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Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS)-empowered communication has emerged as a transformative technology for next generation wireless networks, enabling the programmable shaping of the propagation environment. However, conventional RISs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Recep Akif Tasci , Panagiotis Gavriilidis , Ertugrul Basar , George C. Alexandropoulos

A wireless communication system is studied that operates in the presence of multiple reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). In particular, a multi-operator environment is considered where each operator utilizes an RIS to enhance its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Nikolaos I. Miridakis , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Panagiotis A. Karkazis , Helen C. Leligou , Petar Popovski

We optimize resource allocation to enable communication security in simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) for internet-of-things (IoT) networks. The resource allocation algorithm design is formulated as a non-convex…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-30 Elena Boshkovska , Nikola Zlatanov , Linglong Dai , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

In this paper, we propose a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted frequency-modulated (FM) differential chaos shift keying (DCSK) scheme with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT), called RIS-FM-DCSK-SWIPT…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Yi Fang , Yiwei Tao , Huan Ma , Yonghui Li , Mohsen Guizani

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are a novel form of ultra-low power devices that are capable to increase the communication data rates as well as the cell coverage in a cost- and energy-efficient way. This is attributed to their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Ruiqi Liu , Shuang Zheng , Qingqing Wu , Yifan Jiang , Nan Zhang , Yuanwei Liu , Marco Di Renzo , and George C. Alexandropoulos

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

A spurt of progress in wireless power transfer (WPT) and mobile edge computing (MEC) provides a promising approach for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) to enhance the quality and productivity of manufacturing. Scheduling in such a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-06 Hao Wu , Xinchen Lyu , Hui Tian

This paper studies the application of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access (C-NOMA) networks with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT). We aim for maximizing the rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Juanjuan Ren , Xianfu Lei , Zhangjie Peng , Xiaohu Tang , Octavia A. Dobre

This paper proposes a hybrid-relaying scheme empowered by a self-sustainable intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in a wireless powered communication network (WPCN), to simultaneously improve the performance of downlink energy transfer (ET)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-01 Bin Lyu , Parisa Ramezani , Dinh Thai Hoang , Shimin Gong , Zhen Yang , Abbas Jamalipour

Internet of Things (IoT) applications combine sensing, wireless communication, intelligence, and actuation, enabling the interaction among heterogeneous devices that collect and process considerable amounts of data. However, the…

Enabling large-scale energy-efficient Internet-of-things (IoT) connectivity is an essential step towards realization of networked society. While legacy wide-area wireless systems are highly dependent on network-side coordination, the level…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Amin Azari , Cicek Cavdar

Numerous energy harvesting wireless devices that will serve as building blocks for the Internet of Things (IoT) are currently under development. However, there is still only limited understanding of the properties of various energy sources…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2014-05-16 Maria Gorlatova , John Sarik , Guy Grebla , Mina Cong , Ioannis Kymissis , Gil Zussman

Recent considerations for reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) assume that RISs can convey information by reflection without the need of transmit radio frequency chains, which, however, is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Shaoe Lin , Beixiong Zheng , George C. Alexandropoulos , Miaowen Wen , Marco Di Renzo , Fangjiong Chen

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology for achieving spectrum and energy efficient wireless networks cost-effectively. Most existing works on IRS have focused on exploiting IRS to enhance the performance of wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Qingqing Wu , Xinrong Guan , Rui Zhang

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) constitute a promising emerging technology that enables wireless systems to control the propagation environment to enhance diverse communication objectives. To mitigate double-fading attenuation in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Panagiotis Gavriilidis , Deepak Mishra , Besma Smida , Ertugrul Basar , Chau Yuen , George C. Alexandropoulos

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs), comprising large numbers of low-cost and almost passive metamaterials with tunable reflection properties, have been recently proposed as an enabling technology for programmable wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Aris L. Moustakas , George C. Alexandropoulos , Mérouane Debbah

This paper investigates the problem of secure energy efficiency maximization for a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted uplink wireless communication system, where an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with an RIS works as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-08 Hui Long , Ming Chen , Zhaohui Yang , Bao Wang , Zhiyang Li , Xu Yun , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

The ever-increasing data traffic, various delay-sensitive services, and the massive deployment of energy-limited Internet of Things (IoT) devices have brought huge challenges to the current communication networks, motivating academia and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Qianqian Pan , Jun Wu , Xi Zheng , Jianhua Li , Shenghong Li , Athanasios V. Vasilakos

Energy harvesting offers an attractive and promising mechanism to power low-energy devices. However, it alone is insufficient to enable an energy-neutral operation, which can eliminate tedious battery charging and replacement requirements.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-13 Yigit Tuncel , Ganapati Bhat , Jaehyun Park , Umit Ogras

A primary objective of the forthcoming sixth generation (6G) of wireless networking is to support demanding applications, while ensuring energy efficiency. Programmable wireless environments (PWEs) have emerged as a promising solution,…