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Computation off-loading in mobile edge computing (MEC) systems constitutes an efficient paradigm of supporting resource-intensive applications on mobile devices. However, the benefit of MEC cannot be fully exploited, when the communications…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-14 Tong Bai , Cunhua Pan , Yansha Deng , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan , Lajos Hanzo

A novel hybrid active-passive reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) transmitter enabled downlink multi-user communication system is investigated. Specifically, RISs are exploited to serve as transmitter antennas, where each element can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Ao Huang , Xidong Mu , Li Guo , Guangyu Zhu

In this paper, the novel simultaneously transmitting and reflecting (STAR) reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), which enables full-space coverage on users located on both sides of the surface, is investigated in the multi-user mobile…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Zhenrong Liu , Zongze Li , Miaowen Wen , Yi Gong , Yik-Chung Wu

This work lies at the intersection of two cutting edge technologies envisioned to proliferate in future 6G wireless systems: Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) and Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs). While the former will bring a…

The advent of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) in wireless communication networks unlocks the way to support high frequency radio access (e.g. in millimeter wave) while overcoming their sensitivity to the presence of deep fading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Fatima Ezzahra Airod , Mattia Merluzzi , Paolo Di Lorenzo , Emilio Calvanese Strinati

Mobile-edge computing (MEC) is expected to provide low-latency computation service for wireless devices (WDs). However, when WDs are located at cell edge or communication links between base stations (BSs) and WDs are blocked, the offloading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Nana Li , Wanming Hao , Fuhui Zhou , Shouyi Yang , Naofal Al-Dhahir

The explosive development of the Internet of Things (IoT) has led to increased interest in mobile edge computing (MEC), which provides computational resources at network edges to accommodate computation-intensive and latency-sensitive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Wenhan Xu , Jiadong Yu , Yuan Wu , Danny H. K. Tsang

In this letter, we investigate a cell-free network aided by hybrid reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), which consists of a mixture of passive and active elements that are capable of amplifying and reflecting the incident signal. To…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-05 Wanting Lyu , Yue Xiu , Songjie Yang , Chau Yuen , Zhongpei Zhang

Wireless powered mobile edge computing (WP-MEC) has been recognized as a promising solution to enhance the computational capability and sustainable energy supply for low-power wireless devices (WDs). However, when the communication links…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Nana Li , Wanming Hao , Fuhui Zhou , Zheng Chu , Shouyi Yang , Pei Xiao

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

In this paper, simultaneously transmitting and reflecting (STAR) reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is investigated in the multi-user mobile edge computing (MEC) system to improve the computation rate. Compared with traditional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Zhenrong Liu , Zongze Li , Miaowen Wen , Yi Gong , Yik-Chung Wu

Vehicular edge computing (VEC) is an emerging technology with significant potential in the field of internet of vehicles (IoV), enabling vehicles to perform intensive computational tasks locally or offload them to nearby edge devices.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Kangwei Qi , Qiong Wu , Pingyi Fan , Nan Cheng , Wen Chen , Khaled B. Letaief

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is envisioned as a promising technique to support computation-intensive and timecritical applications in future Internet of Things (IoT) era. However, the uplink transmission performance will be highly impacted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-05 Yizhen Yang , Yi Gong , Yik-Chung Wu

This paper considers a hybrid reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where each RIS element can flexibly switch between the active and passive modes. Subject to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Yingbin Lin , Feng Wang , Xiao Zhang , Guojun Han , Vincent K. N. Lau

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) is a promising solution to reconfigure the wireless environment in a controllable way. To compensate for the double-fading attenuation in the RIS-aided link, a large number of passive reflecting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Ruizhe Long , Ying-Chang Liang , Yiyang Pei , Erik G. Larsson

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

This paper investigates the role and the impact of control operations for dynamic mobile edge computing (MEC) empowered by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs), in which multiple devices offload their computation tasks to an access…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 Fabio Saggese , Victor Croisfelt , Francesca Costanzo , Junya Shiraishi , Radosław Kotaba , Paolo Di Lorenzo , Petar Popovski

We consider a multi-user multiple-input single-output (MISO) communications system which is assisted by a hybrid active-passive reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). Unlike conventional passive RISs, hybrid RIS is equipped with a few…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Van-Dinh Nguyen , Qingqing Wu , Antti Tolli , Symeon Chatzinotas , Markku Juntti

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) or metasurface is one of the important enabling technologies in mobile cellular networks that can effectively enhance the signal coverage performance in obstructed regions, and it is generally…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-06 Tianqi Xiang , Zhiwei Jiang , Weijun Hong , Xin Zhang , Yuehong Gao

In this paper, we explore optimization-based and data-driven solutions in a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multi-user mobile edge computing (MEC) system, where the user equipment (UEs) can partially offload their computation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-16 Xiaoyan Hu , Christos Masouros , Kai-Kit Wong