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This paper addresses the problem of maximizing the capacity of a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) link assisted by a beyond-diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surface (BD-RIS). We maximize the capacity by alternately optimizing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Ignacio Santamaria , Mohammad Soleymani , Eduard Jorswieck , Jesús Gutiérrez

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a newly-emerged technology that might fundamentally change how wireless networks are operated. Though extensively studied in recent years, the practical limitations of RIS are often neglected when…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Parisa Ramezani , Yasaman Khorsandmanesh , Emil Björnson

This paper proposes to deploy multiple reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) in device-to-device (D2D)-underlaid cellular systems. The uplink sum-rate of the system is maximized by jointly optimizing the transmit powers of the users,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Yashuai Cao , Tiejun Lv , Wei Ni , Zhipeng Lin

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) is a transformative technology with great potential in many applications in wireless communications and realizing the Internet of Everything at sixth generation (6G). In this study, we propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Xuejian Wei , Hui-Ming Wang

This letter focuses on a transmitter or base station (BS) side beyond-diagonal reflecting intelligent surface (BD-RIS) deployment strategy to enhance the spectral efficiency (SE) of a time-division-duplex massive multiple-input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Anup Mishra , Yijie Mao , Carmen D'Andrea , Stefano Buzzi , Bruno Clerckx

Reconfigurable intelligent surface-empowered communication (RIS) and sparse code multiple access (SCMA) are promising candidates for future generations of wireless networks. The former enhances the transmission environments, whereas the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Ibrahim Al-Nahhal , Octavia A. Dobre , Ertugrul Basar

Benefiting from its capability to generalize existing reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) architectures and provide additional design flexibility via interactions between RIS elements, beyond-diagonal RIS (BD-RIS) has attracted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-20 Xiaohua Zhou , Tianyu Fang , Yijie Mao

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) represent a new technology that can shape the radio wave propagation and thus offers a great variety of possible performance and implementation gains. Motivated by this, we investigate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Nemanja Stefan Perović , Le-Nam Tran , Marco Di Renzo , Mark F. Flanagan

There are three generic services in 5G: enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC), and massive machine-type communications (mMTC). To guarantee the performance of heterogeneous services, network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Yuanwen Liu , Bruno Clerckx , Petar Popovski

Recently, beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surface (BD-RIS) has emerged as a more flexible solution to engineer the wireless propagation channels, thanks to its non-diagonal reflecting matrix. Although the gain of the BD-RIS over…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-18 Xiaoqi Zhang , Liang Liu , Shuowen Zhang , Haijun Zhang

Near-field integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) leverages distance-dependent channel variations for joint distance and angle estimation. However, full-digital architectures have prohibitive hardware costs, making hybrid…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Jiasi Zhou , Chintha Tellambura , Geoffrey Ye Li

In this letter, we study a rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA)-based intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided multi-user multiple-input single-output (MISO) secure communication system with a potential eavesdropper (Eve). Aiming to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Ying Gao , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surface (BD-RIS) refers to a family of RIS architectures characterized by scattering matrices not limited to being diagonal and enables higher wave manipulation flexibility and large performance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Rui Wang , Shuowen Zhang , Bruno Clerckx , Liang Liu

Beyond diagonal intelligent reflecting surface (BD-IRS) is a new promising IRS architecture for which the reflection matrix is not limited to the diagonal structure as for conventional IRS. In this paper, we study a BD-IRS aided uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Shuo Zheng , Shuowen Zhang

In the upcoming 6G era, multiple access (MA) will play an essential role in achieving high throughput performances required in a wide range of wireless applications. Since MA and interference management are closely related issues, the…

This letter proposes a movable beyond-diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (MA-BD-RIS) design, combining inter-element connectivity and movability for channel enhancement. We study a MA-BD-RIS assisted multi-user multiple input…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Shuyue Xu , Matteo Nerini , Bruno Clerckx

An emerging technology to enhance the spectral efficiency (SE) and energy efficiency (EE) of wireless communication systems is reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), which is shown to be very powerful in single-carrier systems. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Mohammad Soleymani , Ignacio Santamaria , Aydin Sezgin , Eduard Jorswieck

In the near future, it is envisioned that cellular networks will have to cope with extensive Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Therefore, a required feature of cellular IoT will be the capability to serve simultaneously a large number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Yijie Mao , Enrico Piovano , Bruno Clerckx

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted sparse code multiple access (RIS-SCMA) is an attractive scheme for future wireless networks. In this letter, for the first time, the RIS phase shifts of the uplink RIS-SCMA system are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Ibrahim Al-Nahhal , Octavia A. Dobre , Ertugrul Basar , Telex M. N. Ngatched , Salama Ikki

In this paper, we investigate rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) aided mobile edge computing (MEC) in a cognitive radio network. We propose a RSMA scheme that enables the secondary user to offload tasks to the MEC server utilizing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Hongwu Liu , Yinghui Ye , Zhiquan Bai , Kyeong Jin Kim , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis