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Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a new and revolutionary technology to achieve spectrum-, energy- and cost-efficient wireless networks. This paper studies the resource allocation for RIS-empowered device-to-device (D2D)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Gang Yang , Yating Liao , Ying-Chang Liang , Olav Tirkkonen

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

Simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) is a cutting-edge concept for the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. In this paper, we propose a novel system that incorporates STAR-RIS with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Mojtaba Amiri , Elaheh Vaezpour , Sepideh Javadi , Mohammad Robat Mili , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Mehdi Bennis

A simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) aided communication system is investigated, where an access point sends information to two users located on each side of the STAR-RIS. Different from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Yuanwei Liu , Xidong Mu , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, we focus on the energy efficiency (EE) optimization and analysis of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multiuser downlink near-field communications. Specifically, we conduct a comprehensive study on several key…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-26 Wei Wang , Xiaoyu Ou , Zhihan Ren , Waqas Bin Abbas , Shuping Dang , Angela Doufexi , Mark A. Beach

The plethora of wirelessly connected devices, whose deployment density is expected to largely increase in the upcoming sixth Generation (6G) of wireless networks, will naturally necessitate substantial advances in multiple access schemes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Konstantinos D. Katsanos , Paolo Di Lorenzo , George C. Alexandropoulos

In this paper, we consider that the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with attached intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) play the role of flying reflectors that reflect the signal of users to the destination, and utilize the power-domain…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-09 Hussein M. Hariz , Saeed Sheikhzadeh , Nader Mokari , Mohammad R. Javan , B. Abbasi-Arand , Eduard A. Jorswieck

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) are key enablers for 6G wireless systems. This paper studies downlink transmission in an RIS-assisted MISO-OFDMA system, addressing resource allocation challenges. A two-stage unsupervised…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Yu Ma , Xingyu Zhou , Xiao Li , Le Liang , Shi Jin

The aim of this work is to propose new approaches for maximizing the energy efficiency of downlink 5G mobile communication systems, in the presence of a reactive jammer. The concepts of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and distributed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-28 Joumana Farah , Jacques Akiki , Eric Pierre Simon

In this paper, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) networks assisted by multiple intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) with discrete phase shifts are investigated, in which each user device (UD) is served by an IRS to improve the quality…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-27 Yanyu Cheng , Kwok Hung Li , Yuanwei Liu , Kah Chan Teh , George K. Karagiannidis

In this paper, we apply the Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) technique to improve the massive channel access of a wireless IoT network where solar-powered Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) relay data from IoT devices to remote servers.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Sami Khairy , Prasanna Balaprakash , Lin X. Cai , Yu Cheng

The integration of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) to multiple access networks is a cost-effective solution for boosting spectrum/energy efficiency and enlarging network coverage/connections. However, due to the new capability of IRS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Beixiong Zheng , Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

For forthcoming 5G networks, Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) is a very promising techniques. and in today's world, Line of Sight communication is becoming increasingly harder to achieve. Hence, technologies like Reconfigurable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Aaditya Prakash Kattekola , Sanjana Dontha , Anuradha Sundru

To capture the communications gain of the massive radiating elements with low power cost, the conventional reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) usually works in passive mode. However, due to the cascaded channel structure and the lack…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-04 Shunbo Zhang , Shun Zhang , Feifei Gao , Jianpeng Ma , Octavia A. Dobre

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology for metasurfaces is ushering in a new paradigm for wireless communication systems. It provides an accessible way for controlling the interaction between electromagnetic waves with the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 P. H. C. de Souza , M. Khazaee , L. L. Mendes

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) are a new paradigm which, with judicious deployment and alignment, can enable more favorable propagation environments and better wireless network design. As such, they can offer a number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Jiayu Mao , Aylin Yener

In recent years there has been a growing interest in reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) as enablers for the realization of smart radio propagation environments which can provide performance improvements with low energy consumption…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Nuno Souto , João Carlos Silva

We investigate the fundamental multiple access (MA) scheme in an active intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided energy-constrained Internet-of-Things (IoT) system, where an active IRS is deployed to assist the uplink transmission from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Guangji Chen , Qingqing Wu , Chong He , Wen Chen , Jie Tang , Shi Jin

Consider a communication system in which a single antenna user equipment exchanges information with a multi-antenna base station via a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) in the presence of spatially correlated channels and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Wen-Xuan Long , Marco Moretti , Andrea Abrardo , Luca Sanguinetti , Rui Chen

The Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) constitutes one of the prominent technologies for the next 6-th Generation (6G) of wireless communications. It is envisioned to enhance signal coverage in cases where obstacles block the direct…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Kun Chen-Hu , George C. Alexandropoulos , Ana García Armada