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Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is envisioned to be an essential component of the paradigm for beyond 5G networks as it can potentially provide similar or higher array gains with much lower hardware cost and energy consumption…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Hang Liu , Xiaojun Yuan , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) is widely used as a Medium Access Control (MAC) in wireless networks due to its simplicity and distributed nature. This motivated researchers to find CSMA schemes that achieve throughput optimality. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Ali Maatouk , Mohamad Assaad , Anthony Ephremides

Recently, significant research attention has been devoted to the study of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), which are capable of reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment by exploiting the unique properties of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Xuelin Cao , Bo Yang , Chongwen Huang , Chau Yuen , Marco Di Renzo , Zhu Han , Dusit Niyato , H. Vincent Poor , Lajos Hanzo

This paper presents a physics-based channel modeling and optimization framework for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted downlink multi-user multiple-input single-output (MU-MISO) communication systems in site-specific…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Ziqi Liu , Wei Yu , Sean Victor Hum

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) will play a pivotal role in next-generation wireless systems. Despite efforts to minimize pilot overhead associated with channel estimation, the necessity of configuring the RIS multiple times…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-28 A. Abrardo

This paper develops a distributed algorithm for rate allocation in wireless networks that achieves the same throughput region as optimal centralized algorithms. This cross-layer algorithm jointly performs medium access control (MAC) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Jubin Jose , Sriram Vishwanath

Channel allocation is the task of assigning channels to users such that some objective (e.g., sum-rate) is maximized. In centralized networks such as cellular networks, this task is carried by the base station which gathers the channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-05 S. M. Zafaruddin , Ilai Bistritz , Amir Leshem , Dusit Niyato

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

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

Cooperative Rate-Splitting (CRS) strategy, relying on linearly precoded rate-splitting at the transmitter and opportunistic transmission of the common message by the relaying user, has recently been shown to outperform typical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-06 Yijie Mao , Bruno Clerckx , Jian Zhang , Victor O. K. Li , Mohammed Arafah

This paper studies the interference broadcast channel comprising multiple multi-antenna Base Stations (BSs), each controlling a beyond diagonal Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) and serving multiple single-antenna users. Wideband…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Konstantinos D. Katsanos , Paolo Di Lorenzo , George C. Alexandropoulos

Recently, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have attracted a lot of attention due to their capability of extending cell coverage by reflecting signals toward the receiver. In this letter, we analyze the coverage of a downlink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Shuhao Zeng , Hongliang Zhang , Boya Di , Zhu Han , Lingyang Song

Next generation wireless networks require more stringent performance levels. New technologies such as Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) and rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) are candidates for meeting some of the performance…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Ibrahim Aboumahmoud , Ekram Hossain , \\Amine Mezghani

Space-division multiple access (SDMA) plays an important role in modern wireless communications. Its performance depends on the channel properties, which can be improved by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). In this work, we…

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) has emerged as a promising technology to enhance the wireless propagation environment for next-generation wireless communication systems. This paper introduces a new RIS-assisted multiple-antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Xiaofan Niu , Minquan Cheng , Kai Wan , Robert Caiming Qiu , Giuseppe Caire

In this paper, we investigate reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted communication systems which involve a fixed-antenna base station (BS) and a mobile user (MU) that is equipped with fluid antenna system (FAS). Specifically, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-12 Junteng Yao , Xiazhi Lai , Kangda Zhi , Tuo Wu , Ming Jin , Cunhua Pan , Maged Elkashlan , Chau Yuen , Kai-Kit Wong

Due to the low power consumption and low cost nature of transmissive reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS),in this paper, we propose a downlink multi-user rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) architecture based on the transmissive RIS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Bojiang Li , Wen Chen , Zhendong Li , Qingqing Wu , Nan Cheng , Changle Li , Linglong Dai

Rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) has been recognized as a promising physical layer strategy for 6G. Motivated by ever increasing popularity of cache-enabled content delivery in wireless communications, this paper proposes an innovative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Robert-Jeron Reifert , Alaa Alameer Ahmad , Yijie Mao , Aydin Sezgin , Bruno Clerckx

CSMA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access), which resolves contentions over wireless networks in a fully distributed fashion, has recently gained a lot of attentions since it has been proved that appropriate control of CSMA parameters guarantees…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-01-16 Se-Young Yun , Jinwoo Shin , Yung Yi

This work focuses on the synergy of rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) and beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surface (BD-RIS) to enlarge the coverage, improve the performance, and save on antennas. Specifically, we employ a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Hongyu Li , Shanpu Shen , Bruno Clerckx