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Active reconfigurable intelligent surface (A-RIS) aided integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) system has been considered as a promising paradigm to improve spectrum efficiency. However, massive energy-hungry radio frequency (RF)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Wei Ma , Peichang Zhang , Junjie Ye , Rouyang Guan , Xiao-Peng Li , Lei Huang

In this paper, we investigate the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided terahertz (THz) communication system with the sparse radio frequency chains antenna structure at the base station (BS). To overcome the beam split of the BS,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Gangcan Sun , Wencai Yan , Wanming Hao , Chongwen Huang , Chau Yuen

Terahertz (THz) communications have emerged as a promising candidate to support the heavy data traffic and exploding network capacity in the future 6G wireless networks. However, THz communications are facing many challenges for practical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Zhi Chen , Boyu Ning , Chong Han , Zhongbao Tian , Shaoqian Li

Recently, simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs) have received significant research interest. The employment of large STAR-RIS and high-frequency signaling inevitably make the near-field…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Haochen Li , Yuanwei Liu , Xidong Mu , Yue Chen , Zhiwen Pan , Yonina C. Eldar

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-based transmission technology offers a promising solution to enhance wireless communication performance cost-effectively through properly adjusting the parameters of a large number of passive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-05 Zehra Yigit , Ertugrul Basar , Ibrahim Altunbas

We consider the problem of proactive handoff and beam selection in Terahertz (THz) drone communication networks assisted with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS). Drones have emerged as critical assets for next-generation wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Nof Abuzainab , Muhammad Alrabeiah , Ahmed Alkhateeb , Yalin E. Sagduyu

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is considered as a promising solution for next-generation wireless communication networks due to a variety of merits, e.g., customizing the communication environment. Therefore, deploying multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-09 Mengbing Liu , Chongwen Huang , Marco Di Renzo , Merouane Debbah , Chau Yuen

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology has recently emerged as a spectral- and cost-efficient approach for wireless communications systems. However, existing hand-engineered schemes for passive beamforming design and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Ly V. Nguyen , Thien Huynh-The , Duy H. N. Nguyen , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Markku Juntti

This paper introduces a novel approach of utilizing the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) for joint data modulation and signal beamforming in a multi-user downlink cellular network by leveraging the idea of backscatter communication.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Haseeb Ur Rehman , Faouzi Bellili , Amine Mezghani , Ekram Hossain

Benefiting from tens of GHz of bandwidth, terahertz (THz) communications has become a promising technology for future 6G networks. However, the conventional hybrid beamforming architecture based on frequency-independent phase-shifters is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Yihang Jiang , Ziqin Zhou , Xiaoyang Li , Yi Gong

Terahertz (THz) communication is expected to be a key technology for future sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. Furthermore, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have been proposed to modify the wireless propagation environment…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Waqas Khalid , Heejung Yu , Yazdan Ahmad Qadri

In this paper, we consider a reconfigurable intelligence surface (RIS) aided uplink multiuser multi-input multi-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system, where the receiver is assumed to conduct low-complexity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Mingyang Yue , Lei Liu , Xiaojun Yuan

In this paper, we propose a novel blockage-aware hierarchical beamforming framework for movable antenna (MA) systems operating at millimeter-wave (mm-Wave) frequencies. While existing works on MA systems have demonstrated performance gains…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 Yan Zhang , Indrakshi Dey , Nicola Marchetti

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) massive MIMO systems often rely on predefined beamforming codebooks, which are usually suboptimal in Non-Line-of-Sight (NLoS) conditions and for hardware-limited transceivers. Reinforcement…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Anouar Nechi , Rainer Buchty , Mladen Berekovic , Saleh Mulhem

This paper considers a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided millimeter wave (mmWave) downlink communication system where hybrid analog-digital beamforming is employed at the base station (BS). We formulate a power minimization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Renwang Li , Bei Guo , Meixia Tao , Ya-Feng Liu , Wei Yu

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) has emerged as a promising technology to enhance the wireless propagation environment for next-generation wireless communication systems. This paper introduces a new RIS-assisted multiple-antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Xiaofan Niu , Minquan Cheng , Kai Wan , Robert Caiming Qiu , Giuseppe Caire

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) is a promising technology for further improving spectral efficiency (SE) with low cost and power consumption. However, conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yizhuo Li , Jiakang Zheng , Bokai Xu , Yiyang Zhu , Jiayi Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Bo Ai

Terahertz (THz) communication signals are susceptible to severe degradation because of the molecular interaction with the atmosphere in the form of subsequent absorption and re-radiation. Recently, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Anish Pradhan , Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Andreas F. Molisch

In this paper, we consider the robust beamforming design in a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided cell-free (CF) system considering the channel state information (CSI) uncertainties of both the direct channels and cascaded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Jiacheng Yao , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Chau Yuen , Xiaohu You

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology has attracted interest due to its promising coverage and spectral efficiency features. However, some challenges need to be addressed to realize this technology in practice. One of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-21 Mehmet Ali Aygul , Mahmoud Nazzal , Huseyin Arslan