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Secure downlink transmission in UAV-assisted reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-enabled multiuser MISO systems is challenging due to imperfect channel state information (CSI), untrusted energy-harvesting receivers (UEHRs), and the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-18 Hamid Reza Hashempour , Le-Nam Tran , Duy H. N. Nguyen , Hien Quoc Ngo

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has emerged as a cost- and energy-efficient solution to enhance the wireless communication capacity. However, recent studies show that a very large surface is required for a RIS-assisted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Quang-Doanh Vu , Kyungchun Lee , Markku Juntti

Recently, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has gained research and development interests to modify wireless channel characteristics in order to improve performance of wireless communications, especially when quality of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Alireza Salehiyan , Mohammad Javad Emadi

As a revolutionary paradigm for controlling wireless channels, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have emerged as a candidate technology for future 6G networks. However, due to the "multiplicative fading" effect, the existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Zijian Zhang , Linglong Dai , Xibi Chen , Changhao Liu , Fan Yang , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor

This paper considers the application of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) (a.k.a. intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs)) to assist multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) uplink transmission from several multi-antenna user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Li You , Jiayuan Xiong , Yufei Huang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Cunhua Pan , Wenjin Wang , Xiqi Gao

In this work, we unveil the advantages of synergizing cooperative rate splitting (CRS) with user relaying and simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR RIS). Specifically, we propose a novel STAR…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Kangchun Zhao , Yijie Mao , Yuanming Shi

With the explosive growth of data traffic and the ubiquitous connectivity of wireless devices, the energy demands of wireless networks have inevitably escalated. Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has emerged as a promising solution…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Hongyi Luo , Wenyu Song , Daniel K. C. So , Zahra Mobini , Zhiguo Ding

With increasing interest in mmWave and THz communication systems, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-mounted intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been suggested as a key enabling technology to establish robust line-of-sight (LoS)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-02 Doyoung Kim , Seongah Jeong , Jinkyu Kang

In this letter, we study the secure communication problem in the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled networks aided by an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) from the physical-layer security perspective. Specifically, the IRS is deployed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Wen Wang , Hui Tian , Wanli Ni , Meihui Hua

Next generation mobile networks need to expand towards uncharted territories in order to enable the digital transformation of society. In this context, aerial devices such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to address this gap…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Placido Mursia , Francesco Devoti , Vincenzo Sciancalepore , Xavier Costa-Pérez

In this paper, we consider an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system with wireless power transfer (WPT) where multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based radars serve multiple clusters of energy-limited communication users in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Omid Rezaei , Mohammad Mahdi Naghsh , Seyed Mohammad Karbasi , Mohammad Mahdi Nayebi

Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) enables data collection from massive devices to achieve a wide sensing range. Wireless power transfer (WPT) is a promising paradigm for prolonging the operation time of MCS systems by sustainably transferring power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-23 Yongqing Xu , Haoqing Qi , Zhiqin Wang , Xiang Zhang , Yong Li , Tony Q. S. Quek

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), which can deliberately adjust the phase of incident waves, have shown enormous potentials to reconfigure the signal propagation for performance enhancement. In this paper, we investigate the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-02 Zhengyi Zhou , Ning Ge , Wendong Liu , Zhaocheng Wang

In this paper, the problem of maximizing the sum-rate is addressed for a multi-user uplink scenario that is assisted by an active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). The maximization is achieved by optimizing the beamforming at the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 Mohamed Shalma , Engy Maher , Ahmed El-Mahdy

In this paper, we investigate and analyze energy recycling for a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided wireless-powered communication network. As opposed to the existing works where the energy harvested by Internet of things (IoT)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Hao Xie , Bowen Gu , Dong Li , Zhi Lin , Yongjun Xu

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has emerged as a cost-effective solution to improve wireless communication performance through just passive reflection. Recently, the concept of simultaneously transmitting and reflecting RIS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Pandelis Kourtessis , Symeon Chatzinotas

In practice, residual transceiver hardware impairments inevitably lead to distortion noise which causes the performance loss. In this paper, we study the robust transmission design for a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided secure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Gui Zhou , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang , Zhangjie Peng

This letter introduces a novel pinching-antenna-system (PASS) assisted simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT), where multiple pinching antennas (PAs) are strategically activiated on a waveguide to facilitate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Yixuan Li , Ji Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiguo Ding

This paper exploits the potential of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to improve radar sensing in a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) empowered integrated sensing and communication (NOMA-ISAC) network. The objective is to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Jiakuo Zuo , Yuanwei Liu

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) have gained immense popularity in recent years because of their ability to improve wireless coverage and their flexibility to adapt to the changes in a wireless environment. These advantages are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-24 Morteza Tavana , Meysam Masoudi , Emil Björnson