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Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted cell-free (CF) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks can significantly enhance system performance. However, the extensive deployment of RIS elements imposes considerable channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Hongqin Ke , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Chau Yuen , Zhaohua Lu

Cell-Free Massive Multiple-input Multiple-output (mMIMO) consists of many access points (APs) in a coverage area that jointly serve the users. These systems can significantly reduce the interference among the users compared to conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Abbas Khalili , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) is a promising technology for further improving spectral efficiency (SE) with low cost and power consumption. However, conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yizhuo Li , Jiakang Zheng , Bokai Xu , Yiyang Zhu , Jiayi Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Bo Ai

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) have recently emerged as a hot research topic, being widely advocated as a candidate technology for next generation wireless communications. These surfaces passively alter the behavior of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Charbel Bou Chaaya , Mohamad Assaad , Tijani Chahed

This paper studies a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system with multiple RISs. Joint design of transmit precoding, RIS coefficients, and receive combining is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Navid Reyhanian , Reza Ghaderi Zefreh , Parisa Ramezani , Emil Bjornson

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are envisioned to be a disruptive wireless communication technique that is capable of reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment. In this paper, we study a free-space RIS-assisted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Xin Cheng , Yan Lin , Weiping Shi , Jiayu Li , Cunhua Pan , Feng Shu , Yongpeng Wu , Jiangzhou Wang

This paper studies RIS-aided cell-free massive MIMO systems, where multiple RISs are deployed to assist the communication between multiple access points (APs) and multiple users, with either continuous or discrete phase shifts at the RISs.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Si-Nian Jin , Dian-Wu Yue , Ha H. Nguyen

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been anticipated to be a novel cost-effective technology to improve the performance of future wireless systems. In this paper, we investigate a practical RIS-aided multiple-input-multiple-output…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Jintao Wang , Shiqi Gong , Qingqing Wu , Shaodan Ma

Integrating cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) with simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs) can provide ubiquitous connectivity and enhance coverage. This paper explores…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jun Qian , Ross Murch , Khaled B. Letaief

Simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS)-aided cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) systems are investigated under spatially correlated fading channels using realistic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Zeping Sui , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou , Lajos Hanzo

We consider a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system, where each access point (AP) serves all the users with the aid of the RIS. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Malay Chakraborty , Ekant Sharma , Himal A. Suraweera , Hien Quoc Ngo

This letter considers an active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multi-user uplink massive multipleinput multiple-output (MIMO) system with low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). The letter derives the closedform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Zhangjie Peng , Zecheng Lu , Xue Liu , Cunhua Pan , Jiangzhou Wang

Antenna selection is capable of reducing the hardware complexity of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks at the cost of certain performance degradation. Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has emerged as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Jinglian He , Kaiqiang Yu , Yuanming Shi , Yong Zhou , Wei Chen , Khaled B. Letaief

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technology that can reshape the electromagnetic environment in wireless networks, offering various possibilities for enhancing wireless channels. Motivated by this, we investigate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Shengguo Meng , Wankai Tang , Weicong Chen , Jifeng Lan , Qun Yan Zhou , Yu Han , Xiao Li , Shi Jin

This paper investigates the application of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) to improve fronthaul link survivability in cell-free massive MIMO (CF mMIMO) systems. To enhance the fronthaul survivability, two complementary mechanisms…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zhenyu Li , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Cicek Cavdar

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) are two promising technologies for 5G-and-beyond wireless networks, capable of providing large array gain and multiuser spatial multiplexing. Without…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Trinh Van Chien , Hien Quoc Ngo , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

A cell-free network merged with active reconfigurable reflecting surfaces (RIS) is investigated in this paper. Based on the imperfect channel state information (CSI), the aggregated channel from the user to the access point (AP) is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-23 Mahdi Eskandari , Huiling Zhu , Jiangzhou Wang

The combination of cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is envisioned as a promising paradigm to improve network capacity and enhance coverage capability. However, to reap…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Xinying Ma , Deyou Zhang , Ming Xiao , Chongwen Huang , Zhi Chen

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) represent a transformative technology for sixth-generation (6G) wireless communications, but it suffers from a significant limitation, namely the double-fading attenuation. Active RIS has emerged as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Yang Cao , Wenchi Cheng , Jingqing Wang , Wei Zhang

In this paper, we explore the integration of low-power, low-cost stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIM) into cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) systems to enhance access point (AP) capabilities and address high…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Enyu Shi , Jiayi Zhang , Yiyang Zhu , Jiancheng An , Chau Yuen , Bo Ai