , Qingqing Wu , Shihang Lu , Meng Hua , Wen Chen

This paper considers an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted multi-input multi-output (MIMO) power splitting (PS) based simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) system with multiple PS receivers (PSRs). The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Chen He , Xie Xie , Kun Yang , Z. Jane Wang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has drawn a lot of attention recently as a promising new solution to achieve high spectral and energy efficiency for future wireless networks. By utilizing massive low-cost passive reflecting elements,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Ming-Min Zhao , Qingqing Wu , Min-Jian Zhao , Rui Zhang

Transmit beamforming is a versatile technique for signal transmission from an array of $N$ antennas to one or multiple users [1]. In wireless communications, the goal is to increase the signal power at the intended user and reduce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-22 Emil Björnson , Mats Bengtsson , Björn Ottersten

The reflection characteristics of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) depend on the phase response of the constituent unit cells, which is necessarily frequency dependent. This paper investigates the role of an RIS constituting unit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Omran Abbas , Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem , Loïc Markley , Anas Chaaban

Pinching-antenna systems (PASS) represent a promising customizable wireless access mechanism in high-frequency bands, enabled by dielectric waveguides and movable dielectric particles, called pinching antennas (PAs). In this work, we study…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Muhammad Fainan Hanif , Yuanwei Liu

This paper studies a sub-connected six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA)-aided multi-user communication system. In this system, each sub-array is connected to a dedicated radio frequency chain and collectively moves and rotates as a unit…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-24 Yichi Zhang , Yuchen Zhang , Lipeng Zhu , Sa Xiao , Wanbin Tang , Yonina C. Eldar , Rui Zhang

In this letter, we study the beamforming design for channel estimation of multi-functional reconfigurable intelligent surface (MF-RIS)-aided multi-user communications that supports simultaneous signal reflection, refraction, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Zaihao Pan , Wen Wang , Gaofeng Nie , Ailing Zheng , Wanli Ni

This paper considers the multi-group multicast beamforming optimization problem, for which the optimal solution has been unknown due to the non-convex and NP-hard nature of the problem. By utilizing the successive convex approximation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-13 Min Dong , Qiqi Wang

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are envisioned as a low-cost solution to achieve high spectral and energy efficiency in future communication systems due to their ability to customize wireless propagation environments. Although…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Yifei Wu , Dongfang Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober , Wolfgang Gerstacker

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology to boost the efficiency of wireless energy transfer (WET) systems. However, for a multiuser WET system, simultaneous multi-beam energy transmission is generally required to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Chi Qiu , Qingqing Wu , Meng Hua , Xinrong guan , Yuan Wu

In this paper, we propose an iterative algorithm to address the nonconvex multi-group multicast beamforming problem with quality-of-service constraints and per-antenna power constraints. We formulate a convex relaxation of the problem as a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-10 Jochen Fink , Renato L. G. Cavalcante , Slawomir Stanczak