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This paper considers downlink of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access (CNOMA) systems. Our objective is to minimize the total transmit power by jointly optimizing the active…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Jiakuo Zuo , Yuanwei Liu , Naofal Al-Dhahir

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

Active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a new RIS architecture that can reflect and amplify communication signals. It can provide enhanced performance gain compared to the conventional passive RIS systems that can only reflect…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Qian Zhang , Mingjie Shao , Qiang Li , Ju Liu

In recent years there has been a growing interest in reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) as enablers for the realization of smart radio propagation environments which can provide performance improvements with low energy consumption…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Nuno Souto , João Carlos Silva

The coupling of cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) with Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) is investigated in this paper. A MEC-enabled CF-mMIMO architecture implementing a distributed user-centric approach both from the radio and the computational…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Giovanni Interdonato , Stefano Buzzi

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a cornerstone for future sixth-generation (6G) networks, enabling simultaneous connectivity and environmental awareness. However, practical realization faces significant challenges, including…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-12 Adam Umra , Kevin Weinberger , Aymen Khaleel , Gerald Enzner , Aydin Sezgin

Conventional multiple-input multiple-out (MIMO) technologies have encountered bottlenecks of significantly increasing spectrum efficiencies of wireless communications due to the low degrees of freedom in practical line-of-sight scenarios…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-05 Jun Lan , Liping Liang , Wenchi Cheng , Wei Zhang

The cloud radio access network (C-RAN) has become the foundational structure for various emerging communication paradigms, leveraging the flexible deployment of distributed access points (APs) and centralized task processing. In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Chang Wu , Hancheng Lu , Yuang Chen , Langtian Qin

A simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) assisted simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) system is proposed. More particularly, an STAR-RIS is deployed to assist in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Guangyu Zhu , Xidong Mu , Li Guo , Ao Huang , Shibiao Xu

The advent of massive ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (mURLLC) has introduced a critical class of time- and reliability-sensitive services within next-generation wireless networks. This shift has attracted significant research…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-16 Jingqing Wang , Wenchi Cheng , Wei Zhang

We study the joint active/passive beamforming and channel blocklength (CBL) allocation in a non-ideal reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC) system. The considered scenario is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Ramin Hashemi , Samad Ali , Nurul Huda Mahmood , Matti Latva-aho

Some emerging 5G and beyond use-cases impose stringent latency constraints, which necessitates a paradigm shift towards finite blocklength performance analysis. In contrast to Shannon capacity-achieving codes, the codeword length in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Nourhan Hesham , Anas Chaaban , Hesham ElSawy , Jahangir Hossain

To support ultra-reliable and low-latency services for mission-critical applications, transmissions are usually carried via short blocklength codes, i.e., in the so-called finite blocklength (FBL) regime. Different from the infinite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Yao Zhu , Yulin Hu , Xiaopeng Yuan , M. Cenk Gursoy , H. Vincent Poor , Anke Schmeink

This paper considers a resource allocation problem in device-to-device (D2D) communications sharing the same frequency spectrum. In particular, the CUs utilize non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) while DUs adopt the orthogonal frequency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Siavash Bayat , Ata Khalili , Shayan Zargari , Mohammad Robat Mili , Zhu Han

Physical layer security (PLS) is a potential solution for secure and reliable transmissions in future Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Communications (URLLC). This work jointly optimizes redundant bits and blocklength allocation in practical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Xinyan Le , Yao Zhu , Yulin Hu , Bin Han

This paper investigates reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided frequency division duplexing (FDD) communication systems. Since the downlink and uplink signals are simultaneously transmitted in FDD, the phase shifts at the RIS should…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Gyoseung Lee , Hyeongtaek Lee , Donghwan Kim , Jaehoon Chung , A. Lee. Swindlehurst , Junil Choi

This paper investigates the ultra reliable and low latency communication (URLLC) performance of the IRS-aided MIMO system. The upper and lower bounds of the optimal average error probability (OAEP) for the coding rate 1/sqrt(Mn) of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Xin Zhang , Shenghui Song

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

A novel coexisting passive reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) and active decode-and-forward (DF) relay assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) transmission framework is proposed. In particular, two communication protocols are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Ao Huang , Li Guo , Xidong Mu , Chao Dong , Yuanwei Liu

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) represent a new technology that can shape the radio wave propagation and thus offers a great variety of possible performance and implementation gains. Motivated by this, we investigate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Nemanja Stefan Perović , Le-Nam Tran , Marco Di Renzo , Mark F. Flanagan