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Multiple concepts for future generations of wireless communication standards utilize coherent processing of signals from many distributed antennas. Names for these concepts include distributed MIMO, cell-free massive MIMO, XL-MIMO, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Christian Nelson , Xuhong Li , Thomas Wilding , Benjamin Deutschmann , Klaus Witrisal , Fredrik Tufvesson

mmWave networks promise high bandwidth but face significant challenges in maintaining reliable connections for users moving at high speed. Frequent handovers, complex beam alignment, and signal blockage from car bodies lead to service…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Kun Woo Cho , Prasanthi Maddala , Ivan Seskar , Kyle Jamieson

We today live in the era of dynamic and mobile wireless enabled platforms. This kind of stringent communication capability in the face of volatile and turbulent mobility demands a fresh look at physical layer in general and antenna design…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-02-08 Malay Ranjan Tripathy , Priya Ranjan

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces enable active control of wireless propagation channels, which is crucial for future 5G and 6G networks. This work presents a scalable RIS design operating at 3.6 GHz with both 1 bit and 3 bit phase…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-23 Markus Heinrichs , Aydin Sezgin , Rainer Kronberger

This paper presents a literature review on recent applications and design aspects of the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in the future wireless networks. Conventionally, the network optimization has been limited to transmission control…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Shimin Gong , Xiao Lu , Dinh Thai Hoang , Dusit Niyato , Lei Shu , Dong In Kim , Ying-Chang Liang

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces have emerged as a promising technology for future wireless networks. Given that a large number of reflecting elements is typically used, and that the surface has no signal processing capabilities, a major…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Alessio Zappone , Marco Di Renzo , Farshad Shams , Xuewen Qian , Merouane Debbah

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been widely studied in recent years, it has emerged as a new technology which can reflect the incident signal by intelligently configuring the reflection elements, thus changing the signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jintao Luo , Sixing Yin

Millimeter wave frequencies will likely be part of the fifth generation of mobile networks and of the 3GPP New Radio (NR) standard. MmWave communication indeed provides a very large bandwidth, thus an increased cell throughput, but how to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Tommy Azzino , Matteo Drago , Michele Polese , Andrea Zanella , Michele Zorzi

Several different waveform processing techniques have been studied and proposed for the 5G new radio (NR) physical layer, to support new mixed numerology and asynchronous services. The evaluation and comparison of these different techniques…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-28 Toni Levanen , Juho Pirskanen , Kari Pajukoski , Markku Renfors , Mikko Valkama

Although the fifth-generation (5G) technologies will significantly improve the spectrum and energy efficiency of today's wireless communication networks, their high complexity and hardware cost as well as increasingly more energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

As data rates demands are exploding, 5G will soon rely on mmWaves that offer much higher bandwidths. Yet at these frequencies, attenuation and diffraction of waves require point to point communications with beamforming base stations that…

The rapid adoption of 5G New Radio (NR), particularly in the millimeter-wave (mmWave) spectrum, imposes stringent demands on the flexibility, scalability, and efficiency of baseband processing. While virtualized Radio Access Networks…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Zhenzhou Qi , Chung-Hsuan Tung , Zhihui Gao , Tingjun Chen

The millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequencies have attracted considerable attention for fifth generation (5G) cellular communication as they offer orders of magnitude greater bandwidth than current cellular systems. However, the medium access…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Sourjya Dutta , Marco Mezzavilla , Russell Ford , Menglei Zhang , Sundeep Rangan , Michele Zorzi

As the electromagnetic spectrum becomes more congested and the environments in which we need to operate become more complicated, control over the environment itself becomes necessary to ensure the integrity of wireless communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Benjamin W. Frazier , Steven M. Anlage

Cascaded or stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) have emerged as a promising technology to overcome the physical limitations of single-layer reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) in wideband wireless communication. By intelligently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Muhammad Ibrahim , Amine Mezghani , Ekram Hossain

This paper investigates the problem of increasing the security at the physical layer of a Millimeter Wave (mmWave) network equipped with several Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRSs). In this network, multiple IRSs help the Base Station…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Anahid Rafieifar , S. Mohammad Razavizadeh

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces are composed of physical elements that can dynamically alter electromagnetic wave properties to enhance beamforming and lead to improvements in areas with low coverage properties. When combined with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Alex Pierron , Michel Barbeau , Luca De Cicco , Jose Rubio-Hernan , Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro

The limited radio-frequency spectrum is a fundamental factor in the design of wireless communication systems. The ever increasing number of wireless devices and systems has led to a crowded spectrum and increased the demand for versatile…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-21 Sajjad Taravati , George V. Eleftheriades

Programmable wireless environments enable the software-defined propagation of waves within them, yielding exceptional performance potential. Several building-block technologies have been implemented and evaluated at the physical layer. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Christos Liaskos , Ageliki Tsioliaridou , Shuai Nie , Andreas Pitsillides , Sotiris Ioannidis , Ian Akyildiz

The uplink of 5G networks allows selecting the transmit waveform between cyclic prefix orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (CP-OFDM) and discrete Fourier transform spread OFDM (DFT-S-OFDM), which is appealing for cell-edge users…