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In this paper, the sensing beam pattern gain under simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RIS)-enabled integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) systems is investigated, in which multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Shuang Zhang , Wanming Hao , Gangcan Sun , Zhengyu Zhu , Xingwang Li , Qingqing Wu

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) can improve signal propagation environments by adjusting the phase of the incident signal. However, optimizing the phase shifts jointly with the beamforming vector at the access point is challenging…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Weijie Jin , Jing Zhang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Xiao Li , Shuangfeng Han

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is considered as an extraordinarily promising technology to solve the blockage problem of millimeter wave (mmWave) communications owing to its capable of establishing a reconfigurable wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Yuqian Zhu , Ming Li , Yang Liu , Qian Liu , Zheng Chang , Yulin Hu

This paper focuses on optimal beamforming to maximize the mean signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided MISO downlink system under correlated Rician fading. The beamforming problem becomes non-convex…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Kali Krishna Kota , M. S. S. Manasa , Praful D. Mankar , Harpreet S. Dhillon

Active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a new RIS architecture that can reflect and amplify communication signals. It can provide enhanced performance gain compared to the conventional passive RIS systems that can only reflect…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Qian Zhang , Mingjie Shao , Qiang Li , Ju Liu

A novel framework of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-mounted active simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) communications with the non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is proposed for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Jingjing Zhao , Qian Xu , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Yanbo Zhu

Smart radio environments aided by reconfigurable intelligent reflecting surfaces (RIS) have attracted much research attention recently. We propose a joint optimization strategy for beamforming, RIS phases, and power allocation to maximize…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Athira Subhash , Abla Kammoun , Ahmed Elzanaty , Sheetal Kalyani , Yazan H. Al-Badarneh , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Simultaneously transmitting and reflecting (STAR) reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), which serves users located on both sides of the surface, has recently emerged as a promising enhancement to the traditional reflective only RIS. Due…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-16 Hancheng Zhu , Yuanwei Liu , Yik Chung Wu , Vincent K. N. Lau

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

Recently, terahertz (THz) communication has drawn considerable attention as one of the promising technologies for the future wireless communications owning to its ultra-wide bandwidth. Nonetheless, one major obstacle that prevents the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Wanming Hao , Gangcan Sun , Ming Zeng , Zhengyu Zhu , Zheng Chu , Octavia A. Dobre , Pei Xiao

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently been envisioned to offer unprecedented massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)-like gains by deploying large-scale and low-cost passive reflection elements. By adjusting the reflection…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Gui Zhou , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang , Arumugam Nallanathan

This work focuses on the use of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) in dual-function radar-communication (DFRC) systems to improve communication capacity and sensing precision, and enhance coverage for both functions. In contrast to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Bowen Wang , Hongyu Li , Shanpu Shen , Ziyang Cheng , Bruno Clerckx

Since reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is considered to be a passive reflector for rate performance enhancement, a RIS-aided amplify-and-forward (AF) relay network is presented. By jointly optimizing the beamforming matrix at AF…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Xuehui Wang , Feng Shu , Riqing Chen , Peng Zhang , Qi Zhang , Guiyang Xia , Weiping shi , Jiangzhou Wang

In next-generation wireless networks, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are foreseeable to support a large number of antennas at the transceiver as well as a large number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Chang Cai , Xiaojun Yuan , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

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

Benefiting from the growth of the bandwidth, Terahertz (THz) communication can support the new application with explosive requirements of the ultra-high-speed rates for future 6G wireless systems. In order to compensate for the path loss of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Yu Lu , Mo Hao , Richard MAcKenzie

Simultaneous Transmitting and Reflecting Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (STAR-RISs) are being explored for sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. A promising configuration for their deployment is within cell-free massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Jun Qian , Ross Murch , Khaled B. Letaief

In this paper, we develop a unified dynamic intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) beamforming framework to boost the sum computation rate of an IRS-aided mobile edge computing (MEC) system, where each device follows a binary offloading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Guangji Chen , Qingqing Wu

Simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS), which consists of numerous passive elements, has recently emerged in wireless communication systems as a promising technology providing 360$^\circ$…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-12 Hanxiao Ge , Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Tharmalingam Ratnarajah

Active reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) can improve the performance of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), and therefore enable simultaneous data transmission and target sensing. However, when the line-of-sight (LoS) link…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-17 Ahmed Magbool , Vaibhav Kumar , Mark F. Flanagan