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Simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs) have been attracting significant attention in both academia and industry for their advantages of achieving 360{\deg} coverage and enhanced degrees of…

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This paper investigates simultaneous transmission and reflection reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) aided physical layer security (PLS) in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, where the base station (BS) transmits…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Xiequn Dong , Zesong Fei , Xinyi Wang , Meng Hua , Qingqing Wu

Transmissive reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) represent a transformative architecture for future wireless networks, enabling a paradigm shift from traditional costly base stations to low-cost, energy-efficient transmitters. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Zhengwei Jiang , Yufeng Zhou , Xusheng Zhu , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Kai-Kit Wong

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) has becoming a useful tool in future wireless communication systems for close-distance communication network. This paper we use Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) for downlink multi-user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-02 RuiTianYi Lu

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

In this paper, we propose and study a multi-functional reconfigurable intelligent surface (MF-RIS) architecture. In contrast to conventional single-functional RIS (SF-RIS) that only reflects signals, the proposed MF-RIS simultaneously…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Wen Wang , Wanli Ni , Hui Tian , Yonina C. Eldar , Rui Zhang

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

This paper investigates a wireless-powered hybrid reflecting intelligent surface (hybrid RIS)-assisted multiple access system, where the RIS can harvest energy from energy station (ES) transmitted radio frequency signal (RF), and each…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-20 Mingang Yuan , Wenzhe Zhang , Gaofei Huang

This paper explores an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) network empowered by multiple active simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs). A base station (BS) furnishes downlink…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-25 Hyeonho Noh , Hyeonsu Lyu , Hyun Jong Yang

The opening of the millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum bands for 5G communications has motivated the need for novel spectrum sharing solutions at these high frequencies. In fact, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have recently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Omar Hashash , Walid Saad , Mohammadreza F. Imani , David R. Smith

This paper proposes an energy-efficient scheme for multicell multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) simultaneous transmit and reflect (STAR) reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS)-assisted broadcast channels by employing rate splitting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Mohammad Soleymani , Ignacio Santamaria , Eduard Jorswieck

This paper investigates an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided multi-cell multiple-input single-output (MISO) system with several multi-antenna base stations (BSs) each communicating with a single-antenna user, in which an IRS is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Hailiang Xie , Jie Xu , Ya-Feng Liu

In this paper, we investigate an active simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) assisted integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) system, where the dual-function base station (DFBS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Shuang Zhang , Wanming Hao , Gangcan Sun , Chongwen Huang , Zhengyu Zhu , Xingwang Li , Chau Yuen

In this letter, we study efficient uplink channel estimation design for a simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) assisted two-user communication systems. We first consider the time switching…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Chenyu Wu , Changsheng You , Yuanwei Liu , Xuemai Gu , Yunlong Cai

In this paper, we consider a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multiple-input multiple-output communication system with multiple antennas at both the base station (BS) and the user. We plan to maximize the achievable rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yaqiong Zhao , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Kezhi Wang , Xinquan Ye , Chau Yuen , Xiaohu You

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has emerged as a cost-effective and promising solution to extend the wireless signal coverage and improve the performance via passive signal reflection. Different from existing works which do not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Ahmet M. Elbir , Pandelis Kourtessis , Ioannis Krikidis , Symeon Chatzinotas

In this letter, simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs) are studied. Compared with the conventional reflecting-only RISs, the coverage of STAR-RISs is extended to 360 degrees via simultaneous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-30 Jiaqi Xu , Yuanwei Liu , Xidong Mu , Octavia A. Dobre

In this work, we investigate a novel simultaneous transmission and reflection reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multiple-input multiple-output downlink system, where three practical transmission protocols, namely, energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Hehao Niu , Zheng Chu , Fuhui Zhou , Pei Xiao , Naofal Al-Dhahir

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has entered the public consciousness as a promising technology for enhancing the performance of future wireless communication systems by dynamically constructing the wireless channels. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Pingping Zhang , Shiqi Gong , Shaodan Ma

Although reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) can improve the performance of wireless networks by smartly reconfiguring the radio environment, existing passive RISs face two key challenges, i.e., double-fading attenuation and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Wen Wang , Wanli Ni , Hui Tian , Naofal Al-Dhahir