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Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been widely discussed as new technology to improve wireless communication performance. Based on the unique design of RIS, its elements can reflect, refract, absorb, or focus the incoming waves…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-03 Salah Eddine Zegrar , Liza Afeef , Huseyin Arslan

In wireless systems aided by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), channel state information plays a pivotal role in achieving the performance gain of RISs. Mobility renders accurate channel estimation (CE) more challenging due to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Shu Sun , Hangsong Yan

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) constitutes a disruptive technology for enhancing vehicular communication performance through reconfigurable propagation environments. In this paper, we propose an adaptive channel estimation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Tianyou Li , Haifeng Hu , Dapeng Li

In this paper, the channel estimation (CE) of intelligent reflecting surface-aided near-field (NF) multi-user communication is investigated. Initially, the least square (LS) estimator and minimum mean square error (MMSE) estimator for the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-11 Yan Wang , Yongqiang Li , Minghao Chen , Yu Yao , Feng Shu , Jiangzhou Wang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) or intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been an attractive technology for future wireless communication and sensing systems. However, in the practical RIS, the mutual coupling effect among RIS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Zhimin Chen , Peng Chen , Le Zheng , Yudong Zhang

Channel estimation (CE) is one of the critical signal-processing tasks of the wireless physical layer (PHY). Recent deep learning (DL) based CE have outperformed statistical approaches such as least-square-based CE (LS) and linear minimum…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Animesh Sharma , Syed Asrar Ul Haq , Sumit J. Darak

Cell-Free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are investigated with the support of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). The RIS phase shifts are designed for improved channel estimation in the presence of spatial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Trinh Van Chien , Nguyen Hoang Viet , Symeon Chatzinotas , Lajos Hanzo

We investigate a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multi-user massive multiple-input multi-output (MIMO) system where low-resolution digital-analog converters (DACs) are configured at the base station (BS) in order to reduce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jianxin Dai , Yuanyuan Wang , Cunhua Pan , Kangda Zhi , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang

Conventional channel estimation (CE) for Internet of Things (IoT) systems encounters challenges such as low spectral efficiency, high energy consumption, and blocked propagation paths. Although superimposed pilot-based CE schemes and the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-08 Chaojin Qing , Li Wang , Lei Dong , Guowei Ling , Jiafan Wang

This paper considers reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems under dual-polarized (DP) channels. Unlike the existing ISAC systems, which ignored polarization of electromagnetic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Dongnan Xia , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Zhiyuan Yu , Yasheng Jin , Jiangzhou Wang

Discriminatory channel estimation (DCE) is a recently developed strategy to enlarge the performance difference between a legitimate receiver (LR) and an unauthorized receiver (UR) in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless system.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Junjie Yang , Shengli Xie , Xiangyun Zhou , Rong Yu , Yan Zhang

Channel estimation is a central bottleneck in BD-RIS-assisted MIMO systems. The richer inter-element coupling that enables large performance gains also makes training and hardware control substantially harder than in diagonal RIS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Gilderlan Tavares de Araújo , Bruno Sokal , André L. F. de Almeida

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) constitutes an essential and promising paradigm that relies programmable wireless environment and provides capability for space-intensive communications, due to the use of low-cost massive reflecting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Yu Jin , Jiayi Zhang , Chongwen Huang , Liang Yang , Huahua Xiao , Bo Ai , Zhiqin Wang

This work examines the use of two-way training to efficiently discriminate the channel estimation performances at a legitimate receiver (LR) and an unauthorized receiver (UR) in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless system. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-12 Chao-Wei Huang , Tsung-Hui Chang , Xiangyun Zhou , Y. -W. Peter Hong

To achieve the more significant passive beamforming gain in the double-intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided system over the conventional single-IRS counterpart, channel state information (CSI) is indispensable in practice but also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Beixiong Zheng , Changsheng You , Rui Zhang

Beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surface (BD-RIS) represents a promising architecture for advancing millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications. However, its intricate inter-element connections invalidate the conventional decoupled…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Linyu Peng , Tian Qiu , Cunhua Pan , Jiangzhou Wang , Taihao Zhang , Hong Ren

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

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) consists of massive meta elements, which can improve the performance of future wireless communication systems. Existing RIS-aided channel estimation methods try to estimate the cascaded channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Wei Zhang , Wee Peng Tay

Pixel-based reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) employ a novel design to achieve high reflection gain at a lower hardware cost by eliminating the phase shifters used in traditional RIS. However, this design presents challenges for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Huayan Guo , Junhui Rao , Alex M. H. Wong , Ross Murch , Vincent K. N. Lau

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS)-assisted massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) is a promising technology for applications in next-generation networks. However, reflecting-only RIS provides limited coverage compared to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Le-Nam Tran , Zaid Abdullah , Pandelis Kourtessis , Symeon Chatzinotas