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Intelligent wireless networks have long been expected to have self-configuration and self-optimization capabilities to adapt to various environments and demands. In this paper, we develop a novel distributed hierarchical deep reinforcement…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-06 Kaiwen Yu , Chonghao Zhao , Gang Wu , Geoffrey Ye Li

Cognitive radio networks (CRNs) are a key mechanism for alleviating spectrum scarcity by enabling secondary users (SUs) to opportunistically access licensed frequency bands without harmful interference to primary users (PUs). To address…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Deemah H. Tashman , Soumaya Cherkaoui

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) is a promising solution to build a programmable wireless environment via steering the incident signal in fully customizable ways with reconfigurable passive elements. In this paper, we consider a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Huayan Guo , Ying-Chang Liang , Jie Chen , Erik G. Larsson

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is considered as an extraordinarily promising technology to solve the blockage problem of millimeter wave (mmWave) communications owing to its capable of establishing a reconfigurable wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Yuqian Zhu , Ming Li , Yang Liu , Qian Liu , Zheng Chang , Yulin Hu

In this work, we examine an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted downlink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) scenario with the aim of maximizing the sum rate of users. The optimization problem at the IRS is quite complicated,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Muhammad Shehab , Bekir S. Ciftler , Tamer Khattab , Mohamed Abdallah , Daniele Trinchero

This paper presents a novel heuristic deep reinforcement learning (HDRL) framework designed to optimize reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) phase shifts in secure satellite communication systems utilizing rate splitting multiple access…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Tingnan Bao , Melike Erol-Kantarci

To enable non-line-of-sight (NLoS) sensing and communications, dual-function radar-communications (DFRC) systems have recently proposed employing reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) as a reflector in wireless media. However, in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Tong Wei , Linlong Wu , Kumar Vijay Mishra , M. R. Bhavani Shankar

The design of Wireless Networked Control System (WNCS) requires addressing critical interactions between control and communication systems with minimal complexity and communication overhead while providing ultra-high reliability. This paper…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-20 Hamida Qumber Ali , Amirhassan Babazadeh Darabi , Sinem Coleri

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a newly-emerged technology that might fundamentally change how wireless networks are operated. Though extensively studied in recent years, the practical limitations of RIS are often neglected when…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Parisa Ramezani , Yasaman Khorsandmanesh , Emil Björnson

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology is receiving significant attention as a key enabling technology for 6G communications, with much attention given to coverage infill and wireless power transfer. However, relatively little…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-27 Wei Wang , Peizheng Li , Angela Doufexi , Mark A Beach

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) mounted on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can reshape wireless propagation on-demand. However, their performance is sensitive to UAV jitter and cascaded channel uncertainty. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Anas K. Saeed , Mahmoud M. Salim , Ali Arshad Nasir , Ali H. Muqaibel

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) offer a promising means of reshaping the wireless propagation environment, yet practical methods for configuring large passive arrays to achieve reliable signal equalization remain limited.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Gal Ben-Itzhak , Ender Ayanoglu

In this article, we study a Radio Resource Allocation (RRA) that was formulated as a non-convex optimization problem whose main aim is to maximize the spectral efficiency subject to satisfaction guarantees in multiservice wireless systems.…

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology holds immense potential for increasing the performance of wireless networks. Therefore, RIS is also regarded as one of the solutions to address communication challenges in high-mobility…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Hanwen Hu , Jiancheng An , Lu Gan , Chau Yuen

As the number of user equipments (UEs) with various data rate and latency requirements increases in wireless networks, the resource allocation problem for orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) becomes challenging. In…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Eike-Manuel Bansbach , Victor Eliachevitch , Laurent Schmalen

This paper investigates the system spectral efficiency (SE) in reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multiuser multiple-input single-output (MISO) systems, where RIS can reconfigure the propagation environment via a large number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Yulan Gao , Chao Yong , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Yue Xiao , Jun Zhao

This paper presents a dual-hop hybrid framework that integrates a free-space optical (FSO)/RIS-aided radio frequency (RF) link operating under a hard-switching protocol as the first hop, and an optical reconfigurable intelligent surface…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Aboozar Heydaribeni , Hamzeh Beyranvand , Sahar Eslami

Mounting a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) holds promise for improving traditional terrestrial network performance. Unlike conventional methods deploying passive RIS on UAVs, this study delves…

We study the allocation of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) in a multi-cell wireless network, where base stations compete for control of shared RIS units deployed at the cell edges. These RISs, provided by an independent operator,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Martin Mark Zan , Stefan Schwarz

The design of beamforming for downlink multi-user massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) relies on accurate downlink channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter (CSIT). In fact, it is difficult for the base station (BS) to obtain…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-20 Zhenyuan Feng , Bruno Clerckx