English
Related papers

Related papers: Learning to Estimate RIS-Aided mmWave Channels

200 papers

Beamforming design for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted multi-user communication (IRS-MUC) systems critically depends on the acquisition of accurate channel state information (CSI). However, channel estimation (CE) in IRS-MUC…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-24 Chang Liu , Xuemeng Liu , Zhiqiang Wei , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRSs) are a promising technology for enhancing the spectral and energy efficiency of millimeter-wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. In these systems, accurate channel estimation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-15 Mehrdad Momen-Tayefeh , Mehrshad Momen-Tayefeh , Maryam Sabbaghian

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have been proposed recently as new technology to tune the wireless propagation channels in real-time. However, most of the current works assume single-RIS (S-RIS)-aided systems, which can be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Khaled Ardah , Sepideh Gherekhloo , André L. F. de Almeida , Martin Haardt

In TDD massive MIMO systems, channel estimation under sparse frequency-hopping pilots is challenging: each snapshot captures only one narrow pilot block that hops across frequency, with tens of milliseconds between adjacent snapshots.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Yufei Ma , Xu Zhu , Tiejun Li

Double-reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technique, achieving a substantial gain improvement compared to single-RIS techniques. However, in double-RIS-aided systems, accurate channel estimation is more challenging than…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Songjie Yang , Wanting Lyu , Yue Xiu , Zhongpei Zhang , Chau Yuen

Millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (massive MIMO) is one of the most promising technologies for the fifth generation and beyond wireless communication system. However, a large number of antennas incur high power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Ruizhe Wang , Hong Ren , Cunhua Pan , Jun Fang , Mianxiong Dong , Octavia A. Dobre

Deep learning (DL) has emerged as an effective tool for channel estimation in wireless communication systems, especially under some imperfect environments. However, even with such unprecedented success, DL methods are often regarded as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Hu Qiang , Gao Feifei , Zhang Hao , Jin Shi , Li Geoffrey Ye

We propose an unsupervised beamforming neural network (BNN) and a supervised reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) convolutional neural network (CNN) to optimize transmit beamforming and RIS coefficients of multi-input single-output…

A model-based deep learning (DL) architecture is proposed for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multi-user communications to reduce the number of bits required for transmitting phase shift information from the access point…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-10 Alexander James Fernandes , Ioannis Psaromiligkos

The combination of Terahertz (THz) and massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is promising to meet the increasing data rate demand of future wireless communication systems thanks to the huge bandwidth and spatial degrees of freedom.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Jiabao Gao , Xiaoming Cheng , Geoffrey Ye Li

In frequency division duplex (FDD) massive MIMO systems, reliable downlink channel estimation is essential for the subsequent data transmission but is realized at the cost of massive pilot overhead due to hundreds of antennas at base…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 An Chen , Wenbo Xu , Liyang Lu , Yue Wang

In this paper, we investigate channel estimation for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) empowered millimeter-wave (mmWave) multi-user single-input multiple-output communication systems using low-resolution quantization. Due to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Gyoseung Lee , In-soo Kim , Yonina C. Eldar , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Hyeongtaek Lee , Minje Kim , Junil Choi

This paper presents a physics-based channel modeling and optimization framework for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted downlink multi-user multiple-input single-output (MU-MISO) communication systems in site-specific…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Ziqi Liu , Wei Yu , Sean Victor Hum

Millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) has been regarded to be an emerging solution for the next generation of communications, in which hybrid analog and digital precoding is an important method for reducing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-23 Hongji Huang , Yiwei Song , Jie Yang , Guan Gui , Fumiyuki Adachi

Accurate multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channel estimation is critical for next-generation wireless systems, enabling enhanced communication and sensing performance. Traditional model-based channel estimation methods suffer, however,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Seyed Alireza Javid , Nuria González-Prelcic

This paper proposes a three-stage uplink channel estimation protocol for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multi-user (MU) millimeter-wave (mmWave) multiple-input single-output (MISO) systems, where both the base station (BS)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Tian Qiu , Ruidong Li , Cunhua Pan , Taihaon Zhang , Dongnan Xia , Changhong Wang , Hong Ren

In wideband millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, channel estimation is challenging due to the hybrid analog-digital architecture, which compresses the received pilot signal and makes channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Jiabao Gao , Caijun Zhong , Geoffrey Ye Li

Learning-based single image super-resolution (SISR) methods are continuously showing superior effectiveness and efficiency over traditional model-based methods, largely due to the end-to-end training. However, different from model-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-24 Kai Zhang , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

Channel estimation is challenging for millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive MIMO with hybrid precoding, since the number of radio frequency (RF) chains is much smaller than that of antennas. Conventional compressive sensing based channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Chen Hu , Linglong Dai , Talha Mir , Zhen Gao , Jun Fang

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are a main enabler of the excessive throughput requirements in 5G and future generation wireless networks as they can serve many users simultaneously with high spectral and energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Deniz Gündüz