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This paper considers Cell-Free Massive Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) systems with the assistance of an RIS for enhancing the system performance. Distributed maximum-ratio combining (MRC) is considered at the access points (APs). We…

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This paper studies RIS-aided cell-free massive MIMO systems, where multiple RISs are deployed to assist the communication between multiple access points (APs) and multiple users, with either continuous or discrete phase shifts at the RISs.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Si-Nian Jin , Dian-Wu Yue , Ha H. Nguyen

Double-reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technique, achieving a substantial gain improvement compared to single-RIS techniques. However, in double-RIS-aided systems, accurate channel estimation is more challenging than…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Songjie Yang , Wanting Lyu , Yue Xiu , Zhongpei Zhang , Chau Yuen

This paper investigates a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system by considering only the statistical channel state information (CSI) at the base station (BS). We aim to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Huan Zhang , Shaodan Ma , Zheng Shi , Xin Zhao , Guanghua Yang

In this study we derive novel optimal algorithms for joint power control and beamforming design in modern large-scale MIMO systems, such as those based on the cell-free massive MIMO and XL-MIMO concepts. In particular, motivated by the need…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Lorenzo Miretti , Renato L. G. Cavalcante , Sławomir Stańczak

We study the massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) multicast transmission in cellular networks where each base station (BS) is equipped with a large-scale antenna array and transmits a common message using a single beamformer to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Zhengzheng Xiang , Meixia Tao , Xiaodong Wang

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are envisioned to be a disruptive wireless communication technique that is capable of reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment. In this paper, we study a free-space RIS-assisted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Xin Cheng , Yan Lin , Weiping Shi , Jiayu Li , Cunhua Pan , Feng Shu , Yongpeng Wu , Jiangzhou Wang

The performance of transmission schemes is heavily influenced by the wireless channel, which is typically considered an uncontrollable factor. However, the introduction of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) to wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Weicong Chen , Chao-Kai Wen , Xiao Li , Shi Jin

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has entered the public consciousness as a promising technology for enhancing the performance of future wireless communication systems by dynamically constructing the wireless channels. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Pingping Zhang , Shiqi Gong , Shaodan Ma

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS)-assisted cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF mMIMO) systems have emerged as a promising technology for sixth-generation communication systems. These systems capitalize on RIS to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-24 Yu Lu , Jiayi Zhang , Enyu Shi , Peng Zhang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Dusit Niyato , Bo Ai

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an emerging technology that is able to reconfigure the wireless channel via tunable passive signal reflection and thereby enhance the spectral and energy efficiency of wireless networks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Ming-Min Zhao , An Liu , Yubo Wan , Rui Zhang

The cell-free networking paradigm constitutes a revolutionary architecture for future generations of wireless networks, which has been recently considered in synergy with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs), a promising…

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In this paper, we investigate an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted cell-free multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication system, where distributed multiple IRSs are dedicated deployed to assist distributed multiple base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Xie Xie , Chen He , Xiaoya Li , Kun Yang , Z. Jane Wang

As a critical technology for next-generation communication networks, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) aims to achieve the harmonious coexistence of communication and sensing. The degrees-of-freedom (DoF) of ISAC is limited due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Yongqing Xu , Yong Li , Tony Q. S. Quek

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) consist of many passive elements of metamaterials whose impedance can be controllable to change the characteristics of wireless signals impinging on them. Channel estimation is a critical task when…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

This paper considers wireless communication assisted by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), focusing on the two-timescale approach, in which the RIS phase shifts are optimized based on channel statistics to mitigate the overheads…

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In this paper, for a single-input multiple-output (SIMO) system aided by a passive reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), the joint transmission accomplished by the single transmit antenna and the RIS with multiple controllable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Ru-Han Chen , Jing Zhou , Yonggang Zhu , Kai Zhang

Cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) is a promising network architecture for beyond 5G systems, which can particularly offer more uniform data rates across the coverage area. Recent works have shown how reconfigurable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

Continuous efforts have been devoted to integrate millimeter wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) bands into future communication standards in order to overcome the bandwidth shortage problem and achieve high data rates, primarily through…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-05 Sung Hyuck Hong , Junil Choi

In this paper, we consider a dual-hop Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) wireless multi-relay network, in which a source-destination pair both equipped with multiple antennas communicates through multiple half-duplex amplify-and-forward…

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