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Localization and tracking (LocTrack) are fundamental enablers for a wide range of emerging applications. Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have emerged as key components for enhancing the LocTrack performance. This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Peng Gao , Lixiang Lian , Yuan Shen

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-empowered communication is one of the promising physical layer enabling technologies for the sixth generation (6G) wireless networks due to their unprecedented capabilities in shaping the wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-17 Aymen Khaleel , Recep Vural , Mehmet Cagri Ilter , Majid Gerami , Ertugrul Basar

RIS-aided millimeter wave wireless systems benefit from robustness to blockage and enhanced coverage. In this paper, we study the ability of RIS to also provide enhanced localization capabilities as a by-product of communication. We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-28 Murat Bayraktar , Joan Palacios , Nuria González-Prelcic , Charlie Jianzhong Zhang

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technology to provide smart radio environment. In contrast to the well-studied patch-array-based RISs, this work focuses on the metasurface-based RISs and simultaneously…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-08 Jiaqi Xu , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu

A conceptual example is first analyzed to show that efficient wireless communications is possible, when user equipment (UE) receiver, BS transmitter or/and the scatter (reflector) in wireless channels employ the required channel state…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Lie-Liang Yang

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

Large intelligent surface (LIS) has recently emerged as a potential low-cost solution to reshape the wireless propagation environment for improving the spectral efficiency. In this paper, we consider a downlink millimeter-wave (mmWave)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Peilan Wang , Jun Fang , Linglong Dai , Hongbin Li

The advantages of millimeter-wave and large antenna arrays technologies for accurate wireless localization received extensive attentions recently. However, how to further improve the accuracy of wireless localization, even in the case of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Yiming Liu , Erwu Liu , Rui Wang

This paper proposes a correlation-based three-stage channel estimation strategy with low pilot overhead for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided millimeter wave (mmWave) multi-user (MU) MIMO systems, in which both users and base…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Liuchang Zhuo , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Ruisong Weng , Shi Jin , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Jiangzhou Wang

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are regarded as a key technology for future wireless communications, enabling programmable radio propagation environments. However, the passive reflecting feature of RISs induces notable challenges…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-15 Liuhang Wang , Nir Shlezinger , George C. Alexandropoulos , Haiyang Zhang , Baoyun Wang , Yonina C. Elda

With the capability to support gigabit data rates, millimetre-wave (mm-Wave) communication is unanimously considered a key technology of future cellular networks. However, the harsh propagation at such high frequencies makes these networks…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Eugenio Moro , Ilario Filippini , Antonio Capone , Danilo De Donno

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) are passive or semi-passive heterogeneous metasurfaces and consist of many tunable elements. RIS is gaining momentum as a promising new technology to enable transforming the propagation environment…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-06 Pooja Nuti , Elyes Balti , Brian L. Evans

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is an emerging technique employing metasurface to reflect the signal from the source node to the destination node. By smartly reconfiguring the electromagnetic (EM) properties of the metasurface and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Qi Gu , Dan Wu , Xin Su , Hanning Wang , Jingyuan Cui , Yifei Yuan

In future cellular systems, wireless localization and sensing functions will be built-in for specific applications, e.g., navigation, transportation, and healthcare, and to support flexible and seamless connectivity. Driven by this trend,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Hongliang Zhang , Boya Di , Kaigui Bian , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor , Lingyang Song

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is an emerging paradigm able to control the propagation environment in wireless systems. Most of the research on RIS has been dedicated to system optimization and, with the advent of beyond diagonal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Matteo Nerini , Shanpu Shen , Hongyu Li , Marco Di Renzo , Bruno Clerckx

Localization using multiple base stations (BSs) has gained much attention for its advantage in localization accuracy. However, the performance of the multi-BS system suffers from its limited number of antennas. To solve the above issue, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-23 Weiqiao Zhu , Mengyuan Cao , Yang Yang , Haobo Zhang , Weijun Hao , Xiaofei Jia , Hongliang Zhang

Non-diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) offer enhanced wireless signal manipulation over conventional RIS by enabling the incident signal on any of its $M$ elements to be reflected from another element via an $M \times M$…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-19 Mostafa Samy , Hayder Al-Hraishawi , Abuzar B. M. Adam , Madyan Alsenwi , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Otteresten

Accurate localization and perception are pivotal for enhancing the safety and reliability of vehicles. However, current localization methods suffer from reduced accuracy when the line-of-sight (LOS) path is obstructed, or a combination of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-16 Yinuo Du , Hanying Zhao , Yang Liu , Xinlei Yu , Yuan Shen

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) can create favorable multipath to establish strong links that are useful in millimeter wave (mmWave) communications. While previous works used Rayleigh or Rician fading, we use the fluctuating…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Hongyang Du , Jiayi Zhang , Julian Cheng , Zhaohua Lu , Bo Ai

Automotive radar is a key component of sensing suites in autonomous driving (AD) and advanced driver-assist systems (ADAS). However, limited line-of-sight (LOS) significantly reduces radar efficiency in dense urban environments. Therefore,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-29 Aviran Gal , Igal Bilik