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Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is considered as a revolutionary technology for future wireless communication networks. In this letter, we consider the acquisition of the time-varying cascaded channels, which is a challenging task…

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In large-scale reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) communication systems, the precise acquisition of channel state information (CSI) is challenging. Consider a practical RIS configuration where only a few reflective elements serve as…

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Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are eminently suitable for improving the reliability of wireless communications by jointly designing the active beamforming at the base station (BS) and the passive beamforming at the RIS.…

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Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has garnered significant attention in recent years. In this paper, we delve into the topic of sensing-assisted communication within ISAC systems. More specifically, a novel sensing-assisted…

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To mitigate the effects of shadow fading and obstacle blocking, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has become a promising technology to improve the signal transmission quality of wireless communications by controlling the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Wangyang Xu , Jiancheng An , Yongjun Xu , Chongwen Huang , Lu Gan , Chau Yuen

Pixel-based fluid antennas provide enhanced multiplexing gains and quicker radiation pattern switching than traditional designs. However, this innovation introduces challenges for channel estimation and analog precoding due to the…

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Reconfigurable massive multiple-input multiple-output (RmMIMO), as an electronically-controlled fluid antenna system, offers increased flexibility for future communication systems by exploiting previously untapped degrees of freedom in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Keke Ying , Zhen Gao , Yu Su , Tong Qin , Michail Matthaiou , Robert Schober

For multi-input and multi-output (MIMO) channels, the optimal channel estimation (CE) based on linear minimum mean square error (LMMSE) requires three-dimensional (3D) filtering. However, the complexity is often prohibitive due to large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Xiangzhao Qin , Sha Hu

In this paper, we investigate a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multiple-input single-output (MISO) system in the presence of electromagnetic interference (EMI) and channel aging with a Rician fading channel model between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Taoyu Song , Enyu Shi , Yu Lu , Yiyang Zhu , Jiayi Zhang , Bo Ai

Channel estimation is challenging for the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided wireless communications. Since the number of coefficients of the cascaded channel among the base station (BS), the RIS and the user equipments (UEs) is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Chen Hu , Linglong Dai

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have been proposed recently as new technology to tune the wireless propagation channels in real-time. However, most of the current works assume single-RIS (S-RIS)-aided systems, which can be…

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This paper introduces a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to support parameter estimation in machine-type communications (MTC). We focus on a network where single-antenna sensors transmit spatially correlated measurements to a…

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This paper studies a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system with multiple RISs. Joint design of transmit precoding, RIS coefficients, and receive combining is…

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We present two reduced-rank channel estimators for large-scale multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) systems and analyze their mean square error (MSE) performance. Taking advantage of the channel's transform domain sparseness, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-09 Ko-Feng Chen , Yen-Cheng Liu , Yu T. Su

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has emerged as a promising technology for improving capacity and extending coverage of wireless networks. In this work, we consider RIS-aided millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple-input and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Yabo Guo , Peng Sun , Zhengdao Yuan , Qinghua Guo , Zhongyong Wang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted cell-free (CF) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks can significantly enhance system performance. However, the extensive deployment of RIS elements imposes considerable channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Hongqin Ke , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Chau Yuen , Zhaohua Lu

Physical-Layer Network Coding (PNC) is an effective technique to improve the throughput and latency in wireless networks. However, there are two major challenges for PNC, especially when using higher order modulations: 1) phase…

Integrating large intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) into millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive multi-input-multi-ouput (MIMO) has been a promising approach for improved coverage and throughput. Most existing work assumes the ideal channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Shicong Liu , Zhen Gao , Jun Zhang , Marco Di Renzo , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

We consider a practical spatially correlated reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input-multiple-output (mMIMO) system with multi-antenna access points (APs) over spatially correlated Rician fading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Enyu Shi , Jiayi Zhang , Zhe Wang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Bo Ai