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The integration of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has emerged as a promising solution for enhancing connectivity in future wireless networks. This paper designs well-connected and resilient…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Mohammed Saif , Shahrokh Valaee

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) as an emerging cost-effective technology can enhance the spectrum- and energy-efficiency of wireless networks. In this paper, we consider an RIS-aided green edge inference system, where the inference…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Sheng Hua , Yong Zhou , Kai Yang , Yuanming Shi

This paper investigates the downlink communications of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) systems. To maximize the system throughput, we formulate a joint optimization problem over the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Jiakuo Zuo , Yuanwei Liu , Zhijin Qin , Naofal Al-Dhahir

This paper studies an Internet-of-Things (IoT) network employing a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) over generalized fading channels. Inspired by the promising potential of RIS-based transmission, we investigate a RIS-enabled IoT…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-16 Abubakar U. Makarfi , Khaled M. Rabie , Omprakash Kaiwartya , Osamah S. Badarneh , Xingwang Li , Rupak Kharel

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided networks have been investigated for the purpose of improving the system performance. However, the introduced unit modulus phase shifts and coupling characteristic bring enormous challenges to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Biqian Feng , Junyuan Gao , Yongpeng Wu , Wenjun Zhang , Xiang-Gen Xia , Chengshan Xiao

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is widely recognized for enhancing the energy and spectral efficiency through effective radio resource sharing. However, uplink NOMA systems face greater challenges than their downlink counterparts, as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-07 Mahmoud AlaaEldin , Mohammad Al-Jarrah , Xidong Mu , Emad Alsusa , Karim G. Seddik , Michail Matthaiou

The concept of age of information (AoI) has been proposed to quantify information freshness, which is crucial for time-sensitive applications. However, in millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems, the link blockage caused by obstacles…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Ziqi Guo , Yong Niu , Shiwen Mao , Changming Zhang , Ning Wang , Zhangdui Zhong , Bo Ai

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

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) exploits the potential of the power domain to enhance the connectivity for the Internet of Things (IoT). Due to time-varying communication channels, dynamic user clustering is a promising method to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Waleed Ahsan , Wenqiang Yi , Zhijin Qin , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

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

By flexibly manipulating the radio propagation environment, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technique for future wireless communications. However, the single-side coverage and double-fading attenuation faced by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Ailing Zheng , Wanli Ni , Wen Wang , Hui Tian

This paper introduces a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted grant-free non-orthogonal multiple-access (GF-NOMA) scheme. To ensure the power reception disparity required by the power domain NOMA (PD-NOMA), we propose a joint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-16 Recep Akif Tasci , Fatih Kilinc , Abdulkadir Celik , Asmaa Abdallah , Ahmed M. Eltawil , Ertugrul Basar

An intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) consists of a large number of low-cost reflecting elements, which can steer the incident signal collaboratively by passive beamforming. This way, IRS reconfigures the wireless environment to boost the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-01 M. Zeng , X. Li , G. Li , W. Hao , O. A. Dobre

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

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) bring great potential to the advancement of 6G and beyond wireless communication technologies. RISs introduce a great degree of flexibility, allowing some sort of virtual control over the wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-10 Ali Tugberk Dogukan , Emre Arslan , Ertugrul Basar

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has emerged as a cost-effective and energy-efficient technique for 6G. By adjusting the phase shifts of passive reflecting elements, RIS is capable of suppressing the interference and combining the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Jinglian He , Yijie Mao , Yong Zhou , Ting Wang , Yuanming Shi

This paper considers a wireless network with a base station (BS) conducting timely status updates to multiple clients via adaptive non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)/orthogonal multiple access (OMA). Specifically, the BS is able to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Qian Wang , He Chen , Changhong Zhao , Yonghui Li , Petar Popovski , Branka Vucetic

With the rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT), massive machine-type communication has become a promising application scenario, where a large number of devices transmit sporadically to a base station (BS). Reconfigurable intelligent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Shuhao Xia , Yuanming Shi , Yong Zhou , Xiaojun Yuan

This paper analyzes the performance of multiple reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs)-aided networks. The paper also provides some optimization results on the number of reflecting elements on RISs and the optimal placement of RISs. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Mahmoud Aldababsa , Anas M. Salhab , Ali Arshad Nasir , Monjed H. Samuh , Daniel Benevides da Costa

The combination of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an efficient solution to significantly enhance the energy efficiency of the wireless communication system. In this paper, we focus on a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-15 Ximing Xie , Fang Fang , Zhiguo Ding