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Next generation wireless base stations and access points will transmit and receive using extremely massive numbers of antennas. A promising technology for realizing such massive arrays in a dynamically controllable and scalable manner with…

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Engineering and optimization of wireless propagation channels will be one of the key elements of future communication technologies. Metasurfaces may offer a wide spectrum of functionalities for passive and tunable reflecting devices,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-02-16 Sergei Kosulnikov , Xuchen Wang , Sergei A. Tretyakov

Metasurfaces, or Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs), have emerged as a transformative technology for next-generation wireless systems, enabling digitally controlled manipulation of electromagnetic wave propagation. By turning the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Paul Staat , Christof Paar , Swarun Kumar

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), which consists of a large number of tunable reflective elements, is capable of enhancing the wireless propagation environment in a cellular network by intelligently reflecting the electromagnetic waves…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-10 Tao Jiang , Hei Victor Cheng , Wei Yu

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is an emerging technique employing metasurface to reflect the signal from the source node to the destination node. By smartly reconfiguring the electromagnetic (EM) properties of the metasurface and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Qi Gu , Dan Wu , Xin Su , Hanning Wang , Jingyuan Cui , Yifei Yuan

The widespread adoption of mobile communication technology has led to a severe shortage of spectrum resources, driving the development of cognitive radio technologies aimed at improving spectrum utilization, with spectrum sensing being the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-11 Shilian Zheng , Zhihao Ye , Luxin Zhang , Keqiang Yue , Zhijin Zhao

As the current standardization for the 5G networks nears completion, work towards understanding the potential technologies for the 6G wireless networks is already underway. One of these potential technologies for the 6G networks are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-17 Hamidreza Taghvaee , Akshay Jain , Xavier Timoneda , Christos Liaskos , Sergi Abadal , Eduard Alarcón , Albert Cabellos-Aparicio

In this paper, we investigate a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multiuser full-duplex secure communication system with hardware impairments at transceivers and RIS, where multiple eavesdroppers overhear the two-way…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Zhangjie Peng , Zhibo Zhang , Lei Kong , Cunhua Pan , Li Li , Jiangzhou Wang

In this paper, we consider a wireless network of smart sensors (agents) that monitor a dynamical process and send measurements to a base station that performs global monitoring and decision-making. Smart sensors are equipped with both…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Luca Ballotta , Giovanni Peserico , Francesco Zanini

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) can effectively control the wavefront of the impinging signals and has emerged as a cost-effective promising solution to improve the spectrum and energy efficiency of wireless systems. Most existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Yiming Liu , Erwu Liu , Rui Wang , Binyu Lu , Zhu Han

This paper studies fast adaptive beamforming optimization for the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio balancing problem in a multiuser multiple-input single-output downlink system. Existing deep learning based approaches to predict…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Yi Yuan , Gan Zheng , Kai-Kit Wong , Björn Ottersten , Zhi-Quan Luo

We study a novel problem that tackles learning based sensor scanning in 3D and uncertain environments with heterogeneous multi-robot systems. Our motivation is two-fold: first, 3D environments are complex, the use of heterogeneous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Junfeng Chen , Yuan Gao , Junjie Hu , Fuqin Deng , Tin Lun Lam

Electromagnetic metasurfaces can be characterized as intelligent if they are able to perform multiple tunable functions, with the desired response being controlled by a computer influencing the individual electromagnetic properties of each…

What is a reconfigurable intelligent surface? What is a smart radio environment? What is a metasurface? How do metasurfaces work and how to model them? How to reconcile the mathematical theories of communication and electromagnetism? What…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Marco Di Renzo , Alessio Zappone , Merouane Debbah , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Chau Yuen , Julien de Rosny , Sergei Tretyakov

Conventional acoustic metasurfaces are constructed with gradiently ``local'' phase shift profiles provided by subunits. The local strategy implies the ignorance of the mutual coupling between subunits, which limits the efficiency of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Hua Ding , Xinsheng Fang , Bin Jia , Nengyin Wang , Qian Cheng , Yong Li

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been widely studied in recent years, it has emerged as a new technology which can reflect the incident signal by intelligently configuring the reflection elements, thus changing the signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jintao Luo , Sixing Yin

Flexible intelligent metasurface (FIM) has emerged as a transformative technology to enhance wireless sensing by dynamically morphing its three-dimensional (3D) surface shape and electromagnetic response. Unlike conventional rigid arrays,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zihao Teng , Jiancheng An , Lu Gan , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Zhu Han

Metasurfaces, and in particular reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), are revolutionizing wireless communications by dynamically controlling electromagnetic waves. Recent wireless communication advancements necessitate broadband and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-20 Rafid Umayer Murshed , Md Shoaib Akhter Rafi , Sakib Reza , Mohammad Saquib , Ifana Mahbub

Terahertz (THz) systems have the benefit of high bandwidth and hence are capable of supporting ultra-high data rates, albeit at the cost of high pathloss. Hence they tend to harness high-gain beamforming. Therefore a novel hybrid 3D…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-07 Xufang Wang , Zihuai Lin , Feng Lin , Lajos Hanzo , Life Fellow

The received signal strength (RSS) based technique is extensively utilized for localization in the indoor environments. Since the RSS values of neighboring locations may be similar, the localization accuracy of the RSS based technique is…

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