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This paper studies an extremely large-scale reconfigurable intelligent surface (XL-RIS) empowered covert communication system in the near-field region. Alice covertly transmits messages to Bob with the assistance of the XL-RIS, while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jun Liu , Gang Yang , Yuanwei Liu , Xiangyun Zhou

Extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) promises to provide ultrahigh data rates in millimeter-wave (mmWave) and Terahertz (THz) spectrum. However, the spherical-wavefront wireless transmission caused by large…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Xu Shi , Jintao Wang , Zhi Sun , Jian Song

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising solution to deal with the blockage-sensitivity of millimeter wave band and reduce the high energy consumption caused by network densification. However, deploying large scale RISs may…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Yining Xu , Sheng Zhou

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have attracted increasing interest due to their ability to improve the coverage, reliability, and energy efficiency of millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems. However, designing the RIS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Shuaifeng Jiang , Ahmed Hindy , Ahmed Alkhateeb

In this paper, we present a low overhead beam management approach for near-field millimeter-wave multi-antenna communication systems enabled by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs). We devise a novel variable-width hierarchical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-30 George C. Alexandropoulos , Vahid Jamali , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor

This paper investigates beam training techniques for near-field (NF) extremely large-scale antenna arrays (ELAAs). Existing NF beam training methods predominantly rely on beam focusing, where the base station (BS) transmits highly spatially…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Ran Li , Ziyi Xu , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

In this chapter, we investigate the mathematical foundation of the modeling and design of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) in both the far- and near-field regimes. More specifically, we first present RIS-assisted wireless channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-16 Mohamadreza Delbari , George C. Alexandropoulos , Robert Schober , Vahid Jamali

Extremely large-scale reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (XL-RISs) have emerged as a promising technology for millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications. However, the exceedingly large aperture of XL-RISs renders the RIS-user links likely to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Erkang Dong , Taihao Zhang , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Jiangzhou Wang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has recently emerged as a promising candidate to improve the energy and spectral efficiency of wireless communication systems. However, the unit modulus constraint on the phase shift of reflecting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Jiabao Gao , Caijun Zhong , Xiaoming Chen , Hai Lin , Zhaoyang Zhang

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is considered as a key enabler of the next-generation mobile radio systems. While attracting extensive interest from academia and industry due to its passive nature and low cost, scalability of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Bile Peng , Vahid Jamali , Eduard Jorswieck

The recently envisioned goal-oriented communications paradigm calls for the application of inference on wirelessly transferred data via Machine Learning (ML) tools. An emerging research direction deals with the realization of inference ML…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-10 Kyriakos Stylianopoulos , Mattia Fabiani , Giulia Torcolacci , Davide Dardari , George C. Alexandropoulos

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) provides a new electromagnetic response control solution, which can proactively reshape the characteristics of wireless channel environments. In RIS-assisted communication systems, the acquisition of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Zhiheng Yu , Jiancheng An , Ertugrul Basar , Lu Gan , Chau Yuen

We investigate beam training and allocation for multiuser millimeter wave massive MIMO systems. An orthogonal pilot based beam training scheme is first developed to reduce the number of training times, where all users can simultaneously…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-08 Xuyao Sun , Chenhao Qi , Geoffrey Ye Li

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technique to improve the performance of future wireless communication systems at low energy consumption. To reap the potential benefits of RIS-aided beamforming, it is vital to enhance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Zhenyao He , Jindan Xu , Hong Shen , Wei Xu , Chau Yuen , Marco Di Renzo

This paper studies wideband channel estimation for OFDM systems assisted by extremely large RIS (XL-RIS). Due to the large aperture of XL-RISs, the user equipment may operate in the near-field region, while the base station-XL-RIS link…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Lanqing Zhi , Hongwei Wang , Lingxiang Li , Zhi Chen

Huge overhead of beam training imposes a significant challenge in millimeter-wave (mmWave) wireless communications. To address this issue, in this paper, we propose a wide beam based training approach to calibrate the narrow beam direction…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-21 Ke Ma , Dongxuan He , Hancun Sun , Zhaocheng Wang , Sheng Chen

This article aims to reduce huge pilot overhead when estimating the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) relayed wireless channel. Motivated by the compelling grasp of deep learning in tackling nonlinear mapping problems, the proposed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-26 Shen Gao , Peihao Dong , Zhiwen Pan , Geoffrey Ye Li

Prior works on near-field beam training have mostly assumed dedicated polar-domain codebook and on-grid range estimation, which, however, may suffer long training overhead and degraded estimation accuracy. To address these issues, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Xun Wu , Changsheng You , Jiapeng Li , Yunpu Zhang

This paper introduces a novel mobile tracking framework leveraging the high-dimensional signal received from extremely large-scale (XL) reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS). This received signal, named XL-RIS information, has a much…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-06 Tuo Wu , Cunhua Pan , Kangda Zhi , Junteng Yao , Hong Ren , Maged Elkashlan , Chau Yuen

Recently, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has immensely been deployed to overcome blockage issue and widen coverage for enabling superior performance 6G networks. Mainly, systems use RIS as an assistant to redirect the transmitter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-26 Ahmed M. Nor , S. S. Sefati , Octavian Fratu , Simona Halunga