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Metasurfaces (MSs) have been utilized to manipulate different properties of electromagnetic waves. By combining local control over the wave amplitude, phase, and polarization into a single tunable structure, a multi-functional and…

The emergence of "acoustic diode" (AD) capable of rectifying acoustic wave like electrical diodes do to electricity has been believed to be able to offer unconventional manipulation on sound, e.g., to isolate the wrong-way reflection, and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Zhong-ming Gu , Jie Hu , Bin Liang , Xin-ye Zou , Jian-chun Cheng

Beamforming is a signal processing technique. It has been studied in many areas such as radar, sonar, seismology and wireless communications, to name but a few. It can be used for a myriad of purposes, such as detecting the presence of a…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-12-27 Hidri Adel , Meddeb Souad , Abdulqadir Alaqeeli , Amiri Hamid

The reconfigurable intelligent surface is a promising technology for the manipulation and control of wireless electromagnetic signals. In particular, it has the potential to provide significant performance improvements for wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-14 Hamidreza Taghvaee , Akshay Jain , Sergi Abadal , Gabriele Gradoni , Eduard Alarcón , Albert Cabellos-Aparicio

Intelligent metasurface has recently emerged as a promising technology that enables the customization of wireless environments by harnessing large numbers of low-cost reconfigurable scattering elements. However, prior studies have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Jiancheng An , Marco Di Renzo , Mérouane Debbah , H. Vincent Poor , Chau Yuen

This paper proposes a chaotic map-based multicast scheme for multiuser speech wireless communication and implements it in an ARM platform. The scheme compresses the digital audio signal decoded by a sound card and then encrypts it with a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Qiuye Gan , Simin Yu , Chengqing Li , Jinhu Lü , Zhuosheng Lin , Ping Chen

Although reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technology for shaping the propagation environment, it consists of a single-layer structure within inherent limitations regarding the number of beam steering patterns. Based…

Conventional far-field automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems typically employ microphone array techniques for speech enhancement in order to improve robustness against noise or reverberation. However, such speech enhancement techniques…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-23 Minhua Wu , Kenichi Kumatani , Shiva Sundaram , Nikko Strom , Bjorn Hoffmeister

The image source method (ISM) is often used to simulate room acoustics due to its ease of use and computational efficiency. The standard ISM is limited to simulations of room impulse responses between point sources and omnidirectional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-08 Zeyu Xu , Adrian Herzog , Alexander Lodermeyer , Emanuël A. P. Habets , Albert G. Prinn

Metasurfaces with subwavelength thickness have exhibited unconventional phenomena in ways that could not be mimicked by traditional materials. Here we report the analytical design and experimental realizations of acoustic metasurface with…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-30 Yong Li , Xue Jiang , Rui-qi Li , Bin Liang , Xin-ye Zou , Lei-lei Yin , Jian-chun Cheng

We design extremely-thin acoustic metasurfaces, providing a versatile platform for the manipulation of reflected pressure fields, that are constructed from mass loads and stretched membranes fixed to a periodic rigid framework. These…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-07-21 Yao-Ting Wang , Richard Craster

This paper describes a new kind of acoustic metasurface with multiply resonant units, which have previously been used to induce multiple resonances and effectively produce negative mass density and bulk/shear moduli. The proposed acoustic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Haozhen Zou , Pan Li , Pai Peng

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces have emerged as a cutting-edge technology for next-generation wireless communications that are capable of reconfiguring the wireless environment using a large number of cost-effective reflecting elements.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Ahmed M. Benaya , Ali A. Nasir , Khaled M. Rabie , Daniel B. da Costa

Integrating multiple functionalities into a single metasurface is becoming of great interest for future intelligent communication systems. While such devices have been extensively explored for reciprocal functionalities, in this work, we…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-11-23 Xuchen Wang , Ana Diaz-Rubio , Huanan Li , Sergei A. Tretyakov , Andrea Alu

How would the sound in a studio change with a carpeted floor and acoustic tiles on the walls? We introduce the task of material-controlled acoustic profile generation, where, given an indoor scene with specific audio-visual characteristics,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Mahnoor Fatima Saad , Ziad Al-Halah

In this paper we provide three contributions to the field of channel sounding waveform design in asynchronous Multi-user (MU) MIMO systems. The first contribution is a derivation of the asynchronous MU-MIMO model and the conditions that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-20 Zhenhua Yu , Robert J. Baxley , Brett T. Walkenhorst , G. Tong Zhou

Typical acoustic refractive metasurfaces governed by generalized Snell law require several types of subwavelength subunits to provide an extra phase gradient along the surface. This design strategy, however, has several kinds of drawback.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Zhilin Hou , Xinsheng Fang , Yong Li , Badreddine Assouar

In this work, we propose a design of acoustic meta-surfaces in sub-wavelength scale enabling independent modulations of phase and amplitude. Each unit cell of the acoustic meta-surface consists of simple conventional space-coiling structure…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-01-10 Pan Li , Qiujiao Du , Meiyu Liu , Pai Peng

Multiple-user multiple-input multiple-output applications have recently gained a lot of attention. Here, we show an efficient optimization formulation for the design of all the temporal and spatial degrees of freedom of an acoustic…

In this paper, sensing-assisted secure communication in a multi-user multi-eavesdropper integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system is investigated. Confidential communication signals and dedicated sensing signals are jointly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Fanghao Xia , Zesong Fei , Xinyi Wang , Nanchi Su , Zhaolin Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Jie Xu