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Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technology for future wireless communication systems. However, the conventional RIS can only reflect the incident signal. Hence, it provides a limited coverage, as compared to a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Sadaf Syed , Wolfgang Utschick , Michael Joham

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are widely considered a promising technology for future wireless communication systems. As an important indicator of RIS-assisted communication systems in green wireless communications, energy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-25 Zhiyi Li , Jida Zhang , Jieao Zhu , Shi Jin , Linglong Dai

In this paper, we investigate the energy efficiency (EE) problem under reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided secure cell-free networks, where multiple legitimate users and eavesdroppers (Eves) exist. We formulate a max-min secure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Wanming Hao , Junjie Li , Gangcan Sun , Chongwen Huang , Ming Zeng , Octavia A. Dobre , Chau Yuen

Recently, simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs) have emerged as a novel technology that provides 360 coverage and new degrees-of-freedom (DoFs). They are also capable of manipulating…

This work studies the problem of secrecy energy efficiency maximization in multi-user wireless networks aided by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, in which an eavesdropper overhears the uplink communication. A provably convergent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-20 Robert Kuku Fotock , Agbotiname Lucky Imoize , Alessio Zappone , Marco Di Renzo , Roberto Garello

The emergence of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) enables us to establish programmable radio wave propagation that caters for wireless communications, via employing low-cost passive reflecting units. This work studies the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Li You , Jiayuan Xiong , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Chau Yuen , Wenjin Wang , Xiqi Gao

A novel movable-element enabled simultaneously transmitting and reflecting surface (ME-STARS) communication system is proposed, where ME-STARS elements positions can be adjusted to enhance the degress-of-freedom for transmission and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 Jingjing Zhao , Quan Zhou , Xidong Mu , Kaiquan Cai , Yanbo Zhu , Yuanwei Liu

Different from conventional reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), a recent innovation called simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) has emerged, aimed at achieving complete 360-degree…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Abdelhamid Salem , Kai-Kit Wong , Chan-Byoung Chae , Yangyang Zhang

This paper proposes a general optimization framework to improve the spectral and energy efficiency (EE) of ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) simultaneous-transfer-and-receive (STAR) reconfigurable intelligent surface…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Mohammad Soleymani , Ignacio Santamaria , Eduard Jorswieck

A hardware model and a signal model are proposed for dual-sided simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs), where the signal simultaneously incident on both sides of the surface. Based on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Jiaqi Xu , Xidong Mu , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Yuanwei Liu

The development of 6G/B5G wireless networks, which have requirements that go beyond current 5G networks, is gaining interest from academia and industry. However, to increase 6G/B5G network quality, conventional cellular networks that rely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Yu Min Park , Yan Kyaw Tun , Choong Seon Hong

This work investigates the performance of intelligent reflective surfaces (IRSs) assisted uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) in energy-constrained networks. Specifically, we formulate and solve two optimization problems; the first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Mahmoud AlaaEldin , Emad Alsusa , Karim G. Seddik , Constantinos B. Papadias , Mohammad Al-Jarrah

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are envisioned to provide reconfigurable wireless environments for future communication networks. In this paper, both downlink and uplink IRS-aided non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and orthogonal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-05 Yanyu Cheng , Kwok Hung Li , Yuanwei Liu , Kah Chan Teh , H. Vincent Poor

Fluid integrated reflecting and emitting surfaces (FIRES) are investigated. In these metasurfaces, each subarea hosts an active element capable of simultaneous transmission and reflection, phase, and geometric positioning control within the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Kai-Kit Wong , Masoud Kaveh , Hanjiang Hong , Chan-Byoung Chae , Lajos Hanzo

Wireless powered and backscattering mobile edge computing (WPB-MEC) network is a novel network paradigm to supply energy supplies and computing resource to wireless sensors (WSs). However, its performance is seriously affected by severe…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-06 Bin Lyu , Yining Zhang , Pengcheng Chen , Ziwei Liu , Feng Tian

The fundamental intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) deployment problem is investigated for IRS-assisted networks, where one IRS is arranged to be deployed in a specific region for assisting the communication between an access point (AP)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-07 Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Li Guo , Jiaru Lin , Robert Schober

Simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs) have emerged as a promising technology for achieving full-space coverage. Prior works on STAR-RISs mostly assumed the full and instantaneous channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Chenyu Wu , Changsheng You , Yuanwei Liu , Shuo Shi , Marco Di Renzo

This paper proposes a quality-of-service (QoS)-aware multi-user communication framework facilitated by multiple simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs). The user groups are established…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Junfeng Wang , Xiao Tang , Jinxin Liu , Zhi Zhai , Qinghe Du , Naijin Liu

A critical concern within the realm of visible light communications (VLC) pertains to enhancing system data rate, particularly in scenarios where the direct line-of-sight (LoS) connection is obstructed by obstacles. The deployment of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Omar Maraqa , Sylvester Aboagye , Telex M. N. Ngatched

This letter proposes a novel six-dimensional movable metasurface (6DMM)-assisted downlink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system, in which a conventional base station (BS) equipped with fixed antennas serves multiple users with the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-10 Li-Hsiang Shen